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• Release – Python 3.15.0a6

  Version: None

  Released: Feb. 11, 2026

  This is an early developer preview of Python 3.15 Major new features of the 3.15 series, compared to 3.14 Python 3.15 is still in development. This release, 3.15.0a6, is the sixth of eight planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the …

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• Other Catalog Systems

  Other Catalog Systems Other Catalog Systems This page collects useful links that will help you learn about the catalog systems used by other projects. We've tracked down the instructions so that you don't have to. CPAN CPAN search page PAUSE (instructions for registering and uploading modules) Zen of Comprehensive Archive Networks: a note from CPAN's maintainers. (A less interesting document than it sounds, unfortunately.) Perl Package Manager from ActiveSt...

• Python for Mac OS X

  Python for Mac OS X Python for Mac OS X Python comes pre-installed on Mac OS X so it is easy to start using. However, to take advantage of the latest versions of Python, you will need to download and install newer versions alongside the system ones. The easiest way to do that is to install one of the binary installers for OS X from the Python Download page. Installers are available for the latest Python 3 and Python 2 releases that will work on all Macs that run Mac OS X 10.5 and later. Py...

• Release – Python 3.15.0a7

  Version: None

  Released: March 10, 2026

  This is an early developer preview of Python 3.15 Major new features of the 3.15 series, compared to 3.14 Python 3.15 is still in development. This release, 3.15.0a7, is the seventh of eight planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the …

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• Release – Python 3.15.0a8

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  Released: April 7, 2026

  This is an early developer preview of Python 3.15 Major new features of the 3.15 series, compared to 3.14 Python 3.15 is still in development. This release, 3.15.0a8, is the final planned alpha release. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state …

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• Python for Windows

  Python for Windows Python for Microsoft Windows (XP and later releases) Python releases include an excellent Windows installer. See the individual releases for details. You may also wish to download pywin32, Mark Hammond's add-on that includes the Win32 API, COM support, and Pythonwin extensions. It's available from the pywin32 project on SourceForge. Alternative Packages for Windows. ActiveState ActivePython (commercial and community versions, including scientific computing modules). Ac...

• Release – Python 3.15.0b2

  Version: None

  Released: June 2, 2026

  Here comes the antepenultimate beta. This is a beta preview of Python 3.15 Python 3.15 is still in development. This release, 3.15.0b2, is the second of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and …

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• Release – Python 3.15.0b3

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  Released: June 23, 2026

  Here comes the penultimate beta. This is a beta preview of Python 3.15 Python 3.15 is still in development. This release, 3.15.0b3, is the third of four planned beta releases, containing around 195 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes from 86 contributors since 3.15.0b2. Beta release previews …

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• Release – Python 3.15.0b4

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  Released: July 18, 2026

  Here comes the final beta. This is a beta preview of Python 3.15 Python 3.15 is still in development. This release, 3.15.0b4, is the final planned beta release, containing around 298 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.15.0b3. Beta release previews are intended to give the …

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• Release – Python 3.15.0b1

  Version: None

  Released: May 7, 2026

  It's the first beta and feature freeze! This is a beta preview of Python 3.15 Python 3.15 is still in development. This release, 3.15.0b1, is the first of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new …

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• Release – Python 3.15.0rc1

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  Released: Aug. 4, 2026

  It's the first 3.15 release candidate! This is a candidate preview of Python 3.15 This release, 3.15.0rc1, is the first of two planned candidate releases. Entering the release candidate phase, only reviewed code changes which are clear bug fixes are allowed between this release candidate and the …

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• Parade of the PEPs

  ...Comprehensions - Warsaw If we were to adopt dict comprehensions, this PEP says everything that needs to be said. But I don't even want to think about this for Python 2.3; I think it's way too minor a feature. This would be a lot easier to adopt if there was a working implementation in patch form. Sometimes it would be nice if things like this could be defined using hygienic macros or some other kind of preprocessor or whatever, and imported from a module, rather than requiring maj...

• Release – Python 3.15.0rc2

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  Released: Sept. 1, 2026

  It's the final 3.15 release candidate! This is a candidate preview of Python 3.15 This release, 3.15.0rc2, is the final planned release candidate, containing around 144 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes from 76 contributors since 3.15.0rc1. Entering the release candidate phase, only reviewed code changes which …

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• Release – Python 3.15.0

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  Released: Oct. 9, 2026

  This is the stable release of Python 3.15.0 Python 3.15.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimisations compared to Python 3.14, in 5,643 commits from 1,012 contributors. Major new features of the 3.15 series, compared to …

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• Release – Python 3.15.1

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  Released: Oct. 21, 2026

  This is the first maintenance release of Python 3.15 Python 3.15.1 is an expedited security release and the first maintenance release of 3.15, containing around 330 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes from 117 contributors since 3.15.0. Security content in this release This release upgrades the …

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• Release – Python 3.6.9

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  Released: July 2, 2019

  Note: The release you are looking at is Python 3.6.9, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.6 series which has now reached end-of-life and is no longer supported. See the downloads page for currently supported versions of Python. The final source-only security fix release for 3.6 was 3.6.15 …

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• Release – Python 3.9.7

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  Released: Aug. 30, 2021

  This is the seventh maintenance release of Python 3.9 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.9.7, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.9 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. There's been …

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• Release – Python 3.9.12

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  Released: March 23, 2022

  This is the twelfth maintenance release of Python 3.9 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.9.12, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.9 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. This is …

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• Release – Python 3.6.10rc1

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  Released: Dec. 11, 2019

  Note Python 3.8 is now released and is the latest feature release of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.8.x here. Python 3.6.10rc1 is the release candidate preview of the next security fix release of Python 3.6. Python 3.6.8 was the final bugfix release for …

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• Release – Python 3.15.0rc3

  Version: None

  Released: Oct. 2, 2026

  Following recent tradition, here's a surprise third release candidate for Python 3.15.0! We got some last-minute lazy-import release blockers, and it makes sense to include them in 3.15.0 final. It also makes sense to give a bit of time to test them properly, so this week's …

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