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  • Python Success Stories

    ...Chapel Hill to study Classics. Morris works at the Ancient World Mapping Center (AWMC), a foundation to advance the field of ancient studies with the use of cartography and geographic information science. Morris, who has been blind since an early age, has faced the denial of access to information critical to his choice of study for the majority of his life. With his work at the AWMC he vowed to create a solution. Morris' chance meeting with Gary Bishop, Associate Professor of Computer Science, s...

  • Python 2.5 Release

    ...ckage, available from Sourceforge. pywin32 adds a number of Windows-specific extensions to Python, including COM support and the Pythonwin IDE. Users of Mac OS X 10.3 and later can install a universal binary (suitable for both PowerPC and Intel machines) from python-2.5-macosx.dmg . Download to the desktop and open the .dmg file to install. All others should download either python-2.5.tgz or python-2.5.tar.bz2, the source archive. The tar.bz2 is considerably smaller, so get that one if your ...

  • Release – Python 2.5.0

    Version: None

    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. …

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  • Python 1.6

    ...cmp - supersedes the old cmp.py and dircmp.py modules. tabnanny - check Python sources for tab-width dependance. (Moved from Tools/scripts/.) urllib2 - new and improved but incompatible version of urllib (still experimental). zipfile - read and write zip archives. codecs - support for Unicode encoders/decoders. unicodedata - provides access to the Unicode 3.0 database. _winreg - Windows registry access. encodings - package which provides a large set of standard codecs -- ...

  • Python 2.1.3

    ...ce tarball. You can download Python-2.1.3.tgz, from one of the download locations below, and do the usual "gunzip; tar; configure; make" dance. Download locations Python.org: HTTP. MD5 checksums a8b04cdc822a6fc833ed9b99c7fba589 Python-2.1.3.tgz (6194432 bytes) fc8020b2be17c098b69368543c5589a9 Python-2.1.3.exe (6418289 bytes) 9ae1d572cbd2bfd4e0c4b92ac11387c6 UNWISE.EXE (162304 bytes) Documentation The documentation has been updated too. You can: ...

  • Python 2.2.2

    ...collection of Windows-specific extensions including COM support and Pythonwin, an IDE built using Windows components. Linux users may find source and some binary RPMs on the RPM page. Debian packages are available directly from the Debian project, under interpreters (new releases initially appear in unstable). Macintosh users can find binaries and source on Jack Jansen's MacPython page. (MacOS X users who have a C compiler can also build from the source tarball below.) All oth...

  • Release – Python 2.1.3

    Version: None

    Released: April 9, 2002

    Note: This is not the most current Python version. See the download page for a more recent version. On April 8 2002, we're releasing Python 2.1.3 - a bugfix release of Python 2.1. This release has a small number of critical bug fixes. This is the final release of …

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  • 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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  • Release – Python 3.13.0a3

    Version: None

    Released: Jan. 17, 2024

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.13 Major new features of the 3.13 series, compared to 3.12 Python 3.13 is still in development. This release, 3.13.0a3, is the third of six planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of …

  • Mission

    ...c charities and with Python's standing as an open source project. For example, the PSF may offer to sell conference proceedings, special Python distributions, or merchandise with distinctive insignia. Publicizes, promotes the adoption of, and facilitates the ongoing development of Python-related technology and educational resources. This includes, but is not limited to, maintaining a public web site, planning Python conferences, and offering grants to Python-related open source projects. Encoura...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (June 11, 2002)

    ...cI and AB Strakt: Progress report of 501(c)(3) application. Statistics/progress regarding (sponsor) membership applications Income and how to spend it Future Python conferences 5. Conference committee Jeremy proposed a comittee to deal with the planning of official Python conferences, to allow for coordination between them. David offers to chair the committee and wil start preparing its formation. 6. Next board meeting Guido is on vacation from ...

  • Parade of the PEPs

    ...ch 28, 2002: My previous comments were based on several misunderstandings. (E.g. slices in the new Numeric acts the same as in the old version, and don't make copies as I mistakenly thought.) Quoting Perry Greenfield: [...] the new version is becoming more and more backward- compatible. In fact, the major differences that remain are: difference coercion rules when scalars are combined with arrays. At the scientific Python BoF, there was consensus that this change was a ...

  • Release – Python 3.5.0a2

    Version: None

    Released: March 9, 2015

    Python 3.5.0a2 Python 3.5 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.5.10, the final release of the 3.5 series, is available here. Python 3.5.0a2 was released on March 9th, 2015. Major new features of the 3.5 series, compared to 3.4 Python 3.5 is still in development, and 3.5.0a1 is the second alpha release. …

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  • Release – Python 3.5.0a3

    Version: None

    Released: March 30, 2015

    Python 3.5.0a3 Python 3.5 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.5.10, the final release of the 3.5 series, is available here. Python 3.5.0a3 was released on March 30th, 2015. Major new features of the 3.5 series, compared to 3.4 Python 3.5 is still in development, and 3.5.0a1 is the second alpha release. …

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  • Release – Python 3.12.0a7

    Version: None

    Released: April 4, 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, 3.12.0a7 is the seventh and final alpha release of 3.12. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current …

  • Release – Python 3.13.0a4

    Version: None

    Released: Feb. 15, 2024

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.13 Major new features of the 3.13 series, compared to 3.12 Python 3.13 is still in development. This release, 3.13.0a4, is the fourth of six planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of …

  • Contributing to the PSF

    ...Contributor Agreement form hosted here is manually reviewed which takes time to process. Contributor Agreements Procedures The PSF is now asking all past and future contributors to sign a Contributor Agreement. With these forms, contributors formally license their contribution to the PSF, under an open source license (the "Initial License"). Currently, we accept contributions under the following initial licenses: Academic Free License v. 3.0 Apache License, Version 2.0 This...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (May 11, 2004)

    ...and PSC reports were emailed. Martin reported that the Grant committee has created a mailing list, and had some discussions, but had not made any decision, yet. He also reported that we are still working with Larry Rosen on the contrib forms, but have not made any progress recently. Tim reports no progress on the changes to the bylaws. 4. Change of Principal Office and Headquarters Stephan moved that it is RESOLVED, that the principal office and official headquarters of the PSF shall be...

  • What's new in Python 2.3

    ...cial mode "U" (instead of "r") translate all three commonly found line ending conventions (n, r, rn) into Python's standard n convention. Contributed by Jack Jansen. (PEP 278) Encoding declarations - you can put a comment of the form "# -- coding: <encodingname> --" in the first or second line of a Python source file to indicate the encoding (e.g. utf-8). (PEP 263 phase 1) Codec error handling callbacks - this allows for flexible handling of encoding errors...

  • Release – Python 3.12.0b3

    Version: None

    Released: June 19, 2023

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.12 Python 3.12 is still in development. This release, 3.12.0b3, is the third of four beta release previews of 3.12. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their …

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