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Released: Dec. 23, 2008
This is the last bugfix release of Python 2.5. Future releases of Python 2.5 will only contain security patches; no new features are being added, and no "regular" bugs will be fixed anymore. According to the release notes, about 80 bugs and patches have been addressed since Python 2.5.2, …
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Released: July 22, 2025
It's the first 3.14 release candidate! https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140rc1/ This is the first release candidate of Python 3.14 This release, 3.14.0rc1, is the penultimate release preview. Entering the release candidate phase, only reviewed code changes which are clear bug fixes are allowed between this release candidate and the …
Python Success Stories Introduction My son Nat is autistic. He likes to look at pictures of familiar places, things, and people. We bought a digital camera so we could take as many pictures of as many ordinary things as we wanted, without having to worry about the cost and bother of film and development. Nat's tastes are difficult to predict, so we might take pictures of a subject certain to please him, only to find that he has no interest in them at all. We wanted to be able to cast a wi...
Python Success Stories Introduction Consultants naturally try to provide their customers with the best solutions for a problem. Sometimes this means exploring new areas together with the customer or directing the project into a solution space that better fits the problem than the usual "buzzword-compliant" approaches. We've seen these fail too often, misleading the project into solving problems relating to the selected technology, rather than meeting the original project plan. Pyt...
Python 2.4.3 Release Python 2.4.3 Python 2.4.3 has been replaced by a newer bugfix release of Python. Please see the releases page to select a more recent release. 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 We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.4.3 (final), a bugfix release of Python 2.4, on March 29,...
Python 2.4.4 Release Python 2.4.4 We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.4.4 (FINAL), a bugfix release of Python 2.4, on October 18, 2006. Important: 2.4.4 includes a security fix (PSF-2006-001) for the repr() of unicode strings in wide unicode builds (UCS-4) Python 2.4 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. At least 80 bugs have been squished since Python 2.4.3, including a number of bugs and potential bugs found by with the Coverity and Klocwork static an...
Python 2.5 Release Python 2.5 Python 2.5 has been replaced by a newer bugfix release of Python. Please download Python 2.5.6 instead. Python 2.5 was released on September 19th 2006. There's a bunch of places you can look for more information on what's new in this release -- see the "What's New" section further down this page. This is a final release, and should be suitable for production use. PEP 356 includes the schedule and will be updated as the schedule evolves. At this point, ...
Python 2.5.1 Release Python 2.5.1 Python 2.5.1 has been replaced by a newer bugfix release of Python. Please download Python 2.5.6 instead. Python 2.5.1 was released on April 18th, 2007. This is the first bugfix release of Python 2.5. Python 2.5 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. According to the release notes, over 150 bugs and patches have been squished since Python 2.5, including a fair number in the new AST compiler (an internal implementation detail of the Pyth...
Python 2.5.2 Release Python 2.5.2 Python 2.5.2 has been replaced by a newer bugfix release of Python. Please download Python 2.5.6 instead. Python 2.5.2 was released on February 21st, 2008. This is the second bugfix release of Python 2.5. Python 2.5 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. According to the release notes, over 100 bugs and patches have been addressed since Python 2.5.1, many of them improving the stability of the interpreter, and improving its portability....
Python 2.5.3 Release Python 2.5.3 Python 2.5.3 has been replaced by a newer bugfix release of Python. Please download Python 2.5.6 instead. Python 2.5.3 was released on December 19th, 2008. This is the last bugfix release of Python 2.5. Python 2.5 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. According to the release notes, about 80 bugs and patches have been addressed since Python 2.5.2, many of them improving the stability of the interpreter, and improving its portability. F...
Python 2.5.4 Release Python 2.5.4 We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.5.4 (final), a bugfix release of Python 2.5, on December 23rd, 2008. Python 2.5.4 has been replaced by a newer bugfix release of Python. Please download Python 2.5.6 instead, unless you need to use the Windows and OS X binaries provided here. This is the last bugfix release of Python 2.5. Future releases of Python 2.5 will only contain security patches; no new features are being added, and no "regular&...
Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Feb. 2002 Member Meeting <center> <H3>The Python Software Foundation Minutes of the Feb. 2002 Member Meeting </H3> </center> <p>The members of the Python Software Foundation (the "Corporation") held its second annual meeting on Feb. 6, 2002 at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center in Alexandria, Virginia. Jeremy Hylton, secretary and treasurer, presided over the meeting. <p>The following members attended the meet...
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Event Organizer Resource Library Title and Author(s) or Organizer of Resource Topic and Type of Resource Short Description One Event at a Time: Funding Your Community the Realistic Way by Georgi Ker Fundraising - Written Guide A practical, experience-based playbook for community event organizers to build more sustainable funding through sponsorship strategies in light of the PSF’s grants pause. Organizing and Managing Open Source Events by the TODO Group Event organizing - Written gui...
...getting the support I thought it would. There was some, but there seemed to be more criticism. Perhaps the negative simply has more impact than the positive. It's human nature to criticize, and I believe the criticism is due to a vocal minority, not the majority. I decided that rather than immediately entering into a debate (which may be counter-productive) I would step back for a while. I will persevere, since I strongly believe that this is the right course for the PSF. I think people are ...
2010-05-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors May 10, 2010 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:05 UTC, 10 May 2010. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. Pat Campbell prepared the minutes. All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor — opposed — abstentions; e.g. "5-1-2" means "...
...getting Python promoted in UK education, running the education track at PyCon UK for several years and initiating the Python Code Dojo in London. May 2015 The following awards were announced in May for the 2015 1st Quarter: Armin Stross-Radschinski for his work on creating the PSF Python Brochure Jan Ulrich Hasecke for his work on creating the PSF Python Brochure December 2014 The following awards were announced in February 2015 for the 2014 4th Quarter: Ola Sitarska for her work creatin...
Released: May 7, 2025
Only one day late, welcome to the first beta! This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b1, is the first of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to …
Released: July 8, 2025
It's the final 3.14 beta! https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140b4/ This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b4, is the last of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new …
Released: Sept. 18, 2025
It's 🪄 finally 🪄 the final 3.14 release candidate! Note: It's another magic release. We fixed another bug that required bumping the magic number stored in Python bytecode (.pyc) files. This means file .pyc files created for rc2 cannot be used for rc3, and they'll be recompiled. …
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