[Python-Dev] RELEASED: Python 2.3b2

[Guido van Rossum]

> > Looking over the list of highlights it's clear that 2.3 is focusing on
> > stability.  I hope that we can limit trunk checkins to bugfixes only
> > between now and the final release of 2.3.
> 
> Does this mean no new tests?

Tests to test for fixed bugs are always okay, of course.

I would be conservative in rewriting tests -- only do this if it's
easy to see that the new test is equivalent to the old test.

> > [...]
> > release.  (Apple already ships Mac OSX with Python 2.2 included in the
> > developer tools, but Panther will actually use Python for some
> > essential functionality.)
> 
> Can you tell us what functionality that is?

All I know is that it has to do with PDF generation workflow.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)