[TriZPUG] [Fwd: RELEASED Python 2.6 final]

[Chris Calloway]

Python 2.6 was released today.

Cool new features are the multiprocessing module (gets around the GIL), 
the with statement, relative imports, per-user site-pacakages, byte 
literals, abstract classes, and class decorators.

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Subject: RELEASED Python 2.6 final
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:46:45 -0400
From: Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org>
Reply-To: python-list at python.org
To: python-announce at python.org
CC: Python List <python-list at python.org>,   python-dev List 
<python-dev at python.org>

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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.)

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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