Notice: This page displays a fallback because interactive scripts did not run. Possible causes include disabled JavaScript or failure to load scripts or stylesheets.

≡ Menu

Search Python.org

Results

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (October 8, 2002)

    ...number of issues have come up that require board discussion: Whether or not the requirement for fundraising institutions to register themselves in all of the United States applies to the PSF. The registration itself costs in excess of USD 10.000 intially and yearly, much more than the fundraising hopes to collect. The concensus is that we can not worry about this at this time, the requirement for registration certainly can't apply to small-time fundrai...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...number of alternatives for tiered web development. Some of these were based on Java and some on Visual Basic, MTS, and ASP. Concurrently, we happened to be using Python to prototype some of the functional requirements for the web-deployed business applications we were developing. It wasn't long before we found ourselves comparing our Python prototypes favorably to the actual systems we were developing. Python was a much more productive way to work, and it seemed to result in at least as good an ...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, January 10, 2006

    ...numbers to ~200-250, so that the total costs are cheaper and we actually meet our numbers. Keep the numbers the same, and try to do better on publicity to reduce the loss. I made various mistakes -- most notably a delay in getting the schedule posted -- but it's not clear if that delay is responsible for the poor registration. Other suggestions? S. Deibel asked A. Kuchling about the status of the funding we approved for helping people to attend PyCon: "Have you had any responses to your ...

  • Release – Python 3.10.2

    Version: None

    Released: Jan. 14, 2022

    This is the second maintenance release of Python 3.10 Python 3.10.2 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. This is a special bugfix release ahead of schedule to address a memory leak that was happening on …

    View Release Notes

  • Release – Python 3.10.11

    Version: None

    Released: April 5, 2023

    This is the eleventh maintenance release of Python 3.10 Python 3.10.10 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. Major new features of the 3.10 series, compared to 3.9 Among the new major new features and …

    View Release Notes

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 22-Oct-2002

    ...number of enhancements to the language core and its standard libraries. "This release is an invaluable upgrade for all Python and Zope users, offering increased stability and robustness. I am grateful to the Python and Zope community for contributing literally hundreds of bug fixes to Python 2.2.2," said Guido van Rossum, creator of Python, president of the Python Software Foundation, and Director of PythonLabs at Zope Corporation. "Python has been an integral part of Google since...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (August 10, 2004)

    ...number of questions from potential submitters have been received; some of these still need to be answered. Jeremy volunteered to write additional guidelines for submitters. David wondered whether a mailing list for potential submitters should be created where they can discuss issues with the committee; Martin will create such a list. Stephan reported that the PSC that credit card acceptance is still in the works, but progressing slowly. Steve reported for the PRC that the Web redesign is well ...

  • Release – Python 3.14.0rc2

    Version: None

    Released: Aug. 14, 2025

    It's the final 🪄 penultimate 🪄 3.14 release candidate! Note: rc2 was originally planned for 2025-08-26, but we fixed a bug that required bumping the magic number stored in Python bytecode (.pyc) files. This means .pyc files created for rc1 cannot be used for rc2, and they'll …

    View Release Notes

  • Release – Python 3.14.0rc3

    Version: None

    Released: Sept. 18, 2025

    It's 🪄 finally 🪄 the final 3.14 release candidate! Note: It's another magic release. We fixed another bug that required bumping the magic number stored in Python bytecode (.pyc) files. This means file .pyc files created for rc2 cannot be used for rc3, and they'll be recompiled. …

    View Release Notes

  • PSF Community Partner Program

    ...number of posts to be reshared is capacity dependent on the Grants Work Group Chair and the timing of the posts are dependent on the PSF's social media calendar. Eligible Posts Save the date Mission statements Call for Proposals announcements Schedule releases Travel grant or scholarship announcements Ineligible Posts Fundraisers or donation requests Paid registration promotions Purchases or revenue-re...

  • 2009-01-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...numbers in square brackets (like "[0]") refer to the action item ID on the wiki. 4.1   Carried Forward The following are action items carried forward from the 8 December 2008 meeting, as highlighted in the minutes (Section 4, Status of Past Action Items). Numbers in [brackets] represent the item ID in the PSF private wiki. [11] Originally from June 2006, Section 6, PSF Records: The Board agreed to assemble the existing records in one place, have them scanned, and ente...

  • Release – Python 2.6.0

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 2, 2008

    Python 2.6 (final) was released on October 1st, 2008. There are a huge number of new features, modules, improvements and bug fixes. For information on what's changed, see: Andrew Kuchling's guide to What's New in Python 2.6. NEWS file contains a listing of everything …

    View Release Notes

  • Release – Python 2.0.1

    Version: None

    Released: June 22, 2001

    We're releasing Python 2.0.1 - the final bugfix release for Python 2.0. Why would we come with a bugfix release now (June 2001), when Python 2.0 was released in October 2000 and Python 2.1 has been released for months (April 2001)? Two very good reasons! We've …

    View Release Notes

  • Release – Python 3.10.0a7

    Version: None

    Released: April 5, 2021

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.10 Major new features of the 3.10 series, compared to 3.9 Python 3.10 is still in development. This release, 3.10.0a7 is the last of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current …

  • Release – Python 3.10.0rc2

    Version: None

    Released: Sept. 7, 2021

    This is the first release candidate of Python 3.10 This release, 3.10.0rc2, is the last preview before the final release of Python 3.10.0 on 2021-10-04. Entering the release candidate phase, only reviewed code changes which are clear bug fixes are allowed between release candidates and the final release. …

    View Release Notes

  • Release – Python 3.10.0

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 4, 2021

    This is the stable release of Python 3.10.0 Python 3.10.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. Major new features of the 3.10 series, compared to 3.9 Among the new major new features and changes …

    View Release Notes

  • Python Success Stories

    ...number of new items in each site (feed) since the user's last visit. Architecture DevNet can be divided into 2 modules: (1) the RSS fetcher, and (2) the web application. The RSS fetcher is responsible for retrieving RSS feeds from selected sites at specified time intervals. It is written in Python and uses Mark Pilgrim's Universal Feed Parser to parse RSS feeds, and MySQLdb to store each parsed RSS document into a MySQL database. The fetcher is multi-threaded and is scheduled by cron to run ev...

  • Python Distutils-SIG: Tasks and Division of Labour

    ...number, etc. -- can be made trivial with its help The developer will also have to build the software repeatedly in the course of development, which means that the interface for building has to be geared towards both installers (possibly naive end-users) and developers. (This argues in favour of having two build interfaces.) Creating a source distribution could be considered a packager task, but it will almost always be done by the developer wearing his ...

  • Python Distutils-SIG: Tasks and Division of Labour

    ...number, etc. -- can be made trivial with its help The developer will also have to build the software repeatedly in the course of development, which means that the interface for building has to be geared towards both installers (possibly naive end-users) and developers. (This argues in favour of having two build interfaces.) Creating a source distribution could be considered a packager task, but it will almost always be done by the developer wearing his ...

  • Download Python 2.4.4 Documentation

    ...numbers in the table are the size of the download files in Kilobytes. Content Format ZIP BZip2 HTML 3639K 1366K PDF (US-Letter) 5314K 5242K PDF (A4) 5293K 5220K PostScript (US-Letter) 2280K 1656K PostScript (A4) 2285K 1660K GNU Info   932K LaTeX 1915K 1334K Contents These archives contain the following documents: What's New in Python 2.4.4 Python Tutorial Python Library Reference Macintosh Library Modules Python Reference Manual Extending and Embedding the Python In...

Python language documentation

If you didn't find what you need, try your search in the Python language documentation.