RELEASED Python 2.4, alpha 1

[Irmen de Jong]

Anthony Baxter wrote:
> On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm
> happy to announce the first alpha of Python 2.4.

Great stuff.

One thing ; the format test isn't working:
(Mandrake 10, gcc 3.3.2)

$ make test

...
test_format
test test_format produced unexpected output:
**********************************************************************
*** line 2 of actual output doesn't appear in expected output after line 1:
+ u'%f' % (1.0,) == u'1,000000' != '1.000000'
**********************************************************************
test_fpformat
...
test_zlib
249 tests OK.
1 test failed:
     test_format
30 tests skipped:
     test_aepack test_al test_applesingle test_bsddb185 test_bsddb3
....


I'm wondering where the u'1,000000' comes from... because when I type
on the interactive prompt:
Python 2.4a1 (#1, Jul  9 2004, 15:42:46)
[GCC 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-6mdk)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> u'%f' % (1.0,)
u'1.000000'
 >>>



--Irmen.