[RELEASE] Python 2.7 release candidate 1 released
On behalf of the Python development team, I'm effusive to announce the first release candidate of Python 2.7. Python 2.7 is scheduled (by Guido and Python-dev) to be the last major version in the 2.x series. However, 2.7 will have an extended period of bugfix maintenance. 2.7 includes many features that were first released in Python 3.1. The faster io module, the new nested with statement syntax, improved float repr, set literals, dictionary views, and the memoryview object have been backported from 3.1. Other features include an ordered dictionary implementation, unittests improvements, a new sysconfig module, and support for ttk Tile in Tkinter. For a more extensive list of changes in 2.7, see http://doc.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html or Misc/NEWS in the Python distribution. To download Python 2.7 visit: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/ While this is a preview release and is thus not suitable for production use, we strongly encourage Python application and library developers to test the release with their code and report any bugs they encounter to: http://bugs.python.org/ This helps ensure that those upgrading to Python 2.7 will encounter as few bumps as possible. 2.7 documentation can be found at: http://docs.python.org/2.7/ Enjoy! -- Benjamin Peterson Release Manager benjamin at python.org (on behalf of the entire python-dev team and 2.7's contributors) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/
Re: [RELEASE] Python 2.7 release candidate 1 released
Just an advice as I see that old Python is maintained. When starting with Python (simple programs and GUIs) should I start with Python 3.x ? If it has a decent implementation on Mac/Linux/Windows of course... Thanks, franck -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [RELEASE] Python 2.7 release candidate 1 released
In article wissme-3dc8e8.16054506062...@news.free.fr, Franck Ditter wis...@hotmail.com wrote: When starting with Python (simple programs and GUIs) should I start with Python 3.x ? That depends on the extent to which you rely strictly on the standard Python library. If there's any likelihood that you will want to use random third-party libraries, you probably want to stick with 2.x; ditto if you want to rely on your users having their own copy of Python (in which case you probably should target Python 2.4). -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) * http://www.pythoncraft.com/ If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it. --Dijkstra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [RELEASE] Python 2.7 release candidate 1 released
On 06/07/10 00:05, Franck Ditter wrote: Just an advice as I see that old Python is maintained. When starting with Python (simple programs and GUIs) should I start with Python 3.x ? If it has a decent implementation on Mac/Linux/Windows of course... I say, if you're learning the language and/or programming, python 3 is a nicer to start with. However, as of now, not many third party libraries has been ported to python 3.x yet; so if you're writing a real application and you're expecting to use many third party libraries, then stick with python 2.x. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
[RELEASE] Python 2.7 release candidate 1 released
On behalf of the Python development team, I'm effusive to announce the first release candidate of Python 2.7. Python 2.7 is scheduled (by Guido and Python-dev) to be the last major version in the 2.x series. However, 2.7 will have an extended period of bugfix maintenance. 2.7 includes many features that were first released in Python 3.1. The faster io module, the new nested with statement syntax, improved float repr, set literals, dictionary views, and the memoryview object have been backported from 3.1. Other features include an ordered dictionary implementation, unittests improvements, a new sysconfig module, and support for ttk Tile in Tkinter. For a more extensive list of changes in 2.7, see http://doc.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html or Misc/NEWS in the Python distribution. To download Python 2.7 visit: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/ While this is a preview release and is thus not suitable for production use, we strongly encourage Python application and library developers to test the release with their code and report any bugs they encounter to: http://bugs.python.org/ This helps ensure that those upgrading to Python 2.7 will encounter as few bumps as possible. 2.7 documentation can be found at: http://docs.python.org/2.7/ Enjoy! -- Benjamin Peterson Release Manager benjamin at python.org (on behalf of the entire python-dev team and 2.7's contributors) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list