Python 3.0 or Python 3000?

[Steven Bethard]

John Salerno wrote:
> Is 'Python 3000' just a code name for version 3.0, or will it really be 
> called that when it's released?

Actually, there's an official response these days in `PEP 3000`_:

"""
Naming

Python 3000, Python 3.0 and Py3K are all names for the same thing. The 
project is called Python 3000, or abbreviated to Py3k. The actual Python 
release will be referred to as Python 3.0, and that's what "python3.0 
-V" will print; the actual file names will use the same naming 
convention we use for Python 2.x. I don't want to pick a new name for 
the executable or change the suffix for Python source files.
"""

.. _PEP 3000: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3000/

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