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Re: Confusion about python versions

From Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject Re: Confusion about python versions
Date 2013-10-27 18:23 +0000
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On 27/10/2013 18:13, Aseem Bansal wrote:
> Python 2.7.6 release candidate 1 and 3.3.3 release candidate 1 was released yesterday. Also Python 3.4.0 alpha 4 was released a week ago.
>
> I thought as Python 3.4.0 alpha was released 3.3 branch was done. The 3.3.3 release candidate fixes many bugs as per the changelog so would they be included in 3.4.0?
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> For how long do the older versions get supported in case of Python? Do bugfix releases for older versions keeps on happening even when new branch is released? Isn't that a lot of work to manage so many versions?
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> How do the Python versions work? For how long is Python 2 going to be supported?
>

Take a look at the various release schedule PEPs here 
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/ where 373 refers to Python 2.7.

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But the best has yet to be invented.  Christian Tismer

Mark Lawrence

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Confusion about python versions Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2013-10-27 11:13 -0700
  Re: Confusion about python versions Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-27 18:23 +0000
  Re: Confusion about python versions Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-10-27 15:08 -0400
  Re: Confusion about python versions Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-27 17:29 -0400

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