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something in later after that discussion is over); remove explanation
of 2.0 version number.
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What's new in this release? What's new in this release?
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See http://www.pythonlabs.com/. See http://www.pythonlabs.com/tech/python2.html .
Why is it called version 2.0?
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While Pythoneers have grown fond of Python's exceedingly slow version
incrementing, that same quality makes parts of the rest of the world
think that Python is barely out of its first alpha test. Especially
enterprise customers are often fearful of anything that's version 1.x!
The new version number also clearly marks departure of Python's core
development team from CNRI to join BeOpen.com.
What happened to Python 1.6? It was promoted and renamed Python 2.0.
There were two alpha releases of Python 1.6 before we decided to
increment the major version number.
Previously, the version number 2.0 was associated with a mythical and
elusive incompatible future release. That release (still ways off,
and not as incompatible as people fear!) is now referred to as Python
3000.
If you don't read instructions If you don't read instructions
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Web site Web site
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Python's own web site has URL http://www.pythonlabs.com/. Come visit Python's web site is at http://www.python.org/. The Python core
us! development team at BeOpen has its own website at
http://www.pythonlabs.com/. Come visit us!
Newsgroups Newsgroups
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Bug reports Bug reports
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To report or search for bugs, please use the Python Bugs List at To report or search for bugs, please use the SourceForge Bugs
http://www.python.org/search/search_bugs.html Tracker at http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=5470 .
Patches and contributions
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To submit a patch or other contribution, please use the SourceForge
Patch Manager at http://sourceforge.net/patch/?group_id=5470 .
If you have a proposal to change Python, it's best to submit a Python
Enhancement Proposal (PEP) first. All current PEPs, as well as
guidelines for submitting a new PEP, are here:
http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/.
Questions Questions
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Copyright notice
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The Python source is copyrighted, but you can freely use and copy it
as long as you don't change or remove the copyright notice. The
copyright notice is found in the Misc/COPYRIGHT file.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)