Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] [RELEASED] Python 3.4.1

2014-05-19 Thread Victor Stinner
It's not easy to find the changelog. I found this page: https://docs.python.org/3.4/whatsnew/changelog.html Victor 2014-05-19 8:00 GMT+02:00 Larry Hastings : > > > On behalf of the Python development community and the Python 3.4 release > team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of Python 3

[Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 3.4.1

2014-05-19 Thread Larry Hastings
On behalf of the Python development community and the Python 3.4 release team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of Python 3.4.1. Python 3.4.1 has over three hundred bugfixes and other improvements over 3.4.0. One notable change: the version of OpenSSL bundled with the Windows instal

Re: [Python-Dev] Returning None from methods that mutate object state

2014-05-19 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
On 05/17/2014 10:26 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: > When list.pop was added, the convention was changed to > "do not return the 'self' parameter" Do you have a reference for this? It is my understanding that the convention is for mutators to return None, in order to make it clear that the change is de