[Python-Dev] Is 4.0 a major breaking changes release?

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Feb 3 23:51:12 EST 2018


> On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 10:46 PM, Ned Deily <nad at python.org 
> <mailto:nad at python.org>> wrote:
>>  I've seen comments about making somewhat major changes in 4.0 -
>     now I'm
>>  concerned that I should pause my porting effort until that is
>     released.  Is
>>  python 4 going to be another python 3?

Guido has repeatedly promised that there will never be another
upheaval as big as the 2-to-3 one, and that the change from
Python 3.9 to 4.0 won't be anything special. Hopefully we can
trust him on that.

-- 
Greg


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