Python 3.4.7 binaries for windows?

[Glenn Linderman]

On 8/9/2017 11:48 PM, Nagy László Zsolt wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On the official python site, it is possible to download python 3.4.4 here:
>
> https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-344/
>
> There are binary installation files for Windows. But Python 3.4.4 is two
> years old. There is 3.4.7 that was just released, but there are no
> binaries.
>
> https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-347/
>
> There is a note on that page: "Also, Python 3.4.7 has only been released
> in source code form; no more official binary installers will be produced
> for Python 3.4.".
>
> Is there a way to download a binary installer from another site?
> Compiling it by myself seems to be a big pain.
>
> Thanks,
>
>     Laszlo
>
Is there any reason not to upgrade to Python 3.7? For which binary 
installers are available?

I think the general philosophy, is that the security updates to the 
older releases are supplied only in source form so that there is an 
available path for people that must stay with those older releases to 
stay secure, but that the pain of doing the compiles is a tradeoff 
versus the pain of upgrading to newer versions which also include the 
security fixes, but are more interesting to support going forward in time.

You get to decide which is more painful, and which path to take.

Personally, I highly recommend keeping your code updated to work with 
the latest version of Python; I find that relatively straightforward for 
my own code, as few incompatibilities are introduced in newer versions 
of Python, and only a small subset of those actually have ever affected 
my code.

Cheers, Glenn