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...Python-2.4.5.tgz (or bzcat Python-2.4.5.tar.bz2 | tar -xf -). Change to the Python-2.4.5 directory and run the "./configure", "make", "make install" commands to compile and install Python. The source archive is also suitable for Windows users who feel the need to build their own version. What's New? See the highlights of the Python 2.4 release. Andrew Kuchling's What's New in Python 2.4 describes the most visible changes since Python 2.3 in more detail. A detaile...
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Released: March 11, 2008
Python 2.4 is now in security-fix-only mode. No new features are being added, and bugs are not fixed anymore unless they affect the stability and security of the interpreter, or of Python applications. This release includes just a small number of fixes, primarily preventing crashes of the interpreter in …
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...documentation to parse correctly. Additionally, despite careful planning and coding strategies, the mixture of PHP and HTML made deciphering and understanding the code more difficult. Fortunately, Python was designed with documentation in mind, with the use of "doc strings" for modules, classes and methods. Since documentation is actually a part of the language itself, and pydoc is a standard module in the Python distribution, it was easy to extract API documentation to HTML and other ...
...Documentation The documentation has been updated too: Browse HTML documentation on-line Download using HTTP. The interim documentation for new-style classes, last seen for Python 2.2.3, is still relevant for Python 2.3.1. Raymond Hettinger has also written a tutorial on descriptors, introduced in Python 2.2. In addition, The Python 2.3 Method Resolution Order is a nice paper by Michele Simionato that explains the C3 MRO algorithm (new in Python 2.3) clearly. (Also ...
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 …
...documentation, source, and so on. While Python includes basic XML processing capabilities, the goal of this SIG is to make Python become the premier language for XML processing. The SIG, through the mailing list and the PyXML project hosted on SourceForge, is helping to decide what software is required for this purpose, and coordinate its implementation and documentation.
Released: March 18, 2010
Python 2.6.5 was a maintenance release for Python 2.6.4, fixing dozens of issues in the core, builtin modules, libraries, and documentation. Python 2.6.5 final was released on March 19, 2010. Python 2.6 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. The NEWS file lists …
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 …
Python 3.0 Release Python 3.0 Python 3.0 is end-of-lifed with the release of Python 3.1. All users of Python 3.0.x should upgrade to the most recent version of Python 3; please see the downloads pages. Python 3.0 has been replaced by a newer bugfix release of Python. Please download Python 3.0.1 instead. Python 3.0 final was released on December 3rd, 2008. Python 3.0 (a.k.a. "Python 3000" or "Py3k") is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x line ...
Released: Dec. 3, 2008
Python 3.0 final was released on December 3rd, 2008. Python 3.0 (a.k.a. "Python 3000" or "Py3k") is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially how built-in objects like dictionaries and …
Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (Apr. 9, 2002) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors Apr. 9, 2002 A regular regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 17:00 UTC. Guido van Rossum, president of the Foundation and chairman of the Board, presided at the meeting. 1. Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were pre...
Python 2.6.5 Release Python 2.6.5 release Python 2.6.5 has been replaced by a newer bugfix release of Python. Please download Python 2.6.6 instead. Python 2.6.5 was a maintenance release for Python 2.6.4, fixing dozens of issues in the core, builtin modules, libraries, and documentation. Python 2.6.5 final was released on March 19, 2010. Python 2.6 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. The NEWS file lists every change in each alpha, beta, and release candidate of Pyth...
...Python 2.2 in more detail. For the full list of changes, you can poke around in CVS. The PSF's press release announcing 2.3.3. Documentation The documentation has been updated too: Browse HTML documentation on-line Download using HTTP. The interim documentation for new-style classes, last seen for Python 2.2.3, is still relevant for Python 2.3.3. Raymond Hettinger has also written a tutorial on descriptors, introduced in Python 2.2. In addition, The Pyt...
...Python 2.3 describes the most visible changes since Python 2.2 in more detail. For the full list of changes, you can poke around in CVS. Documentation The documentation has been updated too: Browse HTML documentation on-line Download using HTTP. The interim documentation for new-style classes, last seen for Python 2.2.3, is still relevant for Python 2.3.4. Raymond Hettinger has also written a tutorial on descriptors, introduced in Python 2.2. In additio...
...Documentation The documentation has been updated too: Browse HTML documentation on-line Download using HTTP. The interim documentation for new-style classes, last seen for Python 2.2.3, is still relevant for Python 2.3.2. Raymond Hettinger has also written a tutorial on descriptors, introduced in Python 2.2. In addition, The Python 2.3 Method Resolution Order is a nice paper by Michele Simionato that explains the C3 MRO algorithm (new in Python 2.3) clearly. (Also ...
Released: May 27, 2004
Released: Dec. 19, 2003
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