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  • Comparing Option-Parsing Libraries

    Comparing Option-Parsing Libraries Comparing Option-Parsing Libraries NOTE: this page is present for historical purposes only. The getopt-sig is retired, and Optik was added to the Python standard library (as optparse) in Python 2.3. (It was checked in to Python's CVS tree in November 2002, and first released in July 2003.) Since I proposed Optik for the Python standard library, a number of other option-parsing libraries have come to light. I'm trying to evaluate them by ...

  • Notes

    ...generators. Any generator that defines genrandbits() can now use randrange() for ranges with a length >= 2**53. Formerly, randrange would return only even numbers for ranges that large (see SF bug #812202). Generators that do not define genrandbits() now issue a warning when randrange() is called with a range that large. itertools has a new function, groupby() for aggregating iterables into groups sharing the same key (as determined by a key function). It offers some of functionality of SQ...

  • Summary of "Extension Building" Session

    Summary of "Extension Building" Session "Extension Building Considered Painful": Session Summary by Greg Ward The "Extension Building Considered Painful" session at IPC7 was very productive, and there was a good consensus in the room as to what's needed, what will work for various classes of users, and what ideas to steal from other related systems (the closest being Red Hat's RPM and Perl's MakeMaker). Decisions made Everyone seemed to agree with my p...

  • Web SIG

    Web SIG The Python Web SIG is dedicated to improving Python's support for interacting with World Wide Web services and clients. Charter The first task should be to create a plan (in the form of a PEP) for bringing the Web support in the standard Python library up to modern standards. This would address capabilities such as (but not limited to) CSS parsing, XHTML parsing and generation support, client-side and server-side SSL support, simple server frameworks, multi-part/form-data POST suppor...

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

    Python Software Foundation: Press Release 29-Jul-2003 July 29, 2003 Press Release SOURCE: Python Software Foundation PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION (PSF) ANNOUNCES PYTHON VERSION 2.3 New release enhances powerful 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 feature...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Background Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) was started in 1975 by filmmaker George Lucas, in order to create the special effects for the original Star Wars film. Since then, ILM has grown into a visual effects powerhouse that has contributed not just to the entire Star Wars series, but also to films as diverse as Forrest Gump, Jurassic Park, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Terminator 2. ILM has won numerous Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects...

  • What's new in Python 2.3

    ...generator, the Mersenne Twister algorithm. This is the current best practice random number generator algorithm, widely tested, with a period of 2**19937-1. Code by Raymond Hettinger. sets - a new module implementing two flexible set data types. Code by a cast of thousands, including Greg V. Wilson, Alex Martelli, Tim Peters, and Raymond Hettinger. (PEP 218) socket - sockets now support an optional timeout on all operations. Code by Michael Gilfix and Bernard Yue, based on Tim O'Malley's t...

  • Python Distutils-SIG: Documentation

    Python Distutils-SIG: Documentation Python Distutils-SIG: Documentation User Documents Two documents have been written to cover the Distutils, and are part of Python's standard documentation set: Installing Python Modules This is for end-users, system administrators, and Python programmers who need to install third-party modules to their existing Python installation. It focusses on using the Distutils, b...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction Internet connectivity is omnipresent, finding new applications and giving old designs a new lease on life. In this age of small IC devices boasting TCP/IP stacks and wireless connectivity, one no longer needs a standalone PC to harness the Web. VAHNZ Controls developed its eBukal[1] remote alarm device to leverage their knowledge of microcontroller interfacing and Internet protocols, creating an innovative solution for the field of building automation. Re...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction Journyx Timesheet (tm) is a commercial application that provides time, expense, and project tracking. In 1996, Curt Finch, Journyx CEO and founder, was working in the staffing industry when he saw an opportunity to use the web to accurately collect and store employee timesheet information. Journyx Time Entry Screen Zoom in The first version of Timesheet focused on collecting accurate cost information, with an eye towards applying that data in the formul...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories First published in Linux Journal, May 2000. Copyright 2000 Specialized Systems Consultants, Inc. All rights reserved. Introduction My first look at Python was an accident, and I didn't much like what I saw at the time. It was early 1997, and Mark Lutz's book Programming Python from O'Reilly & Associates had recently come out. O'Reilly books occasionally land on my doorstep, selected from among the new releases by some mysterious benefactor inside the organization u...

  • Release – Python 2.6.7

    Version: None

    Released: June 3, 2011

    Python 2.6 is now in security-fix-only mode; no new features are being added, and no new bug fix releases are planned. We intend to provide source-only security fixes for the Python 2.6 series until October 2013 (five years after the 2.6 final release). For ongoing maintenance releases, please see …

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  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 10-Apr-2002

    Python Software Foundation: Press Release 10-Apr-2002 Python Software Foundation Announces Python Version 2.2.1 Over 100 enhancements made to powerful programming language Fredericksburg, VA -- April 10th, 2002 -- The Python Software Foundation announced today the release of version 2.2.1 of the Python programming language and standard libraries. This release includes over 100 enhancements for users of version 2.2 of Python. "We're pleased to offer this release to the Python users...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...generator, receiver, relayer, policy object for multiple independent domains, monitor object, and a web configuration GUI that runs on PHP in Apache and IIS. Overview of the Armadillo Spam Filtering Process Zoom in Why Python? We did consider C# since "Mono" supports it and the guys here were already well-versed in C# development on Windows. However, we lacked confidence that code developed on Windows would work equally well on Mono, and all development would need to actively avoi...

  • Release – Python 3.1.5

    Version: None

    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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  • Python 2.6.7 Release

    Python 2.6.7 Release Python 2.6.7 Python 2.6.7 has been replaced by a newer security-fix only source release of Python. Please download Python 2.6.8 instead. Python 2.6.7 is a security-fix only source release for Python 2.6.6, fixing several reported security issues. Python 2.6.7 was released on June 3, 2011. The last binary release of Python 2.6 was 2.6.6. Python 2.6 is now in security-fix-only mode; no new features are being added, and no new bug fix releases are planned. We intend to ...

  • Python 3.1.5 Release

    Python 3.1.5 Release 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 issue 13885 (CVE-2011-3389, disabling of the CBC IV attack countermeasure in the _ssl module). Python 3.1.5 was released on April...

  • 2021 end-of-the-year fundraiser!

    2021 end-of-the-year fundraiser! There are two ways to donate: JetBrains is supporting the PSF by providing a 30% discount on PyCharm and all proceeds will go to the PSF! You can take advantage of this discount by using promo code SUPPORTPYTHON21, You can donate directly to the PSF! Donate Today! Contributing to the PSF financially helps sustain programs that support the larger Python community. This year the PSF launched two critical initiatives thanks to Google's sponsorship and B...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Background MayaVi is an open source scientific data visualization tool written entirely in Python. I started work on MayaVi in 2000. At that time, a few colleagues of mine needed to visualize their computational fluid dynamics (CFD) data but the only suitable tools available were commercial, closed source programs that were prohibitively expensive. We looked at some open source tools as alternatives. OpenDX had just been released to the public and at that time was har...

  • Release – Python 2.4.0

    Version: None

    Released: Nov. 30, 2004

    We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.4, final on November 30, 2004. This is a final, stable release, and we can recommend that Python users upgrade to this version. Important: This release is vulnerable to the problem described in security advisory PSF-2006-001 "Buffer overrun …

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