On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 5:18 PM Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 12:30 Yury Selivanov <yselivanov...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The reason I'm asking this is because I frequently need to refer to >> *that version* of Python in the documentation, especially when I'm >> deprecating APIs or behavior. Right now I'm saying "Python 4.0" >> implying that 4.0 will be released right after 3.9. > > > I don't know what we'll end up calling it, but I don't think it matters for > this. For warnings about future deprecations and removals, I would use "3.10" > regardless. > > No one can predict the future; maybe our future selves will change their > minds when we get there. But for people reading the documentation now, "3.10" > clearly means "the version after 3.9", so they'll understand what you mean. > And if it ends up being called 4.0 then that's higher than 3.10 anyway, so no > one can claim you didn't warn them. > > OTOH if you write "4.0", at least some people will misunderstand, and be > grumpy if the feature disappears in 3.10.
Yeah, this makes sense. Yury _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
