Python 1.6, the final release, is out!

Dale Strickland-Clark dale at out-think.NOSPAMco.uk
Tue Sep 5 14:22:21 EDT 2000


Got it!

Is it safe to install on top of 1.5.2 or should I uninstall and clean-up
first?

Also will my existing Win32All-132 stuff all work?

Thanks

--
Dale Strickland-Clark
Out-Think Ltd, UK
Business Technology Consultants

Guido van Rossum <guido at beopen.com> wrote in message
news:200009051849.NAA01716 at cj20424-a.reston1.va.home.com...
> OK folks, believe it or not, Python 1.6 is released.
>
> Please go here to pick it up:
>
>     http://www.python.org/1.6/
>
> There's a tarball and a Windows installer, and a long list of new
> features.
>
> CNRI has placed an open source license on this version.  CNRI believes
> that this version is compatible with the GPL, but there is a
> technicality concerning the choice of law provision, which Richard
> Stallman believes may make it incompatible.  CNRI is still trying to
> work this out with Stallman.  Future versions of Python will be
> released by BeOpen PythonLabs under a GPL-compatible license if at all
> possible.
>
> There's Only One Way To Do It.
>
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.pythonlabs.com/~guido/)
>





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