"Chris Hengge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >...I'm curious why people didn't seem to unanimously jump > into 2.5 upon release.
I can't speak for anyone else, but personally I never load the first version of any software. I only upgrade when I find a feature I actually know I need and after I'm confident that the bugs have been squashed. This applies to all software not just Python. I'm currently running FrameMaker 5.5 (latest vesion is 7!) and MS Word 97/2002(latest version???). Most of my Oracle databases are still at version 8. On my servers at work Python is still at v2.2. We only upgraded our Win2000 boxes to XP after SP2 came out (6 months after to be accurate!) Chasing the latest release is a time consuming sport that isn't worth doing unless it actually delivers some real benefit IMHO. Which is why I asked what the real benefits of 2.5 are? >From Wes' list I only see tertiary operators and try/except/finally as useful to me - and both are just minor style fixes. So I doubt if I'll move from 2.3(MacOS)/2.4(XP and Linux) for a while yet - at least not until the ActiveState version comes out for XP. One thing I will be investigating is the WSGI stuff, I've come across mentions of that several times now, and know nothing about it. Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
