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  • Release – Python 3.6.0rc1

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    Released: Dec. 6, 2016

    Python 3.6.0rc1 Python 3.6.0rc1 was released on 2016-12-06. 3.6.0rc1 is the first release candidate for the 3.6.0 release. Code for 3.6.0 is now frozen. Assuming no release critical problems are found prior to the 3.6.0 final release date, currently 2016-12-16, the 3.6.0 final release will be the …

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  • Release – Python 3.6.0rc2

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    Released: Dec. 16, 2016

    Python 3.6.0rc2 Python 3.6.0rc2 was released on 2016-12-16. 3.6.0rc2 is the second release candidate for the 3.6.0 release. Code for 3.6.0 is now frozen. Assuming no release critical problems are found prior to the 3.6.0 final release date, currently 2016-12-23, the 3.6.0 final release will be the …

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  • Python 2.3.6 Release

    ...Python-2.3.6.tgz (or bzcat Python-2.3.6.tar.bz2 | tar -xf -). Change to the Python-2.3.6 directory and run the "./configure", "make", "make install" commands to compile and install Python. The source archive is also suitable for Windows users who feel the need to build their own version. What's New? See the highlights of the Python 2.3 release. Andrew Kuchling's What's New in Python 2.3 describes the most visible changes since Python 2.2 in more detail. A detaile...

  • Python 2.3.7 Release

    ...Python-2.3.7.tgz (or bzcat Python-2.3.7.tar.bz2 | tar -xf -). Change to the Python-2.3.7 directory and run the "./configure", "make", "make install" commands to compile and install Python. The source archive is also suitable for Windows users who feel the need to build their own version. What's New? See the highlights of the Python 2.3 release. Andrew Kuchling's What's New in Python 2.3 describes the most visible changes since Python 2.2 in more detail. A detaile...

  • Release – Python 2.3.6

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    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 email package's handling of RFC2231 headers, the unicode repr() fix for PSF-2006-01, …

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  • Release – Python 3.9.20

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    Released: Sept. 6, 2024

    This is a security release of Python 3.9 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.9.20, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.9 series. Python 3.12 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.12.x here. Security content …

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  • Release – Python 3.8.20

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    Released: Sept. 6, 2024

    This is a security release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.20, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.12 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.12.x here. Security content …

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  • Release – Python 3.10.15

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    Released: Sept. 7, 2024

    This is a security release of Python 3.10 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.10.15, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.10 series. Python 3.12 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.12.x here. Security content …

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  • Release – Python 3.11.10

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    Released: Sept. 7, 2024

    This is a security release of Python 3.11 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.11.10, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.11 series. Python 3.12 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.12.x here. Security content …

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  • Release – Python 3.12.0a5

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    Released: Feb. 7, 2023

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.12. Major new features of the 3.12 series, compared to 3.11 Python 3.12 is still in development. This release, 3.12.0a5 is the fifth of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test …

  • Release – Python 3.13.5

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    Released: June 11, 2025

    This is the fifth maintenance release of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations compared to Python 3.12. 3.13.5 is the fifth maintenance release of 3.13. 3.13.5 is an expedited release to fix …

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  • Release – Python 3.5.9

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    Released: Nov. 2, 2019

    Python 3.5.9 Python 3.5 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.5.10, the final release of the 3.5 series, is available here. Python 3.5.9 was released on November 1st, 2019. There were no new changes in version 3.5.9; 3.5.9 was released only because of a CDN caching problem, …

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  • Python Success Stories

    ...Python-driven. To the user, it presents itself as a pure Python library. The C code in MMTK was written from scratch in the form of Python extension modules that only handle the few time-critical aspects: evaluation of interaction energies, and long-running iterative algorithms such as energy minimization and Molecular Dynamics, which run without any Python-related overhead. Extensive use is made of Numerical Python, LAPACK, and the netCDF library. MMTK provides multi-threading support for share...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (March 11, 2003)

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (March 11, 2003) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors March 11, 2003 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 7 p.m. EST. Guido van Rossum, president of the Foundation and chairman of the Board, presided at the meeting. 1. Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were present at ...

  • Release – Python 3.6.8rc1

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    Released: Dec. 11, 2018

    Python 3.6.8rc1 is a release candidate preview of the eighth and last maintenance release of Python 3.6. The Python 3.6 series contains many new features and optimizations. Note Python 3.7 is now released and is the latest feature release of Python 3. Get the latest release of …

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  • Python 2.3.5

    ...Python 2.4.4 and Python 2.5. If you need to remain with Python 2.3, there's a patch available from the security advisory page. Python 2.3.5 supersedes the previous Python 2.3.4 release. No new features have been added in Python 2.3.5 -- the 2.3 series is in bugfix-only mode. 2.3.5 contains an important security fix for SimpleXMLRPCServer - see the advisory (PSF-2005-001) for more. Python 2.3.5 is the last planned release in the Python 2.3 series, and is being rele...

  • Release – Python 3.6.5

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    Released: March 28, 2018

    Note: The release you are looking at is Python 3.6.5, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.6 series which has now reached end-of-life and is no longer supported. See the downloads page for currently supported versions of Python. The final source-only security fix release for 3.6 was 3.6.15 and …

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  • Release – Python 2.3.5

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    Released: Feb. 8, 2005

    Python 2.3.5 (final) on Feb 8th, 2005. This is a bug-fix release for Python 2.3. There have been around 50 bugs fixed since 2.3.4 - in the Python interpreter, the standard library and also in the build process - see the release notes for details. Important: This release …

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  • Comparing Python to Other Languages

    ...Python; Python can also be used to prototype components until their design can be "hardened" in a Java implementation. To support this type of development, a Python implementation written in Java is under development, which allows calling Python code from Java and vice versa. In this implementation, Python source code is translated to Java bytecode (with help from a run-time library to support Python's dynamic semantics). Javascript Python's "object-based" subset is roughly equivalen...

  • Foreword for "Programming Python" (2nd ed.)

    ...Python" (2nd ed.) Foreword for "Programming Python" (2nd ed.) This is the foreword I wrote for Mark Lutz' book "Programming Python" (2nd ed.), published by O'Reilly in 2001. Less than five years ago, I wrote the foreword for the 1st edition of Programming Python. Since then, the book has changed about as much as the language and the Python community! I no longer feel the need to defend Python: the statistics and developments listed in Mark's Preface speak for themselves. ...

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