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[RELEASED] Python 3.1 final
On behalf of the Python development team, I'm thrilled to announce the first production release of Python 3.1. Python 3.1 focuses on the stabilization and optimization of the features and changes that Python 3.0 introduced. For example, the new I/O system has been rewritten in C for speed. File system APIs that use unicode strings now handle paths with undecodable bytes in them. Other features include an ordered dictionary implementation, a condensed syntax for nested with statements, and support for ttk Tile in Tkinter. For a more extensive list of changes in 3.1, see http://doc.python.org/3.1/whatsnew/3.1.html or Misc/NEWS in the Python distribution. To download Python 3.1 visit: http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.1/ The 3.1 documentation can be found at: http://docs.python.org/3.1 Bugs can always be reported to: http://bugs.python.org Enjoy! -- Benjamin Peterson Release Manager benjamin at python.org (on behalf of the entire python-dev team and 3.1's contributors) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/ (Log in to post comments)
[RELEASED] Python 3.1 final Posted Jun 29, 2009 21:22 UTC (Mon) by quartz (guest, #37351) [Link]
So... any performance comparisons? Sounds like it was a big change.
[RELEASED] Python 3.1 final Posted Jun 30, 2009 9:44 UTC (Tue) by zuki (subscriber, #41808) [Link]
From the linked what's new document:
"In Python 3.1, the I/O library has been entirely rewritten in C and is 2 to 20 times faster depending on the task at hand."
There also are some interesting improvements in the dispatch loop - 20% speedup in a micro benchmark or so.
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