[Python-Dev] ANNOUNCE: A Python 2.1 release candidate!

[Guido van Rossum]

> >   - Eric Raymond extended the pstats module with a simple interactive
> >     statistics browser, invoked when the module is run as a script.
> 
> ...which I tested by using it to speed-tune the crap out of CML2, dropping the
> configurator's startup time from over 15 seconds to about 2 :-).
> 
> CML2 has been officially accepted for inclusion in the Linux kernel, BTW.
> Linus himself quashed the anti-Python grumbling from some of the more
> conservative types on lkml by uttering the ukase "Python is not an issue."
> It's scheduled to go in sometime in the 2.5.1 to 2.5.2 series.

Congratulations are in order, Eric!

I guess a more positive endorsement of Python from Linus will be out
of the question for now... :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)