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  • Release – Python 3.14.4

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    Released: April 7, 2026

    This is the fourth maintenance release of Python 3.14 Python 3.14.4 is the fourth maintenance release of 3.14, containing around 337 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.14.3. Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13 Some of the major new features and …

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  • What is Python? Executive Summary

    ...compilation step, the edit-test-debug cycle is incredibly fast. Debugging Python programs is easy: a bug or bad input will never cause a segmentation fault. Instead, when the interpreter discovers an error, it raises an exception. When the program doesn't catch the exception, the interpreter prints a stack trace. A source level debugger allows inspection of local and global variables, evaluation of arbitrary expressions, setting breakpoints, stepping through the code a line at a time, ...

  • Release – Python 3.14.0b3

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    Released: June 17, 2025

    It's 3.14 beta 3! https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140b3/ This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b3, is the third of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features …

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  • Release – Python 3.14.0

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    Released: Oct. 7, 2025

    This is the stable release of Python 3.14.0 Python 3.14.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimisations compared to Python 3.13. Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13 Some of the major …

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  • Release – Python 3.14.2

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    Released: Dec. 5, 2025

    This is the second maintenance release of Python 3.14 Python 3.14.2 is the second maintenance release of 3.14, containing 18 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.14.1. This is an expedited release to fix the following regressions: gh-142206: Exceptions in multiprocessing in …

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  • Release – Python 3.14.3

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    Released: Feb. 3, 2026

    This is the third maintenance release of Python 3.14 Python 3.14.3 is the third maintenance release of 3.14, containing around 299 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.14.2. Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13 Some of the major new features and …

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  • Release – Python 3.14.5

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    Released: May 10, 2026

    Python 3.14.5 final is the fifth maintenance release of 3.14, containing around 154 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.14.4. Garbage collector Notably, the garbage collector (GC) has changed in Python 3.14.5. The incremental garbage collector shipped in Python 3.14.0-3.14.4 has been reverted back to the …

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  • Release – Python 3.14.6

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    Released: June 10, 2026

    This is the sixth maintenance release of Python 3.14 Python 3.14.6 is the sixth maintenance release of 3.14, containing around 179 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.14.5. Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13 Some of the major new features and …

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  • Release – Python 3.14.7

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    Released: Aug. 5, 2026

    This is the seventh maintenance release of Python 3.14 Python 3.14.7 is the seventh maintenance release of 3.14, containing around 499 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes from 86 contributors since 3.14.6. Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13 Some of the major …

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  • Python 2.3

    Python 2.3 Python 2.3 Note: See Python 2.3.5 for a patch release release which supersedes earlier releases of 2.3. Important: This release is vulnerable to the problem described in security advisory PSF-2006-001 "Buffer overrun in repr() of unicode strings in wide unicode builds (UCS-4)". This fix is included in Python 2.4.4 and Python 2.5. If you need to remain with Python 2.3, there's a patch available from the security advisory page. Important: 2.3....

  • Python 2.3.1

    Python 2.3.1 Python 2.3.1 Note: See Python 2.3.5 for a patch release release which supersedes earlier releases of 2.3. Important: This release is vulnerable to the problem described in security advisory PSF-2006-001 "Buffer overrun in repr() of unicode strings in wide unicode builds (UCS-4)". This fix is included in Python 2.4.4 and Python 2.5. If you need to remain with Python 2.3, there's a patch available from the security advisory page. Important: 2....

  • Release – Python 2.3.1

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    Released: Sept. 23, 2003

    This is a patch release which supersedes earlier releases of 2.3. Important: This release is vulnerable to the problem described in security advisory PSF-2006-001 "Buffer overrun in repr() of unicode strings in wide unicode builds (UCS-4)". This fix is included in Python 2.4.4 and Python 2.5 …

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  • Python 2.0

    ...Compilation of deeply nested expressions raises MemoryError instead of SyntaxError, e.g. eval("[" * 50 + "]" * 50). In 2.0b2 on Windows, the interpreter wrote .pyc files in text mode, rendering them useless. They are now written in binary mode again. Standard library Keyword arguments are now accepted for most pattern and match object methods in SRE, the standard regular expression engine. In SRE, fixed error with negative lookahead and lookbehind that manifested...

  • Towards a Standard Parser Generator

    Towards a Standard Parser Generator Towards a Standard Parser Generator Martin v. Löwis Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Institut für Informatik loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de Abstract Developing parsers for "little" languages is a common task for many software developers. People have frequently requested inclusion of a specific parser generator framework into the Python library. In this paper, we compare several Python parser generators, using the XPath langua...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...compilation of altered code. Since this rewrite was completed, and because it was so successful, we've used Python in many other projects as well. For example, the library system that deploys software components to all of our workstations is now written in Python. The interface to the factory control system (a legacy system) was wrapped in Python to provide dynamic routing, a feature that allows certain manufacturing operations to be skipped depending on the circumstances. Python is also used t...

  • Python 2.4.4 Release

    Python 2.4.4 Release Python 2.4.4 We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.4.4 (FINAL), a bugfix release of Python 2.4, on October 18, 2006. Important: 2.4.4 includes a security fix (PSF-2006-001) for the repr() of unicode strings in wide unicode builds (UCS-4) Python 2.4 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. At least 80 bugs have been squished since Python 2.4.3, including a number of bugs and potential bugs found by with the Coverity and Klocwork static an...

  • Python 2.5.1 Release

    Python 2.5.1 Release Python 2.5.1 Python 2.5.1 has been replaced by a newer bugfix release of Python. Please download Python 2.5.6 instead. Python 2.5.1 was released on April 18th, 2007. This is the first bugfix release of Python 2.5. Python 2.5 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. According to the release notes, over 150 bugs and patches have been squished since Python 2.5, including a fair number in the new AST compiler (an internal implementation detail of the Pyth...

  • Release – Python 2.5.1

    Version: None

    Released: April 19, 2007

    Python 2.5.1 was released on April 18th, 2007. This is the first bugfix release of Python 2.5. Python 2.5 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. According to the release notes, over 150 bugs and patches have been squished since Python 2.5, including a …

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  • Release – Python 2.4.4

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 18, 2006

    Python 2.4 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. At least 80 bugs have been squished since Python 2.4.3, including a number of bugs and potential bugs found by with the Coverity and Klocwork static analysis tools. We'd like to offer our thanks to both …

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  • Release – Python 3.14.0rc1

    Version: None

    Released: July 22, 2025

    It's the first 3.14 release candidate! https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140rc1/ This is the first release candidate of Python 3.14 This release, 3.14.0rc1, is the penultimate release preview. Entering the release candidate phase, only reviewed code changes which are clear bug fixes are allowed between this release candidate and the …

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