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  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 3-Oct-2003

    ...number of enhancements based on two months of experience since release of version 2.3. Python is a powerful and agile programming language that significantly increases programmer productivity. It is very easy to learn for programmers of other languages such as C, C++, Java, and Visual Basic. The language is the basis of mission-critical applications used by tens of thousands of companies and organizations worldwide, and its user base is growing rapidly. Python is increasingly used in la...

  • 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

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    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 certain function calls …

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  • Release – Python 3.10.11

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    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 changes so far: PEP …

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  • 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 ...

  • 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

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    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 …

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  • Release – Python 2.0.1

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    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 …

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  • Release – Python 3.10.0a7

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    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 state of …

  • 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. There …

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  • 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 so far: PEP 623 …

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  • 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...

  • Download Python 2.5 Documentation

    ...numbers in the table are the size of the download files in Kilobytes. Content Format ZIP BZip2 HTML 4001K 1526K PDF (US-Letter) 5495K 5417K PDF (A4) 5465K 5491K PostScript (US-Letter) 2427K 1771K PostScript (A4) 2433K 1774K LaTeX 1910K 1333K Contents These archives contain the following documents: What's New in Python 2.5 Python Tutorial Python Library Reference Macintosh Library Modules Python Reference Manual Extending and Embedding the Python Interpreter Python/C API R...

  • Download Python 2.5.2 Documentation

    ...numbers in the table are the size of the download files in Kilobytes. Content Format ZIP BZip2 HTML 4.0M 1.6M PDF (US-Letter) 5.3M 5.3M PDF (A4) 5.3M 5.3M PostScript (US-Letter) 2.5M 1.8M PostScript (A4) 2.5M 1.8M LaTeX 1.9M 1.3M Contents These archives contain the following documents: What's New in Python 2.5 Python Tutorial Python Library Reference Macintosh Library Modules Python Reference Manual Extending and Embedding the Python Interpreter Python/C API Reference Man...

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