I think if easy_install, gevent, numpy (*), and win32 extensions where included in 3.x, together with a slightly better Idle (still based on Tkinter, with multiple pages, autocompletion, collapsible, line numbers, better printing with syntax highlitghing), and if easy_install were accessible via Idle, this would be a killer version. Longer term removing the GIL and using garbage collection should be a priority. I am not sure what is involved and how difficult it is but perhaps this is what PyCon money can be used for. If this cannot be done without breaking backward compatibility again, then 3.x should be considered an experimental branch, people should be advised to stay with 2.7 (2.8?) and then skip to 4.x directly when these problems are resolved. Python should not make a habit of breaking backward compatibility. It would be really nice if it were to include an async web server (based on gevent for example) and better parser for HTTP headers and a python based template language (like mako or the web2py one) not just for the web but for document generation in general. Massimo On Feb 9, 2012, at 11:12 AM, Edward Lesmes wrote:
50+% of the students have a mac and an increasing number of
Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipierro@...> writes: packages depend on numpy. Installing numpy on mac is a lottery.
About the numpy dependency, I think is a reason to integrate numpy in python.