Thank you Thank you, Larry! 3.4 and 3.5 were so critical to getting the scientific & pydata data community over the 2to3 hump.
-Peter On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 1:43 PM Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > They say being a Python Release Manager is a thankless job, so the Python > Secret Underground (PSU), which emphatically does not exist, hereby > officially doesn’t thank Larry for his years of diligent service as the > Python 3.4 and 3.5 release manager. > > On the other hand, the Python Steering Council, Python Software > Foundation, and worldwide Python community, all of which emphatically *do* > exist, all extend our heartfelt thanks to Larry for his excellent > stewardship of Python 3.4 and 3.5! > > Python 3.4 and 3.5 were both pivotal releases. While the features of > these two releases are too numerous to mention here, they introduced such > staples as: > > * asyncio > * enum > * pathlib > * async and await keywords > * matrix multiplication operators > * typing and zipapp modules > > and so much more. For details, see: > > * https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.4.html > * https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.5.html > > Larry’s first official release of 3.4.0a1 was on 2013-08-03 and his last > Python 3.5.10 release was 2020-09-05. That’s 7 years of exemplary release > managing! > > Larry, from all of us, and from me personally, thank you so much for your > invaluable contributions to Python. Enjoy your retirement! > > Cheers, > -Barry (on behalf of the PSC and PSF) > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/QGIHFU64TBYT56K6M5A5LYTYTSVFKHWQ/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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