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On behalf of the Python development team, I'm happy to announce the
second beta release of Python 3.3.0 -- a little later than originally
scheduled, but much better for it.
This is a preview release, and its use is not recommended in
production settings.
Python 3.3 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, as well
as easier porting between 2.x and 3.x. Major new features and changes
in the 3.3 release series are:
* PEP 380, syntax for delegating to a subgenerator (yield from)
* PEP 393, flexible string representation (doing away with the
distinction between wide and narrow Unicode builds)
* A C implementation of the decimal module, with up to 80x speedup
for decimal-heavy applications
* The import system (__import__) now based on importlib by default
* The new lzma module with LZMA/XZ support
* PEP 397, a Python launcher for Windows
* PEP 405, virtual environment support in core
* PEP 420, namespace package support
* PEP 3151, reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy
* PEP 3155, qualified name for classes and functions
* PEP 409, suppressing exception context
* PEP 414, explicit Unicode literals to help with porting
* PEP 418, extended platform-independent clocks in the time module
* PEP 412, a new key-sharing dictionary implementation that
significantly saves memory for object-oriented code
* PEP 362, the function-signature object
* The new faulthandler module that helps diagnosing crashes
* The new unittest.mock module
* The new ipaddress module
* The sys.implementation attribute
* A policy framework for the email package, with a provisional (see
PEP 411) policy that adds much improved unicode support for email
header parsing
* A collections.ChainMap class for linking mappings to a single unit
* Wrappers for many more POSIX functions in the os and signal
modules, as well as other useful functions such as sendfile()
* Hash randomization, introduced in earlier bugfix releases, is now
switched on by default
In total, almost 500 API items are new or improved in Python 3.3.
For a more extensive list of changes in 3.3.0, see
http://docs.python.org/3.3/whatsnew/3.3.html (*)
To download Python 3.3.0 visit:
http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.3.0/
Please consider trying Python 3.3.0 with your code and reporting any bugs
you may notice to:
http://bugs.python.org/
Enjoy!
(*) Please note that this document is usually finalized late in the release
cycle and therefore may have stubs and missing entries at this point.
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Georg Brandl, Release Manager
georg at python.org
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team and 3.3's contributors)
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