I think your ideas are relatively safe here, just don't go to reddit expecting your freethinking Python2 heathenism to be accepted. ;) I'm afraid some of those

I think your ideas are relatively safe here, just don't go to reddit expecting your freethinking Python2 heathenism to be accepted. ;) I'm afraid some of those folks are making there way over here though. I know you're not suggesting use the name Python4 but it would be interesting to know the possible trademark issues. I'd expect Guido and the core devs to get nasty if they called it Python4. It would probably be too close to war. Announcing PyPy an official fork of Python probably already has them hesitating from backlash. In the end, the gain is bigger than any vocal Python3 folks could muster. I think both sides want PyPy pretty bad but currently in reality it's a 2.x advantage. They already have a great name, the implementation and language could be PyPy(4+).