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  • Release – Python 3.12.0a5

    Version: None

    Released: Feb. 7, 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, 3.12.0a5 is the fifth of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test …

  • Release – Python 3.12.0a6

    Version: None

    Released: March 8, 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, 3.12.0a6 is the sixth of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test …

  • Python Success Stories

    ...modules available for it, we decided that Python could be used exclusively. Implementation Our next meetings were with Tom Elliott, the Director of the Ancient World Mapping Center, who conveniently holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Science. He introduced us to the Barrington Atlas, a twelve year undertaking that culminated with the first comprehensive maps of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations to be produced since 1874. The Ancient World Mapping Center is now digitizing all the inf...

  • Release – Python 3.1.5

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    Released: April 9, 2012

    Python 3.1.5 Python 3.1.5 is a security-fix source-only release for Python 3.1.4, fixing several reported security issues: issue 13703 (oCERT-2011-003, hash collision denial of service), issue 14234 (CVE-2012-0876, hash table collisions CPU usage DoS in the expat library), issue 14001 (CVE-2012-0845, SimpleXMLRPCServer denial of service), and …

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  • Release – Python 3.9.0a1

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    Released: Nov. 19, 2019

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.9 Major new features of the 3.9 series, compared to 3.8 Python 3.9 is still in development. This releasee, 3.9.0a1 is the first of six planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current …

  • Release – Python 3.9.0a4

    Version: None

    Released: Feb. 26, 2020

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.9 Python 3.9 is still in development. This release, 3.9.0a4 is the fourth of six planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of new features and bug fixes and to test the …

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  • Release – Python 3.9.0a5

    Version: None

    Released: March 23, 2020

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.9 Python 3.9 is still in development. This release, 3.9.0a5 is the fifth of six planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of new features and bug fixes and to test the …

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  • Bugs in Python 2.3

    ...module hangs on some Red Hat systems. (This test is only run when regrtest.py is invoked with -u audio as argument.) It has been reported that untarring the source tarball using Solaris tar can fail. This is caused by some pathnames being too long for Solaris tar to handle. Using GNU tar should allow for untarring on Solaris. Some tests may unexpectedly fail on certain platforms. Here are failures that we know (something) about and intend to fix in a following patch release. These bugs may ...

  • Bugs in Python 2.5.2c1

    ...module hangs on some Red Hat systems. (This test is only run when regrtest.py is invoked with -u audio as argument.) It has been reported that untarring the source tarball using Solaris tar can fail. This is caused by some pathnames being too long for Solaris tar to handle. Using GNU tar should allow for untarring on Solaris. This has also been reported as a problem with DEC OSF1/Digital Unix/Digital Tru64/Compaq Tru64/HP Tru64. Other platforms may have the same problem - if you get an error ...

  • Bugs in Python 2.5.3c1

    ...module hangs on some Red Hat systems. (This test is only run when regrtest.py is invoked with -u audio as argument.) It has been reported that untarring the source tarball using Solaris tar can fail. This is caused by some pathnames being too long for Solaris tar to handle. Using GNU tar should allow for untarring on Solaris. This has also been reported as a problem with DEC OSF1/Digital Unix/Digital Tru64/Compaq Tru64/HP Tru64. Other platforms may have the same problem - if you get an error ...

  • Bugs in Python 2.5.3c1

    ...module hangs on some Red Hat systems. (This test is only run when regrtest.py is invoked with -u audio as argument.) It has been reported that untarring the source tarball using Solaris tar can fail. This is caused by some pathnames being too long for Solaris tar to handle. Using GNU tar should allow for untarring on Solaris. This has also been reported as a problem with DEC OSF1/Digital Unix/Digital Tru64/Compaq Tru64/HP Tru64. Other platforms may have the same problem - if you get an error ...

  • Python 3.1.5 Release

    ...module). Python 3.1.5 was released on April 9, 2012. The last binary release of Python 3.1 was 3.1.4. With the 3.1.5 release, and five years after its first release, the Python 3.1 series is now officially retired. All official maintenance for Python 3.1, including security patches, has ended. For ongoing maintenance releases, please see the downloads page for information about the latest Python 3 series. What's New in Python 3.1. Report bugs at http://bugs.python.org. Read the Python lice...

  • Alternative Python implementations

    ...modules) Nuitka (a compiler that packages user code with CPython into a static binary for improved performance and IP protection) pyodide (a Python distribution for the browser and Node.js based on WebAssembly) WinPython (a portable scientific Python distribution for 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 ...

  • Release – Python 2.7.7rc1

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    Released: May 17, 2014

    Note: Python 2.7.7 has been superseded by Python 2.7.8 Python 2.7.7 was released on May 31, 2014. This is a regularly scheduled 2.7 series bugfix and includes numerous bugfixes over 2.7.6. Download This is a production release. Please report any bugs you encounter. We …

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  • Release – Python 2.7.7

    Version: None

    Released: June 1, 2014

    Note: Python 2.7.7 has been superseded by Python 2.7.8 Python 2.7.7 was released on May 31, 2014. This is a regularly scheduled 2.7 series bugfix and includes numerous bugfixes over 2.7.6. Download This is a production release. Please report any bugs you encounter. We …

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  • Python Success Stories

    ...module, categorizing it, and building the GUI accordingly. This code is also used in MayaVi's persistence mechanism, which can save most VTK objects to disk by inspecting them at runtime. The use of introspection to write data-driven modules such as these avoided substantial amounts of manual coding, and makes MayaVi self-extending as additional VTK objects are defined. Since Python is a scripting language, it was the natural choice for an extension language for MayaVi. As a result, MayaVi is...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...modules exist for MySQL, Postgres, Interbase, Oracle, ODBC, Sybase, and others. Fetch XML from the web? Python's urlparse and urllib standard libraries were made for that. Handle Unicode? Python 2.0 fully supports Unicode out of the box. Implementing the first prototype version took a few weeks of spare time programming and turned out to be very successful. Python provided a much shorter path from concept to implementation than any of the other programming languages we have used. And so XIST w...

  • Python 2.7.7 Release

    ...module Automatic numbering of fields in the str.format() method Float repr improvements backported from 3.x Tile support for Tkinter A backport of the memoryview object from 3.x Set literals Set and dictionary comprehensions Dictionary views New syntax for nested with statements The sysconfig module Binary installer support for OS X 10.4 and 10.3.9 to be discontinued Python 2.7.7 is the last release for which binary installers will be released on python.org that support Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panth...

  • Release – Python 3.14.0a4

    Version: None

    Released: Jan. 14, 2025

    Hello, three dot fourteen dot zero alpha four! This is an early developer preview of Python 3.14 Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0a4, is the fourth of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases …

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  • Bugs in Python 2.5

    ...module hangs on some Red Hat systems. (This test is only run when regrtest.py is invoked with -u audio as argument.) It has been reported that untarring the source tarball using Solaris tar can fail. This is caused by some pathnames being too long for Solaris tar to handle. Using GNU tar should allow for untarring on Solaris. This has also been reported as a problem with DEC OSF1/Digital Unix/Digital Tru64/Compaq Tru64/HP Tru64. Other platforms may have the same problem - if you get an error ...

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