Python 3.0 or Python 3000?

Christos Georgiou tzot at sil-tec.gr
Mon Apr 10 09:06:34 EDT 2006


On Sun, 9 Apr 2006 22:15:15 -0400, rumours say that "Tim Peters"
<tim.peters at gmail.com> might have written:

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

>The smart money is on changing the name to Ecstasy, to leverage
>marketing publicity from the hallucinogenic club drug of the same
>name.  "class" will be renamed to "rave", and the license will be
>changed to prohibit use by people with bipolar disorder.

Anything to do with recent rumours about license change?  Will programming
in Python finally be outlawed, as it should be from the start (it's so
pleasing after all, it should be illegal)?  There will be a charge per line
(of code)?  Shall we become code sniffers?

>Either that, or the name will be Python 3.0.

That's what we, as cautious merchands dealing with unknown clients, should
call our product.  Excellent.

PS ("Mwa" + "ha"*sys.maxint) still won't work, though.
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