[Tutor] OT: Python 2.5 (Was Re: Length of longest item in alist, using a list comp)

[Alan Gauld]

"Chris Hengge" <pyro9219 at gmail.com> wrote 
>...I'm curious why people didn't seem to unanimously jump 
> into 2.5 upon release. 

I can't speak for anyone else, but personally I never load the 
first version of any software. I only upgrade when I find a 
feature I actually know I need and after I'm confident that 
the bugs have been squashed. 

This applies to all software not just Python.
I'm currently running FrameMaker 5.5 (latest vesion is 7!) 
and MS Word 97/2002(latest version???). Most of my Oracle 
databases are still at version 8. On my servers at work 
Python is still at v2.2. We only upgraded our Win2000 
boxes to XP after SP2 came out (6 months after to be 
accurate!)

Chasing the latest release is a time consuming sport that 
isn't worth doing unless it actually delivers some real benefit
IMHO. Which is why I asked what the real benefits of 2.5 are?
>From Wes' list I only see tertiary operators and try/except/finally
as useful to me - and both are just minor style fixes. So I 
doubt if I'll move from 2.3(MacOS)/2.4(XP and Linux) for a 
while yet - at least not until the ActiveState version comes 
out for XP.

One thing I will be investigating is the WSGI stuff, I've come 
across mentions of that several times now, and know 
nothing about it.

Alan G.