Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gregory Ewing Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 16:08:02 +1300 Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <5695fd0e$0$11119$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> <0529e7d6-0de1-4e38-9a19-2b5ed1ecc39f@googlegroups.com> <5696e77e$0$1597$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <5696f3c6$0$1583$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net uMhtJ9cKZeLCTktgHfMV7gKKz9CTtH03Gia5v388+dgFM13yZB Cancel-Lock: sha1:0pchiJ5LRDSyA1MWRJS6ZnT7HjM= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <5696f3c6$0$1583$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:101727 Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Maybe Guido will change his mind and we'll have 3.10. 3.11, 3.12, ... Who says that version numbers have to be base 10? After 3.9 we could have 3.A, 3.B, ... 3.Z, and then we have a long list of Unicode characters to work through before we're forced to bump the major number up... -- Greg