From: Benjamin Peterson Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:15:31 +0000 (+0000) Subject: avoid having to update this statement all the time X-Git-Tag: v2.7a2~175 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=db9352f00f1d65e40e3e49d47becaf4dcb3d6f72;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git avoid having to update this statement all the time --- diff --git a/Doc/faq/general.rst b/Doc/faq/general.rst index 67935f4346ed..aa86b0625494 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 XXX this gets out of date pretty often - -The `2.6.4 release `_ is recommended -production-ready version at this point in time.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 +`_. They are recommended production-ready version +at this point in time. 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?