Accessing parent objects

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Sun Mar 25 18:53:34 EDT 2018


On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 21:50:27 +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote:

> On 2018-03-25 14:49:44 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> The moniker "Python X-thousand" (Python 3000, 4000, 5000...) is usually
>> understood to mean a backwards-compatibility breaking version. Since
>> Python 4 will *not* be such a version, what you are calling 4000 is
>> better called "5000".
> 
> If Python 4.0 will "merely be the release that comes after Python 3.9",
> as Nick Coghlan writes in
> https://opensource.com/life/14/9/why-python-4-wont-be-python-3, why will
> it be called 4.0 and not 3.10? Just to avoid two-digit minor numbers?

Yes.



-- 
Steve




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