[python-committers] Python 4.0 or Python 3.10?

[Paul Moore]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 at 18:15, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 12:28 PM Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
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> >> What is the status of Brett's UNIX Python launcher "py" by the way?
> >
> >
> > You can see the current TODO list at https://crates.io/crates/python-launcher . Basically I need to implement "--help" and "--list" to fill in the last two low-hanging fruit features, but at long as you don't need to customize the search mechanism then it's already working. And BTW it's already compatible with either 3.10 or 4.0. :)
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> Looks like it's possible to either request a specific version (e.g.
> 3.6), or a major version (e.g. any Python 3).  Is it possible to
> request "3.6 or greater (be it Python 3.10 or Python 4.0+)"?

That's not possible for the Windows launcher. As the idea is to have a
uniform interface for the Windows and Unix launchers, I'd assume that
this would need to be a feature request for both the Windows and Unix
launchers. (It's a reasonable-seeming idea, but I don't know how
useful it would be in practice - can you give some examples of use
cases?)

Paul