[Python-Dev] Python 3.0 list of goals (original) (raw)

Brett C. bac at OCF.Berkeley.EDU
Wed Aug 18 19:07:09 CEST 2004

Guido van Rossum wrote:

A.M. Kuchling wrote:

The thread about bytes() is about a Python 3.0 feature. Guido's presentations have mentioned various changes he'd like to make in 3.0, but there's no master list of things that would change. I think it would be useful to have such a list, because it would focus our language development effort on ones that are steps to 3.0, and maybe people can invent ways to smooth the transition. I've started a list in the Wiki at http://www.python.org/moin/Python3.0 , but should it be a PEP? (PEP 3000, perhaps?) Good idea to start collecting all this. I'm currently too busy to spend a lot of time thinking about all this, but eventually I will be back and then it would be nice to find a list of things I said in the past. :-)

=) Prepping your time machine for ya.

I say a PEP. While it can say that these features are just possibilities, I would rather have a controlled place to list this stuff so it is a little more official than having someone randomly come in and start throwing in everything they wished Python 3.0 will have. Right, but the Wiki is a good start while you consider a PEP.

OK. I will start plugging in what I have on my personal collection of what you have said into the wiki after the next summary goes out (400 emails to go).

When it is decided where all of this info will end up I will go through the python-dev Summaries and see if I can find anything there (tried to make it a habit to doc stuff that Guido said would be a Python 3.0 feature.

There is also another wiki page on Python 3.0 at http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/PythonThreeDotOh . Hrm. That is mostly Mike McLay's wish list; best to ignore it.

OK. I will just go off what I have mentioned in the Summaries and what I can recollect from my own memory.

-Brett

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