Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.013 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'received:209.85.223': 0.03; 'subject:Python': 0.05; 'cpython': 0.05; 'fixes': 0.05; 'python': 0.09; 'url:releases': 0.09; 'looked': 0.10; 'assume': 0.11; 'life?': 0.16; 'status.': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'windows': 0.19; 'otherwise,': 0.20; 'sort': 0.21; 'absolute': 0.23; "i've": 0.23; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'url:download': 0.29; 'version,': 0.30; 'url:python': 0.32; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'received:google.com': 0.34; 'subject:?': 0.35; 'received:209.85': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'message- id:@gmail.com': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'unable': 0.36; 'does': 0.37; 'received:209': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'mean': 0.38; 'some': 0.38; 'page': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'release': 0.39; 'received:192': 0.39; 'received:192.168': 0.40; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'end': 0.40; 'policy': 0.62; 'safe': 0.63; 'skip:6 10': 0.63; 'life': 0.66; 'receive': 0.71; '2.5.6': 0.84; 'kind.': 0.84; 'python.org,': 0.93 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=h3NIEfw4ycg4BuD10gQlKOI9mMN/zDylxNL2oKSDzo4=; b=mR2gBbgOOH5ZPVLxF2RMzL71EzJp13VynTgZMB+79aAJyhK5Ez/3ezzNdxN39OcVSe Ede+HrUKPMw1GYeF1n5E2SK931e3HivsdNhBPxNgUuaIZ+wlBX4TyJEeJC7CBt8HZoYc RxFAUZFFMmNtPf9QfTquS9Kqj1VdnYTvmco7Jd9RIOkEEMifyS2XEKXhaiEI6nsUDE5k nyQTGjPrc1/ZpkQu84kOhNBEuBkOCZi0fg1yZ0PwxbuzGkPWS/D94kAmYewz20k+zCtW vX1+J6Rk3uTHJQeqWTORT6EIMds5kI3yF0JfyM2JBiDZ0WlfcaKTT6HNi4/6IdLvbZP1 Nshw== Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:26:15 -0500 From: Andrew Berg User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "comp.lang.python" Subject: Re: EOL for Python 3.2? References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 14 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1348950396 news.xs4all.nl 6939 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:55863 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:30527 On 2012.09.29 15:03, David Dillard wrote: > With the release of Python 3.3.0 does that mean the 3.2.x line is now end of life? No. Old releases get security fixes for years. > I've looked for some sort of end of life policy on python.org, but was unable to find one. http://www.python.org/download/releases/ If you go to a version, it will tell you the status. For example, 3.1.x and 2.6.x still get security fixes, but 2.5.6 is the absolute last release of 2.5 - it will NOT receive updates of any kind. Unless the page states otherwise, it is pretty safe to assume that the release is maintained. -- CPython 3.3.0 | Windows NT 6.1.7601.17835