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  [RELEASED] Python 3.3.0 release candidate 3 Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> - 2012-09-24 08:18 +0200
    Re: [RELEASED] Python 3.3.0 release candidate 3 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-23 23:37 -0700
      Re: [RELEASED] Python 3.3.0 release candidate 3 Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-23 23:44 -0700

#29901 — [RELEASED] Python 3.3.0 release candidate 3

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On behalf of the Python development team, I'm delighted to announce the
third release candidate of Python 3.3.0.

This is a preview release, and its use is not recommended in
production settings.

Python 3.3 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, as well
as easier porting between 2.x and 3.x.  Major new features and changes
in the 3.3 release series are:

* PEP 380, syntax for delegating to a subgenerator ("yield from")
* PEP 393, flexible string representation (doing away with the
    distinction between "wide" and "narrow" Unicode builds)
* A C implementation of the "decimal" module, with up to 80x speedup
    for decimal-heavy applications
* The import system (__import__) now based on importlib by default
* The new "lzma" module with LZMA/XZ support
* PEP 397, a Python launcher for Windows
* PEP 405, virtual environment support in core
* PEP 420, namespace package support
* PEP 3151, reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy
* PEP 3155, qualified name for classes and functions
* PEP 409, suppressing exception context
* PEP 414, explicit Unicode literals to help with porting
* PEP 418, extended platform-independent clocks in the "time" module
* PEP 412, a new key-sharing dictionary implementation that
    significantly saves memory for object-oriented code
* PEP 362, the function-signature object
* The new "faulthandler" module that helps diagnosing crashes
* The new "unittest.mock" module
* The new "ipaddress" module
* The "sys.implementation" attribute
* A policy framework for the email package, with a provisional (see
    PEP 411) policy that adds much improved unicode support for email
    header parsing
* A "collections.ChainMap" class for linking mappings to a single unit
* Wrappers for many more POSIX functions in the "os" and "signal"
    modules, as well as other useful functions such as "sendfile()"
* Hash randomization, introduced in earlier bugfix releases, is now
    switched on by default

In total, almost 500 API items are new or improved in Python 3.3.
For a more extensive list of changes in 3.3.0, see

      http://docs.python.org/3.3/whatsnew/3.3.html

To download Python 3.3.0 visit:

      http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.3.0/

Please consider trying Python 3.3.0 with your code and reporting any bugs
you may notice to:

      http://bugs.python.org/


Enjoy!

- -- 
Georg Brandl, Release Manager
georg at python.org
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team and 3.3's contributors)
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#29903

Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> writes:
> Python 3.3 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, as well
> as easier porting between 2.x and 3.x.  Major new features and changes
> in the 3.3 release series are: [good stuff snipped]

This is cool, and Python 3 is finally starting to show some real
advantages over Python 2.  I suppose I'll have to start using it.  I've
sort of pointedly resisted it up til now.  Thanks for the good work, to
yourself and to everyone else involved.

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#29904

On Monday, 24 September 2012 12:07:53 UTC+5:30, Paul Rubin  wrote:
> Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> writes:
> 
> > Python 3.3 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, as well
> 
> > as easier porting between 2.x and 3.x.  Major new features and changes
> 
> > in the 3.3 release series are: [good stuff snipped]
> 
> 
> 
> This is cool, and Python 3 is finally starting to show some real
> 
> advantages over Python 2.  I suppose I'll have to start using it.  I've
> 
> sort of pointedly resisted it up til now.  Thanks for the good work, to
> 
> yourself and to everyone else involved.

Agree.
I wish I knew all the secrets of Python such as in PEP 342 .
Guess I'll have to read the tutorial and the PEPs...

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