Python 2.5(final) released - Python Programming Portal

Python Programming Portal

Python 2.5(final) released

Written by Content Team

Wednesday, 20 September 2006

PSF has announced the release of Python 2.5, the final production release of Python 2.5 on September 19th, 2006. Many congratulations to the Python dev team on this release.

It's been nearly 1.5 years since the last major release of Python (2.4) and almost 5 months since the first alpha release of 2.5 cycle.

Starting with the Python 2.4 releases the Windows Python installer is being distributed as an easy to use Microsoft Installer (.msi) file. So you could easily install and try out the latest version of Python.

New features in Python 2.5 :-

Conditional Expressions
Partial Function Application
Metadata for Python Software Packages v1.1
Absolute and Relative Imports
Executing Modules as Scripts
Unified try/except/finally
New Generator Features
The 'with' statement
Exceptions as New-Style Classes
Using ssize_t as the index type
The '__index__' method
Interactive Interpreter Changes
New, Improved, and Removed Modules
Build and C API Changes
Porting to Python 2.5

PEP 356 - describes the planned release schedule.

Related :
>> What's New in Python 2.5.
>> Python25.chm - Documentation of Python 2.5 in Windows Help (.chm) format.

Add comments:

Comments

You must javascript enabled to use this form

Latest
Scripting Languages See A Cyclic Rise & Fall Python Is The Truly Object Oriented Successor To Perl Dynamic Web Development With The Django Framework

Popular
I'm amazed at how far Python has come Python Interview Questions Incorporating HTML into wxPython-Part2

Copyright 2004 Rightrix Solutions. All rights reserved. All product names are trademarks of their respective companies.
Views expressed at PythonThreads.com reflect the views of the authors alone, and do not necessarily reflect those of PythonThreads.com.