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Python 2.5 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the snakes-on-a-frame dept.

dominator writes "It's been nearly 20 months since the last major release of the Python programming language, and version 2.5 is probably the most significant new release of Python since 2.2. The latest release includes a variety of additions to the standard library, language extensions, and performance optimizations. This is a final release, and should be suitable for production use. Read the release announcement, the highlights, what's new, and download it."

5 of 228 comments (clear)

  1. Other Big Python Names by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Did you know the makers of Spam -- Hormel -- also use Python for internal use?

  2. Too Bad Python Sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Tcl 4 life, esse.

  3. The writer, I believe, is not religious by Cybert4 · · Score: -1, Troll

    For comparison, Perl (evangelical) and Ruby (Mormon) are both written by Christians. I'll refrain from putting any opinion here. Just giving the facts as I know them.

  4. Re:Easy transition from Python to Ruby? by zapadoo · · Score: 0, Troll

    Migrate? And give up significant whitespace?

    NEVER.

    Aside from the accurate observation from another here that Python's documentation is superior and its stdlib much more complete, the readability of Python is far superior, For some this isn't a big issue, but for others, it will be *the* issue.

  5. They forgot to fix a bug by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The bug with it not having braces {} and depending on indent.