RELEASED Python 3.1 alpha 1

[Carl Banks]

On Mar 7, 10:53 am, Benjamin Peterson <benja... at python.org> wrote:
> On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm
> happy to announce the first alpha release of Python 3.1.
>
> Python 3.1 focuses on the stabilization and optimization of features and changes
> Python 3.0 introduced.  The new I/O system has been rewritten in C for speed.
> Other features include a ordered dictionary implementation and support for ttk
> Tile in Tkinter.
>
> 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 3.1 might
> impact you.  If you find things broken or incorrect, please submit a bug report
> at
>
>      http://bugs.python.org
>
> For more information and downloads, see the Python 3.1 website:
>
>      http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.1/
>
> See PEP 375 for release schedule details:
>
>      http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/


I see that Brett Canon's importlib has finally made it into Python
standard library.  Congrats there (if you still read this list), I am
struggling with Python's arcane import semantics (for something
ridiculously silly) now and I feel your pain.


Carl Banks