[BangPypers] FW: [python-committers] [RELEASED] Python 3.2 beta 2

[Senthil Kumaran]

This is the second beta of the upcoming Python 3.2.

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Senthil

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 08:18:56PM +0100, Georg Brandl wrote:
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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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