On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Dan Sommers <d...@tombstonezero.net> wrote: > On Wed, 02 Apr 2014 02:19:38 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> These improvements are absolutely critical to the language, and should >> be made in Python 2.5.7, 2.6.9, and 3.0.2. Anyone using a newer >> version of Python is paying the price for early adoption, and should >> back-level immediately to a supported version. > > I'm using 2.8. Should I upgrade?
Definitely. Python 2.8 is supported only on Windows XP 64-bit, and you should upgrade to 32-bit Python; this will give you a 50% saving on all pointers, and Python uses a lot of pointers, so your code will be more efficient. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list