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author | Iman Tabrizian <iman.tabrizian@gmail.com> | 2024-03-03 19:50:18 (GMT) |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2024-03-03 19:50:18 (GMT) |
commit | 3383d6afa3e4454b237bca2ef856e0f79b5b30c1 (patch) | |
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gh-116010: Remove link to deprecated PEP 6 in FAQ guide (#116246)
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <1324225+hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/faq/general.rst b/Doc/faq/general.rst index 8727332..ec7c289 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/general.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/general.rst @@ -133,8 +133,6 @@ Python versions are numbered "A.B.C" or "A.B": changes. * *C* is the micro version number -- it is incremented for each bugfix release. -See :pep:`6` for more information about bugfix releases. - Not all releases are bugfix releases. In the run-up to a new feature release, a series of development releases are made, denoted as alpha, beta, or release candidate. Alphas are early releases in which interfaces aren't yet finalized; @@ -157,7 +155,11 @@ unreleased versions, built directly from the CPython development repository. In practice, after a final minor release is made, the version is incremented to the next minor version, which becomes the "a0" version, e.g. "2.4a0". -See also the documentation for :data:`sys.version`, :data:`sys.hexversion`, and +See the `Developer's Guide +<https://devguide.python.org/developer-workflow/development-cycle/>`__ +for more information about the development cycle, and +:pep:`387` to learn more about Python's backward compatibility policy. See also +the documentation for :data:`sys.version`, :data:`sys.hexversion`, and :data:`sys.version_info`. |