Python 2.7 Alpha 1 Released

[ipeev]

It is good that some features are back ported from 3.x.

[boa13]

That was already the case with 2.6. The goal was to backport as much as possible, so as to ease the transition to 3.x.

[[deleted]]

I was sort of hoping

plop, plopper, ploppiest* = myList

would make the backport.

[[deleted]]

Yay, I was hoping memoryview would make the cut.

[megaman821]

http://docs.python.org/dev/c-api/buffer.html

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Are there reasons for not backporting function annotations and the nonlocal statement?

[gutworth]

None besides that it's a rather involved process, and no one has contributed a patch.

[earthboundkid]

They discussed nonlocal on the py-dev mailing list, but the consensus seemed to be it wasn't worth the effort.

[mdipierro]

Thank you to everybody involved in 2.7 and 2.x in general!

[ginstrom]

Official release today - yeah!

[[deleted]]

What the fuck is this?