The next major Python version will be Python 8

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Thu Mar 31 20:13:43 EDT 2016


On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> On 03/31/2016 05:02 PM, Roel Schroeven wrote:
>>
>> Victor Stinner schreef op 2016-03-31 23:40:
>
>
>>> Python 3 becomes more and more popular and is close to a dangerous point
>>> where it can become popular that Python 2. The PSF decided that it's
>>> time to elaborate a new secret plan to ensure that Python users suffer
>>> again with a new major release breaking all their legacy code.
>>
>>
>> "2016-03-31 23:40"
>> You're 20 minutes early :)
>
>
> No, that's a naive datetime.  You need to travel to Victor's location to
> figure out what that is there.
>
> I sure hope Python 8 doesn't have that problem!

Now's the time to get in with the ideas. My proposal is that Python 8,
in keeping with its new opinionated style, will require everyone to
follow a single timezone: Europe/Amsterdam.

ChrisA



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