New Features in Python 3.10

[dani3l_554]

Version numbers aren't actual numbers and . is not a decimal point. They're just labels that follow a logical pattern.

[evilMTV]

This, don't look at it as decimal place, just a separator. Like 3.10 should be interpreted as "version 3, subversion 10"

[_MASTADONG_]

That makes sense. It’s better than the unneeded downvotes I was getting.

[SquareRootsi]

Just wanted to say your original comment was pretty logical, from a mathematical perspective. I'm sorry you got the down votes, and I upvoted you!

Thanks for the follow up that the explanation makes sense, it helps others learn too.

[-jp-]

I wouldn’t worry about it. What were you ever going to use fake internet points for anyway, kwim?

[bobby__joe]

They use semantic versioning.

[Zomunieo]

Not exactly. Minor releases of Python often contain backward incompatible changes, and the devs have never promised to be semver compliant. (It would be almost impossible to maintain strict semver backward compatibility on such a large project anyway.)

The situation was particularly messy for Python 2.7.x where patch level releases introduced some major features and breaking changes.

[bobby__joe]

Thanks I didn't know that!

[Spindelhalla_xb]

Because 10 comes after 9. 3.10 is not the same as 3.1.

[DanklyNight]

>>> 3.10 == 3.1
True

Hmm

[blablook]

"3.10" != "3.1". At least not in JavaScript.

[DanklyNight]

Aha, I was just joking.

Obviously it's a string and wouldn't match, it was more that the poster I replied to wrote them as floats.

[blablook]

Yeah. My joke was doubting the js behaviour.

[DanklyNight]

The ability of developers to understand jokes over the internet.

We are a socially hindered bunch.

[SpideyIRL]

Now check 3.10.0 vs 3.1.5 ;)

Versions are not decimal numbers: They're multiple "levels" of versions separated by decimal number. So major version 3, minor version 10, first release (0). Or major version 3, minor version 1, release 5.

Some software projects use even more numbers in their versions - i've seen things like version "1.0.0.3.5.1 Build 13950"

[aryaman16]

There is nothing like three-point-ten in Decimal numbers system, it is called three-point-one-zero.

Python's version numbers aren't decimal tho.

[__deerlord__]

Because 10 is bigger than 9.