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Python 2.3 Final Released

Posted by timothy on from the new-snake-in-town dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Nineteen months in the making, Python 2.3 has just been released. With a plethora of changes since version 2.2, this release is definately worth the upgrade. Be sure to read the Release Notes and the Highlights file for more information."

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  1. Countdown to Gentoo zealotry. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    In 3... 2... 1...

  2. Python 3 by Alan+Holman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, finally Python 3! Are they as good as the original Monty Python? I didn't see the second Monty Python...Err... Is John Cleese still in Python?

  3. Whitespace trolling... by Omicron32 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm just waiting
    for the trolls to start
    complaing about
    whitespace usage in
    Python.

    That, and what does this mean for improvments to my favourite distro's package management? (Gentoo!)

    1. Re:Whitespace trolling... by Dausha · · Score: 2, Funny

      Don't you mean?

      def waiting (trolls) :
      for troll in trolls :
      complain(troll, whitespace_usage)
      --
      What those who want activist courts fear is rule by the people.
    2. Re:Whitespace trolling... by XNormal · · Score: 2, Funny


      Python:
      Programming the way
      Guido
      indented it.

      --
      Stop worrying about the risks of nuclear power and start worrying about the risks of not using nuclear power.
  4. DDoS by TheIzzy · · Score: 1, Funny

    Seems the new release suffers from a certain DDoS bug.

  5. Re:I see whitespace is still syntactically relevan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    There'safeatureI'dliketoseeremoved.Iguessit'sGui do'swayofjustbeingdifferent.


    Isn't that better?

    No cookie for you.
  6. Re:definately? by joe_bruin · · Score: 4, Funny

    your new hear, i take it.
    we definately do not waist are time with speling and grammer, you looser.

    in the immortal words of homer*:
    "if i spelled cat 'C', 'A', 'T', you'd know what i mean"

    * simpson, homer j. not that other guy.

  7. Re:Why Python is good at our university by talleyrand · · Score: 3, Funny
    I start programming with Basic and it's haunted me ever since.

    Haunted? Leave it to dearly departed Edsger Dijkstra to say how it really is:

    ``It is practically imposible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.''

    --

    "My fingers Emit sparks of fire in Expectation of my future labours." William Blake
  8. Re:Platform Competition? by wdr1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ava achieves close to C/C++ performance on low-level code (for loops, arrays, etc.); Python doesn't even get close.

    Wait, now Java people are saying other languages are too slow?? ;-)

    -Bill

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