Georg Brandl wrote: > On behalf of the Python development team, I'm delighted to announce > Python 3.2 final release.
Congratulations for your first as release manager, and a big thank you to you and all who contributed to this realease. > Python 3.2 is a continuation of the efforts to improve and stabilize the > Python 3.x line. Since the final release of Python 2.7, the 2.x line > will only receive bugfixes, and new features are developed for 3.x only. > > Since PEP 3003, the Moratorium on Language Changes, is in effect, there > are no changes in Python's syntax and built-in types in Python 3.2. > Development efforts concentrated on the standard library and support for > porting code to Python 3. Highlights are: > > * numerous improvements to the unittest module > * PEP 3147, support for .pyc repository directories > * PEP 3149, support for version tagged dynamic libraries > * PEP 3148, a new futures library for concurrent programming > * PEP 384, a stable ABI for extension modules > * PEP 391, dictionary-based logging configuration > * an overhauled GIL implementation that reduces contention > * an extended email package that handles bytes messages > * a much improved ssl module with support for SSL contexts and certificate > hostname matching > * a sysconfig module to access configuration information > * additions to the shutil module, among them archive file support > * many enhancements to configparser, among them mapping protocol support > * improvements to pdb, the Python debugger > * countless fixes regarding bytes/string issues; among them full support > for a bytes environment (filenames, environment variables) > * many consistency and behavior fixes for numeric operations This is an impressive list. It looks like Python 3 is now ready for mass adoption :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
