The Python Steering Council and core developers (notably Guido van Rossum's successor regime) have explicitly stated that a 4.0 version is not on any roadmap. The last major version bump (2→3) was so traumatic that the community swore never to repeat it lightly.
First, the most important fact: There is no planned Python 4.0 release date, nor an official feature list. python 4.0
: There should be one — and preferably only one — obvious way to do it. A rushed 4.0 would violate that. So it won't happen until the obvious way fundamentally changes. The Python Steering Council and core developers (notably