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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. 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?

  2. 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!)

  3. 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.
  4. 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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