Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Guido van Rossum <guido <at> python.org> writes: >> >> Is it even wort doing a 2.7 release? Isn't the effort better spent on >> 3.2 alone? (Note, these aren't rhetorical questions. It's well >> possible that there are good reasons for pushing along with 2.7. Maybe >> considering those reasons will also help answering questions about >> whether to backport things like nonlocal.) > > 2.7 has an up-to-date backport of the C IO lib (as well as the memoryview > object), which means it is better for people wanting to ease transition to > 3.x. > > But of course, as Martin said, few people will want to support 2.7 only and > not > 2.6.
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