Python-3.0 is here!
Posted Dec 4 at 11:19 CDT by Remi in Python - 11 comment(s)
Some hosts are still stuck on Python-2.1 or even older but we wouldn't do that to you...
Just a few hours after its release we have already rolled out Python-3.0 to all of our servers.
Don't believe me? Here is the proof:
[remi@web50 ~]# python3.0
Python 3.0 (r30:67503, Dec 4 2008, 09:26:21)
[GCC 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print("I used to be a statement you know, but now I'm just a function :(")
I used to be a statement you know, but now I'm just a function :(
>>>
A huge thank you to the Python team for creating such a great piece of software (most of our tools are written in Python). A high-level list of changes is available at http://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html.
We'll add third-party modules and installers for web-frameworks as soon as they support Python-3.0
Enjoy while it's hot!
11 comments:
chrisb said on 2008-12-04 11:54:02:
Nice!
Fred Drake said on 2008-12-04 12:12:11:
The proper link for the "What's New" document is http://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html; the link given actually points to what will become Python 3.1.
Remi said on 2008-12-04 12:23:12:
Fred: Thanks, the link is fixed now.
Brandon Singer said on 2008-12-04 12:48:25:
Cool :)
Brandon Konkle said on 2008-12-04 13:00:17:
Fantastic! Thank you for supporting the bleeding edge! This is one of the reasons I sing WebFaction's praises whenever possible. :-)
Doug Latornell said on 2008-12-04 15:19:12:
Nice!The host I left last month could only give me Python 1.5 :-( One of the many reasons I moved to WebFaction.
defrex said on 2008-12-04 17:04:07:
I love that you guys do this. I actually saw that Django 1.0.1 in the panel before I read the news that it was released.
Eric said on 2008-12-04 19:56:59:
You guys continue to rock. Thanks!
josh said on 2008-12-05 17:31:17:
just barely read about the release on digg and immediately came here to see if webfaction was going to offer it anytime soon. not supposing that they would already have it. gotta love these guys.
josh said on 2008-12-05 17:40:35:
wait, did i misunderstand? I don't see it in my lib folder and i can't run the active interpreter from commandline. how can I start playing with it?
@josh - sorry about that! I've just deployed Python 3.0 on your server, so you should now be able to run it with "python3.0"
Regarding your libs, ~/lib/python3.0 won't be created automatically (yet), but if you create it yourself it will be on your Python 3.0 PYTHONPATH