python-dev Summary for 2006-04-01 through 2006-04-15

[Fredrik Lundh]

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> Python 2.5a1 Released
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> Python 2.5 alpha 1 was released on April 5th.  Please download it and
> try it out, particularly if you are an extension writer or you embed
> Python -- you may want to change things to support 64-bit sequences,
> and if you have been using mismatched PyMem_* and PyObject_*
> allocation calls, you will need to fix these as well.

gotta do something about the lag, really ;-)

for the record, 2.5 alpha 2 was released in late april; get it here:

     http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/

the rest of the summary blurb still applies; extension writers should 
read PEP 353:

     http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0353
     http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0353/#conversion-guidelines

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