[Python-ideas] Proposal to change Python version release cycle

Joshua Morton joshua.morton13 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 6 11:23:54 EST 2017


Isn't this recent bit of discussion an argument in favor of a new stdlib
module `version`? That would contain things like resolving a version tuple
to an executable name (or a cross-platform piece of an executable name)?
Obviously this doesn't actually answer the question of how naming should be
done in the future, but it does mean that (new) code will have the actual
choice abstracted away.

--Josh

On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 4:20 AM Stephan Houben <stephanh42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2017-11-06 12:53 GMT+01:00 Brice Parent <contact at brice.xyz>:
>
>>
>> I think the only problem we can reach here, not only in our lifetimes,
>> but in the next years, is not Python3.10 vs Python31.0 (Python3.x will be
>> long dead when we reach this point!), but the ordering of versions, like
>> (python310 < python40). But it probably is a false problem, as after a
>> two-digit minor version, we can fix the length of minor versions to two
>> digits when needed (python310 < python400).
>>
>
> No probs with either of my proposals:
>
> >>> "python39.dll" < "python3A.dll" < "python40.dll"
> True
> >>> "python39.dll" < "python3⑽.dll" < "python40.dll"
> True
>
> Stephan
>
>
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