| Python 3000 Release Notes |
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| Release notes describe unfinished work in particular releases. |
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| Please report bugs to http://bugs.python.org/. |
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| Version 3.0a1 - Release Date 31-Aug-2007 |
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| * SSL support is disabled. This causes test_ssl to be skipped. |
| The new SSL support in the 2.6 trunk (with server-side support and |
| certificate verification) will be ported for 3.0a2. |
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| * If you don't have `openssl <http://www.openssl.org>`_ installed, or |
| a version older than 0.9.7, hashlib is non-functional, which means |
| there is no way to compute MD5 checksums. This breaks some modules. |
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| * Platform support is reduced. We've mostly tested on Linux, OSX, |
| and Windows. Solaris is also supported (somewhat). |
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| * There may be additional issues on 64-bit architectures. |
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| * There are still some open issues on Windows. |
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| * Some new features are very fresh, and probably contain bugs: the new |
| format() method on strings (PEP 3101), the strict separation of |
| bytes and strings, the new buffer API (PEP 3118). |
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| * IDLE still has some open issues. If you can't run it at all, try |
| "idle -n" which disables the separate subprocess for the |
| interpreter. |