[RELEASED] Python 3.4.0a2

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Sep 9 08:30:08 EDT 2013


Le Mon, 9 Sep 2013 08:16:06 -0400,
Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> a écrit :
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > On behalf of the Python development team, I'm chuffed to announce
> > the second alpha release of Python 3.4.
> >
> > This is a preview release, and its use is not recommended for
> > production settings.
> >
> > Python 3.4 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series,
> > including hundreds of small improvements and bug fixes.  Major new
> > features and changes in the 3.4 release series so far include:
> >
> > * PEP 435, a standardized "enum" module
> > * PEP 442, improved semantics for object finalization
> > * PEP 443, adding single-dispatch generic functions to the standard
> > library
> > * PEP 445, a new C API for implementing custom memory allocators
> > * PEP 446, changing file descriptors to not be inherited by default
> >            in subprocesses
> > * PEP 447, a new magic method for metaclasses (``__typelookup__``)
> > * PEP 448, making automatic sequence unpacking more general
> >
> 
> Those last two PEPs are still in draft form and not accepted nor have
> any committed code yet.

Unless Larry enthusiastically sneaked them into the release.

Regards

Antoine.





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