Re: [Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 2.7 alpha 1

2009-12-05 Thread Brett Cannon
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:55, Scott Dial > wrote: > Benjamin Peterson wrote: > > On behalf of the Python development team, I'm pleased to announce the > first > > alpha release of Python 2.7. > > Was there a call for bugs that should be reviewed for this release? > > No. Since this is an alpha re

Re: [Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 2.7 alpha 1

2009-12-05 Thread Scott Dial
Benjamin Peterson wrote: > On behalf of the Python development team, I'm pleased to announce the first > alpha release of Python 2.7. Was there a call for bugs that should be reviewed for this release? I once again will prod for attention to this show-stopping bug for using IMAP-SSL: http://bugs

Re: [Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 2.7 alpha 1

2009-12-05 Thread Benjamin Peterson
My apologies. The whatsnew link is actually http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7. 2009/12/5 Benjamin Peterson : > On behalf of the Python development team, I'm pleased to announce the first > alpha release of Python 2.7. -- Regards, Benjamin ___ P

[Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 2.7 alpha 1

2009-12-05 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On behalf of the Python development team, I'm pleased to announce the first alpha release of Python 2.7. Python 2.7 is scheduled to be the last major version in the 2.x series. It includes many features that were first released in Python 3.1. The faster io module, the new nested with statement s