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• Python Distutils-SIG: Proposed User Interface

  ...important to specify it somewhere.) Once the setup.py script is written, developers, packagers, and installers alike will use it to carry out all of their tasks that can be automated (i.e. everything except actually writing the modules, documentation, and test suite). This will be done by running setup.py with a mandatory "command" argument corresponding to the task to be accomplished. (By sheer coincidence, many of these commands will look a lot li...

• Comparing Python to Other Languages

  ...important role. Perl Python and Perl come from a similar background (Unix scripting, which both have long outgrown), and sport many similar features, but have a different philosophy. Perl emphasizes support for common application-oriented tasks, e.g. by having built-in regular expressions, file scanning and report generating features. Python emphasizes support for common programming methodologies such as data structure design and object-oriented programming, and encourages programm...

• Foreword for "Programming Python" (2nd ed.)

  ...imports the string module, this change is obviously not going to happen overnight. The first likely opportunity to remove the string module will be at the introduction of Python 3000; and even then there will probably be a string module in the backwards compatibility library for use with old code. Python 3000?! Yes, that's the nickname for the next generation of the Python interpreter. The name may be considered a pun on Windows 2000, or a reference to Mystery Science Theatre 3000, a...

• Python 2.7.1 Release

  ...important information about IDLE, Tkinter, and Tcl/Tk on Mac OS X here.

• Building the PSF: the Q2 2019 Fundraiser

  Building the PSF: the Q2 2019 Fundraiser Help us raise $60,000 USD by June 30th! #countdown-wrap { width: 70%; padding: 10px; font-family: arial; max-width: 650px; margin: 10px auto 50px; } #goal { font-size: 36px; text-align: center; color: #888; @media only screen and (max-width : 640px) { text-align: center; } } #glass { width: 100%; height: 20px; background: #c7c7c7; border-radius: 10px; float: left; overflow: hidden; } #progress { float: left;...

• Python Success Stories

  ...important measure of effort in coding is the frequency with which you write something that doesn't actually match your mental representation of the problem, and have to backtrack on realizing that what you just typed won't actually tell the language to do what you're thinking. An important measure of good language design is how rapidly the percentage of missteps of this kind falls as you gain experience with the language. When you're writing working code nearly as fast as you can type and your m...

• Computer Programming for Everybody

  ...important (and feasible) at this scale, while mass peer review will become less important due to diminished returns (the logistics of integrating bug fixes from thousands of sources is already a formidable task). But most current software, open source or otherwise, is too complex to allow anyone to scratch their itch without first investing a serious amount of effort and time into understanding the software they're using. We are interested in changes to the whole software development p...

• Release – Python 2.7.4

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  Released: April 6, 2013

  Note: A newer bugfix release, 2.7.5, is currently available. Its use is recommended over previous versions of 2.7. Python 2.7.4 was released on April 6, 2013. This is a 2.7 series bugfix release. It includes hundreds of bugfixes over 2.7.3. About the 2.7 release series Among the features and …

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• Release – Python 3.12.0a1

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  Released: Oct. 25, 2022

  This is an early developer preview of Python 3.12 Major new features of the 3.12 series, compared to 3.11 Python 3.12 is still in development. This release, 3.12.0a1 is the first of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of …

• Release – Python 3.13.0rc1

  Version: None

  Released: Aug. 1, 2024

  This is the first release candidate of Python 3.13.0 This release, 3.13.0rc1, 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 final release. The second candidate (and the last planned release …

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• Release – Python 3.13.0rc2

  Version: None

  Released: Sept. 6, 2024

  This is the second release candidate of Python 3.13.0 This release, 3.13.0rc2, is the final release preview. This release is expected to become the final 3.13.0 release, barring any critical bugs being discovered. The official release of 3.13.0 is scheduled for Tuesday, 2024-10-01. There will be no ABI changes …

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• Python 2.7.2 Release

  ...important information about IDLE, Tkinter, and Tcl/Tk on Mac OS X here. Also, on Mac OS X 10.6, if you need to build C extension modules with the 32-bit-only Python installed, you will need Apple Xcode 3, not 4. The 64-bit/32-bit Python can use either Xcode 3 or Xcode 4.

• Python 2.7.4 Release

  ...important information about IDLE, Tkinter, and Tcl/Tk on Mac OS X here.

• What's New In Python 3.0

  ...Import_ImportModuleNoBlock(), works like PyImport_ImportModule() but won't block on the import lock (returning an error instead). What's New in Python 3.0a2? Release date: 07-Dec-2007 (Note: this list is incomplete.) Core and Builtins str8 now has the same construction signature as bytes. Comparisons between str and str8 now return False/True for ==/!=. sqlite3 returns str8 when recreating on object from it's __conform__ value. The struct module returns str8 for all string-related formats...

• Release – Python 2.7.5

  Version: None

  Released: May 12, 2013

  Note: A newer bugfix release, 2.7.6, is currently available. Its use is recommended over previous versions of 2.7. Python 2.7.5 was released on May 15, 2013. This is a 2.7 series bugfix release. It contains several regression fixes to 2.7.4. Modules with regressions fixed include zipfile, gzip, …

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• Release – Python 2.7.7rc1

  Version: None

  Released: May 17, 2014

  Note: Python 2.7.7 has been superseded by Python 2.7.8 Python 2.7.7 was released on May 31, 2014. This is a regularly scheduled 2.7 series bugfix and includes numerous bugfixes over 2.7.6. Download This is a production release. Please report any bugs you encounter. We currently support these formats for download: …

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• Release – Python 2.7.7

  Version: None

  Released: June 1, 2014

  Note: Python 2.7.7 has been superseded by Python 2.7.8 Python 2.7.7 was released on May 31, 2014. This is a regularly scheduled 2.7 series bugfix and includes numerous bugfixes over 2.7.6. Download This is a production release. Please report any bugs you encounter. We currently support these formats for download: …

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• Quotes about Python

  ...important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. Today dozens of Google engineers use Python, and we're looking for more people with skills in this language." said Peter Norvig, director of search quality at Google, Inc. Journyx "Journyx technology, from the source code of our software to the code that maintains our Web site and ASP sites, is entirely based on Python. It increases our speed of development and keeps us several steps ahead o...

• Python Success Stories

  ...important to note that this project was only a spare time activity for me, which means that I had very little sustained time to work on it. I was the sole developer and I had to write the code, maintain the web pages, write the documentation, and answer user questions all by myself. Even so, I was able to write about 16,000 lines of Python code in the equivalent of about 4 months of full time effort and have produced a successful end product. This effort was spread over about 5 versions of VTK...

• Python 2.7.5 Release

  ...important information about IDLE, Tkinter, and Tcl/Tk on Mac OS X here.

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