[Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 3.2 alpha 1

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at haypocalc.com
Fri Aug 13 01:17:20 CEST 2010


> ... Highlights are:
> 
> * numerous improvements to the unittest module
> * PEP 3147, support for .pyc repository directories
> * an overhauled GIL implementation that reduces contention
> * many consistency and behavior fixes for numeric operations
> * countless fixes regarding string/unicode issues; among them full
>   support for a bytes environment (filenames, environment variables)
> * 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

Hey, Python 3(.2) becomes more sexy than Python 2(.7)!

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Victor Stinner
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