[Python-Dev] [RELEASED] 2.7 beta 1

[Guido van Rossum]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Benjamin Peterson <benjamin <at> python.org> writes:
>>
>> On behalf of the Python development team, I'm merry to announce the first beta
>> release of Python 2.7.
>
> Congratulations, and thanks for your patience :)

Congratulations indeed!

Let me use this occasion to point out what an awesome community
python-dev is. Not only do we have an great release manager (kudos to
Benjamin for taking on this thankless job of herding cats), but the
whole developer community has been contributing to some excellent
releases. This makes me very happy and confident that Python will
continue to thrive for many, many years, with or without my direct
involvement in the details. While rumors of my retirement are greatly
exaggerated, I am very glad to be able to leave the details to the
community.

Keep them coming, folks!

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)