[Python-Dev] Slow down...

[João Santos]

Hi,

I would like to see this go even further and have a tick-tock approach to
python versions, i.e. adopt new syntax and other large changes on one
version (for example odd versions) and polish everything up in the next
(even versions).

Best regards,
João Santos

On Mon, 7 May 2018 at 11:19 Ivan Levkivskyi <levkivskyi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7 May 2018 at 03:25, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 7 May 2018 at 11:30, Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd very much like a live in a world where Jython and IronPython and
>>> MicroPython and Cython and Pyjamas can all catch up and implement
>>> Python 3.7, 3.8, and so forth.
>>>
>>
>> I'm inclined to agree that a Python 3.8 PEP in the spirit of the PEP 3003
>> language moratorium could be a very good idea. Between matrix
>> multiplication, enhanced tuple unpacking, native coroutines, f-strings, and
>> type hinting for variable assignments, we've had quite a bit of syntactic
>> churn in the past few releases, and the rest of the ecosystem really hasn't
>> caught up on it all yet (and that's not just other implementations - it's
>> training material, online courses, etc, etc).
>>
>> If we're going to take such a step, now's also the time to do it, since
>> 3.8 feature development is only just getting under way, and if we did
>> decide to repeat the language moratorium, we could co-announce it with the
>> Python 3.7 release.
>>
>>
> These are all god points. I think it will be a good idea to take a little
> pause with syntactic additions and other "cognitively loaded" changes. On
> the other hand, I think it is fine to work on performance improvements
> (start-up time, import system etc.), internal APIs (like simplifying
> start-up sequence and maybe even C API), and polishing corner
> cases/simplifying existing constructs (like scoping in comprehensions that
> many people find confusing).
>
> IOW, I think the PEP should describe precisely what is OK, and what is not
> OK during the moratorium.
>
> --
> Ivan
>
>
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