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Python 3.5.2

Release Date: June 27, 2016

Python 3.5.2

Python 3.5 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.5.10, the final release of the 3.5 series, is available here.

Python 3.5.2 was released on June 26th, 2016.

Major new features of the 3.5 series, compared to 3.4

Among the new major new features and changes in the 3.5 release series are

  • PEP 441, improved Python zip application support
  • PEP 448, additional unpacking generalizations
  • PEP 461, "%-formatting" for bytes and bytearray objects
  • PEP 465, a new operator (@) for matrix multiplication
  • PEP 471, os.scandir(), a fast new directory traversal function
  • PEP 475, adding support for automatic retries of interrupted system calls
  • PEP 479, change StopIteration handling inside generators
  • PEP 484, the typing module, a new standard for type annotations
  • PEP 485, math.isclose(), a function for testing approximate equality
  • PEP 486, making the Windows Python launcher aware of virtual environments
  • PEP 488, eliminating .pyo files
  • PEP 489, a new and improved mechanism for loading extension modules
  • PEP 492, coroutines with async and await syntax

Notes on this release

  • The binaries for AMD64 will also work on processors that implement the Intel 64 architecture. (Also known as the "x64" architecture, and formerly known as both "EM64T" and "x86-64".) They will not work on Intel Itanium Processors (formerly "IA-64").
  • Windows users: If installing Python 3.5.1 as a non-privileged user, you may need to escalate to administrator privileges to install an update to your C runtime libraries.
  • Windows users: There are now "web-based" installers for Windows platforms; the installer will download the needed software components at installation time.
  • Windows users: There are redistributable zip files containing the Windows builds, making it easy to redistribute Python as part of another software package. Please see the documentation regarding Embedded Distribution for more information.
  • Windows users: Some virus scanners (most notably "Microsoft Security Essentials") are flagging "Lib/distutils/command/wininst-14.0.exe" as malware. This is a "false positive": the file does not contain any malware. We build it ourselves, from source, on a known-clean system. We've asked that this false positive report be removed, and expect action soon. In the meantime, please don't be alarmed to see this warning when installing Python 3.5.2, or when scanning any earlier version of 3.5.
  • OS X users: The OS X installers are now distributed as signed installer package files compatible with the OS X Gatekeeper security feature.
  • OS X users: There is important information about IDLE, Tkinter, and Tcl/Tk on Mac OS X here.

Full Changelog

Files

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XZ compressed source tarball Source release 8906efbacfcdc7c3c9198aeefafd159e 14.5 MB SIG
Mac OS X 32-bit i386/PPC installer macOS for Mac OS X 10.5 and later 5ae81eea42bb6758b6d775ebcaf32eda 25.0 MB SIG
Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit installer macOS for Mac OS X 10.6 and later 11a9f4fc3f6b93e3ffb26c383822a272 23.4 MB SIG
Windows help file Windows 24b95be314f7bad1cc5361ae449adc3d 7.4 MB SIG
Windows x86 embeddable zip file Windows ad637a1db7cf91e344318d55c94ad3ca 5.8 MB SIG
Windows x86 executable installer Windows 2ddf428fd8b9c063ba05b5a0c8636c37 27.9 MB SIG
Windows x86 web-based installer Windows aed3ac79b8e2458b84135ecfdca66764 922.2 KB SIG
Windows x86-64 embeddable zip file Windows for AMD64/EM64T/x64 f1c24bb78bd6dd792a73d5ebfbd3b20e 6.5 MB SIG
Windows x86-64 executable installer Windows for AMD64/EM64T/x64 4da6dbc8e43e2249a0892d257e977291 28.8 MB SIG
Windows x86-64 web-based installer Windows for AMD64/EM64T/x64 c35b6526761a9cde4b6dccab4a3d7c60 947.5 KB SIG