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Python 2.2.1 Released

Posted by michael on Wednesday April 10, 2002 @07:01AM from the squeeze-play dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes "It appears that the latest version of Python has been released. "We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.2.1, on April 10, 2002. This is a bug-fix release for Python 2.2 and supersedes the 2.2 release." As far as what's new, it says,"This being a bug-fix release, there have been no exciting new features implemented since 2.2 -- just heaps of fixes.""

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icons, /.?? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-04-10 07:45 · Score: 2, Interesting

perl and java have their own topic icons, why not give a snake or something to Python??
Why python? by Snowfox · 2002-04-10 12:31 · Score: 3, Interesting

I know zero about python. I use C and C++ almost exclusively.
From a high level view, what makes python great? Where is python one of the best tools for the job? What are its strengths, and where is it most often used?