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  r76819 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-12-13 16:15:31 -0500 (Sun, 13 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  avoid having to update this statement all the time
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  r76830 | r.david.murray | 2009-12-13 21:50:32 -0500 (Sun, 13 Dec 2009) | 2 lines

  Clarify phrasing that explains that there are currently two branches.
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@ -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 XXX this gets out of date pretty often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 <http://python.org/download/>`_ 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
<http://python.org/download/>`_. There are two recommended production-ready
versions at this point in time, because 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?