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Released: Jan. 31, 2010
This is a source-only release that only includes security fixes. The last full bug-fix release of Python 2.5 was Python 2.5.4. User are encouraged to upgrade to the latest release of Python 2.7 (which is 2.7.2 at this point). This releases fixes issues with the logging, tarfile …
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...or Python. These utilities are grouped in the 'distutils' package in Python. The goal of distutils is to make building, packaging, distributing, and installing Python modules, extensions, and applications painless and standardized. There are also third-party tools built on the top of distutils, that are using the Distutils mailing list as their home. Namely: setuptools zc.buildout If you are packaging a Python package, this ...
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 …
Released: June 22, 2001
We're releasing Python 2.0.1 - the final bugfix release for Python 2.0. Why would we come with a bugfix release now (June 2001), when Python 2.0 was released in October 2000 and Python 2.1 has been released for months (April 2001)? Two very good reasons! We've …
Released: May 26, 2011
This is a source-only release that only includes security fixes. The last full bug-fix release of Python 2.5 was Python 2.5.4. User are encouraged to upgrade to the latest release of Python 2.7 (which is 2.7.2 at this point). This release is the final release of Python 2.5; …
Released: June 27, 2016
Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.5 was released on June 26th, 2016. Python 3.4 has now entered "security fixes only" mode, and as such the only improvements between Python 3.4.4 and Python 3.4.5 are …
Released: Jan. 3, 2017
Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.6 release candidate 1 was released on January 2nd, 2017. Python 3.4 has now entered "security fixes only" mode, and as such the only improvements between Python 3.4.4 and …
Released: Jan. 17, 2017
Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.6 was released on January 17th, 2017. Python 3.4 has now entered "security fixes only" mode, and as such the only improvements between Python 3.4.4 and Python 3.4.5 are …
Released: July 25, 2017
Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.7rc1 was released on July 25th, 2017. Python 3.4 has now entered "security fixes only" mode, and as such the only improvements between Python 3.4.6 and Python 3.4.7 are …
Released: Aug. 9, 2017
Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.7 was released on August 9th, 2017. Python 3.4 has now entered "security fixes only" mode, and as such the only improvements between Python 3.4.6 and Python 3.4.7 are …
Released: Jan. 23, 2018
Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.8rc1 was released on January 23rd, 2018. Python 3.4 has now entered "security fixes only" mode, and as such the only improvements between Python 3.4.7 and Python 3.4.8rc1 are …
Released: Feb. 5, 2018
Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.8 was released on February 4th, 2018. Python 3.4 has now entered "security fixes only" mode, and as such the only improvements between Python 3.4.7 and Python 3.4.8 are …
Released: July 20, 2018
Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.9rc1 was released on July 19th, 2018. Python 3.4 has now entered "security fixes only" mode, and as such the only changes since Python 3.4.7 are security fixes. Also, …
Released: Aug. 2, 2018
Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.9 was released on August 2nd, 2018. Python 3.4 has now entered "security fixes only" mode, and as such the only changes since Python 3.4.7 are security fixes. Also, …
Released: March 4, 2019
Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.10rc1 was released on March 4th, 2019. Python 3.4 has now entered "security fixes only" mode, and as such the only changes since Python 3.4.7 are security fixes. Also, …
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...or taking care of the thankless chore of poring over the CVS logs and SourceForge bug reports and re-applying selected patches!) One exception: the SRE package (regular expression matching, used by the "re" module) was brought in line with the version distributed with Python 2.1; this is stable feature-wise but much improved bug-wise. For the full scoop, see the release notes. Download the release Windows users should download Python-2.0.1.exe, the Windows installer, from one of the...
...or bzcat Python-2.5.5.tar.bz2 | tar -xf -). Change to the Python-2.5.5 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 2.5 release. Andrew Kuchling's What's New in Python 2.5 describes the most visible changes since Python 2.4 in more detail. A detailed list of the cha...
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