Is 1.6 ready for prime time?

[Jeremy Hylton]

Thomas Gagne <tgagne at ix.netcom.com> writes:

> For someone like me, experiementing with the language, is 1.6's beta release
> worth investigating?  I'm ready to pull my hair out over my current
> PyThread_acquire_lock problem (it's not found anywhere in 1.5.2, but _tkinter
> wants it...).

Why don't you get a copy of the current CVS tree?  The current
codebase is closer to 2.0 than to 1.6.

Jeremy

-- Jeremy Hylton <http://www.python.org/~jeremy/>