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  • Python Distutils-SIG: Documentation

    Python Distutils-SIG: Documentation Python Distutils-SIG: Documentation User Documents Two documents have been written to cover the Distutils, and are part of Python's standard documentation set: Installing Python Modules This is for end-users, system administrators, and Python programmers who need to install third-party modules to their existing Python installation. It focusses on using the Distutils, b...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (March 26, 2004)

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (March 26, 2004) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Special Meeting of the Board of Directors Draft March 26, 2004 A special meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors (the "Board") was held during PyCon, at the George Washington University Cafritz Center, at noon. Jeremy Hylton, secretary of the PSF, presided. 1. Attendance This was the first meeting of the Board with the newly elec...

  • Release – Python 3.14.0b1

    Version: None

    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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  • Debugging Reference Count Problems

    Debugging Reference Count Problems Warning This page stays here for historical reasons and it may contain outdated or incorrect information. Debugging Reference Count Problems From: Guido van Rossum <guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> To: python-list@cwi.nl Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 11:09:40 -0400 Mike Fletcher wrote a number of posts about debugging C code that bombs, probably because of reference count problems. His approach to debugging this problem seems typical, but I thin...

  • 2014-01-20 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2014-01-20 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors January 20, 2014 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Group Conference Call via phone and Internet Relay Chat beginning at 18:00 CET/ 12:00 EST, on January 20, 2014. Van Lindberg presided over the meeting. Ewa Jodlowska prepared the minutes. All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor-...

  • Diversity

    Diversity Diversity Statement The Python Software Foundation and the global Python community welcome and encourage participation by everyone. Our community is based on mutual respect, tolerance, and encouragement, and we are working to help each other live up to these principles. We want our community to be more diverse: whoever you are, and whatever your background, we welcome you. Diversity Appendix We have created this diversity statement because we believe that a diverse Python communit...

  • Release – Python 2.3.5

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    Released: Feb. 8, 2005

    Python 2.3.5 (final) on Feb 8th, 2005. This is a bug-fix release for Python 2.3. There have been around 50 bugs fixed since 2.3.4 - in the Python interpreter, the standard library and also in the build process - see the release notes for details. Important: This release is vulnerable …

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  • Release – Python 2.3.0

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    Released: July 29, 2003

    This is a patch release which supersedes earlier releases of 2.3. 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 and Python 2.5. If you need …

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  • Release – Python 2.6.0

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    Released: Oct. 2, 2008

    Python 2.6 (final) was released on October 1st, 2008. There are a huge number of new features, modules, improvements and bug fixes. For information on what's changed, see: Andrew Kuchling's guide to What's New in Python 2.6. NEWS file contains a …

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  • Release – Python 3.11.0b3

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    Released: June 1, 2022

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.11 Python 3.11 is still in development. 3.11.0b3 is the third of five 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 …

  • Release – Python 3.11.0b4

    Version: None

    Released: July 11, 2022

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.11 Python 3.11 is still in development. 3.11.0b4 is the fourth of five 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 …

  • Python 2.6 Release

    Python 2.6 Release Python 2.6 Python 2.6 has been replaced by a newer bugfix release of Python. Please download Python 2.6.7 instead. This is a source-only release. Python 2.6 (final) was released on October 1st, 2008. There are a huge number of new features, modules, improvements and bug fixes. For information on what's changed, see: Andrew Kuchling's guide to What's New in Python 2.6. NEWS file contains a listing of everything that's new in each alpha, beta, and release candidate of P...

  • Python 3.0 Release

    Python 3.0 Release Python 3.0 Python 3.0 is end-of-lifed with the release of Python 3.1. All users of Python 3.0.x should upgrade to the most recent version of Python 3; please see the downloads pages. Python 3.0 has been replaced by a newer bugfix release of Python. Please download Python 3.0.1 instead. 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 ...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2 Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2 Python Version: 2.2.1 (For a newer version of this tutorial, see Python 2.2.3) Guido van Rossum This paper is an incomplete draft. I am soliciting feedback. If you find any problems, please write me at guido@python.org. Table of Contents Change Log Introduction Subclassing built-in types Built-in types as factory functions Introspecting instances of built-in types Static metho...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2 Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2 Python Version: 2.2.2 (For a newer version of this tutorial, see Python 2.2.3) Guido van Rossum This paper is an incomplete draft. I am soliciting feedback. If you find any problems, please write me at guido@python.org. Table of Contents Change Log Introduction Subclassing built-in types Built-in types as factory functions Introspecting instances of built-in types Static metho...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2 Python Version: 2.2.3 Guido van Rossum This paper is an incomplete draft. I am soliciting feedback. If you find any problems, please write me at guido@python.org. Table of Contents Change Log Introduction Subclassing built-in types Built-in types as factory functions Introspecting instances of built-in types Static methods and class methods Properties: attributes defined by get/set methods Method resolution ord...

  • Release – Python 3.8.0a3

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    Released: March 25, 2019

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.8 Major new features of the 3.8 series, compared to 3.7 Python 3.8 is still in development. This release, 3.8.0a3 is the third of four planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of …

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  • Release – Python 3.10.0a1

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    Released: Oct. 5, 2020

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.10 Major new features of the 3.10 series, compared to 3.9 Python 3.10 is still in development. This releasee, 3.10.0a1 is the first of six planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of …

  • Web SIG

    Web SIG The Python Web SIG is dedicated to improving Python's support for interacting with World Wide Web services and clients. Charter The first task should be to create a plan (in the form of a PEP) for bringing the Web support in the standard Python library up to modern standards. This would address capabilities such as (but not limited to) CSS parsing, XHTML parsing and generation support, client-side and server-side SSL support, simple server frameworks, multi-part/form-data POST suppor...

  • Release – Python 2.3.2

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 3, 2003

    This is a patch release which supersedes earlier releases of 2.3. 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 and Python 2.5. If you need …

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