Python 3.0 "Python 3000" Released

Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 3 December 2008 at 10:17 PM EST. 11 Comments
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The Python Software Foundation has this afternoon announced the much-anticipated release of Python 3.0 (a.k.a. Python 3000). Version 3.0 of the Python language breaks compatibility with Python 2.x with many deprecated features now being removed and a number of significant changes -- including numerous syntax differences.

The Python 3.0 release announcement (with download links) can be read at Python.org along with the what's new web-page and 3.0 change-log.
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