[Dev] Python 2.3.4 upgrade

[Anthony Baxter]

Ted Leung wrote:
> I bogusly only sent this to Mark the first time:
> 
> The list of changes between Python 2.3.3 and 2.3.4 is here: 
> <http://www.python.org/2.3.4/NEWS.html>. These are exclusively bugfixes.
> 
> Unless we are actually being impacted by one of these bugs, I'd suggest 
> that we wait on 2.3.4 in order to keep the build stable for a while. The 
> Python developers have just
> released the second alpha of Python 2.4 which is something that we'll 
> probably be interested in picking up. The generator comprehensions and 
> decorators in 2.4 might
> be useful to us. Also, I think that Brian is using the 2.4 mail parser, 
> so moving up to 2.4 seems like an eventuality.

Note also that there will be a 2.3.5, sometime after 2.4 final is out.
I expect this to be the last release of the 2.3 series.


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