RELEASED Python 2.6a1 and 3.0a3

[dave_mikesell at fastmail.fm]

On Mar 1, 10:53 pm, Kay Schluehr <kay.schlu... at gmx.net> wrote:
> On 1 Mrz., 19:51, Barry Warsaw <ba... at python.org> wrote:
>
> > Python 2.6 is not only the next advancement in the Python 2 series, it
> > is also a transitionary release, helping developers begin to prepare
> > their code for Python 3.0.
>
> Isn't this a silly idea? People have to migrate from 2.5 or lower
> releases to Python 2.6 first just to migrate to Python 3.0? What are
> the inherent / technical reasons that prevent migration directly from
> 2.5 to 3.0?

Not only that, you have to wait for your library providers to migrate
first (PyOpenGL, PyGame, PIL, etc for me).   Hopefully this is the
last quantum shift for a while.