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[Maris Fogels <maris.fogels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

I am happy to announce that Launchpad and its supporting systems are now running
on Python 2.6.  That includes libraries, supporting scripts on devpad, and
deployments such as dogfood.  (praseodymium still needs to support Python 2.5
for a while longer, but the only people who work on the relevant code are Gary
and myself.)

All of your code can now take full advantage of Python 2.6 features such as
named tuples, 'Exception as e', context managers, binary literals, and str.format().

A lot of very, very nice changes landed in Python 2.6.  As a refresher, here is
a well-laid out reference document with all of the 2.6-specific changes
colour-coded for easy reading:

  Python 2.6 Quick Reference
  http://rgruet.free.fr/PQR26/PQR2.6.html

And the ever-popular official "What’s New in Python 2.6":

  http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.6.html


Happy hacking!

Mars


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