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p2pnet news view | P2P:- Python 2.6 final, the current version of the high level programming language first released by Guido van Rossum (right) in 1991, is now online.
There are a huge number of new features, modules, improvements and bug fixes,” says the site, suggesting Andrew Kuchling’s guide to What’s New in Python 2.6; NEWS file contains a listing of everything that’s new in each alpha, beta, and release candidate of Python 2.6; and, PEP 361 for information on changes.
Production release downoads supporting:
MD5 checksums and sizes of the released files:
837476958702cb386c657b5dba61cdc5 10957859 Python-2.6.tar.bz2 d16d29a77db2cd3af882a591f431a403 13023860 Python-2.6.tgz fe34764ad0027d01176eb1b321dd20c5 14503936 python-2.6.amd64.msi 6c62c123d248a48dccbaa4d3edc12680 14173184 python-2.6.msi 29a1a22f8d9fd8a4501b30d97fbee61c 23593748 python-2.6-macosx2008-10-01.dmg
“The signatures for the source tarballs above were generated with GnuPG using release manager Barry Warsaw’s public key which has a key id of EA5BBD71,” says the Python site, adding:
“The Windows installers was signed by Martin von Löwis’ public key which has a key id of 7D9DC8D2. The signature on the Mac disk image was signed by Benjamin Peterson’s public key which has a key id of A4135B38.”
Administrators installing Python for all users on Windows Vista either need to be logged in as Administrator, or use the runas command, as in: runas /user:Administrator “msiexec /i <path>\<file>.msi”
Updated documentation has also been updated. You can updated documentation at HTML on-line or download the HTML.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Note to Sam I am.
This is another example of inventor/developers “giving away their work for free”. You probably think that they are not capitalists.
The details on why they do this are difficult for some people to understand.
They do this because the development is a community/group effort. The end result is superior to what you would get if you do it any other way. The developers are not really ‘giving it away for free’. They receive ‘payment in kind’ by others who contribute code to the effort. The people that work on these programs actually care that it works correctly since they use it. I always care more about the code I contribute to FLOSS projects than the code I am paid to write. That does not imply that I write garbage for my employer, I just don’t care about it as much.
Free as in Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) is extensively distributed using p2p technology. I was rather alarmed when I heard what Bell Canada and Comcast were doing since I knew it would block people from getting the iso’s of the latest Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. distros. All of this P2P activity is completely legal. Blocking it is an unlawful outrage.