[RELEASED] Python 3.5.8 is (finally) released

2019-10-29 Thread Larry Hastings
On behalf of the Python development community, I'm relieved to announce the availability of Python 3.5.8. Python 3.5 is in "security fixes only" mode.  This new version only contains security fixes, not conventional bug fixes, and it is a source-only release. You can find Python 3.5.8 here

ANN: distlib 0.3.0 released on PyPI

2019-10-29 Thread Vinay Sajip via Python-announce-list
I've recently released version 0.3.0 of distlib on PyPI [1]. For newcomers,distlib is a library of packaging functionality which is intended to beusable as the basis for third-party packaging tools. The main changes in this release are as follows: * Partially addressed #102: modules attribute of