Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Gene Heskett Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 21:59:25 -0500 Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <5695fd0e$0$11119$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> <5696f3c6$0$1583$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <4h2e9bljgqk65dkh5kr0bq8od5m041207d@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de pYPinNm10SbvBLxC4iV8nwRgcKcwIqCsDR5kxNCu8XPg== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.002 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.05; 'guido': 0.05; 'preferably': 0.05; 'subject:code': 0.07; 'python': 0.10; 'jan': 0.11; 'wed,': 0.15; 'thu,': 0.15; 'wednesday': 0.15; '(assuming': 0.16; '2016': 0.16; '3.10.': 0.16; '>on': 0.16; 'one)': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'soap,': 0.16; 'subject:writing': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'url:home': 0.18; '>>>': 0.20; '4.0': 0.22; 'cheers,': 0.22; 'am,': 0.23; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.24; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; '13,': 0.29; 'away.': 0.29; 'probably': 0.31; "d'aprano": 0.33; 'steven': 0.33; 'skip:3 10': 0.35; "isn't": 0.35; 'there': 0.36; 'possible': 0.36; 'url:non-standard http port': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'pm,': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'january': 0.38; 'received:66': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'header:Message-Id:1': 0.61; 'matter': 0.63; 'more.': 0.63; 'six': 0.65; 'received:204': 0.75; 'bernardo': 0.84; 'subject:Stop': 0.84; 'dennis': 0.91 X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.0 required=5.0 X-Spam-Level: + User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 (enterprise35 0.20100827.1168748) In-Reply-To: <4h2e9bljgqk65dkh5kr0bq8od5m041207d@4ax.com> X-KMail-QuotePrefix: > Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+ Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:101663 On Wednesday 13 January 2016 21:39:12 Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 12:02:59 +1100, Steven D'Aprano > > > declaimed the following: > >On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 11:40 am, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Steven D'Aprano > >> > >> > >> wrote: > >>> (...) 4.0 (assuming there is one) > >> > >> Isn't it just a matter of time? Do you think it is even possible > >> not to have Python 4 eventually? > > > >3.9 is probably five or six years away. Perhaps more. A lot can > > happen in five years. Just ask Syria. > > > >Maybe Guido will change his mind and we'll have 3.10. 3.11, 3.12, ... > > 3.14.15926... Apple, Blueberry or Peach? Preferably ala-mode. Must....... Learn.......... To........ Resist. I am a DM-II victim. :( > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN > wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page