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On behalf of the Python development team, I'm happy to announce the second beta preview release of Python 3.2.
Python 3.2 is a continuation of the efforts to improve and stabilize the Python 3.x line. Since the final release of Python 2.7, the 2.x line will only receive bugfixes, and new features are developed for 3.x only.
Since PEP 3003, the Moratorium on Language Changes, is in effect, there are no changes in Python's syntax and built-in types in Python 3.2. Development efforts concentrated on the standard library and support for porting code to Python 3. Highlights are:
- numerous improvements to the unittest module
- PEP 3147, support for .pyc repository directories
- PEP 3149, support for version tagged dynamic libraries
- PEP 3148, a new futures library for concurrent programming
- PEP 384, a stable ABI for extension modules
- PEP 391, dictionary-based logging configuration
- an overhauled GIL implementation that reduces contention
- an extended email package that handles bytes messages
- countless fixes regarding bytes/string issues; among them full support for a bytes environment (filenames, environment variables)
- many consistency and behavior fixes for numeric operations
- a sysconfig module to access configuration information
- a pure-Python implementation of the datetime module
- additions to the shutil module, among them archive file support
- improvements to pdb, the Python debugger
For a more extensive list of changes in 3.2, see
http://docs.python.org/3.2/whatsnew/3.2.html
To download Python 3.2 visit:
http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.2/
Please consider trying Python 3.2 with your code and reporting any bugs you may notice to:
http://bugs.python.org/
Enjoy!
Georg Brandl, Release Manager georg at python.org (on behalf of the entire python-dev team and 3.2's contributors)
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On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> wrote:
Since PEP 3003, the Moratorium on Language Changes, is in effect, there are no changes in Python's syntax and built-in types in Python 3.2.
Minor nit - we actually did tweak a few of the builtin types a bit (mostly the stuff to improve Sequence ABC conformance and to make range objects more list-like)
Cheers, Nick.
-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
On 12/22/2010 8:46 AM, Georg Brandl wrote:
If you're only going to mention some vague "some builtins had minor changes", then I'm fine with that. If you're going to enumerate all such changes, that will be a bigger job. There were 2 such changes I'm aware of: str.format_map (#6081) and the addition of alternate ("#") formatting to float, complex and decimal (#7094) __format__ methods.
For this announcement I don't think it's necessary to list them all.
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