Features/Python 3.2

Python 3.2

Summary

Update the Python 3 stack in Fedora from 3.1 to 3.2

Owner

• Name: Dave Malcolm

• Email: <dmalcolm@redhat.com>

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 41
• Last updated: 2011-01-19
• Percentage of completion: 80%

Fedora 14 schedule currently has feature freeze on 2010-07-27

Upstream has released 3.2rc1, and it is in Fedora. The upstream release schedule currently has final release on 2011-02-12

TODO:

• verify status of bytecode. Last change seems to have been in upstream revision 84501, which changed the magic number of .pyc/.pyo files to 3170

Documentation

What's New In Python 3.2

Release Notes

• We're now compiling Python3 with support for computed goto's in the interpreter mainloop. This can speedup execution of python code by as much as 17%. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566770

Comments and Discussion

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