Python 3000. Here we go again.

[Skip Montanaro]

    Roy> - has anyone been thinking about a new design for Python?
Yes.
    Roy> - is there any moderated forum specifically for Py3k brainstorming? 
Not that I'm aware of.

As far as I know, Py3k is still mostly in Guido's head, though I imagine
he's been discussing it with his closest associates when they haven't been
working on Python2.0, Python2.1, migrating from CNRI to BeOpen, and
migrating from BeOpen to Digital Creations.  All these things have probably
conspired to push Py3k out a bit.  The Python2.1 release schedule was just
recently updated.  I think alpha1 is due out this week.  See PEP 226 for
details:

    http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0226.html

There has been little discussion of it on python-dev that I can recall and
that's only been tangential to other topics.  You can browse the python-dev
archives at

    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/

Your desires for static typing, real class methods, unification of types and
classes, lexical scoping and case sensitivity are shared by many other
people.  I doubt they will be neglected when the time comes to roll up
sleeves and get to work on Py3k.

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