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  • Release – Python 3.6.9rc1

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    Released: June 18, 2019

    Python 3.6.9rc1 is a release candidate preview of the latest security fix release of Python 3.6. Note Python 3.7 is now released and is the latest feature release of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.7.x here. Python 3.6.8 was the final bugfix release for …

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  • Download Python for other platforms

    Download Python for other platforms Python has been ported to a number of specialized and/or older platforms, listed below in alphabetical order. Note that these ports often lag well behind the latest Python release. Python for AIX AIX binary packages for Python are available from IBM AIX Toolbox in RPM format. They can be installed using dnf package manager. Visit the Get Started page for more details. Python for HP-UX You can purchase ActivePython (commercial and community versions, in...

  • Bugs in Python 2.3.1

    ...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> <li>The test for the ossaudiodev module hangs on some Red Hat systems. (This test is only run when regrtest.py is invoked with <code>-u audio</code> as argument.)</li> <li>It has been reported that untarring the source tarball using Solaris tar can fail. This ...

  • Release – Python 2.5.5

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    Released: Jan. 31, 2010

    This is a source-only release that only includes security fixes. The last full bug-fix release of Python 2.5 was Python 2.5.4. User are encouraged to upgrade to the latest release of Python 2.7 (which is 2.7.2 at this point). This releases fixes issues with the logging, tarfile …

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  • Python 2.4.1 - Release Notes

    ...Windows The Windows installer ships with Tcl/Tk 8.4.3 (upgraded from 8.4.1). The installer always suggested that Python be installed on the C: drive, due to a hardcoded "C:" generated by the Wise installation wizard. People with machines where C: is not the system drive usually want Python installed on whichever drive is their system drive instead. We removed the hardcoded "C:", and two testers on machines where C: is not the system drive report that the installer now sugg...

  • Release – Python 2.5.6

    Version: None

    Released: May 26, 2011

    This is a source-only release that only includes security fixes. The last full bug-fix release of Python 2.5 was Python 2.5.4. User are encouraged to upgrade to the latest release of Python 2.7 (which is 2.7.2 at this point). This release is the final release of Python 2.5; …

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  • Python 2.5.5

    ...Windows users who feel the need to build their own version. What's New? See the highlights of the Python 2.5 release. Andrew Kuchling's What's New in Python 2.5 describes the most visible changes since Python 2.4 in more detail. A detailed list of the changes in 2.5.5 can be found in the release notes, or the Misc/NEWS file in the source distribution. For the full list of changes, you can poke around in Subversion. Documentation The documentation has not been updated since the 2.5.4 relea...

  • Python 2.5.6

    ...Windows users who feel the need to build their own version. What's New? See the highlights of the Python 2.5 release. Andrew Kuchling's What's New in Python 2.5 describes the most visible changes since Python 2.4 in more detail. A detailed list of the changes in 2.5.6 can be found in the release notes, or the Misc/NEWS file in the source distribution. For the full list of changes, you can poke around in Subversion. Documentation The documentation has not been updated since the 2.5.4 relea...

  • Release – Python 3.12.8

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    Released: Dec. 3, 2024

    This is the eighth maintenance release of Python 3.12 Python 3.12.8 is the latest maintenance release of Python 3.12, containing more than 250 bug fixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.12.7. Security content in this release gh-126623: Upgraded libexpat to 2.6.4 to fix CVE-2024-50602 …

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  • Alternative Python implementations

    ...Windows) Python(x, y) (Scientific-oriented distribution based on Qt and Spyder) Conceptive Python SDK (targets business, desktop and database applications) PyIMSL Studio (a commercial distribution for numerical analysis – free for non-commercial use) eGenix PyRun (a portable Python runtime, complete with stdlib, frozen into a single 3.5MB - 13MB executable file) If you want to host and run Python in the cloud, these implementations may be right for you: PythonAnywhere (freemium hosted Python ...

  • PSF Distinguished Service Awards

    ...Windows platform, have been so influential to the livelihood of Python on Windows that he received a special thanks in the installer throughout several releases. His contributions have been seen in a number of areas around CPython and in the standard library, from Windows specific behaviors in the libraries, to the PEP 397 launcher for Windows. Mark's creation and maintenance of the pywin32 package has enabled scores of developers on Windows to leverage the power of Python while integrating with...

  • Release – Python 3.4.1

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    Released: May 19, 2014

    Python 3.4.1 Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.1 was released on May 18th, 2014. Python 3.4.1 has over three hundred bugfixes and other improvements over 3.4.0. One notable change: the version of …

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  • Python 3.4.1

    ...Windows installer no longer has the "HeartBleed" vulnerability. Major new features of the 3.4 series, compared to 3.3 Python 3.4 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, including hundreds of small improvements and bug fixes. Among the new major new features and changes in the 3.4 release series are PEP 428, a "pathlib" module providing object-oriented filesystem paths PEP 435, a standardized "enum" module PEP 436, a build enhancement that will help ge...

  • What's New In Python 3.0

    ...Windows installer, and the core bsddb library from the Windows build files. What's new in Python 3.0b3? Release date: 20-Aug-2008 Core and Builtins Issue #3653: Fix a segfault when sys.excepthook was called with invalid arguments. Issue #2394: implement more of the memoryview API, with the caveat that only one-dimensional contiguous buffers are supported and exercised right now. Slicing, slice assignment and comparison (equality and inequality) have been added. Also, the tolist() method h...

  • Release – Python 3.4.1rc1

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    Released: May 5, 2014

    Python 3.4.1rc1 Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.1 was released on May 18th, 2014. Python 3.4.1 has over three hundred bugfixes and other improvements over 3.4.0. One notable change: the version …

  • 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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  • Python Success Stories

    ...Windows ships with an optional Microsoft Desktop Engine (MSDE) database and integrates with Microsoft IIS. Timesheet can be configured to use a variety of third-party databases. Results The Timesheet project has succeeded spectacularly, generating millions in revenue and allowing Journyx to grow every year, even under the current economic conditions. Journyx, like many of our customers, uses Timesheet internally as a mission critical part of the company infrastructure. It is used extensively f...

  • What's new in Python 1.5 and beyond

    ...Windows, the case of module file names must match the case as used in the import statement. (On Unix, this was always true, of course.) When you specify the -t option, the tokenizer warns about inconsistent mixing of spaces and tabs. Two -t options and this causes syntax errors instead. See also Tools/scripts/tabnanny.py. All library modules are warning-free. The freeze tool now supports hierarchical module names. New standard modules: threading, getpass, imaplib, poplib, smtplib, Tkdnd (Tkin...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Windows NT, Linux, and Solaris. The overall architecture includes a built-in HTTP server with an underlying spider to collect web documents, and a query engine to serve search results back to the user. The interface, including the administrative console, is served over the built-in HTTP server using Python-scripted HTML. Some of the modules, such as the search spider, GUI, and HTTP server, were written in Python. For performance reasons, others, such as the query engine, indexer, and HTML parser...

  • Release – Python 3.9.3

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    Released: April 2, 2021

    This is the third maintenance release of Python 3.9 NOTE: The release you're looking at has been recalled due to unintentional breakage of ABI compatibility with C extensions built in Python 3.9.0 - 3.9.2. Details in bpo-43710. Please use Python 3.9.4 or newer instead. Python …

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