python-dev summary 2001-02-01 - 2001-02-15

[Konrad Hinsen]

Michael Hudson <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> writes:

>  This is a summary of traffic on the python-dev mailing list between
>  Feb 1 and Feb 14 2001.  It is intended to inform the wider Python

Great news, and thanks for your efforts!

>  Skip Montanaro raised some concerns about Python's accelerated
>  release schedule, and it was pointed out that the default Python for
>  both debian unstable and Redhat 7.1 beta was still 1.5.2.  Have
>  *you* upgraded to Python 2.0?  If not, why not?

No. I keep a 2.0 installed on my personal account for compatibility
testing, but updating Python on all the machines I use at work is
a major effort (all extension modules need to be recompiled), so I do
this only when there's an improvement that is significant to my work.
This will be the case for 2.1 (e.g. rich comparisons), but it wasn't
in 2.0.
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