[Python-Dev] Status of 2.7 and 3.2

[anatoly techtonik]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>
> I have thought that 2.7 was now to come out instead with 3.2 and would
> include backported 3.2 new features.  Others expect 2.7 to come out soon
> after 3.1 and to only contain new 3.1 features.  So Guido or someone, please
> clarify: is 2.7 to be the counterpart of 3.1 or 3.2?

Just my 0.02 cents, but struggling with all warts of 2.5 subprocessing
in Windows I would vote for more time for stabilizating things - not
adding new features. Long awaited subprocess as replacement for
os.popen() AFAIK is still incapable to asynchronously communicate with
spawned processes on Windows. I would call this feature as critical
even on 2.6  As a release testcase - try porting pyexpect module to
this platform. Absence of native curses/console/readline module also
makes Python one-way unix shell language while many users expect it to
be crossplatform.

-- 
anatoly t.