RELEASED Python 2.6a3 and 3.0a5

George Sakkis george.sakkis at gmail.com
Fri May 9 22:00:25 EDT 2008


On May 8, 7:50 pm, Barry Warsaw <ba... at python.org> wrote:

> On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I  
> am happy to announce the third alpha release of Python 2.6, and the  
> fifth alpha release of Python 3.0.
>
> Please note that these are alpha releases, and as such are not  
> suitable for production environments.  We continue to strive for a  
> high degree of quality, but there are still some known problems and  
> the feature sets have not been finalized.  These alphas are being  
> released to solicit feedback and hopefully discover bugs, as well as  
> allowing you to determine how changes in 2.6 and 3.0 might impact
> you.  If you find things broken or incorrect, please submit a bug  
> report at
>
>    http://bugs.python.org
>
> For more information and downloadable distributions, see the Python
> 2.6 website:
>
>    http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/
>
> and the Python 3.0 web site:
>
>    http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/
>
> These are the last planned alphas for both versions.  If all goes  
> well, next month will see the first beta releases of both, which will  
> also signal feature freeze.  Two beta releases are planned, with the  
> final releases scheduled for September 3, 2008.
>
> See PEP 361 for release details:
>
>      http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/
>
> Enjoy,
> - -Barry

I'm trying to install on the latest Ubuntu (8.04) and the following
extension modules fail:

_bsddb, _curses, _curse_panel, _hashlib, _sqlite3, _ssl, _tkinter,
bz2, dbm, gdbm, readline, zlib

All of them except for _tkinter are included in the preinstalled
Python 2.5.2, so I guess the dependencies must be somewhere there.
Does Ubuntu have any non-standard lib dir ?

George



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