Re: RELEASED Python 3.1 alpha 1

2009-03-08 Thread laplacia...@gmail.com
On Mar 7, 6:59 pm, Carl Banks wrote: > > I see that Brett Canon's importlib has finally made it into Python > standard library.  Congrats there (if you still read this list), I am > struggling with Python's arcane import semantics (for something > ridiculously silly) now and I feel your pain. > H

Re: RELEASED Python 3.1 alpha 1

2009-03-08 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Colin J. Williams ncf.ca> writes: > Do you have any schedule for a Windows > binary release? They should materialize on Monday. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: RELEASED Python 3.1 alpha 1

2009-03-08 Thread Colin J. Williams
Benjamin Peterson wrote: On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the first alpha release of Python 3.1. Python 3.1 focuses on the stabilization and optimization of features and changes Python 3.0 introduced. The new I/O system has been rewritten

Re: RELEASED Python 3.1 alpha 1

2009-03-07 Thread bearophileHUGS
Benjamin Peterson: >It provides a good incentive for people to upgrade. :)< Sometimes at work you are forced you to use Python 2.x, so incentives aren't much relevant. Christian Heimes: > No, the MS Visual C compiler doesn't supported labels as values [1]. The > feature is only supported by som

Re: RELEASED Python 3.1 alpha 1

2009-03-07 Thread Christian Heimes
bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: > Are the computed gotos used in the future pre-compiled Windows binary > (of V.3.1) too? No, the MS Visual C compiler doesn't supported labels as values [1]. The feature is only supported by some compilers like GCC. Christian [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc

Re: RELEASED Python 3.1 alpha 1

2009-03-07 Thread Benjamin Peterson
lycos.com> writes: > > Are the computed gotos used in the future pre-compiled Windows binary > (of V.3.1) too? I doubt it. I don't think they've even been built yet. Martin will now, though. > > Is such optimization going to be backported to the 2.x series too, > like Python 2.7? Probably n

Re: RELEASED Python 3.1 alpha 1

2009-03-07 Thread bearophileHUGS
Are the computed gotos used in the future pre-compiled Windows binary (of V.3.1) too? Is such optimization going to be backported to the 2.x series too, like Python 2.7? Bye and thank you for your work, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: RELEASED Python 3.1 alpha 1

2009-03-07 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Scott David Daniels Acm.Org> writes: > > Benjamin Peterson wrote: > > On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm > > happy to announce the first alpha release of Python 3.1. > > Congratulations on the release. > I know 3.0 didn't have installers built for the alphas,

Re: RELEASED Python 3.1 alpha 1

2009-03-07 Thread Carl Banks
On Mar 7, 10:53 am, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm > happy to announce the first alpha release of Python 3.1. > > Python 3.1 focuses on the stabilization and optimization of features and > changes > Python 3.0 introduced.  The new

Re: RELEASED Python 3.1 alpha 1

2009-03-07 Thread Scott David Daniels
Benjamin Peterson wrote: On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the first alpha release of Python 3.1. Congratulations on the release. I know 3.0 didn't have installers built for the alphas, will that be the case for 3.1? --Scott David Daniels

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.1 alpha 1

2009-03-07 Thread Raymond Hettinger
[Benjamin Peterson] On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the first alpha release of Python 3.1. Thanks for the good work. Raymond -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.1 alpha 1

2009-03-07 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2009/3/7 Gerard Flanagan : > Benjamin Peterson wrote: > On the release page, the bzip link says '3.0' not '3.1'. That should be fixed now. > >> See PEP 375 for release schedule details: >> >>     http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/ That URL is actually supposed to be http://www.python.org/d

RELEASED Python 3.1 alpha 1

2009-03-07 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the first alpha release of Python 3.1. Python 3.1 focuses on the stabilization and optimization of features and changes Python 3.0 introduced. The new I/O system has been rewritten in C for speed. Other featu