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

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 20:29:02 CET 2014

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 5:17 AM, Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19 at gmail.com> wrote:

You forgot 3., and 3.$.

They're both earlier than digits. Comma is 2C and dollar is 24, I remember those from the earliest days of playing around in assembly language on an Epson PC-compatible running MS-DOS 5 :)

But that's beside the point. I don't think there'd be huge problems with a 4.0 release that's just like 3.10 except that it's a little more free with removal of deprecateds. Maybe that could be the point at which 2.x compatibility is dropped, like the u"string" notation. Or maybe not :)

ChrisA

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