On 2018年03月25日 14:49:44 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > The moniker "Python X-thousand" (Python 3000, 4000, 5000...) is usually > understood to mean a backwards-compatibility breaking version. Since > Python 4 will *not* be such a version, what you are calling 4000 is > better called "5000". If Python 4.0 will "merely be the release that comes after Python 3.9", as Nick Coghlan writes in https://opensource.com/life/14/9/why-python-4-wont-be-python-3, why will it be called 4.0 and not 3.10? Just to avoid two-digit minor numbers? hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | we build much bigger, better disasters now |_|_) | | because we have much more sophisticated | | | hjp at hjp.at | management tools. __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | -- Ross Anderson <https://www.edge.org/> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/attachments/20180325/5a9b9250/attachment.sig>