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

[Eric S. Raymond]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:
>   - 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.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of
the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it was found that
only 12 percent of those who use a gun to resist assault are injured,
as are 17 percent of those who use a gun to resist robbery. These
percentages are 27 and 25 percent, respectively, if they passively
comply with the felon's demands. Three times as many were injured if
they used other means of resistance.
        -- G. Kleck, "Policy Lessons from Recent Gun Control Research,"