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Date: Sun, 3 May 2015 21:30:57 +1000
Subject: Re: l = range(int(1E9))
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On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 9:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Sun, 3 May 2015 12:16 pm, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>
>> I doubt that six will ever make the standard library as 2.7 only has
>> another five years in official support.  By that time I suppose we'll to
>> going through the porting pain all over again with the transition from
>> Python 3 to Python 4.  Alright, alright, only joking
>
>
> Guido has said that Python 4 will just be an incremental update from 3.x.

There is still, as I understand it, the possibility that Python 4.0
will ditch some things that will have been deprecated for a long time
by 3.9. But yes, it'll be no more upheavalous to go from 3.9 to 4.0
than from 3.8 to 3.9.

ChrisA