multiple 2.7.3 versions?
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Fri Feb 15 09:00:01 EST 2013
In article <mailman.1801.1360925614.2939.python-list at python.org>,
Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:
> A colleague reports that this python from a recent Ubuntu x86_x64
>
> Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2012, 21:51:14)
>
> contains a fix of this bug
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue15212
>
> however, all of my other Python 2.7.3s seem to lack this 'fix'.
>
> I would have thought that for a fix to appear in python we should at least
> get a
> micro version change, but the text here
>
> http://docs.python.org/2/faq/general.html#how-stable-is-python
I ran into a similar issue just recently (see this thread:
http://tinyurl.com/ccvwj3e). The Ubuntu folks seem to be cherry-picking
bugfixes and releasing them with the same version numbers.
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