On 9/12/05, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oren Tirosh wrote: > > > I suggest an explicitly and permanently different name for the > > interpreter executable of this new and incompatible branch of the > > language. I want Python 3 scripts starting with #! to have an average > > shelf life longer than 18 months. > > That makes sense, but I'd prefer something less arbitrary > than just chopping the name back from "python" to "py". > Going that way, Python 4.0 is going to just be called > "p", and by the time we get to Python 5.0, the name > will have vanished altogether!
That's OK, by the time Python 5.0 comes out, it will have taken over the world and be the default language for everything. So omitting the name is exactly right :-) Paul. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
