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  • Release – Python 3.14.0b4

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    Released: July 8, 2025

    It's the final 3.14 beta! https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140b4/ This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b4, is the last of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes …

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  • Release – Python 3.14.0rc2

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    Released: Aug. 14, 2025

    It's the final 🪄 penultimate 🪄 3.14 release candidate! Note: rc2 was originally planned for 2025-08-26, but we fixed a bug that required bumping the magic number stored in Python bytecode (.pyc) files. This means .pyc files created for rc1 cannot be used for rc2, and they'll be …

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  • Release – Python 3.14.0rc3

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    Released: Sept. 18, 2025

    It's 🪄 finally 🪄 the final 3.14 release candidate! Note: It's another magic release. We fixed another bug that required bumping the magic number stored in Python bytecode (.pyc) files. This means file .pyc files created for rc2 cannot be used for rc3, and they'll be recompiled. The …

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  • Release – Python 3.9.17

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    Released: June 6, 2023

    This is a security release of Python 3.9 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.9.17, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.9 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. Security content in this …

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  • Release – Python 2.4.6

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    Released: Dec. 19, 2008

    This release includes just a small number of fixes, primarily preventing crashes of the interpreter in certain boundary cases. This is the last planned release in the Python 2.4 series. We have …

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  • Python 2.4.6 Release

    ...Windows or OS X in this release, nor to update any online documentation, as the overhead for doing so would have greatly outweighed the amount of changes that we release. If you need the security fixes included in this release, please build your own binaries from the sources, or (better) upgrade to a more recent Python release for which we still do provide binaries and documentation updates. See the detailed release notes for more details. For the previous release (2.4.5), we received various re...

  • Python For Beginners

    ...Windows computers (notably those from HP) now come with Python already installed. If you do need to install Python and aren't confident about the task you can find a few notes on the BeginnersGuide/Download wiki page, but installation is unremarkable on most platforms. Learning Before getting started, you may want to find out which IDEs and text editors are tailored to make Python editing easy, browse the list of introductory books, or look at code samples that you might find helpful. There is...

  • Release – Python 3.14.0b2

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    Released: May 26, 2025

    Here's the second 3.14 beta. https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140b2/ This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b2, is the first of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes …

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  • Release – Python 3.0.0

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    Released: Dec. 3, 2008

    Python 3.0 final was released on December 3rd, 2008. Python 3.0 (a.k.a. "Python 3000" or "Py3k") is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x …

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  • Python 3.0 Release

    ...Windows x86 MSI Installer (3.0) (sig) Windows X86-64 MSI Installer (3.0) [1] (sig) MD5 checksums and sizes of the released files: ac1d8aa55bd6d04232cd96abfa445ac4 11191348 Python-3.0.tgz 28021e4c542323b7544aace274a03bed 9474659 Python-3.0.tar.bz2 054131fb1dcaf0bc20b23711d1028099 13421056 python-3.0.amd64.msi 2b85194a040b34088b64a48fa907c0af 13168640 python-3.0.msi Documentation Online Documentation is updated twice a day What's new in Python 3000 Guido van Rossum's current blog G...

  • Release – Python 2.4.5

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    Released: March 11, 2008

    Python 2.4 is now in security-fix-only mode. No new features are being added, and bugs are not fixed anymore unless they affect the stability and security of the interpreter, or of Python …

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  • Python 2.4.5 Release

    ...Windows or OS X in this release, nor to update any online documentation, as the overhead for doing so would have greatly outweighed the amount of changes that we release. If you need the security fixes included in this release, please build your own binaries from the sources, or (better) upgrade to a more recent Python release for which we still do provide binaries and documentation updates. See the detailed release notes for more details. Since the release candidate, we received various reports...

  • Built-in Package Support in Python 1.5

    ...Windows platforms, where the filesystem does not always have accurate information about the case of a filename! On these platforms, there is no guaranteed way to know whether a file ECHO.PY should be imported as a module echo, Echo or ECHO. (For example, Windows 95 has the annoying practice of showing all file names with a capitalized first letter.) The DOS 8+3 filename restriction adds another interesting problem for long module names. The only solution is for the package author to ...

  • What's new in Python 2.3

    ...Windows installer now incorporates SSL support. (New in 2.3a2: timeouts set on the underlying socket are now handled correctly.) Tkinter - now returns Tcl objects instead of strings. Support for Tcl/Tk 8.0 and 8.1 is dropped; support for threaded Tcl/Tk is added, as is support for various Tk 8.4 features. The Windows installer now ships with Tcl/Tk 8.4.3. In 2.3b1, variable wrappers now also pass objects directly to Tcl, instead of converting them to strings. trace - a tool for tracing progr...

  • 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 in this …

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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 in this …

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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 in this …

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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 in this …

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  • Download Python 1.6.1 Windows Installer

    ...Windows Installer Python 1.6.1 CNRI OPEN SOURCE GPL-COMPATIBLE LICENSE AGREEMENT IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING AGREEMENT CAREFULLY. BY CLICKING ON "ACCEPT" WHERE INDICATED BELOW, OR BY COPYING, INSTALLING OR OTHERWISE USING PYTHON 1.6.1 SOFTWARE, YOU ARE DEEMED TO HAVE AGREED TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT. 1. This LICENSE AGREEMENT is between the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, having an office at 1895 Preston White Drive, R...

  • Bugs in Python 2.3.2

    ...Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE.</li> </ul> <a name="build"><h4>Build bugs</h4></a> <p>Some platforms require some tinkering to get a clean build of Python. These bugs were all discovered at a point where it was too late to fit them into 2.3.2. They should hopefully be fixed in a 2.3...

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