Last-Modified-Date: 2004-09-13

What's New In Python

Talk Outline

(This is only a guide - as 2.4 is still under development, but will
be done before the conference, material may change).

- What's a Python Release?

- What's a Bugfix Release?

- Release Management and the BDFL

- Ghosts of Pythons Past, Present and Future

- Past
  ("What's past is prologue" - The Tempest)

    - 2.2 is the past. I will be cutting no more 2.2 releases

    - 2.3.5 is scheduled for shortly after 2.4 final. This is the
      last planned release in the 2.3 series

    - New in 2.3

        - boolean 

        - sets

        - logging

        - csv

        - pymalloc

        - datetime

        - zipimport/new import hooks

        - optparse

        - enumerate()

- Present
  ("Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, 
    concentrate the mind on the present moment" - The Buddha)

    - 2.4 final (should be out by the time of the conference)

    - New in 2.4

        - decorators, the ultimate bike shed

        - generator expressions

        - decimal

        - int/long unification

        - multi-line imports

        - optimisations (sets, deque, ...)

        - cookielib

        - doctest

        - simpler string templates

        - msi installer

        - more...

- Future
  ("Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future" - Niels Bohr)

    - 2.4 is now in bugfix-only mode

    - 2.5 in 12-18 months

    - changes to python 

        - deprecations

        - PEP process

        - python-dev

    - Python 3.0 / Python3K / Python3000