What is Python3000??

[thomas at cintra.no]

Ops! 

Cought you on a bad day did I? ;->

I looked for a few seconds then posted away like crazy. Sorry.
Insomnia will make you do stupid stuff. 

Now get working on that FAQ!!

On 7 Jun 2000 13:58:07 GMT, aahz at netcom.com (Aahz Maruch) wrote:

>In article <393e426f.77267284 at news.online.no>,
>Thomas Weholt <thomas at cintra.no> wrote:
>>
>>I want to know more about Python3000. How is it going to be different
>>from Python as we know it? More features, new syntax ?? 
>
>Nobody -- repeat, NOBODY -- has the answers to these questions.  Py3K is
>a codename for a project THAT HAS NOT YET STARTED.  Py3K is predicated
>to a certain extent -- to what extent, NOBODY KNOWS -- on the Fred
>Brooks maxim, "Build one to throw away."
>
>There are certain design decisions that were made for Python 1.x that
>Guido would like to revisit.  Some of these decisions *MAY* be changed
>in ways that break 1.x code.  Py3K is the name of the version that *MAY*
>have these incompatibilities.
>
>Should I make this a friggin' FAQ?
>
>(Thomas, if it seems like I'm pounding on you, it's because I know
>you've been reading comp.lang.python -- if you weren't aware of this,
>you haven't been paying attention.)
>--
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