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  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.2.3

    ...ing:</b> These packages install as "/usr/bin/python2". This is because many of the Red Hat tools rely on "/usr/bin/python" being 1.5. For Python code which requires 2.2, they should probably change to use "/usr/bin/python2". The SRPM can be modified to build packages which install as "/usr/bin/python", count on things breaking if you do this. System Message: ERROR/3 (<string>, line 34) Unexpected indentation. --> <h3>Download</h...

  • 2008-12-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...ing Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors December 8, 2008 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 17:00 UTC, 8 December 2008. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1   Attendance 2   Minutes of Past Meetings 3   Actions Taken Since the Last Meet...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...interface, including the administrative console, is served over the built-in HTTP server using Python-scripted HTML. Some of the modules, such as the search spider, GUI, and HTTP server, were written in Python. For performance reasons, others, such as the query engine, indexer, and HTML parser, use the Python/C API to incorporate functionality written in C. The C-based search engine core was also wrapped as a Python extension module. Some C++ is used in the interfaces to key third party technolo...

  • Bugs in Python 2.3.2

    ...inning of a line in the /etc/group or /etc/passwd file to indicate NIS/YP or LDAP consultation. The bugs may also be related to duplicate id in these files. See SourceForge bug reports number <a href="http://python.org/sf/775964">775964</a> and <a href="http://python.org/sf/779218">779218</a>.</li> System Message: WARNING/2 (<string>, line 62); backlink Inline emphasis start-string without end-string. <li>There have been some repor...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...inspired by the QT Linguist Tool) and a WikiWiki-like documentation editing and viewing tool are integrated into the system. Control view with a custom 3D visualization widget running on Linux and KDE Zoom in Why Python? Python was not our first choice as the main programming language it was a coincidence. When we started our project we was very proficient in Perl and completely unaware of Python: so we chose Perl. We discovered Python when we decided that we had to substitute the PerlTK u...

  • Python Humor

    ...ings found wafting gently in the comp.lang.python newsgroup (a.k.a. the python-list mailing list). See also Andrew Kuchling's collection of Python quotations, containing in a condensed form some sterling examples of the wit and wisdom encountered in the Python world. Contents The Zen of Python Fundamental... Cute Wabbit Shooting Yourself in the Foot Legal Issues Python vs Tcl vs Perl5 Python Object Oriented Programming Seminar PSA Budget The Origin of the Great Timbot Conspiracy Theory The Oth...

  • Python 2.4.2 Release

    ...indows NT 4.0 and 2000. Windows XP and later already have MSI; many older machines will already have MSI installed. The new format installer allows for automated installation and many other shiny new features. There is also a separate installer Python-2.4.2.ia64.msi for Win64-Itanium users. Windows users may also be interested in Mark Hammond's pywin32 package, available from Sourceforge. pywin32 adds a number of Windows-specific extensions to Python, including COM support and the Pythonwin IDE...

  • Python 2.4.1

    ...indows NT 4.0 and 2000. Windows XP and later already have MSI; many older machines will already have MSI installed. The new format installer allows for automated installation and many other shiny new features. There is also a separate installer python-2.4.1.ia64.msi for Win64-Itanium users. Windows users may also be interested in Mark Hammond's pywin32 package, available from Sourceforge. pywin32 adds a number of Windows-specific extensions to Python, including COM support and the Pythonwin ID...

  • Release – Python 2.4.2

    Version: None

    Released: Sept. 27, 2005

    We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.4.2 (final), a bugfix release, on September 28, 2005. Important: This release is vulnerable to the problem described in security advisory PSF-2006-001 "Buffer overrun in repr() of unicode strings in wide unicode …

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  • Release – Python 2.4.1

    Version: None

    Released: March 30, 2005

    We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.4.1 (final) on March 30, 2005. Important: This release is vulnerable to the problem described in security advisory PSF-2006-001 "Buffer overrun in repr() of unicode strings in wide unicode builds (UCS-4)". This fix …

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  • Towards a Standard Parser Generator

    ...ined using an XML syntax. Until recently, the build process of a BisonGen parser was as follows: BisonGen parses the XML file using PyXML. It generates a number of files, including a flex input file for lexical analysis, a bison input file, containing the LALR(1) grammar, a SWIG input file, containing a Python extension module, a Makefile, controlling the build process of all compiled files, and a number of Python wrapper files to expose the parser to Pyth...

