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Python Software Foundation.
All rights reserved.
Python 3.x is a new version of the language, which is incompatible with the
2.x line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details,
especially how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have
changed considerably, and a lot of deprecated features have finally been
removed.
Build Instructions
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On Unix, Linux, BSD, OSX, and Cygwin:
./configure
make
make test
sudo make install
This will install Python as python3.
You can pass many options to the configure script; run "./configure
--help" to find out more. On OSX and Cygwin, the executable is called
python.exe; elsewhere it's just python.
On Mac OS X, if you have configured Python with --enable-framework,
you should use "make frameworkinstall" to do the installation. Note
that this installs the Python executable in a place that is not
normally on your PATH, you may want to set up a symlink in
/usr/local/bin.
On Windows, see PCbuild/readme.txt.
If you wish, you can create a subdirectory and invoke configure from
there. For example:
mkdir debug
cd debug
../configure --with-pydebug
make
make test
(This will fail if you *also* built at the top-level directory. You
should do a "make clean" at the toplevel first.)
What's New
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We try to have a comprehensive overview of the changes in the "What's New in
Python 3.1" document, found at
http://docs.python.org/3.1/whatsnew/3.1.html
For a more detailed change log, read Misc/NEWS (though this file, too,
is incomplete, and also doesn't list anything merged in from the 2.7
release under development).
If you want to install multiple versions of Python see the section below
entitled "Installing multiple versions".
Documentation
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Documentation for Python 3.1 is online, updated twice a day:
http://docs.python.org/3.1/
All documentation is also available online at the Python web site
(http://docs.python.org/, see below). It is available online for
occasional reference, or can be downloaded in many formats for faster
access. The documentation is downloadable in HTML, PostScript, PDF,
LaTeX (through 2.5), and reStructuredText (2.6+) formats; the LaTeX and
reStructuredText versions are primarily for documentation authors,
translators, and people with special formatting requirements.
Testing
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To test the interpreter, type "make test" in the top-level directory.
This runs the test set twice (once with no compiled files, once with
the compiled files left by the previous test run). The test set
produces some output. You can generally ignore the messages about
skipped tests due to optional features which can't be imported.
If a message is printed about a failed test or a traceback or core
dump is produced, something is wrong. On some Linux systems (those
that are not yet using glibc 6), test_strftime fails due to a
non-standard implementation of strftime() in the C library. Please
ignore this, or upgrade to glibc version 6.
By default, tests are prevented from overusing resources like disk space and
memory. To enable these tests, run "make testall".
IMPORTANT: If the tests fail and you decide to mail a bug report,
*don't* include the output of "make test". It is useless. Run the
failing test manually, as follows:
./python Lib/test/regrtest.py -v test_whatever
(substituting the top of the source tree for '.' if you built in a
different directory). This runs the test in verbose mode.
Release Schedule
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See PEP 375 for release details: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0375/