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| author | R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2009-12-14 17:27:08 (GMT) |
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| committer | R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2009-12-14 17:27:08 (GMT) |
| commit | 338eae3460be044e1af9c590dff1a15baaa0520a (patch) | |
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Merged revisions 76819,76830 via svnmerge from
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r76819 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-12-13 16:15:31 -0500 (Sun, 13 Dec 2009) | 1 line
avoid having to update this statement all the time
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r76830 | r.david.murray | 2009-12-13 21:50:32 -0500 (Sun, 13 Dec 2009) | 2 lines
Clarify phrasing that explains that there are currently two branches.
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diff --git a/Doc/faq/general.rst b/Doc/faq/general.rst index 67935f4..111e312 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/general.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/general.rst @@ -309,13 +309,12 @@ only fixes for known problems are included in a bugfix release, and it's guaranteed that interfaces will remain the same throughout a series of bugfix releases. -.. XXX this gets out of date pretty often - -The `2.6.4 release <http://python.org/download/>`_ is recommended -production-ready version at this point in time. Python 3.1 is also considered -production-ready, but may be less useful, since currently there is more third -party software available for Python 2 than for Python 3. Python 2 code will -generally not run unchanged in Python 3. +The latest stable releases can always be found on the `Python download page +<http://python.org/download/>`_. There are two recommended production-ready +versions at this point in time, because at the moment there are two branches of +stable releases: 2.x and 3.x. Python 3.x may be less useful than 2.x, since +currently there is more third party software available for Python 2 than for +Python 3. Python 2 code will generally not run unchanged in Python 3. How many people are using Python? |