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  • Release – Python 3.7.5

    Version: None

    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 major …

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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 major …

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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...

  • Python 1.6

    ...build-in function unicode(), an numerous C APIs to deal with Unicode and encodings. See the file Misc/unicode.txt for details, or http://starship.python.net/crew/lemburg/unicode-proposal.txt. Two other big changes, related to the Unicode support, are the addition of string methods and a new regular expression engine: String methods mean that you can now say s.lower() etc. instead of importing the string module and saying string.lower(s) etc. One peculiarity is that the equiv...

  • Release – Python 3.7.6rc1

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 11, 2019

    Note Python 3.8 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.8.x here. We plan to continue to provide bugfix releases for 3.7.x until mid 2020 and security fixes until mid 2023. Python 3.7.6rc1 is the release candidate preview of the sixth …

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  • Release – Python 3.9.1rc1

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    Released: Nov. 26, 2020

    This is the release candidate of the first maintenance release of Python 3.9 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.9.1rc1, the release candidate of a bugfix release for the legacy 3.9 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release …

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  • Python Success Stories

    ...building block for my developments. For the low-level part, Fortran 77 was eliminated because of its archaic character, lack of memory management, and portability issues in C-Fortran interfacing. C++ was a candidate, but ultimately not chosen because portability between compilers was still an issue in 1996, and because I considered the benefits of C++ for the small amount of compiled code in the project insufficient to compensate for the complexity of the language. Library architecture The arc...

  • Python Internationalization-SIG

    ...building a library of codecs Support for locale information, date, number and time formatting Frameworks for translating and localizing GUI and Web applications Deliverables The immediate deliverables relate to Unicode and encoding support; the other topics above are too general and application-specific. Test the new Unicode features and supplied single-byte codecs as soon as the Unicode patch moves into public CVS (Q2 2000) Assist with documentation of the new features (Q...

  • Bugs in Python 2.3.1

    ...Building on HP/UX is problematic. You probably want to compile using "cc -Ae" or "gcc", but even then there's a bug in either autoconf or HP/UX that means most time-related functions will be undefined. For now, edit the pyconfig.h file after running configure and set the following to defined: <br> HAVE_CLOCK HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY HAVE_MKTIME HAVE_SELECT HAVE_STRFTIME HAVE_STRPTIME HAVE_UTIMES.<br> This will be fixed in a future release of Python. See <a href="...

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

    ...building more robust applications. Key features of Python include: Object orientation, modular name spaces, exceptions, and multi-threading High-level dynamic data typing and very late binding Tight integration with C, C++, and Java modules May be compiled to Java byte code for use in any JVM String and regular expression processing Extensive XML and web services support HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, NNTP, telnet, and other IP protocols HTML, MIME, base64, binhex, uuencode, and othe...

  • Release – Python 2.7.2

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    Released: June 11, 2011

    Note: A newer bugfix release, 2.7.3, is currently available. Its use is recommended over Python 2.7.2. Python 2.7.2 was released on June 11th, 2011. The Python 2.7 series is scheduled to be the last major version in the 2.x series before 2.x moves into an extended maintenance period. The …

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  • Release – Python 3.1.4

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    Released: June 11, 2011

    Note: It is recommended that you use the latest bug fix release of the 3.1 series, 3.1.5. Python 3.1.4 was released on June 11th, 2011. The Python 3.1 version series is a continuation of the work started by Python 3.0, the new backwards-incompatible series of Python. For ongoing …

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  • Python Success Stories

    ...builds and ships with Python 2.1.1. Timesheet also incorporates several non-Python technologies. The Unix and Linux distributions are packaged with the Apache HTTP server and PostgreSQL database. The Timesheet distribution for Windows ships with an optional Microsoft Desktop Engine (MSDE) database and integrates with Microsoft IIS. Timesheet can be configured to use a variety of third-party databases. Results The Timesheet project has succeeded spectacularly, generating millions in revenue and...

  • Python 3.1.4 Release

    ...build C extension modules with the 32-bit-only Python installed, you will need Apple Xcode 3, not 4.

  • PSF Community Service Awards

    ...build teams and lead her events with a commitment to inclusivity and diversity which is an example of the best in the Python community. The Q1 2024 Community Service Award was given to Gregory Szorc as the author of python-build-standalone and PyOxidizer, among many other projects. python-build-standalone has quietly become a crucial component of the wider Python ecosystem. It provides builds of Python that can be installed in a way that avoids any risk of conflict with other existing installati...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...build such a system at all. The Benefits of Python's Type System The PyDrone architecture could have been implemented in many languages, but Python's dynamic typing made it much easier to build our Property manager. Some molecular properties are numbers, others strings, or lists and dictionaries, and still others are class instances. A statically typed language would have required extra hassle to allow a mixture of return types to be inserted into the Property manager. Even Perl, which is also...

  • Release – Python 3.9.1

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    Released: Dec. 7, 2020

    This is the first maintenance release of Python 3.9 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.9.1, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.9 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. We've made 282 changes …

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  • Release – Python 3.12.6

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    Released: Sept. 6, 2024

    This is the sixth maintenance release of Python 3.12 Python 3.12 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. 3.12.6 is the latest maintenance release, containing about 90 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.12.5. This is an expedited …

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