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  • Release – Python 2.3.6

    Version: None

    Released: Nov. 1, 2006

    Python 2.3 is now well and truly in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added, and only security critical bugs have been fixed. There are 3 bugs fixed in this release - a problem with the …

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  • Release – Python 3.7.6rc1

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 11, 2019

    Note Python 3.8 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.8.x here. We plan to continue to provide bugfix releases for 3.7.x until mid 2020 and security fixes until mid 2023. Python 3.7.6rc1 is the release candidate preview of the sixth …

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  • Bugs in Python 2.3.1

    ...file and test_popen fail on Windows if Python is installed to a path with a space in the name. This failure is only in the test suite. <li>test_tempfile may fail on HP/UX if your maximum number of filedescriptors is low (it appears to be 60 by default). <li>When running the tests in random order (regrtest.py -r) test_mimetypes may fail. This is a fault in the test suite, the library code itself is fine. </ul> </ul> <p>To report a bug not listed above, always check...

  • Python 2.3.6 Release

    ...file in the source distribution. This is a very short list - only security fixes have been included. For the full list of changes, you can poke around in Subversion. Documentation The documentation for 2.3.5 is still current for this release. Browse HTML on-line Download using HTTP. Files, MD5 checksums, signatures and sizes 357c79f9c914b671c9401f70853ebf3b Python-2.3.6.tgz (8610359 bytes, signature) 1bd475e69e20481c6301853eef7018f1 Python-2.3.6.tar.bz2 (7350182 bytes, signature) The si...

  • Python 2.3.7 Release

    ...file in the source distribution. This is a very short list - only security fixes have been included. For the full list of changes, you can poke around in Subversion. Documentation The documentation for 2.3.5 is still current for this release. Browse HTML on-line Download using HTTP. Files, MD5 checksums, signatures and sizes 0b4861edfaa6d8451458d5d7ed735e4a Python-2.3.7.tgz (8694077 bytes, signature) fa73476c5214c57d0751fae527f991e1 Python-2.3.7.tar.bz2 (7352771 bytes, signature) The si...

  • Python 2.4.5 Release

    ...file in the source distribution. For the full list of changes, you can poke around in Subversion. Documentation The documentation has also been updated: Browse HTML on-line Download using HTTP. Documentation is available in Windows Help (.chm) format - python24.chm. Files, MD5 checksums, signatures and sizes 750b652bfdd12675e102bbe25e5e9893 Python-2.4.5.tgz (9625509 bytes, signature) aade3958cb097cc1c69ae0074297d359 Python-2.4.5.tar.bz2 (8159705 bytes, signature) The signatures above we...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (Mar. 12, 2002)

    ...file its US taxes over 2001. Guido has an outstanding query at his own accountant, but hasn't heard back yet. David notes Kevin Jacobs offered his [company's] services, and that Kevin does a lot of accounting, including for non-profit companies. Jeremy and Guido will contact Kevin or otherwise find an accountant to handle the taxes. International charity status Thomas notes Dutch tax laws seem to recognize only Dutch institutions as (possible) charities for reaso...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...files from the user's GUI actions, but editing them was a much harder problem. Or, rather, reading them into an editable form was a problem. The parser for fetchmail's configuration file syntax is rather elaborate. It's actually written in YACC and Lex, two classic UNIX tools for generating language-parsing code in C. In order for fetchmailconf to be able to edit existing configuration files, I thought it would have to replicate that elaborate parser in Python. I was very reluctant to do this, p...

  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.2.3

    ...files. <li />A) Yes, there's a problem with the .spec file in the base tar file. Use the SRPM that is on this page. System Message: WARNING/2 (<string>, line 119) Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. <hr /> <li />Q) When running "rpm -ba", "rpm -ta" or "rpm --rebuild" I get the error "-ba: unknown option" or "--rebuild: unknown option" or "-ta: unknown option". <li />A) With t...

  • Release – Python 2.2.2

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 14, 2002

    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 and Python 2.5. If you need to remain with Python 2.2, there's a patch available from the …

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  • Python 2.2.2

    ...file in the source distribution. For the full list of changes, you can poke around CVS. Other sources of information on 2.2 Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2 by Guido van Rossum -- a tutorial on the material covered by PEPs 252 and 253. What's New in Python 2.2 by Andrew Kuchling describes the most visible changes since Python 2.1. Guido gave a talk on what's new in 2.2 at the ZPUG-DC meeting on September 26, 2001; here are his powerpoint slides. Charming Python...

  • Bugs in Python 2.3.5

    ...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 775964 and 779218. There have been some reports on Debian systems about test_ioctl failures. We haven't be able to more widely reproduce this. See SourceForge bug report number 777867 There have been reports that test_bsddb may fail on some systems. This appears to be a fault in the test suite - we believe that this is now f...

  • Bugs in Python 2.3.6

    ...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 775964 and 779218. There have been some reports on Debian systems about test_ioctl failures. We haven't be able to more widely reproduce this. See SourceForge bug report number 777867 There have been reports that test_bsddb may fail on some systems. This appears to be a fault in the test suite - we believe that this is now f...

  • Bugs in Python 2.3.7

    ...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 775964 and 779218. There have been some reports on Debian systems about test_ioctl failures. We haven't be able to more widely reproduce this. See SourceForge bug report number 777867 There have been reports that test_bsddb may fail on some systems. This appears to be a fault in the test suite - we believe that this is now f...

  • Release – Python 2.5.2

    Version: None

    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 …

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  • Release – Python 2.5.3

    Version: None

    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 …

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  • Release – Python 2.5.1

    Version: None

    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 …

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  • 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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  • Release – Python 2.5.4

    Version: None

    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 …

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  • Python 2.4.3 Release

    ...file in the source distribution. For the full list of changes, you can poke around in Subversion. Documentation The documentation has also been updated: Browse HTML on-line Download using HTTP. Documentation is available in Windows Help (.chm) format - python24.chm. Files, MD5 checksums, signatures and sizes edf994473a8c1a963aaa71e442b285b7 Python-2.4.3.tgz (9348239 bytes, signature) 141c683447d5e76be1d2bd4829574f02 Python-2.4.3.tar.bz2 (8005915 bytes, signature) ab946459d7cfba4a8500f9ff...

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