Sturla Molden sturla.molden at gmail.com
Sat Jun 7 00:43:34 CEST 2014

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Brett Cannon <bcannon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nope. A new minor release of Python is a massive undertaking which is why
> we have saved ourselves the hassle of doing a Python 2.8 or not giving a
> clear signal as to when Python 2.x will end as a language.

Why not just define Python 2.8 as Python 2.7 except with a newer compiler?
I cannot see why that would be massive undertaking, if changing compiler
for 2.7 is neccesary anyway.

Sturla

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