[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.5 (alpha 1)

2006-04-05 Thread Anthony Baxter
On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the first alpha release of Python 2.5. This is an *alpha* release of Python 2.5, and is the *first* alpha release. As such, it is not suitable for a production environment. It is being released to solicit

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.5 (alpha 1)

2006-04-05 Thread Paul Moore
On 4/5/06, Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the first alpha release of Python 2.5. Excellent! Downloading it now for a test run... One (possibly very minor) point - the web page offers Windows

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.5 (alpha 1)

2006-04-05 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 23:16, Paul Moore wrote: One (possibly very minor) point - the web page offers Windows 64-bit MSI installers for Itanium and AMD64, but these seem to point to the same file! I'm not a Win64 user, so I don't know if this is actually wrong, but it's confusing at

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.5 (alpha 1)

2006-04-05 Thread Delaney, Timothy (Tim)
Anthony Baxter wrote: On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the first alpha release of Python 2.5. I noticed in PEP 356 Open Issues StopIteration should propagate from context managers that there's a still a question (from Jim Jewett) about

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.5 (alpha 1)

2006-04-05 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 03:29 PM 4/5/2006, Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote: Anthony Baxter wrote: On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the first alpha release of Python 2.5. I noticed in PEP 356 Open Issues StopIteration should propagate from context managers