On 4/4/14 10:04 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
I am a core developer and I am 99.99% sure that the core developers will not produce a CPython 2.8. For one thing we will likely do instead, see http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0466/
Thanks Terry. The back-port sounds great; I find the "Rejected alternatives" interesting. I think this must be where I was getting the gist that 2.8 might be an option--- just all the discussion that went on trying to figure out what to do with the security issues.
I notice a good bit on unicode there too. marcus -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
