kirby urner wrote:
I haven't tried 3.1 yet, have been using dictionary versus list to harp on the cardinality vs. ordinality distinction (per Midhat Gazale), understand there's a "new kind of dictionary" that has ordinal properties....
You really should. The io module went to C, so simple file I/O is substantially faster. It had been slowed down to make sure the semantics were all correct for where the Unicode and where the bytes should be. There will be no fixes to the 3.0 line, 3.1 is the ongoing Python 3.* version (3.1 was a quick follow-on to address issues discovered in the 3.0 release (think if 3.0 as a Python 3000 alpha or beta). --Scott David Daniels scott.dani...@acm.org _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
