Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'escape': 0.09; 'global,': 0.09; 'happen.': 0.09; 'janvier': 0.09; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'language.': 0.14; 'compatible.': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'spacing': 0.16; '\xe9crit': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'discussion': 0.18; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'unicode': 0.24; 'looks': 0.24; 'define': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'another': 0.32; 'text': 0.33; 'next': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'bad': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'release': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'days': 0.60; 'impact': 0.61; 'world.': 0.61; 'email addr:gmail.com': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'subject:The': 0.64; 'more': 0.64; 'dear': 0.65; 'biggest': 0.67; '09:33,': 0.84; 'dealer': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: The potential for a Python 2.8. Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:04:50 +0000 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-147-180-243.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 27 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1390575915 news.xs4all.nl 2848 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:49916 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:64687 On 24/01/2014 09:33, wxjmfauth@gmail.com wrote: [double spacing snipped for the 10**infinity time] > Le vendredi 24 janvier 2014 01:42:41 UTC+1, Terry Reedy a écrit : >> This will never happen. Python 3 is the escape from several dead-ends in >> Python 2. The biggest in impact is the use of un-accented latin chars as >> text in a global, unicode world. > > Three days of discussion on how to make the next release > more "ascii" compatible. > > I put "ascii" in quotes, because the efforts to define > "ascii" were more laughable. > > jmf > Oh dear of dear, looks as if another bad batch has been sold, please change your dealer immediately. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence