Python 2.7.4 Released

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Post by apetresc » Sat, Apr 06, 2013, 11:11 PM UTC

Python 2.7.4 Released
python.org

Re: Python 2.7.4 Released

#2

Post by tshepang » Sat, Apr 06, 2013, 11:27 PM UTC

release announcement: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-April/12515...

Re: Python 2.7.4 Released

#3

Post by xguru » Sat, Apr 06, 2013, 11:50 PM UTC

Ordered dictionary remembers its insertion order, it's very useful for some situations.

Re: Python 2.7.4 Released

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Post by steve-howard » Sat, Apr 06, 2013, 11:51 PM UTC

From the main python.org homepage, I see the announcement for Python 3.3.1 as well. What's curious is...

Python 3.2.4 and Python 3.3.1 final have been released. Published: Sun, 6 April 2013, 22:30 +0200

Python 2.7.4 has been released. Published: Sat, 6 April 2013, 11:00 -0500

Re: Python 2.7.4 Released

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Post by dmishe » Sat, Apr 06, 2013, 11:56 PM UTC

xguru wrote: post #3

Ordered dictionary remembers its insertion order, it's very useful for some situations.

OrderedDict was in collections since 2.7, what has changed now?

Re: Python 2.7.4 Released

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Post by gluxon » Sun, Apr 07, 2013, 12:01 AM UTC

It annoys me how this release was added to the 2.7.x line when it probably should have been 2.8 given all the changes and feature additions. Freezing the 2.x line means not making huge changes to it. Otherwise, it probably shouldn't have been frozen.

Re: Python 2.7.4 Released

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Post by natmaster » Sun, Apr 07, 2013, 12:03 AM UTC

gluxon wrote: post #6

It annoys me how this release was added to the 2.7.x line when it probably should have been 2.8 given all the changes and feature additions. Freezing the 2.x line means not making huge changes to it. Otherwise, it probably shouldn't have been frozen.

I know it's confusing but the feature list on this page is for python 2.7; the 2.7.4 release appears to just be bugfixes.

Re: Python 2.7.4 Released

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Post by natmaster » Sun, Apr 07, 2013, 12:05 AM UTC

I know it's confusing but the feature list on this page is for python 2.7; the 2.7.4 is just bugfixes.

Changes are here: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/9290822f2280/Misc/NEWS

Re: Python 2.7.4 Released

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Apr 07, 2013, 12:05 AM UTC

gluxon wrote: post #6

It annoys me how this release was added to the 2.7.x line when it probably should have been 2.8 given all the changes and feature additions. Freezing the 2.x line means not making huge changes to it. Otherwise, it probably shouldn't have been frozen.

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Re: Python 2.7.4 Released

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Post by hosay123 » Sun, Apr 07, 2013, 12:06 AM UTC

After years, better integration between the old and new buffer interfaces was finally sneaked in as a bug fix. You can now call `memoryview(some_buffer)` and it'll DTRT. The whole buffers situation is a depressing mess.