[RELEASED] Python 2.7.5

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Carlos Nepomuceno
<carlosnepomuceno at outlook.com> wrote:
> ----------------------------------------
>> From: nagle at animats.com
>> Subject: Re: [RELEASED] Python 2.7.5
>> Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 12:20:43 -0700
> [...]
>> 3.x is a different language, with different libraries, and lots of
>> things that still don't work. Many old applications will never
>> be converted.
>>
>> John Nagle
>
> What still doesn't work in Python 3?
>
> Is Python 2.7.5 last (final, never to be updated) revision or will it still be supported?

There won't be a Python 2.8 (at least, not from python.org), so there
won't be any feature additions to the Python 2 line. It'll be
supported in terms of bugfixes for a good while though, see PEP 373
[1], and of course distributions can do their own backporting of
patches for as long as they like (Red Hat will quite possibly want to
support old Pythons for a long time).

[1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/

ChrisA