[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.6 final

Haoyu Bai divinekid at gmail.com
Thu Oct 2 06:19:32 CEST 2008


On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> Congratulations, Barry!!!
>
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry 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 release of Python 2.6 final.  This is the
>> production-ready version of the latest in the Python 2 series.
>>
>> There are many new features and modules, improvements, bug fixes, and other
>> changes in Python 2.6.  Please see the "What's new" page for details
>>
>>    http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.6.html
>>
>> as well as PEP 361
>>
>>    http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/
>>
>> While Python 2.6 is backward compatible with earlier versions of Python, 2.6
>> has many tools and features that will help you migrate to Python 3.
>>  Wherever possible, Python 3.0 features have been added without affecting
>> existing code.  In other cases, the new features can be enabled through the
>> use of __future__ imports and command line switches.
>>
>> Python 3.0 is currently in release candidate and will be available later
>> this year.  Both Python 2 and Python 3 will be supported for the foreseeable
>> future.
>>
>> Source tarballs, Windows installers, and Mac disk images can be downloaded
>> from the Python 2.6 page:
>>
>>    http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/
>>
>> (Please note that due to quirks in the earth's time zones, the Windows
>> installers will be available shortly.)
>
> Can someone who's still up fix add this note to the website? It looks
> a little dodgy just linking to a 404 error... :-(
>
>> Bugs can be reported in the Python bug tracker:
>>
>>    http://bugs.python.org
>>
>> Enjoy,
>> - -Barry
>>
>> Barry Warsaw
>> barry at python.org
>> Python 2.6/3.0 Release Manager
>> (on behalf of the entire python-dev team)
>>
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> --
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

Now almost all the pages on docs.python.org can't be accessed. For
example http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html returns 403 forbidden.

Is the online docs under updating to 2.6, or there's something wrong?

-- 
Haoyu Bai


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