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Python 2.3

After numerous alphas and betas, Python 2.3 has been released. Python.org has highlights of the release, while A.M. Kuchling’s What’s New in Python 2.3 goes in to a bit more detail. There’s some great new stuff, but the feature that particularly caught my eye is this:

ssl—the Windows installer now incorporates SSL support. (New in 2.3a2: timeouts set on the underlying socket are now handled correctly.)

That’s pretty sweet; with 2.3 we can deploy Windows applications that securely communicate over the internet out-of-the-box. Combined with web services and server-side content management systems that ability could be very useful indeed.

Incidentally, since today is the 29th of June this release means that 2.3 has met the August 1st deadline for inclusion in the next version of Mac OS X. Owning a Mac is looking more and more attractive.

Posted 30th July 2003 at 10:58 am

This is Python 2.3 by Simon Willison, posted on 30th July 2003.

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  1. Simon, I'm assuming its been a long day. Today is in fact the 30th of July :-)

    Sam Newman - 30th July 2003 11:22 - #

  2. What! Simon, you don't own a Mac already? I had a brief flirtation with PC/Windows a few years back (I'm so ashamed....!), but now I'm back with Mac, I'll never look back again. So what do you use then?

    James Cowie - 30th July 2003 12:01 - #

  3. Disappointingly -- the python 2.3 win installer is crashing on my WIN2K (SP4) box. Wouldn't they have tested that b4 release? Did somebody say Mac? I'm thinking of switching back once and for all considering I've been fighting with Dell since May 23 about a system exchange due to unsolvable hardware problems. They finally "agreed" to replace my system, but still seem to be "some delays." This is the last PC I'll ever pay for/use. Maybe a 12" ALBook connected to my big TFT?

    tim martens - 1st August 2003 07:05 - #

  4. I definitely think that my next computer will also be a Mac, sweet operating system, the onset of Python with it, and not to mention they are just so pretty! - I'm a girl, I’m allowed to say that ;)

    NatBat - 1st August 2003 17:22 - #

  5. I've been a PC user as long as there've been IBM-PCs. The only Apple I've ever used was the Apple ][c, which was the first computer we owned. But I'm trying to decide if my comp next purchase should be a PowerBook or a TabletPC. And I'm leaning heavily towards the Apple, despite my heavy investment in the Windows world. If that's not compelling argument for people less rooted, I don't know what is. ;)

    Jeremy Dunck - 1st August 2003 22:05 - #

  6. > I had a brief flirtation with PC/Windows a few years back (I'm so ashamed....!), > but now I'm back with Mac, I'll never look back again. I'm a very happy Windows XP user, but OS X seems to keep getting more interesting over time... and then I remember the one button-mouse and it just damps my enthusiasm... heck, under WinXP I use a mouse with 4 buttons and a wheel and I still find myself wanting a 2nd wheel! :-)

    Jon Perez - 27th May 2004 19:56 - #

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