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Re: Python 3.6.0a2 is now available

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On 2016-06-15 14:38, cjw wrote:
> On Monday, 13 June 2016 23:57:20 UTC-4, Ned Deily  wrote:
>> On behalf of the Python development community and the Python 3.6 release
>> team, I'm happy to announce the availability of Python 3.6.0a2.
>> 3.6.0a2 is the first of four planned alpha releases of Python 3.6,
>> the next major release of Python.  During the alpha phase, Python 3.6
>> remains under heavy development: additional features will be added
>> and existing features may be modified or deleted.  Please keep in mind
>> that this is a preview release and its use is not recommended for
>> production environments.
>>
>> You can find Python 3.6.0a2 here:
>>
>> https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-360a2/
>>
>> The next release of Python 3.6 will be 3.6.0a3, currently scheduled for
>> 2016-07-11.
>>
> I see that the Array Class now provides for data of the double type, this is good, but why is there no provision for data of the complex type?
>
> Is this omission intended?
>
The Array class supports types that are available in C, and, up until 
now, the source code of CPython has been based on the C89 standard, 
which lacks a complex type.

A complex type was added in the C99 standard.

Coincidentally, there was recently a discussion on the python-dev list 
about whether to switch to C99.

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Python 3.6.0a2 is now available Ned Deily <nad@python.org> - 2016-06-13 23:57 -0400
  Re: Python 3.6.0a2 is now available cjw <cjwilliams43@gmail.com> - 2016-06-15 06:38 -0700
    Re: Python 3.6.0a2 is now available MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-06-15 15:19 +0100
      Re: Python 3.6.0a2 is now available Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-15 21:36 -0700
        Re: Python 3.6.0a2 is now available Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-16 18:41 +1000

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