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Barry Warsaw

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Nov 21, 2008, 10:06:44 AM11/21/08
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On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I
am happy to announce the third and last planned release candidate for
Python 3.0.

This is a release candidate, so while it is not quite suitable for
production environments, we strongly encourage you to download and
test this release on your software. We expect only critical bugs to
be fixed between now and the final release, currently planned for 03-
Dec-2008.

If you find things broken or incorrect, please submit bug reports at

http://bugs.python.org

Please read the RELNOTES file in the distribution for important
details about this release. For more information and downloadable
distributions, see the Python 3.0 website:

http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/

See PEP 361 for release schedule details:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/

Enjoy,
- -Barry

Barry Warsaw
ba...@python.org
Python 2.6/3.0 Release Manager
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team)

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Terry Reedy

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Nov 21, 2008, 5:44:20 PM11/21/08
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Barry Warsaw wrote:

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> http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/

The new Windows binaries are already present.

Steve Holden

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Nov 21, 2008, 6:35:00 PM11/21/08
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Yeah, what's up with that? Until now we've been able to complain at the
release manager for announcing a release before the Windows binaries are
available. How dare he get it right this time? We demand our right to
complain that the Windows binaries aren't available ...

Cue "What have the Romans ever done for us":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaE3EaQte78

regards
Steve

PS: Thanks, Barry and supporting cast. Nice job.
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James Mills

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Nov 21, 2008, 8:17:26 PM11/21/08
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On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote:
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> On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am
> happy to announce the third and last planned release candidate for Python
> 3.0.

Whoohoo! :) Great works guys!

--JamesMills

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Mensanator

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Nov 21, 2008, 9:26:59 PM11/21/08
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On Nov 21, 9:06 am, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote:
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>
> On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I  
> am happy to announce the third and last planned release candidate for  
> Python 3.0.
>
> This is a release candidate, so while it is not quite suitable for  
> production environments, we strongly encourage you to download and  
> test this release on your software.  We expect only critical bugs to  
> be fixed between now and the final release, currently planned for 03-
> Dec-2008.

I'm getting confused. Final release will just say Python 3.0, right?

And 2.6 is in final release? So when ActiveState speaks of 2.6.0.0
they mean a final release?

So, if the IDLE from ActiveState comes up and says 2.6 (indicating
final release), shouldn't the copywrite message also say 2.6
instead of 2.6rc1 as shown here?


Python 2.6rc1 (r26rc1:66438, Sep 13 2008, 09:20:38) [MSC v.1500 32
bit
(Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.

****************************************************************
Personal firewall software may warn about the connection IDLE
makes to its subprocess using this computer's internal loopback
interface. This connection is not visible on any external
interface and no data is sent to or received from the Internet.
****************************************************************

IDLE 2.6


Aahz

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Nov 22, 2008, 10:32:14 AM11/22/08
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In article <4c8b9dad-d978-408d...@v4g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,

Mensanator <mensa...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>So, if the IDLE from ActiveState comes up and says 2.6 (indicating
>final release), shouldn't the copywrite message also say 2.6
>instead of 2.6rc1 as shown here?

That would be an "oops"; please file a bug report, we're going to be
releasing 2.6.1 about the same time as 3.0.
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--Bill Harlan

Steve Holden

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Nov 22, 2008, 10:30:52 AM11/22/08
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Mensanator wrote:
> On Nov 21, 9:06 am, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote:
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA1
>>
>> On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I
>> am happy to announce the third and last planned release candidate for
>> Python 3.0.
>>
>> This is a release candidate, so while it is not quite suitable for
>> production environments, we strongly encourage you to download and
>> test this release on your software. We expect only critical bugs to
>> be fixed between now and the final release, currently planned for 03-
>> Dec-2008.
>
> I'm getting confused. Final release will just say Python 3.0, right?
>
> And 2.6 is in final release? So when ActiveState speaks of 2.6.0.0
> they mean a final release?
>
> So, if the IDLE from ActiveState comes up and says 2.6 (indicating
> final release), shouldn't the copywrite message also say 2.6
> instead of 2.6rc1 as shown here?
>
>
> Python 2.6rc1 (r26rc1:66438, Sep 13 2008, 09:20:38) [MSC v.1500 32
> bit
> (Intel)] on win32
> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>

Indeed it should. This is my Windows 2.6 installed from 2.6 final on
python.org:

C:\Users\sholden>\python26\python
Python 2.6 (r26:66721, Oct 2 2008, 11:35:03) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
(Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

You will note that the Subversion version number is considerably higher.
Don't worry, 2.6.1 will be out in a month or so ;-)

regards
Steve

Mensanator

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Nov 22, 2008, 11:17:11 AM11/22/08
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On Nov 22, 9:32�am, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
> In article <4c8b9dad-d978-408d-8b44-bf7e9c0bf...@v4g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,

>
> Mensanator �<mensana...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> >So, if the IDLE from ActiveState comes up and says 2.6 (indicating
> >final release), shouldn't the copywrite message also say 2.6
> >instead of 2.6rc1 as shown here?
>
> That would be an "oops"; please file a bug report,

Done.

> we're going to be
> releasing 2.6.1 about the same time as 3.0.
> --

> Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) � � � � � <*> � � � �http://www.pythoncraft.com/

Trent Mick

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Nov 24, 2008, 12:38:29 PM11/24/08
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> And 2.6 is in final release? So when ActiveState speaks of 2.6.0.0
> they mean a final release?

Yes. The first three parts of the ActivePython version are the same as
the core Python version on which it is based.


> So, if the IDLE from ActiveState comes up and says 2.6 (indicating
> final release), shouldn't the copywrite message also say 2.6
> instead of 2.6rc1 as shown here?
>
> Python 2.6rc1 (r26rc1:66438, Sep 13 2008, 09:20:38) [MSC v.1500 32
> bit
> (Intel)] on win32
> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.

This is what I get when I run IDLE with ActivePython 2.6.0.0 installed:

-----
Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Nov 11 2008, 10:21:19) [MSC v.1500 32 bit

(Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.

-----

I ran it like this:

C:\Python26> pythonw.exe Lib\idelib\idle.pyw


I believe there is a problem with your install. My guess is that your
ActivePython install is using an older python26.dll sitting around
somewhere.

Is there a python26.dll somewhere in your "C:\Python26" directory, or
wherever you installed ActivePython 2.6?

Trent

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Trent Mick
trentm at activestate.com

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