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On Mon Mar 10 2014 at 12:08:55 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> wrote:

>> I suggest to wait less than 8 years

>> for Python 4.

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> Why? What's special about 8 years?

It's the time between Python 2.0 and 3.0.

But I'm willing to bet that's going to be an anomaly. Python 3 came into existence when it did so we didn't wait too long for Python 2 to get even more of a foothold; the expectation is that long-term more non-Python 2 code will be written than not. There's no rush on Python 4 since there are no plans to try and tweak something as drastic as str/bytes.