On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that Jython 2.7 alpha1 is available for download. See the installation instructions.
I'd like to thank Adconion Media Group for sponsoring my work on Jython 2.7. I'd also like to thank the many contributors to Jython.
Jython 2.7 alpha1 implements much of the functionality introduced by CPython 2.6 and 2.7. There are still some missing features, in particular bytearray and the io system are currently incomplete.
Please report any bugs that you find. Thanks!
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That's great news, I can't wait for a beta to switch.
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- Milosz
This is the news of the year! Thanks for great job!
ReplyDeleteGreat job!
ReplyDeleteI think you should have jumped ahead to Python 3. Jython's native unicode support and Python 3's unicode-friendly library system would have worked very well together.
ReplyDeleteSeun Osewe: Python 3 is definitely in the plans - if you look at the PEPs and updates in 2.7 they are almost all 3.x features - so we needed to do this stuff anyway. On top of that, now no one will ask for 2.x updates anymore and we can concentrate on 3 :)
ReplyDeleteMilosz, Jakub, Anonymous: Thanks! My plan is to put betas out by mid June and finalize by mid July.
ReplyDeleteGreat work Frank, keep it up!
ReplyDeleteAwesome work, Frank!
ReplyDeleteThanks Eric!
ReplyDeleteGreat job, Frank. You are a man of your word!
ReplyDeleteOlympian2012: ha I try - though I have certainly failed at the estimating game in the past. Things seem to be working this time around (maybe I'm getting better at it, or maybe I'm just lucky this time - probably a bit of both)
ReplyDeleteThis is marvelous! Thank you for your efforts! Out of curiosity, is bytearray a beta-expected feature or later?
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ReplyDeletehttp://hg.python.org/jython/file/2dd71d4bda11/NEWS
You have no idea the happiness this piece of news are bringing to me, and the community here. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!
ReplyDeleteI am switching immediately to Alpha version, can't wait!
Will: we won't release a beta without a reasonable bytearray. There are parts that depend on memoryview and buffer() -- which for now are considered out of scope for 2.7 -- but otherwise bytearray will be there for a beta.
ReplyDeleteHaitham El-Ghareeb: great! be careful - it is an alpha :)
ReplyDeleteUnknown: that link doesn't go to an empty file for me - mostly it's bug fixes and mostly in the 2.5 area, but definitely not empty...
ReplyDeleteGreat news, thank you for wonderful job!
ReplyDeleteGREAT work , please keep it up ..
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