Python 2.5 Released

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."

Comments

Re:How appropriate...

[Tackhead]

> for Talk Like A Python Day....

AVAST! Ah've had it with these landlubbin' memes on this landlubbin' website!

Python Challenge

[Franio]

I know this is offtopic but does anyone know what happened to the python challenge?

There have been no new levels for a long time.

For those who haven't seen it, the python challenge is a great way to learn python.

Re:try/except/else/finally

[artlogic]

You would include logic in the else to be executed in the case that no exceptions occur, that is:

else:
    print "no exceptions occured!"

Everything else is the same as Java/C++.

WxPython

[nih]

anyone using wxpython will need to upgrade to wxpython for python 2.5

http://www.wxpython.org/download.php

as soon as i'd installed python 2.5 all my app died, took me a few mins
to realise that py2.5 breaks wxpython for py2.4, and some tk demo's ran:)

Re:Languages continue to evolve into ... Lisp

[fuzz6y]

I don't like the idea that some people make intrisicly "good" programers, and the rest are all somehow "bad"; as if some of us had bigger brains or something

Every skill is a function of talent and training. The cornerstone of elitism is to grossly overestimate the role of talent, but to dismiss it altogether is no less foolish.