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
ba***@python.org
Python 2.6/3.0 Release Manager
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team)

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[castironpi]

On May 8, 6:50*pm, Barry Warsaw <[e-mail]:

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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]
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]

On 9 Mai, 01:50, Barry Warsaw <[e-mail]:

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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]
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....0a5.amd64.msi

Error 404: File Not Found

[Christian Heimes]

Kay Schluehr schrieb:

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....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.

Christian

[Terry Reedy]

"Christian Heimes" <li***@cheimes.dewrote in message
news:48**************@cheimes.de...
| 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....0a5.amd64.msi
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| Error 404: File Not Found
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| 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.

[=?utf-8?b?U3TDqXBoYW5l?= Larouche]

On 9 Mai, 01:50, Barry Warsaw <[e-mail]:

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.

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]

On May 9, 7:55*pm, Stéphane Larouche <[e-mail]>
wrote:

On 9 Mai, 01:50, Barry Warsaw <[e-mail]:

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.

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 May 8, 7:50*pm, Barry Warsaw <[e-mail]:

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

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=]

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