Beta 1 of the next version of everyone’s favorite language, Python, is now available. While most of the syntactic aren’t earth-shattering (for me), some of the module changes are. For example, the CJK Codecs package used in “ccValidator”:http://yergler.net/projects/ccvalidator are now part of the standard library, meaning one less external dependency to track. Strings have also gained an ‘rsplit’ method, meaning no more ‘astring.split()[-1]‘, a hack I always had trouble defending.
Check out “What’s New in 2.4″:http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/whatsnew for all the details, or download “here”:http://python.org/2.4/.