[nycbug-talk] BSD license compatable, Python 3.0 Released

[Isaac Levy]

Hi All,

For those who dig Python (and any high-level languages), the long- 
awaited 'Python 3000' release is out- the first totally clean break in  
the language in years, totally backwards-incompatible with earlier  
Python- (a lot has been cleaned up).

A notable license based cleanup:

"This Python distribution contains *no* GNU General Public License
(GPL) code, so it may be used in proprietary projects.  There are
interfaces to some GNU code but these are entirely optional."

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Additionally, the bulk of the changes seriously simplify using the  
high-level language for day-to-day tasks; for example with integers,  
int and long are now just one thing- int.  Also, the core libraries  
have been cleaned up and boiled down!  This is exciting both from a  
simpler-to-use perspective, as well as reducing the securable surface  
area of the language as a whole.

http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/
http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html

Happy hacking!

Rocket-
.ike