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Guido van Rossum4405cf32007-08-30 17:16:55 +00001Python 3000 Release Notes
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4Release notes describe unfinished work in particular releases.
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6Please report bugs to http://bugs.python.org/.
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8Version 3.0a1 - Release Date 31-Aug-2007
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Guido van Rossume5e8eff2007-08-30 20:18:10 +000011* SSL support is disabled. This causes test_ssl to be skipped.
Guido van Rossum4405cf32007-08-30 17:16:55 +000012 The new SSL support in the 2.6 trunk (with server-side support and
13 certificate verification) will be ported for 3.0a2.
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Guido van Rossum75765832007-08-31 00:38:53 +000015* If you don't have `openssl <http://www.openssl.org>`_ installed, or
16 a version older than 0.9.7, hashlib is non-functional, which means
17 there is no way to compute MD5 checksums. This breaks some modules.
Guido van Rossume5e8eff2007-08-30 20:18:10 +000018
19* Platform support is reduced. We've mostly tested on Linux, OSX,
Guido van Rossum75765832007-08-31 00:38:53 +000020 and Windows. Solaris is also supported (somewhat).
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22* There may be additional issues on 64-bit architectures.
Guido van Rossum4405cf32007-08-30 17:16:55 +000023
Guido van Rossume5e8eff2007-08-30 20:18:10 +000024* There are still some open issues on Windows.
Guido van Rossum4405cf32007-08-30 17:16:55 +000025
Guido van Rossume5e8eff2007-08-30 20:18:10 +000026* Some new features are very fresh, and probably contain bugs: the new
Guido van Rossum4405cf32007-08-30 17:16:55 +000027 format() method on strings (PEP 3101), the strict separation of
28 bytes and strings, the new buffer API (PEP 3118).
Guido van Rossum845702c2007-08-30 18:44:53 +000029
Guido van Rossume5e8eff2007-08-30 20:18:10 +000030* IDLE still has some open issues. If you can't run it at all, try
Guido van Rossum845702c2007-08-30 18:44:53 +000031 "idle -n" which disables the separate subprocess for the
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