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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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  • Download Python 1.6.1 Source

    ...OPEN SOURCE GPL-COMPATIBLE LICENSE AGREEMENT IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING AGREEMENT CAREFULLY. BY CLICKING ON "ACCEPT" WHERE INDICATED BELOW, OR BY COPYING, INSTALLING OR OTHERWISE USING PYTHON 1.6.1 SOFTWARE, YOU ARE DEEMED TO HAVE AGREED TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT. 1. This LICENSE AGREEMENT is between the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, having an office at 1895 Preston White Drive, Reston, VA 20191 ("CNRI"), and the Individ...

  • Download Python 1.6.1 Windows Installer

    ...OPEN SOURCE GPL-COMPATIBLE LICENSE AGREEMENT IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING AGREEMENT CAREFULLY. BY CLICKING ON "ACCEPT" WHERE INDICATED BELOW, OR BY COPYING, INSTALLING OR OTHERWISE USING PYTHON 1.6.1 SOFTWARE, YOU ARE DEEMED TO HAVE AGREED TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT. 1. This LICENSE AGREEMENT is between the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, having an office at 1895 Preston White Drive, Reston, VA 20191 ("CNRI"), and the Individ...

  • Python 2.4.1 - Bugs

    ...opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE. The test for the ossaudiodev module hangs on some Red Hat systems. (This test is only run when regrtest.py is invoked with -u audio as argument.) It has been reported that untarring the source tarball using Solaris tar can fa...

  • Bugs in Python 2.4.2

    ...opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE. The test for the ossaudiodev module hangs on some Red Hat systems. (This test is only run when regrtest.py is invoked with -u audio as argument.) It has been reported that untarring the source tarball using Solaris tar can fa...

  • Bugs in Python 2.4.3

    ...opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE. The test for the ossaudiodev module hangs on some Red Hat systems. (This test is only run when regrtest.py is invoked with -u audio as argument.) It has been reported that untarring the source tarball using Solaris tar can fa...

  • Bugs in Python 2.4.4

    ...opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE. The test for the ossaudiodev module hangs on some Red Hat systems. (This test is only run when regrtest.py is invoked with -u audio as argument.) It has been reported that untarring the source tarball using Solaris tar can fa...

  • Bugs in Python 2.4.5

    ...opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE. The test for the ossaudiodev module hangs on some Red Hat systems. (This test is only run when regrtest.py is invoked with -u audio as argument.) It has been reported that untarring the source tarball using Solaris tar can fa...

  • Bugs in Python 2.4.5

    ...opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE. The test for the ossaudiodev module hangs on some Red Hat systems. (This test is only run when regrtest.py is invoked with -u audio as argument.) It has been reported that untarring the source tarball using Solaris tar can fa...

  • Python Software Foundation Press Releases

    ...Open source innovators join ActiveState (ActiveState)

  • Python Success Stories

    ...open source package of supporting modules. Tkinter is included in all standard Python installations. "USA is pleasantly surprised by how much quality software we can deliver," Friedrich says. "And each time we demonstrate success with Python, we add a few more believers to my growing list!" About the Author Dan Shafer is a freelance author and sometime Python coder who hangs out on California's central coast. He is a member of the PythonCard Open Source development team cre...

  • A Journey to Python

    ...open-source one for dealing and selecting bridge hands, one I had developed myself years before for bridge bidding under the uninspiring name of BBL for "Bridge Bidding Language", and more besides) that had grown essentially impossible to maintain and develop yet further, in order to continue my research. So I was looking for the best way to re-code the whole system from scratch. Python offered me THE way to do that. I fell in love, and immediately started making a nuisance of myself ...

  • Release – Python 3.10.0a6

    Version: None

    Released: March 1, 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, 3.10.0a6 is the sixth of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current …

  • comp.lang.python.announce Posting Guidelines

    ...Open Source Definition", and pick one of the licenses mentioned there under "Example Licenses". You should INCLUDE YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS in the body text of your posting or in the trailing .signature block. Please do not sign your announcement with PGP; most people would not know your public PGP key anyway and would get a warning message. Avoid excessive cross-posting. Messages that are cross-posted to several moderated news groups will usually be approved by the moderator of the ...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...open source modules as we could find. The GUI was written with GTK, which is accessed from Python via PyGTK. The source editor is based on Scintilla, an open source code editor component. And printing is implemented via py2pdf from ReportLab. Initial development was on Linux but we planned to support at least Windows and eventually other Unix-like operating systems. For this reason, we avoided platform-specific implementations and chose cross-platform technologies. Additional development tools u...

  • Release – Python 3.11.1

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 6, 2022

    This is the first maintenance release of Python 3.11 Python 3.11.1 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. Major new features of the 3.11 series, compared to 3.10 Some of the new major new features …

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  • Release – Python 3.11.2

    Version: None

    Released: Feb. 8, 2023

    This is the second maintenance release of Python 3.11 Python 3.11.2 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. Major new features of the 3.11 series, compared to 3.10 Some of the new major new features …

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  • Bugs in Python 2.4

    ...opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE. The test for the ossaudiodev module hangs on some Red Hat systems. (This test is only run when regrtest.py is invoked with -u audio as argument.) It has been reported that untarring the source tarball using Solaris tar can fa...

  • Member meeting at OSCON

    ...Open Source Convention</A>, July 22-26 in San Diego. <p>We've reserved a room for the meeting: <br>Location: Marina II <br>Date: Wednesday, July 24 <br>Time: 8:00 - 10:00 pm <P>It is likely that only 8-10 PSF members will show up. This is not sufficient to make quorum without proxies: the quorum is 1/3 of the membership, which given the current is 17. Therefore we hope that many people will send in their proxy forms. <h3&...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (March 8, 2001)

    ...Open Source software. 4. Communications The Foundation needs mailing lists for communicating with members and the public. It also needs a Web site. Action Item: Greg Stein will create mailing lists. Action Item: Greg Stein will set up Web pages. 5. Sponsor discussion The Board directed Hardt to continue seeking out sponsor members. There was a discussion of what freedom he should have to perform branding activities. The Board allowed him to develop the brand, but warned...

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