[Zope-dev] Python 1.6 a1

[Petru Paler]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 01:27:30AM -0500, Stephan Richter wrote:
> I finally got around checking the Python site again, and what did my tired 
> eyes see? Python 1.6 a1 is out and a roadmap for the next releases. What 
> makes the entire subject so interesting is that Python 1.6 will support 
> unicode and OpenSSL (in the socket, httplib, urllib). Furthermore, there 
> will be a module called sre, which supports unicode regular expressions.
> 
> What does that mean? I don't know, but maybe we have a major Zope release 
> coming up supporting unicode and OpenSSL (ZServer)? I would love to see it, 

   There is already an OpenSSL wrapper for Python and a ZServerSSL for Zope,
though they are still beta. Search zope.org for "m2crypto".

> since I would not need to use Apache anymore. Due to the incompatibilities 
> in the Python code that would mean that Zope would also be backward 
> incompatible; does that mean it would be Zope 3.0.0?

-Petru