[Python-3000] [Python-Dev] What should the focus for 2.6 be? (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Aug 24 11:45:58 CEST 2006

Josiah Carlson wrote:

Also, in the talk he gave at Google on July 21, somewhere around the 7:45-11 minute mark, he talks about how 3.x features are to be backported to 2.7 or so, specifically so that there is a larger subset of Python that will run in both 2.x and 3.x . Smells like an attempt at gradual migration to me.

He also said that he doesn't expect Python 3.0 to see widespread usage, with a relatively rapid evolution to 3.1 (and possibly even 3.2).

I don't think there's really that much disagreement here - the difference is that Guido wants to get 3.0 out early so that we know what the eventual target is for later 2.x releases.

Cheers, Nick.

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