RELEASED Python 3.0rc3

[Steve Holden]

Mensanator wrote:
> On Nov 21, 9:06 am, Barry Warsaw <ba... at python.org> wrote:
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>> On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I  
>> am happy to announce the third and last planned release candidate for  
>> Python 3.0.
>>
>> This is a release candidate, so while it is not quite suitable for  
>> production environments, we strongly encourage you to download and  
>> test this release on your software.  We expect only critical bugs to  
>> be fixed between now and the final release, currently planned for 03-
>> Dec-2008.
> 
> I'm getting confused. Final release will just say Python 3.0, right?
> 
> And 2.6 is in final release? So when ActiveState speaks of 2.6.0.0
> they mean a final release?
> 
> So, if the IDLE from ActiveState comes up and says 2.6 (indicating
> final release), shouldn't the copywrite message also say 2.6
> instead of 2.6rc1 as shown here?
> 
> 
> Python 2.6rc1 (r26rc1:66438, Sep 13 2008, 09:20:38) [MSC v.1500 32
> bit
> (Intel)] on win32
> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
> 

Indeed it should. This is my Windows 2.6 installed from 2.6 final on
python.org:

C:\Users\sholden>\python26\python
Python 2.6 (r26:66721, Oct  2 2008, 11:35:03) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
(Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

You will note that the Subversion version number is considerably higher.
Don't worry, 2.6.1 will be out in a month or so ;-)

regards
 Steve
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