On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 11:40 am, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> > wrote: >> (...) 4.0 (assuming there is one) > > Isn't it just a matter of time? Do you think it is even possible not > to have Python 4 eventually?
3.9 is probably five or six years away. Perhaps more. A lot can happen in five years. Just ask Syria. Maybe Guido will change his mind and we'll have 3.10. 3.11, 3.12, ... Maybe there will be a sudden and rapid collapse in popularity of Python between 3.7 and 3.8, and the language is mostly abandoned. Maybe by the time we approach 3.9, our new xenophobic and fascist overlords will roll back the internet and ban all that "communist" open source software, especially those written by foreigners (Dutch or otherwise -- Ruby will be banned too). Or we're too busy dealing with rising sea levels, crop failures, antibiotic resistant diseases, chaotic mass migrations, terrorists, wars for control over resources like water, and the collapse of the corporate state to care about such little things as upgrades to programming languages. Or the AI singularity arrives and "human programmer" becomes as obsolete as "flint knapper". Or we'll be hit by a big rock from space. Who knows? -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
