Re: RELEASED Python 2.5 (alpha 1)

2006-04-06 Thread Michele Simionato
Michael Ekstrand wrote: Michele Simionato wrote: Michael Ekstrand wrote: After reading AMK's survey of what's new in Python 2.5, I am suitably impressed. As usual, I can't wait to start using the cool new features... extended generators? (mind is currently swimming with the question of

Re: RELEASED Python 2.5 (alpha 1)

2006-04-06 Thread Terry Reedy
Michele Simionato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Ekstrand wrote: The day Python (without using Stackless) has true continuations will be a happy day. Don't hold your breath. Guido regards 'true continuations' as complexity overload for the typical

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

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: RELEASED Python 2.5 (alpha 1)

2006-04-05 Thread Michael Ekstrand
After reading AMK's survey of what's new in Python 2.5, I am suitably impressed. As usual, I can't wait to start using the cool new features... extended generators? (mind is currently swimming with the question of can I implement Scheme's call-with-current-continuation using extended

Re: RELEASED Python 2.5 (alpha 1)

2006-04-05 Thread Gerhard Häring
Michael Ekstrand wrote: [...] Anyway, the more important question that came to mind: I see that 2.5 will include the excellent ElementTree. Will cElementTree be included where available? or is it only the pure-Python version that will be in the standard library? Both elementtree as

Re: RELEASED Python 2.5 (alpha 1)

2006-04-05 Thread Michele Simionato
Michael Ekstrand wrote: After reading AMK's survey of what's new in Python 2.5, I am suitably impressed. As usual, I can't wait to start using the cool new features... extended generators? (mind is currently swimming with the question of can I implement Scheme's call-with-current-continuation

Re: RELEASED Python 2.5 (alpha 1)

2006-04-05 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Michael Ekstrand wrote: Anyway, the more important question that came to mind: I see that 2.5 will include the excellent ElementTree. Will cElementTree be included where available? or is it only the pure-Python version that will be in the standard library? they're both available, via the

Re: RELEASED Python 2.5 (alpha 1)

2006-04-05 Thread Robert Hicks
That is cool and that will be a great addition to the libraries. Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: RELEASED Python 2.5 (alpha 1)

2006-04-05 Thread bearophileHUGS
There are lot of new things! Is Hettinger's collections.bag going in Python 2.5 too? http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/259174 Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: RELEASED Python 2.5 (alpha 1)

2006-04-05 Thread Michael Ekstrand
Michele Simionato wrote: Michael Ekstrand wrote: After reading AMK's survey of what's new in Python 2.5, I am suitably impressed. As usual, I can't wait to start using the cool new features... extended generators? (mind is currently swimming with the question of can I implement Scheme's