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Subject: [9fans] python
Date: Mon,  3 Nov 2003 16:11:20 +0000
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Is there an active maintainer of python?

The Contrib one (2.2) is a year old now : Nov 13 2002

I remember reading that the plan9 version was built from the CVS of the time.

I imagine it would be quicker for whoever did it last time to repeat the process.

I wouldn't be too concerned but 2.2 doesn't have native generators so you have to add

from __future__ import generators

it also lacks the sum(), min(), and max() reduction functions

for the full list see :

 http://www.python.org/2.3/highlights.html

quite a few of the changes are to enable Unicode support.

m