Where is Python 1.6?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Mike Callahan wrote:
> I thought that a new Python was going to be released "soon" which would
> make some minor changes to the language. The one thing that struck in my
> mind is that one would call string methods rather than functions, ie.
> astring.upper() vs. string.upper(astring). There were other changes as
> well.

Python 1.6 will go into alpha towards the end of this
month.  Changes include support for unicode strings,
string methods, a new regular expression engine, and
assorted bug fixes and other tweaks.

afaik, most non-unicode changes are already in the
CVS repository.

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