There's a great deal more to a language than syntax: libraries, actual implementations, and so forth (so say nothing of documentation, community and other non-c

There's a great deal more to a language than syntax: libraries, actual implementations, and so forth (so say nothing of documentation, community and other non-code matters). PEP 3003 puts the brakes (temporarily!) on one point of evolution - giving the rest time to catch up. Certainly, it hardly spells the death of the language.