Mensanator wrote: > On Nov 21, 9:06 am, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I >> am happy to announce the third and last planned release candidate for >> Python 3.0. >> >> This is a release candidate, so while it is not quite suitable for >> production environments, we strongly encourage you to download and >> test this release on your software. We expect only critical bugs to >> be fixed between now and the final release, currently planned for 03- >> Dec-2008. > > I'm getting confused. Final release will just say Python 3.0, right? > > And 2.6 is in final release? So when ActiveState speaks of 2.6.0.0 > they mean a final release? > > So, if the IDLE from ActiveState comes up and says 2.6 (indicating > final release), shouldn't the copywrite message also say 2.6 > instead of 2.6rc1 as shown here? > > > Python 2.6rc1 (r26rc1:66438, Sep 13 2008, 09:20:38) [MSC v.1500 32 > bit > (Intel)] on win32 > Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. >
Indeed it should. This is my Windows 2.6 installed from 2.6 final on python.org: C:\Users\sholden>\python26\python Python 2.6 (r26:66721, Oct 2 2008, 11:35:03) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> You will note that the Subversion version number is considerably higher. Don't worry, 2.6.1 will be out in a month or so ;-) regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
