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  • What's New In Python 3.0

    ...build failure of _cursesmodule.c building with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2. Library Issue #4387: binascii now refuses to accept str as binary input. Issue #4073: Add 2to3 support to build_scripts, refactor that support in build_py. IDLE would print a "Unhandled server exception!" message when internal debugging is enabled. Issue #4455: IDLE failed to display the windows list when two windows have the same title. Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an excepti...

  • Job - Senior Back-End Python Engineer - FULLY REMOTE-WORLDWIDE

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    This is a FULLY REMOTE-WORLDWIDE position As a senior software engineer, you'll join a team tackling genuinely hard problems: distributed data processing at enterprise scale, complex deduplication algorithms, and systems that need to handle billions of records without breaking. The kind of challenges that require actual engineering thinking, not …

  • Job - Senior Back-End Python Engineer - FULLY REMOTE-WORLDWIDE

    Location: REMOTE REMOTE

    This is a FULLY REMOTE-WORLDWIDE position ActivePrime is a Silicon Valley Tech company As a senior software engineer, you'll join a team tackling genuinely hard problems: distributed data processing at enterprise scale, complex deduplication algorithms, and systems that need to handle billions of records without breaking. The kind …

  • Web SIG

    ...build a checklist based on looking at some client-side tool like curl, then add the ability to do everything in that checklist to Python's "httplib" module. Additional API sugar could also be added, probably in a new module. HTML and XML parsing are pretty solid, but a critical lack on the client side is the lack of a CSS parser. On the server side, things are a bit more dire. The stdlib contains three web server modules, BaseHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer, and CGIHTTPServer, none of ...

  • Release – Python 2.2.0

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 21, 2001

    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 …

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  • Release – Python 3.7.0b1

    Version: None

    Released: Jan. 31, 2018

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.7 Python 3.7 is still in development. This release, 3.7.0b1, is the first of four planned beta release previews. Among the major new features in Python 3.7 are: PEP 538, Coercing the legacy C locale to a UTF-8 …

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  • Release – Python 3.7.0b2

    Version: None

    Released: Feb. 28, 2018

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.7 Python 3.7 is still in development. This release, 3.7.0b2, is the second of four planned beta release previews. Among the major new features in Python 3.7 are: PEP 538, Coercing the legacy C locale to a UTF-8 …

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  • Release – Python 3.6.5

    Version: None

    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 3.6.6

    Version: None

    Released: June 27, 2018

    Note: The release you are looking at is Python 3.6.6, 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 3.6.7

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 20, 2018

    Note: The release you are looking at is Python 3.6.7, 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 3.6.8rc1

    Version: None

    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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  • Release – Python 3.6.8

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 24, 2018

    Note: The release you are looking at is Python 3.6.8, the final 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 …

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  • Release – Python 3.7.2

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 24, 2018

    Note: The release you are looking at is a bugfix release for the legacy 3.7 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 3.7 was 3.7.17. Among the …

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  • Release – Python 3.5.9

    Version: None

    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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  • About

    ...Build your own web server in three lines of code. Build flexible data-driven code using Python's powerful and dynamic introspection capabilities and advanced language features such as meta-classes, duck typing and decorators. Python lets you write the code you need, quickly. And, thanks to a highly optimized byte compiler and support libraries, Python code runs more than fast enough for most applications. The traditional implementation of CPython uses a bytecode virtual machine; PyPy supports ju...

  • Python 2.2

    Python 2.2 Python 2.2 Note: See Python 2.2.3 for a patch release which supersedes 2.2. 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 security advisory page. We are extremely pleased to announce the relea...

  • Python 2.3.7 Release

    ...build on current operating systems, in particular on OS X. We have made no attempt to fix these problems, as the release is targeted for systems that were current at the time Python 2.3 was originally released. For more recent systems, you might have to come up with work-arounds. For OS X in particular, try invoking: ./configure MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5 Please see the separate bugs page for known issues and the bug reporting procedure. See also the license Download the release As noted,...

  • Executive Summary: The Python Software Foundation

    ...build system, called Pyramid, was however found to be slow, complicated, and hard to install. This made it difficult for volunteers to be able to get started with maintaining the site. Some improvements were made, but ultimately Pyramid was replaced with a much simpler and faster build system that is custom-designed for python.org. Despite these initial problems with the build software, this project was a success. The look of the site has been improved and moving to a CSS based design and unifor...

  • Archive 2018: Executive Summary: The Python Software Foundation

    ...build system, called Pyramid, was however found to be slow, complicated, and hard to install. This made it difficult for volunteers to be able to get started with maintaining the site. Some improvements were made, but ultimately Pyramid was replaced with a much simpler and faster build system that is custom-designed for python.org. Despite these initial problems with the build software, this project was a success. The look of the site has been improved and moving to a CSS based design and unifor...

  • Release – Python 3.7.7

    Version: None

    Released: March 10, 2020

    Note: The release you are looking at is a bugfix release for the legacy 3.7 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 3.7 was 3.7.17. The Python …

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