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• Release – Python 3.6.6

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  Released: June 27, 2018

  Note: The release you are looking at is Python 3.6.6, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.6 series which has now reached end-of-life and is no longer supported. See the downloads page for currently supported versions of Python. The final source-only security fix release for 3.6 was 3.6.15 and …

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• Release – Python 3.6.7

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  Released: Oct. 20, 2018

  Note: The release you are looking at is Python 3.6.7, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.6 series which has now reached end-of-life and is no longer supported. See the downloads page for currently supported versions of Python. The final source-only security fix release for 3.6 was 3.6.15 and …

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• Release – Python 3.6.8rc1

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  Released: Dec. 11, 2018

  Python 3.6.8rc1 is a release candidate preview of the eighth and last maintenance release of Python 3.6. The Python 3.6 series contains many new features and optimizations. 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. …

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• Release – Python 3.6.8

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  Released: Dec. 24, 2018

  Note: The release you are looking at is Python 3.6.8, the final bugfix release for the legacy 3.6 series which has now reached end-of-life and is no longer supported. See the downloads page for currently supported versions of Python. The final source-only security fix release for 3.6 was 3.6.15 …

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• Release – Python 3.9.0b2

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  Released: June 9, 2020

  WARNING: this release has a known regression See BPO-40924 for details. Use Python 3.9.0b3 or newer instead, please. This is a beta preview of Python 3.9 Python 3.9 is still in development. This release, 3.9.0b2, is the second of four planned beta release previews. Beta release previews are intended to …

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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 3.6. Python 3.6 …

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• Comparing Python to Other Languages

  ...modules and user modules in individual files which can easily be rearranged or distributed outside the system. One consequence is that there is more than one option for attaching a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to a Python program, since the GUI is not built into the system. C++ Almost everything said for Java also applies for C++, just more so: where Python code is typically 3-5 times shorter than equivalent Java code, it is often 5-10 times shorter than equivalent C++ code! Anecd...

• Notes

  ...ModuleEx(): if an error occurs while loading the module, these now delete the module's entry from sys.modules. All ways of loading modules eventually call one of these, so this is an error-case change in semantics for all ways of loading modules. In rare cases, a module loader may wish to keep a module object in sys.modules despite that the module's code cannot be executed. In such cases, the module loader must arrange to reinsert the name and module object in sys.modules. PyImport_ReloadMod...

• Release – Python 3.6.1rc1

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  Released: March 5, 2017

  Python 3.6.1rc1 is a release candidate preview of the first maintenance release of Python 3.6. The Python 3.6 series contains many new features and optimizations. See the What’s New In Python 3.6 document for more information. Major new features of the 3.6 series, compared to 3.5 Among the new major …

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• Release – Python 3.6.2rc1

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  Released: June 17, 2017

  Python 3.6.2rc1 is a release candidate preview of the second maintenance release of Python 3.6. The Python 3.6 series contains many new features and optimizations. See the What’s New In Python 3.6 document for more information. Major new features of the 3.6 series, compared to 3.5 Among the new major …

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• Release – Python 3.6.2rc2

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  Released: July 7, 2017

  Python 3.6.2rc2 is a release candidate preview of the second maintenance release of Python 3.6. The Python 3.6 series contains many new features and optimizations. See the What’s New In Python 3.6 document for more information. Major new features of the 3.6 series, compared to 3.5 Among the new major …

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• Release – Python 3.6.2

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  Released: July 17, 2017

  Note: The release you are looking at is Python 3.6.2, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.6 series which has now reached end-of-life and is no longer supported. See the downloads page for currently supported versions of Python. The final source-only security fix release for 3.6 was 3.6.15 and …

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• Release – Python 3.6.3rc1

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  Released: Sept. 19, 2017

  Python 3.6.3rc1 is a release candidate preview of the third maintenance release of Python 3.6. The Python 3.6 series contains many new features and optimizations. See the What’s New In Python 3.6 document for more information. Major new features of the 3.6 series, compared to 3.5 Among the new major …

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• Release – Python 3.6.3

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  Released: Oct. 3, 2017

  Note: The release you are looking at is Python 3.6.3, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.6 series which has now reached end-of-life and is no longer supported. See the downloads page for currently supported versions of Python. The final source-only security fix release for 3.6 was 3.6.15 and …

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• Release – Python 3.6.4rc1

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  Released: Dec. 5, 2017

  Python 3.6.4rc1 is a release candidate preview of the fourth maintenance release of Python 3.6. The Python 3.6 series contains many new features and optimizations. See the What’s New In Python 3.6 document for more information. Major new features of the 3.6 series, compared to 3.5 Among the new major …

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• Release – Python 3.6.4

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  Released: Dec. 19, 2017

  Note: The release you are looking at is Python 3.6.4, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.6 series which has now reached end-of-life and is no longer supported. See the downloads page for currently supported versions of Python. The final source-only security fix release for 3.6 was 3.6.15 and …

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• Python Success Stories

  ...modules: The server backend is written in Python, and provides data storage and processing facilities. The Graphical User Interface front-end is written in Adobe Flex, and provides aid to the functionality exposed by the server. It requires a live connection to the server in order to function. A JavaScript 'tracking code' is installed on client web pages and provides the server with active web analytics. Some of the other technologies we're using at the moment for WordStream are Adobe Flex, L...

• Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

  ...definition of the save method would mean that a D instance, when requested to save itself, only saves the A and B parts of its data, but not the part of its data defined by class C! C++ notices that D inherits two conflicting definitions of method m, and issues an error message. The author of D is then supposed to override m to resolve the conflict. But what is D's definition of m supposed to do? It can call B's m followed by C's m, but because both definitions call the definition of...

• Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

  ...definition of the save method would mean that a D instance, when requested to save itself, only saves the A and B parts of its data, but not the part of its data defined by class C! C++ notices that D inherits two conflicting definitions of method m, and issues an error message. The author of D is then supposed to override m to resolve the conflict. But what is D's definition of m supposed to do? It can call B's m followed by C's m, but because both definitions call the definition of...

• Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

  ...definition of the save method would mean that a D instance, when requested to save itself, only saves the A and B parts of its data, but not the part of its data defined by class C! C++ notices that D inherits two conflicting definitions of method m, and issues an error message. The author of D is then supposed to override m to resolve the conflict. But what is D's definition of m supposed to do? It can call B's m followed by C's m, but because both definitions call the definition of...

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