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  • Release – Python 2.4.5

    Version: None

    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 applications. This release includes just a small number of fixes, primarily preventing crashes of the interpreter in …

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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 …

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  • Release – Python 3.8.20

    Version: None

    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

    Version: None

    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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  • 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...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Windows platforms (and can be easily ported to other Unix systems), the client runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Application Server Components The Applications Server components are the core of the application development and supervisory control platform for the Devil Framework product line. They provide a unified environment for data collection, data historization, communication, process automation and applications deployment and integration. Application Server component architecture Zoom...

  • Release – Python 3.10.0

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    Released: Oct. 4, 2021

    This is the stable release of Python 3.10.0 Python 3.10.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. Major new features of the 3.10 series, compared to 3.9 Among the new major new features and changes …

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  • Notes

    ...Windows installer includes documentation in HTMLHelp format instead of single HTML pages. What's New in Python 2.3 final? Release date: 29-Jul-2003 IDLE Bug 778400: IDLE hangs when selecting "Edit with IDLE" from explorer. This was unique to Windows, and was fixed by adding an -n switch to the command the Windows installer creates to execute "Edit with IDLE" context-menu actions. IDLE displays a new message upon startup: some "personal firewall" kinds of pro...

  • Release – Python 3.13.1

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    Released: Dec. 3, 2024

    This is the first 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. 3.13.1 is the latest maintenance release, containing almost 400 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since …

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  • Release – Python 3.12.13

    Version: None

    Released: March 3, 2026

    This is a security release of Python 3.12 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.12.13, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.12 series. Python 3.14 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.14.x here. Security content …

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  • Download Python 1.6 Windows Installer

    ...Windows Installer <h2>Python 1.6</h2> <p>CNRI OPEN SOURCE LICENSE AGREEMENT</p> </center> <br><br> <p>IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING AGREEMENT CAREFULLY.</p> <p>BY CLICKING ON "ACCEPT" WHERE INDICATED BELOW, OR BY COPYING, INSTALLING OR OTHERWISE USING PYTHON 1.6 SOFTWARE, YOU ARE DEEMED TO HAVE AGREED TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT.</p> <p>1. This LICENSE AGREEMENT is between the Cor...

  • Release – Python 3.6.10rc1

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    Released: Dec. 11, 2019

    Note Python 3.8 is now released and is the latest feature release of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.8.x here. Python 3.6.10rc1 is the release candidate preview of the next security fix release of Python 3.6. Python 3.6.8 was the final bugfix release for …

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  • Notes

    ...Windows build of Python now ships with zlib-1.1.4. Windows The installer now installs Start menu shortcuts under (the local equivalent of) "All Users" when doing an Admin install. If you do what it takes to compile SSL support for Windows, a bug in httplib.py prevented SSL from working correctly. That bug has been fixed, but note that SSL support on Windows is still not enabled in this release. What's New in Python 2.1.2 (final)? Changes in metadata: Fixed the version numbers in...

  • Release – Python 3.11.15

    Version: None

    Released: March 3, 2026

    This is a security release of Python 3.11 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.11.15, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.11 series. Python 3.14 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.14.x here. Security content …

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  • Release – Python 3.10.20

    Version: None

    Released: March 3, 2026

    This is a security release of Python 3.10 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.10.20, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.10 series. Python 3.14 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.14.x here. Security content …

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