[Python-Dev] Python 4: don't remove anything, don't break backward compatibility (original) (raw)

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 18:06:24 CET 2014


On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:56 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:04:08 +0100 "Stefan Richthofer" <Stefan.Richthofer at gmx.de> wrote:

> Guido famously hates two digit minor version numbers. :)

This is no problem either. Simply switch to hexadecimal numbering ;) Or wrap around to negative numbers (a minus sign isn't technically a digit, is it?).

Terrible idea. Would wreak havoc with comparisons. No. Python 3 is all about Unicode, so the right way to proceed is 3.8, 3.9, 3.:, 3.;, 3.<, 3.=, 3.>, 3.?, 3.@, 3.A.

ChrisA



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