Excellent sci-fi novel featuring Python

[Stefan Behnel]

Paul McGuire wrote:
> On Nov 17, 9:37 am, Wade Leftwich <wleftw... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm about halfway through Charles Stross' excellent new novel,
>> "Halting State". It's set in Edinburgh in the year 2018, and one of
>> the main characters is a game programmer whose primary language is
>> something called "Python 3000".
> 
> I should hope that by 2018, Python 4000 would be more cutting-edge.
> Or is the protagonist struggling with backward-compatibility with a
> Python version that would be nearly 10 years old already?

I think it was just a conservative guess that Python 3000 would be out by then.

Stefan