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  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 29-Jul-2003

    ...programming language FREDERICKSBURG, Va., July 29, 2003 -- The Python Software Foundation (PSF) announces the release of version 2.3 of the Python programming language. This major release introduces performance enhancements, increased robustness, several minor language features, many additions to the extensive standard library, improved support for Mac OS X and several other Unix-based systems, and a large number of other improvements. Python is a powerful and agile programming langua...

  • Release – Python 3.2.6rc1

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 4, 2014

    This is a security-fix source-only release. The last binary release was 3.2.5. The list of fixed security related issues can be found in the NEWS file. New features of the 3.2 series, compared to 3.1 Python 3.2 is a continuation of the efforts to improve and stabilize the …

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  • Python Success Stories

    ...dynamic template markup language) tags, and short Python scripts to create dynamic sites. But Zope's management interface was not a good environment for group work: one developer could accidentally overwrite another developer's work with no warning and there was no adequate version control. With five developers working half-to-full time on this project, it was clear a better solution was needed. The natural conclusion was to start developing in Python using the Products framework available in Zo...

  • Foreword for "Programming Python" (2nd ed.)

    ...Programming Python" (2nd ed.) Foreword for "Programming Python" (2nd ed.) This is the foreword I wrote for Mark Lutz' book "Programming Python" (2nd ed.), published by O'Reilly in 2001. Less than five years ago, I wrote the foreword for the 1st edition of Programming Python. Since then, the book has changed about as much as the language and the Python community! I no longer feel the need to defend Python: the statistics and developments listed in Mark's Preface speak for ...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...dynamically updates itself, either the client and the server. Imagine this: with a simple double-click you install a plugin on the central server, update it (propagating the changes to all the nodes of the system that are using it), run it, download its client stuff into the console and make it active (dynamically updating the GUI). Everything without restarting nor the server nor the client. Extensive and complete standard library and great external modules. And when there's no standard library...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...dynamic typing made it much easier to build our Property manager. Some molecular properties are numbers, others strings, or lists and dictionaries, and still others are class instances. A statically typed language would have required extra hassle to allow a mixture of return types to be inserted into the Property manager. Even Perl, which is also dynamically typed, would have required some way to distinguish between references to a $scalar, %hash, or @list. In Python it just worked, and we c...

  • Release – Python 3.11.3

    Version: None

    Released: April 5, 2023

    This is the third maintenance release of Python 3.11 Python 3.11.3 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. Major new features of the 3.11 series, compared to 3.10 Some of the new major new features and changes in Python …

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  • Computer Programming for Everybody

    ...Programming Tools We will design and build a programming environment specifically intended to support the teaching of programming to users with no previous programming experience. Our aim is provide tools to support users when they are learning programming and when they are employing those skills in their homes and offices. We believe that most ordinary users will employ their programming skills to customized and extend their computing environment. Rather than writing new programs from ...

  • Release – Python 3.2.6

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 12, 2014

    This is a security-fix source-only release. The last binary release was 3.2.5. With the 3.2.6 release, and five years after its first release, the Python 3.2 series is now officially retired. All official maintenance for Python 3.2, including security patches, has ended. For ongoing maintenance releases, please see the …

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  • Release – Python 3.11.1

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 6, 2022

    This is the first maintenance release of Python 3.11 Python 3.11.1 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. Major new features of the 3.11 series, compared to 3.10 Some of the new major new features and changes in Python …

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  • Release – Python 3.11.2

    Version: None

    Released: Feb. 8, 2023

    This is the second maintenance release of Python 3.11 Python 3.11.2 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. Major new features of the 3.11 series, compared to 3.10 Some of the new major new features and changes in Python …

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  • Python Success Stories

    ...programming language. Our initial thoughts were to use either C++ or Java since everyone in the group was proficient with both. One group member had been exposed to Python in an earlier class and was impressed with the power and ease of use it provided. The fact that the other four members had no experience with the language fortunately did not stop us from making the wise decision to use Python. Very early in the development we required a simple program to test how the touch pad interacts with ...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Dynamic high-level data typing -- Lack of strong data typing, another commonly cited "weakness" in Python, is in practice a significant advantage for most kinds of software development. The bottom line is that you don't need strong data typing in the context of a language like Python. Common coding errors are caught anyway by the type system: You still can't add a number to a string, reference past the end of an array, or call an non-existent class method. Dynamic high-level data typin...

  • Executive Summary: The Python Software Foundation

    ...programming language were named "Python" or even "Python Plus", it could cause considerable confusion, making life more difficult for the developers and users of either language. Any other Pythons should be the same programming language, within reason, even if they implement the language differently as do IronPython and Stackless Python. Similarly, the Python logos must refer only to the Python programming language and they should not be modified in any way (color, font, shap...

  • Archive 2018: Executive Summary: The Python Software Foundation

    ...programming language were named "Python" or even "Python Plus", it could cause considerable confusion, making life more difficult for the developers and users of either language. Any other Pythons should be the same programming language, within reason, even if they implement the language differently as do IronPython and Stackless Python. Similarly, the Python logos must refer only to the Python programming language and they should not be modified in any way (color, font, shap...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...programming language, dubbed Bridge Scripting Language (BSL), as a substitute for the original sequencing language. I wanted to preserve and expand the ability to easily make changes to business logic without having to recompile code - a feature that is very useful when supporting a manufacturing environment. The original common business practice code of the system, as well as the specific business practice code for the first few TAPs, was written in BSL. It was during this time that I became in...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...programming engineers at USA learned to do Python coding quickly. "We wanted to draft the coding energy of the engineering staff, but we didn't want them to have to learn C++. Python made the perfect 4GL programming layer for the existing C++ classes." One coder and 17,000 lines of code later The WAS project, which has required somewhat less than a man-year of effort, has been coded by a single Senior Software Engineer, Charlie Fly, who has cranked out some 17,000 source lines of cod...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...programming backgrounds, such as Java, C or Visual Basic. After becoming familiar with Python, development proceeds very quickly -- perhaps faster than with any other language. At the same time, Python lends itself to the creation of highly readable, compact and well structured code. Python's particular mix of features also helps embedded developers be more effective when programming a PC. While these developers are well familiar with C (by far the most popular high level language for embedded...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...dynamic type system, native support for common data structures (e.g., hash maps, sets, and lists), the "batteries-included" standard library, and sane error handling. Another reason we chose Python is that it is an excellent language for parsing as well as operating on collections with ease (iterating, concatenating, intersecting, etc.). Last but not least, if performance ever becomes an issue, it is easy to write extensions using the Python/C API. Understand that we did evaluate other...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...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 was born. XIST's development continued in Python and today XIST is the basis of a successful company which employs 15 people. XIST is now used in all of our web projects at LivingLogic AG. Content Management with Python and JSP On top of XIST, LivingLogic has developed a content management system called XIST4C...

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