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Python 3.3.4

Release Date: Feb. 9, 2014

fixes several security and a lot of overall bug fixes found in Python 3.3.3.

This release fully supports OS X 10.9 Mavericks. In particular, this release fixes an issue that could cause previous versions of Python to crash when typing in interactive mode on OS X 10.9.

Major new features of the 3.3 series, compared to 3.2

Python 3.3 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, as well as easier porting between 2.x and 3.x.

  • PEP 380, syntax for delegating to a subgenerator (yield from)
  • PEP 393, flexible string representation (doing away with the distinction between "wide" and "narrow" Unicode builds)
  • A C implementation of the "decimal" module, with up to 120x speedup for decimal-heavy applications
  • The import system (__import__) is based on importlib by default
  • The new "lzma" module with LZMA/XZ support
  • PEP 397, a Python launcher for Windows
  • PEP 405, virtual environment support in core
  • PEP 420, namespace package support
  • PEP 3151, reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy
  • PEP 3155, qualified name for classes and functions
  • PEP 409, suppressing exception context
  • PEP 414, explicit Unicode literals to help with porting
  • PEP 418, extended platform-independent clocks in the "time" module
  • PEP 412, a new key-sharing dictionary implementation that significantly saves memory for object-oriented code
  • PEP 362, the function-signature object
  • The new "faulthandler" module that helps diagnosing crashes
  • The new "unittest.mock" module
  • The new "ipaddress" module
  • The "sys.implementation" attribute
  • A policy framework for the email package, with a provisional (see PEP 411) policy that adds much improved unicode support for email header parsing
  • A "collections.ChainMap" class for linking mappings to a single unit
  • Wrappers for many more POSIX functions in the "os" and "signal" modules, as well as other useful functions such as "sendfile()"
  • Hash randomization, introduced in earlier bugfix releases, is now switched on by default

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[1]The binaries for AMD64 will also work on processors that implement the Intel 64 architecture (formerly EM64T), i.e. the architecture that Microsoft calls x64, and AMD called x86-64 before calling it AMD64. They will not work on Intel Itanium Processors (formerly IA-64).
[2](1, 2) There is important information about IDLE, Tkinter, and Tcl/Tk on Mac OS X here.

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Version Operating System Description MD5 Sum File Size GPG
Gzipped source tar ball Source release ~ 16 MB 9f7df0dde690132c63b1dd2b640ed3a6 16.1 MB
XZ compressed source tar ball Source release ~ 11 MB 8fb961a20600aafafd249537af3ac637 11.5 MB
Mac OS X 32-bit i386/PPC Installer macOS For OS X 10.5 and later 22501eb8acaaa849c834c5596c3cee37 19.0 MB
Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit Installer macOS For Mac OS X 10.6 and later 7ca8dab58e94f475418792ba2294b73f 19.1 MB
Windows X86-64 MSI Installer Windows fe66db6a92f8135cbbefa3265e8a99ec 20.2 MB
Windows x86 MSI Installer Windows 839af9c8044a1c45338b618294d7a6f3 19.7 MB