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  • Bugs in Python 2.3.6

    Bugs in Python 2.3.6 IDLE now executes code in a separate process. To communicate between the main process and executing processes, IDLE opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE. Build bugs Some platforms require some tinkering to get a clean build of Python. So...

  • Bugs in Python 2.3.7

    Bugs in Python 2.3.7 IDLE now executes code in a separate process. To communicate between the main process and executing processes, IDLE opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE. Build bugs Some platforms require some tinkering to get a clean build of Python. So...

  • Contributing to the PSF

    Contributing to the PSF NOTE: The easiest and fastest way to sign a Contributor Agreement with the Python Software Foundation is to do it while you are submitting your first change to a Python-owned repository on GitHub. That's the recommended way as it is fully automated. The Contributor Agreement page you're looking at now is mainly intended for signing Contributor Agreements on behalf of organizations. The Contributor Agreement form hosted here is manually reviewed which takes time to...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (December 14, 2004)

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (December 14, 2004) .. raw:: html The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors December 14, 2004 .. sectnum:: A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 18:00 UTC, December 14, 2004. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. Attendance ========== The following members of the Board of Dir...

  • Release – Python 2.5.2

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    Released: Feb. 21, 2008

    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 …

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  • Release – Python 2.5.0

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    Released: Sept. 19, 2006

    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. …

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  • Release – Python 2.5.3

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 19, 2008

    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 …

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  • Release – Python 2.5.1

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    Released: April 19, 2007

    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 …

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  • Release – Python 2.4.4

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    Released: Oct. 18, 2006

    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 analysis tools. We'd like to offer our thanks to both …

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  • Release – Python 2.5.4

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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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  • Release – Python 3.14.0rc1

    Version: None

    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 …

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  • Python Success Stories

    ...lists and dictionaries) supported this rapid turn-around. The Node class was extended and subclassed to create new types of nodes. For example, I added a MenuNode subclass to handle on-screen menus of destinations. This allowed clicking on the car, then choosing where you want to drive. Transitions between nodes were added to make the effect more pleasing. Clicking on the stereo produced a menu of songs to play (via pygame, of course). Results At this point, the total size of the source is abo...

  • Python 2.4.3 Release

    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 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 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 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 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 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 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 2.6.8 license

    Python 2.6.8 license History and License¶ History of the software¶ Python was created in the early 1990s by Guido van Rossum at Stichting Mathematisch Centrum (CWI, see http://www.cwi.nl/) in the Netherlands as a successor of a language called ABC. Guido remains Python’s principal author, although it includes many contributions from others. In 1995, Guido continued his work on Python at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI, see http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/) ...

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