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Is there any documentation on what is planned/in devlopment for Python 2.0?
How it will be different from the 1.5.X releases?

Thanks

Martin Bertolino

Guido van Rossum wrote in message
<199904082148.RAA04479@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>...
>On 8 April 1999, Python 1.5.2c1 was released. This is a release
>candidate for 1.5.2 final - only showstopping bugs will be fixed
>before 1.5.2 is released.
>
>*** Please help making 1.5.2 rock solid by banging on the release
>candidate in all possible ways! ***
>
>I hope to release the final version of 1.5.2 on 13 April. That will
>conclude the 1.5 development cycle; while I may release some essential
>patches later, my main development focus will be on Python 1.6 (with
>2.0 on the horizon; 1.6 will probably be the last of the 1.x
>versions).
>
>Go to http://www.python.org/1.5/ for more info, or download directly:
>
>ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/src/py152c1.tgz (source, 2.5M)
>ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/win32/py152c1.exe (Windows installer, 5.0
M)
>
>--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

Guido van Rossum <guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> writes:
|
| *** Please help making 1.5.2 rock solid by banging on the release
| candidate in all possible ways! ***

I gave the release candidate a try on a PC running Plamo Linux 1.3
(a Linux distribution based on Slackware 3.5) and a Sparc box
running SunOS 4.1.4_JL, both together with two additional packages
PIL 1.0b1 and xml 0.5. The installations had no problem and
completely succeeded. Congratulations! :-)

By the way, the cPickle bug in 1.5.2b1 that I reported in this news
group on January 11 (see [1]) has still been alive in 1.5.2c1. The
attached is a context diff fixing it. (Excuse me for realizing this
so late, but I didn't re-install 1.5.2b2 on the Sparc box...)

[1] http://x10.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=431438253&CONTEXT=923940461.1386086447&hitnum=1

*** cPickle.c.orig Mon Apr 12 23:51:44 1999
--- cPickle.c Mon Apr 12 23:52:13 1999
***************
*** 3295,3301 ****
if ((self->num_marks + 1) >= self->marks_size) {
s=self->marks_size+20;
if (s <= self->num_marks) s=self->num_marks + 1;
! if (self->marks)
self->marks=(int *)malloc(s * sizeof(int));
else
self->marks=(int *)realloc(self->marks, s * sizeof(int));
--- 3295,3301 ----
if ((self->num_marks + 1) >= self->marks_size) {
s=self->marks_size+20;
if (s <= self->num_marks) s=self->num_marks + 1;
! if (! self->marks)
self->marks=(int *)malloc(s * sizeof(int));
else
self->marks=(int *)realloc(self->marks, s * sizeof(int));

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KAJIYAMA, Tamito <kajiyama@grad.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp>