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Released: April 15, 2006
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Released: Nov. 30, 2004
We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.4, final on November 30, 2004. This is a final, stable release, and we can recommend that Python users upgrade to this version. Important: This release is vulnerable to the problem described in …
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 …
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 …
Python 2.4 Python 2.4 Python 2.4 has been replaced by a newer bugfix release. Please see the releases page to select a more recent release. We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.4, final on November 30, 2004. This is a final, stable release, and we can recommend that Python users upgrade to this version. 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-...
Python 2.4.1 Python 2.4.1 Python 2.4.1 has been replaced by a newer bugfix release. Please see the releases page to select a more recent release. 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 is included in Python 2.4.4 Note: there's a security fix for SimpleXMLR...
Python 2.4.2 Release Python 2.4.2 Python 2.4.2 has been replaced by a newer bugfix release of Python. Please see the releases page to select a more recent release. 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 builds (UCS-4)". This fix is included in Python 2.4.4 Pyt...
Support the PSF with a Donation or by becoming a Supporting Member! Donate What does the Python Software Foundation do? The Python Software Foundation: Awards grants and provides resources for furthering the development and adoption of Python. Organizes and hosts the annual PyCon US conference. 2019 brought together 3,393 attendees from 55 countries, a new record for PyCon US! Our sponsors’ support enabled us to award $137,200 USD to ...
2011-03-21 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors March 21, 2011 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 21 March 2011. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. Pat Campbell prepared the minutes. All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor â opposed â abstentions; e.g. "5-1-2" mea...
2011-09-19 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors September 19, 2011 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 19 September 2011. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. Pat Campbell prepared the minutes. All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor — opposed — abstentions; e.g. "5-1-2&q...
Python Software Foundation: Minutes of the 1st Meeting of Board of Directors The Python Software Foundation Minutes of the 1st Meeting of Board of Directors The Board of Directors of the Python Software Foundation (the "Corporation") held its first meeting on March 5, 2001 at the Hilton Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif. The directors attending were: Paul Everitt Greg Stein No directors were absent. On motion and by unanimous vote, Greg Stein was elected temporary Chairperson ...
Released: Feb. 21, 2008
Python 2.5.2 was released on February 21st, 2008. This is the second bugfix release of Python 2.5. Python 2.5 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. According to the release notes, over 100 bugs and patches have been addressed since Python 2.5.1, many …
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. …
Released: Dec. 19, 2008
Python 2.5.3 was released on December 19th, 2008. This is the last bugfix release of Python 2.5. Python 2.5 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. According to the release notes, about 80 bugs and patches have been addressed since Python 2.5.2, many …
Released: April 19, 2007
Python 2.5.1 was released on April 18th, 2007. This is the first bugfix release of Python 2.5. Python 2.5 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. According to the release notes, over 150 bugs and patches have been squished since Python 2.5, including …
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 …
Released: Dec. 23, 2008
This is the last bugfix release of Python 2.5. Future releases of Python 2.5 will only contain security patches; no new features are being added, and no "regular" bugs will be fixed anymore. According …
Python Success Stories Introduction ForecastWatch.com, a service of Intellovations, is in the business of rating the accuracy of weather reports from companies such as Accuweather, MyForecast.com, and The Weather Channel. Over 36,000 weather forecasts are collected every day for over 800 U.S. cities, and later compared with actual climatological data. These comparisons are used by meteorologists to improve their weather forecasts, and to compare their forecasts with others. They are also used...
Python Success Stories Introduction The GravityZoo Company, founded in late 2005 is a pioneering innovator of Software as a Service (SaaS) enabling technology, Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence Systems. The core technology of the Company is its framework. This GravityZoo Framework is designed to develop and host any kind of application while simultaneously making these applications available at anytime, anyplace. The latter on any type of client device, be it a PC, a mobile client...
Python Success Stories Introduction This is the story of Python at the Philips semiconductor manufacturing facility in Fishkill, NY. This facility, originally built by IBM, was acquired by Philips in 2000. I have been involved with this facility on and off for the past twelve years and was responsible for redesigning substantial portions of the factory tool control software using Python. In the early 1990s, the factory adopted an automation strategy based around Asyst Technology's tool loader...
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