Re: RELEASED: Python 2.6.9 final

2013-10-30 Thread Metallicow
On Thursday, October 31, 2013 1:05:13 AM UTC-5, Metallicow wrote: > On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 10:19:48 AM UTC-5, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > > Thanks Barry for all the hard work. > > > > Ditto. Wish I still had my Guido van Rossum World Tour t-shirt! > > > > Skip > > try: > BlackT() # htt

Re: RELEASED: Python 2.6.9 final

2013-10-30 Thread Metallicow
On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 10:19:48 AM UTC-5, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > Thanks Barry for all the hard work. > > Ditto. Wish I still had my Guido van Rossum World Tour t-shirt! > > Skip try: BlackT() # http://www.python.org/~guido/images/IMG_2192.jpg except Exception as pocketT: Embr

Re: RELEASED: Python 2.6.9 final

2013-10-30 Thread Skip Montanaro
> Thanks Barry for all the hard work. Ditto. Wish I still had my Guido van Rossum World Tour t-shirt! Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: RELEASED: Python 2.6.9 final

2013-10-29 Thread Miki Tebeka
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:48:58 AM UTC-7, Barry Warsaw wrote: > So too has my latest stint as Python Release Manager. Over the 19 years I > have been involved with Python, Thanks Barry for all the hard work. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: RELEASED: Python 2.6.9 final

2013-10-29 Thread Tim Chase
On 2013-10-29 13:48, Barry Warsaw wrote: > All maintenance of Python 2.6, including for security issues, has > now ended. > > So too has my latest stint as Python Release Manager. I'm sorry to see you step down, but am thankful for your many years of solid work. Wishing you the best, -tkc -

RELEASED: Python 2.6.9 final

2013-10-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
Hello Pythoneers and Pythonistas, Five years ago this month, we released Python 2.6. It was an important version in Python's evolution, as it was developed in tandem with Python 3.0 and had the express intent of starting the transition toward Python 3. Amazingly, here we are five years later, an