[Python-Dev] 3.0.1 possibilities

[Antoine Pitrou]

Benjamin Peterson <musiccomposition <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Since the release of 3.0, several critical issues have come to our
> attention. Namely, the builtin cmp function wasn't removed [1] and the
> new IO library proved to be (as expected) abysmally slow [2][3][4].
> Christian proposed that we release 3.0.1 within the next week to patch
> up this critical issues.

The IO library needs a lot of work to make it as fast as in 2.6, one week isn't
enough. I'm not sure an emergency release with the linked patches is very useful
honestly.