Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Terry Reedy
Nick Coghlan wrote: Terry Reedy wrote: and this could give some people a mis-impression, most likely negative, as to the magnitude and nature of the change. Most of the code I am now writing would, I believe, run with 2.5 except for print(..., file=xxx). And I know that there was concern for b

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Brett Cannon
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 13:07, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Terry Reedy wrote: >> and this could give some people a mis-impression, most likely negative, >> as to the magnitude and nature of the change. Most of the code I am now >> writing would, I believe, run with 2.5 except for prin

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Nick Coghlan
Terry Reedy wrote: > and this could give some people a mis-impression, most likely negative, > as to the magnitude and nature of the change. Most of the code I am now > writing would, I believe, run with 2.5 except for print(..., file=xxx). > And I know that there was concern for backward compati

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Terry Reedy
Guido van Rossum wrote: Python 3.0 (a.k.a. "Python 3000" or "Py3k") represents a major milestone in Python's history, and was nearly three years in the making. This is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x line of releases, I think this while remaining true to BDFL

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 3, 2008, at 9:19 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: Thanks so much for seeing this one through, Barry and co! Champagne!!! Now if only I could go on vacation. :) - -Barry -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBSTc/

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Guido van Rossum
Thanks so much for seeing this one through, Barry and co! Champagne!!! On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am > happy to announce the relea