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

Oleg Broytman phd at phdru.name
Mon Mar 10 18:50:44 CET 2014

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 04:37:45PM +0000, Brett Cannon <bcannon at gmail.com> wrote:

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

> >> I suggest to wait less than 8 years > >> for Python 4. > > > > 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.

Well, the entire discussion is about "please don't do major changes -- we've got enough already".

Oleg.

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