  • Python 2.4.1 - Release Notes

    ...Python script using the window manager (including Tkinter or wxPython scripts). Most of Mac/Lib has moved to Lib/plat-mac, which is again used both in MacPython-OSX and MacPython-OS9. The only modules remaining in Mac/Lib are specifically for MacPython-OS9 (CFM support, preference resources, etc). A new utility PythonLauncher will start a Python interpreter when a .py or .pyw script is double-clicked in the Finder. By default .py scripts are run with a normal Python interpreter in a Terminal win...

  • Release – Python 3.14.0b3

    Version: None

    Released: June 17, 2025

    It's 3.14 beta 3! https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140b3/ This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b3, is the third of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and …

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  • 2007-02-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...ing Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors February 12, 2007 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 18:12 UTC, 12 February 2007. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1   Attendance 2   Minutes of Past Meetings 3   Status of Past Action Items 3...

  • Computer Programming for Everybody

    ...in1] Jim Hugunin. Python and Java - The best of both worlds. In Proceedings of the 6th International Python Conference, San Jose, Ca., Oct. 1997, pp. 11-20. [Hugunin2] Jim Hugunin. JPython Update. Invited talk, 7th International Python Conference. Houston, Tex., Nov. 1998. PowerPoint slides: http://www.jpython.org/jpython-talk-1.ppt [Jackson] Daniel Jackson and Allison Waingold. Lightweight Extraction of Object Models from Bytecode. In Proceedings of the International Conferen...

  • 2012-12-05 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...ing: Marc-Andre Lemburg, Tim Peters, Brian Curtin, Jessica McKellar, Martin v. Löwis, Andrew Kuchling, Doug Napoleone (joined after all voting), and Steve Holden (joined after all voting). Also in attendance were Kurt Kaiser (Treasurer) and Ewa Jodlowska (Secretary/Administrator). 2   Minutes of Past Meetings The 21 November 2012 Board meeting minutes were voted on and approved. RESOLVED, that we approve the minutes at http://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-board/2012-Novem...

  • Python 2.5 Release

    ...in64-Itanium users (on XP/2003 64-bit Itanium Edition) - Python-2.5.ia64.msi and for Win64 users on AMD64 machines (on XP/2003/Vista x64 Edition) - Python-2.5.amd64.msi. Windows users may also be interested in Mark Hammond's pywin32 package, available from Sourceforge. pywin32 adds a number of Windows-specific extensions to Python, including COM support and the Pythonwin IDE. Users of Mac OS X 10.3 and later can install a universal binary (suitable for both PowerPC and Intel machines) from py...

  • Release – Python 2.5.0

    Version: None

    Released: Sept. 19, 2006

    Python 2.5 was released on September 19th 2006. There's a bunch of places you can look for more information on what's new in this release -- see the "What's New" section further down this page. This is a final release, and should be suitable for production use. …

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  • Python 2.4.4 Release

    ...ine and then run it to find out if your machine supports MSI. Windows XP and later already have MSI; many older machines will already have MSI installed. If your machine lacks Microsoft Installer, you'll have to download it freely from Microsoft for Windows 95, 98 and Me and for Windows NT 4.0 and 2000. Windows users may also be interested in Mark Hammond's pywin32 package, available from Sourceforge. pywin32 adds a number of Windows-specific extensions to Python, including COM support and the P...

  • Release – Python 2.4.4

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 18, 2006

    Python 2.4 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. At least 80 bugs have been squished since Python 2.4.3, including a number of bugs and potential bugs found by with the Coverity and …

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