[Python-Dev] Contributing to Python (original) (raw)

A.M. Kuchling amk at amk.ca
Thu Jan 3 22:02:24 CET 2008

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:49:27PM -0500, Fred Drake wrote:

Python 2.6 seems to be entirely targeted at people who really want to be on Python 3, but have code that will need to be ported. I certainly don't view it as interesting in its own right.

The bulk of the language changes in 2.6 are driven by 3.0, but the abstract base class support is fairly significant even if you don't plan on going to 3.0.

There are a fair number of new features in the library: Bill's new SSL code, collections.namedtuple, the signal handling/event loop fix, the new floating point features dealing with infinities and NaNs. None are earth-shattering to me personally, but for the right audience they might be very compelling.

So far I view 2.6 as a relatively cautious release, like 2.3. (That assessment may change once I research the numeric changes that just went in.) Most of the action has been in the surrounding tools, like the new documentation format and the adoption of Roundup.

--amk

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