Relevant: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/programming-languages-why-python-4-0-will-probably-never-arrive-according-to-its-creator/ https://www.techrepubli

Relevant: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/programming-languages-why-python-4-0-will-probably-never-arrive-according-to-its-creator/ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/programming-languages-w... > "I'm not thrilled about the idea of Python 4 and nobody in the core dev team really is – so probably there never will be a 4.0 and we'll just keep numbering until 3.33, at least," he said in a video Q&A. but also: > Van Rossum didn't rule out the possibility of Python 4.0 entirely, though suggested this would likely only happen in the event of major changes to compatibility with C. "I could imagine that at some point we are forced to abandon certain binary or API compatibility for C extensions… If there was a significant incompatibility with C extensions without changing the language itself and if we were to be able to get rid of the GIL [global interpreter lock]; if one or both of those events were to happen, we probably would be forced to call it 4.0 because of the compatibility issues at the C extension level," he said.