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[Python-Dev] Python 3.5.1 plans

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sun Nov 1 06:01:54 EST 2015 
On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 9:55 PM, Phil Thompson
<phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
> On 1 Nov 2015, at 10:30 a.m., Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> PEP 478 [1] doesn't currently have any info on a planned 3.5.1 release
>> (and actually, it has 3.5.0 Final listed as a future release). About
>> when is it likely to happen? The one thing I'm hanging out for is an
>> installer patch on Windows that detects XP and immediately aborts with
>> a convenient error; if the number of emails to python-list is
>> indicative, there are a lot of people out there getting confused.
>
> That doesn't need a new version of Python, just a new installer.

True, it doesn't, but it needs that installer to have as much checking
as a new point release will get. My understanding was that it was
going to be done as part of 3.5.1.

ChrisA
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