Software-update: Python 2.4.1 RC2

Python is een programmeertaal waarmee simpele tot complexe platform-onafhankelijke applicaties kunnen worden ontwikkeld. Deze taal wordt door veel bedrijven gebruikt zoals onder andere Industrial Light & Magic, Google en NASA. Het ontwikkelteam is druk bezig met de binnenkort komende 2.4.1 versie en heeft hiervan de tweede release candidate uitgebracht. Men heeft weer een aantal bugs verholpen zoals de release notes ons laten zien:

We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.4.1, release candidate 2 on March 17, 2005. This is the second release candidate of Python 2.4.1 - users are encouraged to download this and test it works for them, but it is not suggested for production usage. A final release of 2.4.1 should be around the 29th of March - straight after Pycon.

Python 2.4.1 is a bugfix release of Python 2.4 - Python 2.4 is now in bugfix-only mode, no new features are being added. Several dozen bugs were squashed since Python 2.4, including the SimpleXMLRPCServer security fix.

Library:

• Bug #1163325: Decimal infinities failed to hash. Attempting to hash a NaN raised an InvalidOperation instead of a TypeError.
• Bug #1160802: can't build Zope on Windows with 2.4.1c1. The MSVCCompiler class in distutils forgot to record that it was initialized, and continued adding redundant entries to the system PATH environment variable until putenv() complained about the size. This only affected building projects with many C extensions, and only on Windows using Microsoft's compiler. This wasn't visible before because a bugfix first included in 2.4.1c1 provoked it (bug #1110478: revert os.environ.update to do putenv again).
• Bug #1156259: Seeking in codecs.reader was broken, now fixed.

Tests:

• Fix the test for socket.getfqdn() in test_socket to also consider the host name returned by socket.gethostname() a valid return value for getfqdn(). Also clarified the wording of docs and docstring that this is the case.

Extensions Modules:

• os.access now supports Unicode path names on non-Win32 systems.

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Windows Installer
Windows Installer IA-64
Source .tgz
Source .bz2

Versienummer	2.4.1 RC2
Besturingssystemen	Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Linux, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP IA-64, Windows Server 2003 IA-64
Website	Python
Download	http://www.python.org/2.4.1/
Licentietype	Voorwaarden (GNU/BSD/etc.)