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  • Applications for Python

    ...idely used in scientific and numeric computing: SciPy is a collection of packages for mathematics, science, and engineering. Pandas is a data analysis and modeling library. IPython is a powerful interactive shell that features easy editing and recording of a work session, and supports visualizations and parallel computing. The Software Carpentry Course teaches basic skills for scientific computing, running bootcamps and providing open-access teaching materials. Education Python is a superb l...

  • Python 2.3.6 Release

    ...iding binary installers for 2.3.6. Windows and Mac OS X users who cannot compile their own versions should continue to use the 2.3.5 installers. These installers are not vulnerable to PSF-2006-001. gzip-compressed source code: Python-2.3.6.tgz bzip2-compressed source code: Python-2.3.6.tar.bz2, the source archive. The bzip2-compressed version is considerably smaller, so get that one if your system has the appropriate tools to deal with it. Unpack the archive with tar -zxvf Python-2.3.6.tgz (or b...

  • Python 2.3.7 Release

    ...ide bug fixes for people who are still using Python 2.3. For more information on the new features of Python 2.3 see the 2.3 highlights or consult Andrew Kuchling's What's New In Python for a more detailed view. Since the release candidate, we received various reports that the this release may fail to build on current operating systems, in particular on OS X. We have made no attempt to fix these problems, as the release is targeted for systems that were current at the time Python 2.3 was original...

  • Python 2.4.5 Release

    ...ided not to include binaries for Windows or OS X in this release, nor to update any online documentation, as the overhead for doing so would have greatly outweighed the amount of changes that we release. If you need the security fixes included in this release, please build your own binaries from the sources, or (better) upgrade to a more recent Python release for which we still do provide binaries and documentation updates. See the detailed release notes for more details. Since the release candi...

  • Python 3.3.0 Release

    ...IDLE or use Tkinter, see note 2 for instructions.] Mac OS X 32-bit i386/PPC Installer (3.3.0) for OS X 10.5 and later [2] (sig) The source tarballs are signed with Georg Brandl's key, which has a key id of 36580288; the fingerprint is 26DE A9D4 6133 91EF 3E25 C9FF 0A5B 1018 3658 0288. The Windows installer was signed by Martin von Löwis' public key, which has a key id of 7D9DC8D2. The Mac installers were signed with Ned Deily's key, which has a key id of 6F5E1540. The public keys are located ...

  • Release – Python 3.5.0a2

    Version: None

    Released: March 9, 2015

    Python 3.5.0a2 Python 3.5 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.5.10, the final release of the 3.5 series, is available here. Python 3.5.0a2 was released on March 9th, 2015. Major new features of the 3.5 series, compared to 3.4 Python 3.5 is still in development, …

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  • Release – Python 3.5.0a3

    Version: None

    Released: March 30, 2015

    Python 3.5.0a3 Python 3.5 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.5.10, the final release of the 3.5 series, is available here. Python 3.5.0a3 was released on March 30th, 2015. Major new features of the 3.5 series, compared to 3.4 Python 3.5 is still in development, …

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  • 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 2.5.3

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    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

    Version: None

    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

    Version: None

    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

    Version: None

    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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  • Python Success Stories

    ...ide, a COM client side agent (also written in Python), and a Java client side agent. One distinct advantage of writing both the server side and COM client side of our Web services architecture in Python was that we could automatically replicate services from the server to the client side. This was possible whenever a service did not depend on database connectivity or other elements specific to the server-side environment. Python's data packaging facilities and portable byte code format made this...

  • Release – Python 2.7.0

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    Released: July 3, 2010

    Note: A bugfix release, 2.7.13, is currently available. Its use is recommended. Python 2.7.0 was released on July 3rd, 2010. Python 2.7 is scheduled to be the last major version in the 2.x series before it moves into an extended maintenance period. This release contains many …

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  • Python Success Stories

    ...idn't support local variables, and there were no control structures except conditionals. Even arithmetic was not possible. Our first web sites developed with this system consisted of a mix of hsc macros and Perl scripts that generated hsc source files. In 1998, hsc's author halted further development, and we became quite motivated to find an alternative. At first we decided to continue development of hsc ourselves, and planned to make it compatible with XML, which was beginning to become popular...

  • Release – Python 3.7.7

    Version: None

    Released: March 10, 2020

    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. The Python …

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  • Notes

    ...IDLE Bug 778400: IDLE hangs when selecting "Edit with IDLE" from explorer. This was unique to Windows, and was fixed by adding an -n switch to the command the Windows installer creates to execute "Edit with IDLE" context-menu actions. IDLE displays a new message upon startup: some "personal firewall" kinds of programs (for example, ZoneAlarm) open a dialog of their own when any program opens a socket. IDLE does use sockets, talking on the computer's internal loo...

  • Release – Python 2.6.9

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 29, 2013

    With the 2.6.9 release, and five years after its first release, the Python 2.6 series is now officially retired. All official maintenance for Python 2.6, including security patches, has ended. For ongoing maintenance releases, please see the Python 2.7 series. The NEWS file lists every change in each alpha, …

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  • Release – Python 2.6.8

    Version: None

    Released: April 10, 2012

    Python 2.6 is now in security-fix-only mode; no new features are being added, and no new bug fix releases are planned. We intend to provide source-only security fixes for the Python 2.6 series until October 2013 (five years after the 2.6 final release). For ongoing maintenance releases, please see …

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  • Python Success Stories

    ...idation-correction cycle to last up to six months. Solution In order to resolve this problem, the Agency had several options to choose between. These options included writing their own application, outsourcing the problem, or using a market solution. After evaluating the cost and development times of each, they decided to pick Test&Go as a combined solution for the following reasons: The Test&Go Integrated Development Environment allowed for very rapid development and testing of a solu...

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