RELEASED Python 2.6a3 and 3.0a5

[Barry Warsaw]

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On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I
am happy to announce the third alpha release of Python 2.6, and the
fifth alpha release of Python 3.0.

Please note that these are alpha releases, and as such are not
suitable for production environments. We continue to strive for a
high degree of quality, but there are still some known problems and
the feature sets have not been finalized. These alphas are being
released to solicit feedback and hopefully discover bugs, as well as
allowing you to determine how changes in 2.6 and 3.0 might impact
you. If you find things broken or incorrect, please submit a bug
report at

http://bugs.python.org

For more information and downloadable distributions, see the Python
2.6 website:

http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/

and the Python 3.0 web site:

http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/

These are the last planned alphas for both versions. If all goes
well, next month will see the first beta releases of both, which will
also signal feature freeze. Two beta releases are planned, with the
final releases scheduled for September 3, 2008.

See PEP 361 for release details:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/

Enjoy,
- -Barry

Barry Warsaw
(e-mail address removed)
Python 2.6/3.0 Release Manager
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team)

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[castironpi]

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On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I  
am happy to announce the third alpha release of Python 2.6, and the  
fifth alpha release of Python 3.0.

Please note that these are alpha releases, and as such are not  
suitable for production environments.  We continue to strive for a  
high degree of quality, but there are still some known problems and  
the feature sets have not been finalized.  These alphas are being  
released to solicit feedback and hopefully discover bugs, as well as  
allowing you to determine how changes in 2.6 and 3.0 might impact
you.  If you find things broken or incorrect, please submit a bug  
report at

   http://bugs.python.org

For more information and downloadable distributions, see the Python
2.6 website:

   http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/

and the Python 3.0 web site:

   http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/

These are the last planned alphas for both versions.  If all goes  
well, next month will see the first beta releases of both, which will  
also signal feature freeze.  Two beta releases are planned, with the  
final releases scheduled for September 3, 2008.

See PEP 361 for release details:

     http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/

Enjoy,
- -Barry

Barry Warsaw
(e-mail address removed)
Python 2.6/3.0 Release Manager
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team)

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Does signal freeze signal signal freeze? Or should ideas pend beta?

 

[Kay Schluehr]

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On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I
am happy to announce the third alpha release of Python 2.6, and the
fifth alpha release of Python 3.0.

Please note that these are alpha releases, and as such are not
suitable for production environments. We continue to strive for a
high degree of quality, but there are still some known problems and
the feature sets have not been finalized. These alphas are being
released to solicit feedback and hopefully discover bugs, as well as
allowing you to determine how changes in 2.6 and 3.0 might impact
you. If you find things broken or incorrect, please submit a bug
report at

http://bugs.python.org

For more information and downloadable distributions, see the Python
2.6 website:

http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/

and the Python 3.0 web site:

http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/

These are the last planned alphas for both versions. If all goes
well, next month will see the first beta releases of both, which will
also signal feature freeze. Two beta releases are planned, with the
final releases scheduled for September 3, 2008.

See PEP 361 for release details:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/

Enjoy,
- -Barry

Barry Warsaw
(e-mail address removed)
Python 2.6/3.0 Release Manager
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team)

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http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.0/python-3.0a5.msi

Error 404: File Not Found

http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.0/python-3.0a5.amd64.msi

Error 404: File Not Found

 

[Christian Heimes]

http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.0/python-3.0a5.msi

Error 404: File Not Found

Error 404: File Not Found

The Windows binaries usually take a while. I'm adding Martin to the CC
list. His is most like building the files today.

Christian

 

[Terry Reedy]

| Kay Schluehr schrieb:
| > http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.0/python-3.0a5.msi
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| > Error 404: File Not Found
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| > http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.0/python-3.0a5.amd64.msi
|
| > Error 404: File Not Found
|
| The Windows binaries usually take a while. I'm adding Martin to the CC
| list. His is most like building the files today.

I am downloading the first version now.

 

[Stéphane Larouche]

After I installer Python 2.6a3, Matlab R2007a began having problems. When I
start Matlab, it shows a window indicating that it is installing Microsoft
Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable, which fails, and then Matlab closes. This
problem did not happen with Python 2.6a2 and removing Python 2.6a3 solves the
problem.

Is anybody else having the same problem? Do you know what causes it? Is there a
workaround?

 

[castironpi]

After I installer Python 2.6a3, Matlab R2007a began having problems. When I
start Matlab, it shows a window indicating that it is installing Microsoft
Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable, which fails, and then Matlab closes. This
problem did not happen with Python 2.6a2 and removing Python 2.6a3 solves the
problem.

Is anybody else having the same problem? Do you know what causes it? Is there a
workaround?

That one might be a true, "Don't stampede the Python." Numbers have
been known grow. (...not that the numbers do.) Bread and butter, new
butter.

 

[George Sakkis]

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I  
am happy to announce the third alpha release of Python 2.6, and the  
fifth alpha release of Python 3.0.

Please note that these are alpha releases, and as such are not  
suitable for production environments.  We continue to strive for a  
high degree of quality, but there are still some known problems and  
the feature sets have not been finalized.  These alphas are being  
released to solicit feedback and hopefully discover bugs, as well as  
allowing you to determine how changes in 2.6 and 3.0 might impact
you.  If you find things broken or incorrect, please submit a bug  
report at

   http://bugs.python.org

For more information and downloadable distributions, see the Python
2.6 website:

   http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/

and the Python 3.0 web site:

   http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/

These are the last planned alphas for both versions.  If all goes  
well, next month will see the first beta releases of both, which will  
also signal feature freeze.  Two beta releases are planned, with the  
final releases scheduled for September 3, 2008.

See PEP 361 for release details:

     http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/

Enjoy,
- -Barry

I'm trying to install on the latest Ubuntu (8.04) and the following
extension modules fail:

_bsddb, _curses, _curse_panel, _hashlib, _sqlite3, _ssl, _tkinter,
bz2, dbm, gdbm, readline, zlib

All of them except for _tkinter are included in the preinstalled
Python 2.5.2, so I guess the dependencies must be somewhere there.
Does Ubuntu have any non-standard lib dir ?

George

 

[Martin v. Löwis]

I'm trying to install on the latest Ubuntu (8.04) and the following

extension modules fail:

_bsddb, _curses, _curse_panel, _hashlib, _sqlite3, _ssl, _tkinter,
bz2, dbm, gdbm, readline, zlib

All of them except for _tkinter are included in the preinstalled
Python 2.5.2, so I guess the dependencies must be somewhere there.
Does Ubuntu have any non-standard lib dir ?

You need to manually install the -dev packages (through aptitude)
before building Python.

Regards,
Martin