On Mar 1, 10:53 pm, Kay Schluehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1 Mrz., 19:51, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Python 2.6 is not only the next advancement in the Python 2 series, it > > is also a transitionary release, helping developers begin to prepare > > their code for Python 3.0. > > Isn't this a silly idea? People have to migrate from 2.5 or lower > releases to Python 2.6 first just to migrate to Python 3.0? What are > the inherent / technical reasons that prevent migration directly from > 2.5 to 3.0?
Not only that, you have to wait for your library providers to migrate first (PyOpenGL, PyGame, PIL, etc for me). Hopefully this is the last quantum shift for a while. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list