On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 13:46, Georg Brandl <ge...@python.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On behalf of the Python development team, I'm happy to announce the > first of two beta preview releases of Python 3.2. > > Python 3.2 is a continuation of the efforts to improve and stabilize the > Python 3.x line. Since the final release of Python 2.7, the 2.x line > will only receive bugfixes, and new features are developed for 3.x only. > > Since PEP 3003, the Moratorium on Language Changes, is in effect, there > are no changes in Python's syntax and built-in types in Python 3.2. > Development efforts concentrated on the standard library and support for > porting code to Python 3. Highlights are: > > * numerous improvements to the unittest module > * PEP 3147, support for .pyc repository directories > * PEP 3149, support for version tagged dynamic libraries > * PEP 3148, a new futures library for concurrent programming > * PEP 384, a stable ABI for extension modules > * PEP 391, dictionary-based logging configuration > * an overhauled GIL implementation that reduces contention > * an extended email package that handles bytes messages > * countless fixes regarding bytes/string issues; among them full > support for a bytes environment (filenames, environment variables) > * many consistency and behavior fixes for numeric operations > * a sysconfig module to access configuration information > * a pure-Python implementation of the datetime module > * additions to the shutil module, among them archive file support > * improvements to pdb, the Python debugger > > For a more extensive list of changes in 3.2, see > > http://docs.python.org/3.2/whatsnew/3.2.html
* Introduction of a new importlib ABC to make supporting PEP 3147 (and any future bytecode changes) transparent along with deprecating the old source and bytecode-based ABCs in a backwards-compatible way. This may be more of a What's New entry to go with the PEP 3147 mention, though, than a highlight. _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
