Python 3.4.0 final has been released

[Nick Coghlan]

On 03/17/2014 05:53 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Direct link to the What's New guide:
> http://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.4.html

Rereading that, I remembered there's more to it for Fedora than just
"hey, here's a shiny new version of Python 3 to be packaged", and I
don't mean the stuff Slavek is working on to let ensurepip use the
system pip installation as a base.

Specifically, there may need to be a security-related change to the
Python packaging guidelines, covering the appropriate use of isolated
mode: http://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.4.html#whatsnew-isolated-mode

There's also a simpler workaround for the issues with the standard
streams when running things in the POSIX locale: setting
"PYTHONIOENCODING=:surrogateescape" will deal with it for user mode scripts.

Cheers,
Nick.

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