Notice: While JavaScript is not essential for this website, your interaction with the content will be limited. Please turn JavaScript on for the full experience.
Details on the types vs. classes dichotomy Details on the types vs. classes dichotomy coming soon...
Conferences and Workshops Conference Listings There are quite a number of Python conferences happening all year around and in many parts of the world. Many of them are taking place yearly or even more frequent: Python Conferences List on the Python Wiki -- this is the main and most complete list of conferences around the world Subsets of this list are also available on other sites: pycon.org -- lists a subset of mostly national Python conferences PyData -- listings of Python conferences sp...
Python Developer's Guide Python's Developer Guide can be found at https://devguide.python.org/. The pieces of documentation hosted here are: PEPs (Python Enhancement Proposals) Buildbots Python.org Maintenance and Administration
Python Buildbot The Python development team builds and tests on many machines, architectures and configurations. These variations are divided into two categories: stable and unstable. The stable versions are the primary platforms that should always have all tests passing. We manage all our main branches for stability. We strive to keep all configurations passing all tests, but sometimes we require specialized expertise to fix problems. If you can help fix problems on an unstable platform, ...
Python.org Maintenance and Administration Warning This document is outdated. Please visit https://pythondotorg.readthedocs.io/ for up-to-date information about maintaining python.org. Python.org Maintenance and Administration This document is incomplete; we're updating it as questions come up. If you have questions, try the webmaster alias first, then pydotorg-www if you don't get a response. Getting Started To learn how to maintain the Python.org website, please read the Python.org Websi...
None Some portions of the Python.org website are made available in multiple languages thanks the volunteered efforts of translators. This document identifies those portions of the site and describes how translators can contribute. List of Translated Portions The following portions of the site currently contain translated material: Python Frequently Asked Questions Additional portions of the site may be offered in translation should contributors step forward and are willing to maintain tran...
Python.org Website Maintenance If you wish to volunteer to help maintain the Python.org website, you can find installation guide at https://pythondotorg.readthedocs.org/.
Python 2.4.4 Documentation Download all these documents (Many formats are available, including typeset versions for printing.) Locate previous versions What's New in Python 2.4 (changes since previous major release) Tutorial (start here) Global Module Index (for quick access to all modules) Library Reference (keep this under your pillow) Macintosh Library Modules (this too, if you use a Macintosh) Language Reference (for language lawyers) Extending and Embedding (tutori...
Download Python 2.4.4 Documentation To download an archive containing all the documents for this version of Python in one of various formats, follow one of links in this table. The 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 conta...
Python 2.5 Documentation Download all these documents (Many formats are available, including typeset versions for printing.) Locate previous versions What's New in Python 2.5 (changes since previous major release) Tutorial (start here) Global Module Index (for quick access to all modules) Library Reference (keep this under your pillow) Macintosh Library Modules (this too, if you use a Macintosh) Language Reference (for language lawyers) Extending and Embedding (tutorial...
Download Python 2.5 Documentation To download an archive containing all the documents for this version of Python in one of various formats, follow one of links in this table. The 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 documen...
Python 2.5.2 Documentation Download all these documents (Many formats are available, including typeset versions for printing.) Locate previous versions What's New in Python 2.5 (changes since previous major release) Tutorial (start here) Global Module Index (for quick access to all modules) Library Reference (keep this under your pillow) Macintosh Library Modules (this too, if you use a Macintosh) Language Reference (for language lawyers) Extending and Embedding (tutori...
Download Python 2.5.2 Documentation To download an archive containing all the documents for this version of Python in one of various formats, follow one of links in this table. The 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'...
Python 2.5.3 Documentation Download all these documents (Many formats are available, including typeset versions for printing.) Locate previous versions What's New in Python 2.5 (changes since previous major release) Tutorial (start here) Global Module Index (for quick access to all modules) Library Reference (keep this under your pillow) Macintosh Library Modules (this too, if you use a Macintosh) Language Reference (for language lawyers) Extending and Embedding (tutori...
Download Python 2.5.3 Documentation To download an archive containing all the documents for this version of Python in one of various formats, follow one of links in this table. The 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 Contents These archives contain the following documents: What's New in Python 2...
Python 2.5.4 Documentation Download all these documents (Many formats are available, including typeset versions for printing.) Locate previous versions What's New in Python 2.5 (changes since previous major release) Tutorial (start here) Global Module Index (for quick access to all modules) Library Reference (keep this under your pillow) Macintosh Library Modules (this too, if you use a Macintosh) Language Reference (for language lawyers) Extending and Embedding (tutori...
Download Python 2.5.4 Documentation To download an archive containing all the documents for this version of Python in one of various formats, follow one of links in this table. The 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 Contents These archives contain the following documents: What's New in Python 2...
Python Copyright Python Copyright Historical note: This page describes the Python license used for Python versions up to and including Python 1.6a2. CNRI released Python 1.6b1 and the final Python 1.6 release under a different license, which is open source compliant, but not compatible with the GPL (the only incompatibility being the inclusion of a choice-of-law clause). More recent PSF releases, in particular 2.0.1, 2.1.1, and all releases since then, are GPL-compatible. Most P...
Python Documentation Index Python Essays In this directory I place short essays (anything from 500 to 5000 words) on various Python subjects. See also a collection of presentations I have given. See also my blog at blogspot.com and my previous blog at artima.com. --Guido van Rossum Table of contents (in mostly chronological order) Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2 (See below) Foreword for "Programming Python" (1st ed.) Written in 1996, this gives an overview of the earl...
What is Python? Executive Summary What is Python? Executive Summary Python is an interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming language with dynamic semantics. Its high-level built in data structures, combined with dynamic typing and dynamic binding, make it very attractive for Rapid Application Development, as well as for use as a scripting or glue language to connect existing components together. Python's simple, easy to learn syntax emphasizes readability and therefore r...
If you didn't find what you need, try your search in the Python language documentation.