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  • Release – Python 3.11.10

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    Released: Sept. 7, 2024

    This is a security release of Python 3.11 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.11.10, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.11 series. Python 3.12 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.12.x here. Security content in this …

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  • Release – Python 3.9.2

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    Released: Feb. 19, 2021

    This is the second maintenance release of Python 3.9 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.9.2, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.9 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. We've made 166 commits …

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  • Release – Python 3.9.6

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    Released: June 28, 2021

    This is the sixth maintenance release of Python 3.9 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.9.6, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.9 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. There's been 146 commits …

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  • Release – Python 3.9.11

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    Released: March 16, 2022

    This is the eleventh maintenance release of Python 3.9 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.9.11, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.9 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. Security content in this …

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  • Release – Python 3.13.9

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    Released: Oct. 14, 2025

    This is the ninth maintenance release of Python 3.13 Note: This is Python 3.13.9, a maintenance release for Python 3.13. Python 3.14 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.14.x here. 3.13.9 is an expedited release containing a fix for one …

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

    ...Python" (2nd ed.) Foreword for "Programming Python" (2nd ed.) This is the foreword I wrote for Mark Lutz' book "Programming Python" (2nd ed.), published by O'Reilly in 2001. Less than five years ago, I wrote the foreword for the 1st edition of Programming Python. Since then, the book has changed about as much as the language and the Python community! I no longer feel the need to defend Python: the statistics and developments listed in Mark's Preface speak for themselves. ...

  • Release – Python 3.9.0b2

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    Released: June 9, 2020

    WARNING: this release has a known regression See BPO-40924 for details. Use Python 3.9.0b3 or newer instead, please. This is a beta preview of Python 3.9 Python 3.9 is still in development. This release, 3.9.0b2, is the second of four planned beta release previews. Beta release previews are intended to …

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  • Release – Python 3.9.1rc1

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    Released: Nov. 26, 2020

    This is the release candidate of the first maintenance release of Python 3.9 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.9.1rc1, the release candidate of a bugfix release for the legacy 3.9 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release …

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  • Release – Python 3.13.11

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    Released: Dec. 5, 2025

    This is the eleventh maintenance release of Python 3.13 Note: This is Python 3.13.11, a maintenance release for Python 3.13. Python 3.14 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.14.x here. Python 3.13.11 is the eleventh maintenance release of 3.13. This …

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  • Python Documentation Index

    ...Python code runs too slow. Metaclass Programming in Python 1.5 Warning: reading this document may cause your brain to explode. Built-in Package Support in Python 1.5 The most official documentation for the new package features in Python 1.5. Standard Exception Classes in Python 1.5 The most official documentation for the new exception features in Python 1.5. (Updated for Python 1.5.2 by Barry Warsaw.) Glue It All Together With Python A position paper I wrote for and presented at the OMG-DAR...

  • Release – Python 3.13.4

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    Released: June 3, 2025

    This is the fourth maintenance release of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations compared to Python 3.12. 3.13.4 is the latest maintenance release, containing a few important security fixes as well as around 300 …

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  • Python Software Foundation: Python Conference Committee Report (December 2003)

    Python Software Foundation: Python Conference Committee Report (December 2003) <center> <h3>The Python Software Foundation <br>Python Conference Committee Report </h3> </center> <p>December 2003 <p>David Ascher reports that he and Steve Holden had a phone call, and Ascher, Holden, Jeremy Hylton, Neal Norwitz, and Itamar Shtull-Trauring met on IRC. <h3>Deadlines</h3> <ul> System Message: ERROR/3 (<string>, line 15) Unexpected in...

  • Release – Python 3.13.1

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    Released: Dec. 3, 2024

    This is the first maintenance release of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations compared to Python 3.12. 3.13.1 is the latest maintenance release, containing almost 400 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.13.0. …

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  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.2.3

    ...Python provided by Red Hat. <ul> <li /><a href="/ftp/python/2.2.3/rpms/redhat-9/python-2.2.3-26.i386.rpm">python-2.2.3-26.i386.rpm</a> (Red Hat 9 base RPM, 5530686 bytes) <li /><a href="/ftp/python/2.2.3/rpms/redhat-9/python-devel-2.2.3-26.i386.rpm">python-devel-2.2.3-26.i386.rpm</a> (Red Hat 9 development RPM, 1172632 bytes) <li /><a href="/ftp/python/2.2.3/rpms/redhat-9/python-docs-2.2.3-26.i386.rpm">python-do...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Python - one stop shopping development plus platform independence I used Python before and it seemed to have the potential to do all the required coding and was a programming language that I enjoyed using. I was not entirely confident about some parts of the task, especially building a graphical user interface, but decided to face my fears, trusting to Python's maturity, powerful libraries, and third-party support. The SPE editor together with Python's interpreted nature proved especially valua...

  • Release – Python 3.9.1

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    Released: Dec. 7, 2020

    This is the first maintenance release of Python 3.9 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.9.1, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.9 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. We've made 282 changes …

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  • Python Success Stories

    ...Python? Python was not our first choice as the main programming language it was a coincidence. When we started our project we was very proficient in Perl and completely unaware of Python: so we chose Perl. We discovered Python when we decided that we had to substitute the PerlTK user interface with a Web-based one. We found Zope, and after some attempts to integrate Perl with Zope, we switched to Python. To make a log story short, at the end we dropped Zope but kept using Python (and rewrote the...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Python a mainstay since 1994 Enter Python. "We'd been using Python since 1994," says Friedrich, "when I literally stumbled across Python as I was searching the pre-Web Gopher FTP space for some help with a C++ project we were doing." Being an inveterate systems engineer, Friedrich "just had to investigate it." He was stunned by what he discovered. "Twenty minutes after my first encounter with Python, I had downloaded it, compiled it, and installed it on my SPAR...

  • Other Documentation Tools

    Other Documentation Tools Other Documentation Tools When considering the state of documentation tools for Python, one should consider what is being done for other systems. This should include tools that work with documentation embedded in source code and tools that work with separated documentation. If you can think of additional tools that should be noted, please let me know about them (free or commercial). If you can point to an example of the markup, that would be great; thank...

  • Release – Python 3.14.0b1

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    Released: May 7, 2025

    Only one day late, welcome to the first beta! This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b1, is the first of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features …

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