Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!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 0.006 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:: [': 0.04; '(at': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'revision': 0.07; 'pep': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'language,': 0.12; 'from:addr:rosuav': 0.16; 'from:name:chris angelico': 0.16; 'patches': 0.16; 'time).': 0.16; 'url:peps': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'subject:] ': 0.20; 'url:dev': 0.24; 'mon,': 0.24; 'possibly': 0.26; 'supported': 0.26; 'header :In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'skip:- 40': 0.29; 'feature': 0.29; '[1]': 0.29; 'am,': 0.29; "doesn't": 0.30; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; 'work.': 0.31; '3.x': 0.31; 'quite': 0.32; 'url:python': 0.33; 'date:': 0.34; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'url:org': 0.36; 'hat': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'subject:': 0.39; 'though,': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'john': 0.61; 'course': 0.61; 're:': 0.63; 'different': 0.65; '2.8': 0.84; 'carlos': 0.91; '2013': 0.98 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=AnNjx98TQv28taVkOpI8nzcBFl6oGNFzlb+dnOn08AU=; b=M5BehSR7iwAvNwDef1uF/Mmybb2rdU7yAj4DEfVpX3xs/QADpGsKD/TVSa7KcIeKpW B3UYRoX9ork/tQMNWqiBi8kHH+zzjFO79FJ04ReNfh8jVM/xwb62/X4pOIIt3jWDUHE6 fFoU2rPsGn5apLa+Ro9D4Uw4+dqHcLuDcnq6RrYJKLvCUrP7RLWDiy5uwWKiMQOOdk3B tb8nUM0PZ8e4KntIPumVYVTjFBwMlxaXXKmZaQ4JrCUrZ6TODyuZyY5BEy7WBwUvwCEX 2HgrtNJb84P+yC2A+DNpaK3ItBd0zfX9jqVtMOb4SMMkB+OZibFwPmLQm02eUV3ENHbA vHhA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.52.155.67 with SMTP id vu3mr14989402vdb.94.1370300094600; Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:54:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 08:54:54 +1000 Subject: Re: [RELEASED] Python 2.7.5 From: Chris Angelico To: python-list@python.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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: 27 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1370300103 news.xs4all.nl 16008 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:59854 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:46818 On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Carlos Nepomuceno wrote: > ---------------------------------------- >> From: nagle@animats.com >> Subject: Re: [RELEASED] Python 2.7.5 >> Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 12:20:43 -0700 > [...] >> 3.x is a different language, with different libraries, and lots of >> things that still don't work. Many old applications will never >> be converted. >> >> John Nagle > > What still doesn't work in Python 3? > > Is Python 2.7.5 last (final, never to be updated) revision or will it still be supported? There won't be a Python 2.8 (at least, not from python.org), so there won't be any feature additions to the Python 2 line. It'll be supported in terms of bugfixes for a good while though, see PEP 373 [1], and of course distributions can do their own backporting of patches for as long as they like (Red Hat will quite possibly want to support old Pythons for a long time). [1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/ ChrisA