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  • Python 3.4.5

    ...build enhancement that will help generate introspection information for builtins PEP 442, improved semantics for object finalization PEP 443, adding single-dispatch generic functions to the standard library PEP 445, a new C API for implementing custom memory allocators PEP 446, changing file descriptors to not be inherited by default in subprocesses PEP 450, a new "statistics" module PEP 451, standardizing module metadata for Python's module import system PEP 453, a bundled installer f...

  • Computer Programming for Everybody

    ...building For practical reasons, we propose to use an existing programming language. The design and implementation of a new language can take several years, and we have picked one that is good enough to start working on the other three points. Our choice is Python, an advanced scripting and prototyping language. There is enough (anecdotal) evidence that Python is easy to learn for people who are (nearly) computer-illiterate. There are currently no development tools or training m...

  • Release – Python 3.3.5rc1

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    Released: Feb. 23, 2014

    Python 3.3.5 includes fixes for these important issues: a 3.3.4 regression in zipimport (see http://bugs.python.org/issue20621) a 3.3.4 regression executing scripts with a coding declared and Windows newlines (see http://bugs.python.org/issue20731) potential DOS using compression codecs in bytes.decode() (see http://bugs.python.org/issue19619 and http://bugs.python.org/issue20404) …

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  • Release – Python 3.3.5rc2

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    Released: March 2, 2014

    Python 3.3.5 includes fixes for these important issues: a 3.3.4 regression in zipimport (see http://bugs.python.org/issue20621) a 3.3.4 regression executing scripts with a coding declared and Windows newlines (see http://bugs.python.org/issue20731) potential DOS using compression codecs in bytes.decode() (see http://bugs.python.org/issue19619 and http://bugs.python.org/issue20404) …

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  • Release – Python 3.3.5

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    Released: March 9, 2014

    Python 3.3.5 includes fixes for these important issues: a 3.3.4 regression in zipimport (see http://bugs.python.org/issue20621) a 3.3.4 regression executing scripts with a coding declared and Windows newlines (see http://bugs.python.org/issue20731) potential DOS using compression codecs in bytes.decode() (see http://bugs.python.org/issue19619 and http://bugs.python.org/issue20404) …

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  • Release – Python 3.3.5rc1

    Version: None

    Released: Feb. 23, 2014

    Python 3.3.5 includes fixes for these important issues: a 3.3.4 regression in zipimport (see http://bugs.python.org/issue20621) a 3.3.4 regression executing scripts with a coding declared and Windows newlines (see http://bugs.python.org/issue20731) potential DOS using compression codecs in bytes.decode() (see http://bugs.python.org/issue19619 and http://bugs.python.org/issue20404) …

  • Release – Python 3.4.1rc1

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    Released: May 5, 2014

    Python 3.4.1rc1 Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.1 was released on May 18th, 2014. Python 3.4.1 has over three hundred bugfixes and other improvements over 3.4.0. One notable change: the version …

  • Release – Python 3.6.0b1

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    Released: Sept. 12, 2016

    Python 3.6.0b1 Python 3.6.0b1 was released on 2016-09-12. Major new features of the 3.6 series, compared to 3.5 Python 3.6 is still in development; 3.6.0b1 is the first of four planned beta releases. Among the new major new features in Python 3.6 are: …

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  • Release – Python 3.6.0b2

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    Released: Oct. 10, 2016

    Python 3.6.0b2 Python 3.6.0b2 was released on 2016-10-10. Major new features of the 3.6 series, compared to 3.5 Python 3.6 is still in development; 3.6.0b2 is the second of four planned beta releases. Among the new major new features in Python 3.6 are: …

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  • Release – Python 3.6.0b3

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    Released: Oct. 31, 2016

    Python 3.6.0b3 Python 3.6.0b3 was released on 2016-10-31. Major new features of the 3.6 series, compared to 3.5 Python 3.6 is still in development; 3.6.0b3 is the third of four planned beta releases. Among the new major new features in Python 3.6 are: …

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  • Release – Python 3.6.0b4

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    Released: Nov. 21, 2016

    Python 3.6.0b4 Python 3.6.0b4 was released on 2016-11-21. Major new features of the 3.6 series, compared to 3.5 Python 3.6 is still in development; 3.6.0b4 is the final planned beta release. Among the new major new features in Python 3.6 are: PEP …

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  • Release – Python 3.6.1

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    Released: March 21, 2017

    Note: The release you are looking at is Python 3.6.1, 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 3.7.4rc1

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    Released: June 18, 2019

    Python 3.7.4rc1 is the release candidate preview of the fourth maintenance release of Python 3.7. The Python 3.7 series is the newest major release of the Python language and contains many new features and optimizations. Note that 3.7.4rc1 is a release preview and thus its use is not recommended …

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  • Release – Python 3.7.4

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    Released: July 8, 2019

    Note: The release you are looking at is a bugfix release for the legacy 3.7 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 3.7 was 3.7.17. Among the …

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  • Release – Python 3.7.5rc1

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    Released: Oct. 2, 2019

    Python 3.7.5rc1 is the release candidate preview of the fifth maintenance release of Python 3.7. The Python 3.7 series is the latest major release of the Python language and contains many new features and optimizations. Note that 3.7.5rc1 is a release preview and thus its use is not recommended …

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  • Release – Python 3.7.5

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    Released: Oct. 15, 2019

    Note: The release you are looking at is a bugfix release for the legacy 3.7 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 3.7 was 3.7.17. Among the …

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  • Release – Python 3.7.6

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    Released: Dec. 18, 2019

    Note: The release you are looking at is a bugfix release for the legacy 3.7 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 3.7 was 3.7.17. Among the …

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  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 9-Feb-2004

    ...building more robust applications. Python is often used in large system development to decrease software costs, mitigate risk, and meet aggressive schedules. The language is the basis of applications used by tens of thousands of companies and organizations worldwide, and its user base is growing rapidly. Key features of Python include: Object orientation, modular name spaces, exceptions, and multi-threading High-level dynamic data typing and very late binding Tight integrati...

  • Python 3.3.5 release

    ...builds) A C implementation of the "decimal" module, with up to 120x speedup for decimal-heavy applications The import system (__import__) is based on importlib by default The new "lzma" module with LZMA/XZ support PEP 397, a Python launcher for Windows PEP 405, virtual environment support in core PEP 420, namespace package support PEP 3151, reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy PEP 3155, qualified name for classes and functions PEP 409, suppressing exception context PEP...

  • Computer Programming for Everybody

    ...build tools that will be useful in a ubiquitous computing environment. The desktop computing environment will be rapidly overtaken by networks of computer-controlled devices and physical systems. This new environment exacerbates problems of installing, debugging, and managing software. It also poses new challenges for system designers to build software that allows end-user customization. This section is organized around these three challenges. The first section discusses the proposed prog...

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