There is a flash of light! Your PYTHON has evolved into PSYDUCK!

[glyf]

I guess if you don't read any other python-related blogs (or news, or mailing lists, for that matter) you might not already know that the first alpha of Python 3.0 has been released.

A sample of the release notes:

• There are a few memory leaks
• SSL support is disabled
• Platform support is reduced
• There may be additional issues on 64-bit architectures

Comments

I think that one of the goals

[smitty1e]

...was to write a translator that would mostly do the port for you.
The absolute killer right now, on the release page, is the ~30% performance penalty cited.
While all the polishing of the language is swell for pedantic reasons, no one wants to see performance suffer. You figure they'll buff that up over the next year.

What is a platform?

[mesozoic]

How do you see the Python 3.0 release offering the potential of being a "real platform"? What's the substantive difference between application deployment in 2.x and in 3.0 that could qualify that distinction?

Re: What is a platform?

[glyf]

The words "library", "engine", "toolkit", and "framework" all imply to me that while the code may be usable, it still might not be stable enough to depend on in your installed environment. You can see this in the way that commercial software treats its environment: they will distribute everything, right down to the C runtime that the application uses, along with their application

[zingo454]

Does Python 3.0 will break backwards compatibility with Python 2.x ?

thanks,
zingo
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