Just registered for PyCon

So I guess I have to go now. :) I'm quite excited to meet everybody who I've been sending more words to in emails than I've probably said to my family this year.

Python 3.0.1 released

The first bugfix release, 3.0.1, of the new Python 3.x series has been released! Many embarrassing bugs have been fixed. Among other things:

• The wsgiref package has been fixed for 3.x.


• A few hideous bugs in the new IO implementation have been squashed. In addition, a few cases have been optimized. (Note that IO in 3.x is still quite a bit slower than 2.x; more on that later.)


• Unbuffered standard streams (the "-u" flag) have been restored.

This is actually a bit more than an average point release. Somehow, the builtin cmp() and __cmp__ slipped into the final release and has been removed in 3.0.1.

Our next goal is 3.1. We plan to compress our rather huge release cycle to make 3.1 between 1/2 and 1 year after 3.0. The focus of 3.1 will be stabilizing the feature set and change in 3.x. This is includes the rewrite of IO in C for speed and Brett's rewrite of import in Python.