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| From | MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: Python 3.6.0a2 is now available |
| Date | 2016-06-15 15:19 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <mailman.72.1466000357.2288.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
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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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