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  • Release – Python 3.6.0rc2

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 16, 2016

    Python 3.6.0rc2 Python 3.6.0rc2 was released on 2016-12-16. 3.6.0rc2 is the second release candidate for the 3.6.0 release. Code for 3.6.0 is now frozen. Assuming no release critical problems are found prior to the 3.6.0 final release date, currently 2016-12-23, the 3.6.0 final release will be the same code base …

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  • Release – Python 3.6.0

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 23, 2016

    Note: The release you are looking at is Python 3.6.0, the initial feature release for the legacy 3.6 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 3.6 was 3.6.15 …

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  • Release – Python 3.6.1

    Version: None

    Released: March 21, 2017

    Note: The release you are looking at is Python 3.6.1, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.6 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 3.6 was 3.6.15 and …

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  • Release – Python 3.10.0b3

    Version: None

    Released: June 17, 2021

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.10 Python 3.10 is still in development. 3.10.0b3 is the third of four planned beta release previews. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their projects to support …

  • Bugs in Python 2.3.3

    ...module to fail on OSF/1 5.1, at least on the HP test machines. <li>It has been reported that untarring the source tarball using Solaris tar or HP/UX tar can fail. This is caused by some pathnames being too long for the tar shipped by the vendor to handle. Using <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html">GNU tar</a> should allow for untarring on Solaris and HP/UX. </ul> <a name="test"><h4>Test suite bugs</h4></a> <...

  • Python 1.6 License FAQ

    ...module, or C extension module? Does that constitute "a modification" too? What if I just use the freeze tool to change the way the distribution is packaged? Or change the layout of files and directories from the way CNRI ships them? Or change some file names to match my operating system's restrictions? What if I merely use the documentation, as a basis for a brand new implementation of Python? This license clause is in discussion right now. CNRI has stated that the intent is just to ...

  • Python 1.6 License FAQ

    ...module, or C extension module? Does that constitute "a modification" too? What if I just use the freeze tool to change the way the distribution is packaged? Or change the layout of files and directories from the way CNRI ships them? Or change some file names to match my operating system's restrictions? What if I merely use the documentation, as a basis for a brand new implementation of Python? This license clause is in discussion right now. CNRI has stated that the intent is just to ...

  • Release – Python 3.1.3

    Version: None

    Released: Nov. 27, 2010

    Note: It is recommended that you use the latest bug fix release of the 3.1 series, 3.1.4. Python 3.1.3 was released on November 27th, 2010. The Python 3.1 version series is a continuation of the work started by Python 3.0, the new backwards-incompatible series of Python. For ongoing …

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  • Applications for Python

    ...modules for Python. Web and Internet Development Python offers many choices for web development: Frameworks such as Django and Pyramid. Micro-frameworks such as Flask and Bottle. Advanced content management systems such as Plone and django CMS. Python's standard library supports many Internet protocols: HTML and XML JSON E-mail processing. Support for FTP, IMAP, and other Internet protocols. Easy-to-use socket interface. And the Package Index has yet more libraries: Requests, a powerful H...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...module that implements the client end of the SCGI protocol for long-running web processes (similar to FastCGI). The server end of the SCGI protocol was implemented by Quixote, a Python-based web framework. Quixote also provided a URL mapping mechanism that simplified the job of publishing objects on the web. Cheetah was again used for handling presentation, and Oracle was used for storage. We were assigned this project somewhat late in the process, and it was clear that it would come into active...

  • Python Internationalization-SIG

    ...module for reading .mo files created by msgfmt. intl.so - An interface to the (GNU) gettext C library. Only useful for intenational applications, if they are covered by GPL and will run under Unix-Linux. pygettext - Barry Warsaw's reimplementation of gettext in pure Python. (Now also part of Python 2.0 in Tools/i18n/.) Japanese codecs for Python - made available by Tamito Kajiyama. Tom Emerson presented a paper at the 2002 Unicode conference in ...

  • Python 3.1.3 Release

    ...module Tile support for Tkinter A pure Python reference implementation of the import statement New syntax for nested with statements See these resources for further information: What's New in 3.1? What's new in Python 3000? Python 3.1.3 Change Log Online Documentation Conversion tool for Python 2.x code: 2to3 Report bugs at http://bugs.python.org. Help fund Python and its community by donating to the Python Software Foundation. Download This is a production release. Please report any bugs ...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...modules over the years. Python's platform independence, and the fact that it is an interpreted language, have been a major benefit to customers that have migrated from the VMS and UNIX to Windows. They have been able to port their code with no changes or at most only minor changes. Today Tribon Solutions has customers that have, by utilizing the power of Tribon Vitesse, been able to reduce design time of certain complex ship structures from four weeks to two days, while improving overall quality...

  • Python Documentation Index

    ...Module Cleanup A revised version of the proposal I posted to comp.lang.python on Feb 6, 1998. This has been adopted in Python 1.5.1. Open Source Summit Trip Report My trip report of O'Reilly's Open Source Summit, essentially as posted on c.l.p. This version published in the Linux Gazette (it's an external link), in their May 1998 issue. Debugging Reference Count Problems An edited version of a posting to c.l.p on this subject, on May 27, 1998. Computer Programming for Everybody (old) A fund...

  • Bugs in Python 2.3.2

    ...module.c might fail to compile with an error about INET_ADDRSTRLEN. A <a href="sgi-socketmodule.patch">patch</a> for this is here. </ul> <a name="test"><h4>Test suite bugs</h4></a> <p>Some tests may unexpectedly fail on certain platforms. Here are failures that we know (something) about and intend to fix in a following patch release. These bugs may simply be in the test suite, but they may indicate bugs in Python. <ul>...

  • Frank Willison Memorial Award

    ...module. He has vigorously advocated for Python 3 adoption; he has helped with infrastructure; with the security list; and he has been Python release manager for several versions. Barry has worked for Canonical since 2007, focusing especially on Python support in the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. Anna Martelli Ravenscroft (2013) Anna Martelli Ravenscroft received the Frank Willison Award for her book authorship, volunteer work at PyCon and OSCon, and public speaking. Anna has spoken repe...

  • Python Humor

    ...module, a gun class, a foot module and a foot class. After realising you can't point the gun at the foot, you pass a reference to the gun to a foot object. After the foot is blown up, the gun object remains alive for eternity, ready to shoot all future feet that may happen to appear. Java: You find that Microsoft and Sun have released imcompatible class libraries both implementing Gun objects. You then find that although there are plenty of feet objects implemented in the past in many other lang...

  • Computer Programming for Everybody

    ...modules written in other languages (e.g. C, C++, or Java), to mediate access to advanced functionality that is not easily accessible from Python directly (for example, high-speed 3-D computer graphics packages). While we don't expect students to write these extension modules, the use of such modules makes it possible to spruce up their learning experience greatly. This extensibility gives teachers an opportunity to tailor lessons to the interests of their students by providing them with g...

  • Release – Python 2.5.0

    Version: None

    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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  • Python Success Stories

    ...modules. Tkinter is included in all standard Python installations. "USA is pleasantly surprised by how much quality software we can deliver," Friedrich says. "And each time we demonstrate success with Python, we add a few more believers to my growing list!" About the Author Dan Shafer is a freelance author and sometime Python coder who hangs out on California's central coast. He is a member of the PythonCard Open Source development team creating a GUI-building framework for...

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