[Python-Dev] Python 4: don't remove anything, don't break backward compatibility

[Mark Lawrence]

On 10/03/2014 22:28, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>> Terrible idea. Would wreak havoc with comparisons. No. Python 3 is all
>> about Unicode, so the right way to proceed is 3.8, 3.9, 3.:, 3.;, 3.<,
>> 3.=, 3.>, 3.?, 3.@, 3.A.
>
> And we have all of UCS-4 to play with, so for all
> practical purposes the 3.x line can live forever!
>
> The downside is that we'll get endless complaints
> from jmfauth about the Flexible Version Number
> Representation. :-(
>

Drat, drat and double drat, you beat me to it :)

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Mark Lawrence

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