On Mar 7, 10:53 am, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote: > On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm > happy to announce the first alpha release of Python 3.1. > > Python 3.1 focuses on the stabilization and optimization of features and > changes > Python 3.0 introduced. The new I/O system has been rewritten in C for speed. > Other features include a ordered dictionary implementation and support for ttk > Tile in Tkinter. > > Please note that these are alpha releases, and as such are not suitable for > production environments. We continue to strive for a high degree of quality, > but there are still some known problems and the feature sets have not been > finalized. These alphas are being released to solicit feedback and hopefully > discover bugs, as well as allowing you to determine how changes in 3.1 might > impact you. If you find things broken or incorrect, please submit a bug > report > at > > http://bugs.python.org > > For more information and downloads, see the Python 3.1 website: > > http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.1/ > > See PEP 375 for release schedule details: > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/
I see that Brett Canon's importlib has finally made it into Python standard library. Congrats there (if you still read this list), I am struggling with Python's arcane import semantics (for something ridiculously silly) now and I feel your pain. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
