Thank you so much Larry, for your wonderful work.
On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 8:44 AM Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote:
> Thanks for all of your work, Larry. I really think it was the stability of
> these releases that helped push 3.x into dominance over 2.7.
>
> 3 version control systems. Insane!
>
> Eric
> On 10/1/2020 1:49 PM, Larry Hastings wrote:
>
>
> At last! Python 3.5 has now officially reached its end-of-life. Since
> there have been no checkins or PRs since I tagged 3.5.10, 3.5.10 will stand
> as the final release in the 3.5 series.
>
> As with a similar announcement I wrote about eighteen months ago, I know
> we can all look back fondly on Python 3.5. 3.5 added many new asynchronous
> I/O programming features, the "typing" module, and even a new operator
> ("@"). Plus many and varied quality-of-life improvements for the Python
> programmer, in both the language, the library, the core implementation, and
> even the installers. Python 3.5.0 was the best version of the best
> language at the time, and since then it's gotten even better!
>
> My thanks to all the members of the Python 3.5 release team. In
> alphabetical order:
>
> Georg Brandl
>
> Julian Palard
>
> Ned Deily
>
> Steve Dower
>
> Terry Reedy
>
> My thanks also to the Python infrastructure team.
>
>
> The end of Python 3.5 support also ends my tenure as a Python Release
> Manager. Congratulations, you survived me and my frequent mistakes!
> (Special shouts out to Ned and Benjamin for running around behind the
> scenes quietly cleaning up my messes--and not even telling me most of the
> time.) Rest assured that I leave you in *much* better hands with the
> current crop of RMs: Ned, Łukasz, and Pablo.
>
> One amusing note. During my tenure as a Python release manager, I had to
> deal with *three* different revision control systems. Although we'd
> switched CPython itself to Mercurial by the time 3.4 alpha 0 was released,
> there were still many supporting repositories still on Subversion. (I
> remember having to do Subversion branch merges as part of my 3.4 release
> work... what a pain.) And of course these days we're on Git (-hub). This
> straddling of three different workflows certainly complicated the lives of
> us Release Managers. So, my friends, please... make up your minds! ;-)
>
> It's been my honor to serve you,
>
>
> */arry*
>
> p.s. As of today, every supported version of Python supports f-strings.
> The only remaining excuse for "we can't use f-strings" is no longer viable!
>
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