[Python-Dev] Re: [RELEASE] Python 2.7.18, the end of an era

2020-04-21 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 7:31 AM Larry Hastings wrote: > On 4/20/20 8:06 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > > I'm eudaemonic to announce the immediate availability of Python 2.7.18. [...] > Over all those years, CPython's core developers and contributors sedulously > applied bug fixes to the 2.7 bra

[Python-Dev] Re: [RELEASE] Python 2.7.18, the end of an era

2020-04-21 Thread Larry Hastings
On 4/20/20 8:06 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: I'm eudaemonic to announce the immediate availability of Python 2.7.18. [...] Over all those years, CPython's core developers and contributors sedulously applied bug fixes to the 2.7 branch, no small task as the Python 2 and 3 branches diverged.

[Python-Dev] Re: [RELEASE] Python 2.7.18, the end of an era

2020-04-20 Thread Guido van Rossum
And thank you, Benjamin! Where's the virtual party? --Guido On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 08:09 Benjamin Peterson wrote: > I'm eudaemonic to announce the immediate availability of Python 2.7.18. > > Python 2.7.18 is a special release. I refer, of course, to the fact that > "2.7.18" is the closest an