Don't panic. :) On Nov 03, 2016, at 09:28 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
>But the above post implies that pointless confusion will be directly >courted, merely because of some aesthetic objection to a two-digit >component in the version string. Those are Nick's opinions. Everyone's got one! AFAIK, there is *no* official declaration (e.g. from Guido or the mythical Python 4 release manager) about this either way. >At the current rate of Python releases, it's not very far in the future >before the Python release managers must decide what the version string >for “the release that comes after 3.9” will be. We're up to Python 2.7.12 so the double digit version component ship has sailed and it wasn't all that Y2K-y, so I doubt there will be a hard and fast prohibition against 3.10. Even if there is, we won't see a possible 3.10 until 2022 if I'm doing my math correctly and we stick to the roughly 18 month release cycle. I predict that when the time comes, it'll generate a gigathread's worth of discussion, 3 or 4 competing PEPs, and then Guido will just pronounce. Cheers, -Barry
