PEP0238 lament

[Guido van Rossum]

David Eppstein <eppstein at ics.uci.edu> writes:

>  Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> 
> > In a farther future, when PEP 228 is fully implemented, Python may
> > only have *one* (built-in) numeric type, "number".
> 
> Uh oh, if this is a later change than 238, does this mean we have to wait 
> until Python 4.0 for the grand unification?

Not necessarily.  The grand unification could be introduced at the
same time as 3.0, and could be imported from the future in some 2.x
release.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)