[Python-Dev] Python 3.0.1

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote: > With the extensive changes in the works, Python 3.0.1 is shaping-up to be a > complete rerelease of 3.0 with API changes and major usability fixes. It > will fully supplant the original 3.0 release which was hobbled by poor IO > performance. > > I propose to make the new release more attractive by backporting several > module improvements already in 3.1, including two new itertools and one > collections class. These are already fully documented, tested, and > checked-in to 3.1 and it would be ashamed to let them sit idle for a year or > so, when the module updates are already ready-to-ship. In that case, I recommend just releasing it as 3.1. I had always anticipated a 3.1 release much sooner than the typical release schedule. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)