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diff --git a/2010-03-25-python-3.1/2010-03-25-python-3.1.en.txt b/2010-03-25-python-3.1/2010-03-25-python-3.1.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..13533ec --- /dev/null +++ b/2010-03-25-python-3.1/2010-03-25-python-3.1.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Title: Python 3.1 +Author: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@gentoo.org> +Content-Type: text/plain +Posted: 2010-03-25 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 1.0 +Display-If-Installed: =dev-lang/python-3.1* + +Python 3 is a new major version of Python and is intentionally incompatible +with Python 2. Many external modules have not been ported yet to Python 3, +so Python 2 still needs to be installed. You can benefit from having Python 3 +installed without setting Python 3.1 as main active version of Python. +Currently you should not set Python 3.1 as main active version of Python. +When setting it becomes recommended, a separate news item will be created +to notify users. + +Although Python 3.1 should not be set as main active version of Python, +you should run python-updater after installation of Python 3.1. By default, +modules that support both Python 2 and Python 3 are installed for both +the active version of Python 2 and the active version of Python 3 when both +Python 2 and Python 3 are installed. + +It is recommended to use a UTF-8 locale to avoid potential problems. Especially +C and POSIX locales are discouraged. If locale has not been explicitly set, +then POSIX locale is used, so you should ensure that locale has been set. +Problems occurring only with non-UTF-8 locales should be reported directly +to upstream developers of given packages. +See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml for more information about UTF-8. |