python 2.3 final

[Christopher Koppler]

On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 11:55:40 -0400, hokiegal99 <hokiegal99 at vt.edu>
wrote:

>I'm new to Python. I have been using 2.3b2 for several months now with 
>good results. I assumed that once the beta was good enough that Python 
>2.4 would be released, but today I noticed that there is a 2.3 final 
>release. I'm used to odd point releases being beta or testing, but it 
>seems that that isn't true in Python.

Spot on! Linux does the 'odd version is experimental' bit, and other
open source projects have followed that kind of versioning, but every
release in Python that's not marked alpha, beta, or release candidate
is a 'real', stable release.



--Christopher