Notice: While JavaScript is not essential for this website, your interaction with the content will be limited. Please turn JavaScript on for the full experience.

Search Python.org

Results

  • Bugs in Python 2.3.3

    ....2. They should hopefully be fixed in a 2.3.3 release. <ul> <li>Some sort of weird dynamic linker error causes dbmmodule 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 u...

  • Python 2.4.6 Release

    Python 2.4.6 Release Python 2.4.6 We are pleased to announce Python 2.4.6 (final), a bugfix release of Python 2.4, on Dec 19, 2008. Important: 2.4.6 is a source-only release. If you need a binary release of 2.4, use 2.4.4. If you need the fixes that are included in this release, use 2.6.1 or later. This release includes just a small number of fixes, primarily preventing crashes of the interpreter in certain boundary cases. This is the last planned release in the Python 2.4 series. We have ...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 13-Feb-2003

    Python Software Foundation: Press Release 13-Feb-2003 Creators of Python Sponsor PyCon 2003, First Annual Developers Conference in March FREDERICKSBURG, VA, February 13, 2003 No, it's not a snake or the name of a British comedy group. Python is one of the most useful, compelling and intelligently designed programming platforms to have emerged into the computer industry mainstream in recent years. It is rapidly gaining wide acceptance and being deployed in major IT shops around the wor...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 9-Feb-2004

    Python Software Foundation: Press Release 9-Feb-2004 February 9, 2004 Press Release SOURCE: Python Software Foundation PyCon 2004 - Second Annual Python Developers Conference Keynote Speech by Mitchell Kapor, founder of Lotus FREDERICKSBURG, Va., February 9, 2004 -- PyCon 2004, the second annual Python developers conference, will be held at George Washington University's Cafritz Conference Center in Washington DC on March 24-26, 2004. Mitchell Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Co...

  • Search Python Resources

    Search Python Resources <H1>Search Python Resources</H1> These are minimalistic quick search forms. For more elaborate interfaces, click on the "advanced search" links below.<P> <FORM method="GET" ACTION="http://www.google.com/search"> <P> Search the <A HREF="http://www.python.org">Python Website</A> using <img border="0" src="/images/Google_Logo_25wht.gif" alt="Google" align=&qu...

  • 2008-09-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ....2   New from August 11 These action items originated at the 11 August 2008 Board meeting on IRC. Section 4, Sponsor Membership Policy: D. Goodger will add a description of the updated policy to the sponsor membership description page. Status: carried forward. Section 5.1, PR Contract: S. Holden will reply to the PR contract offer. Status: done. Section 5.2, PR Contract: S. Holden will inform Van Lindberg that the Board supports his efforts to find low-cost PR for the PSF. Stat...

  • Python 1.6 License FAQ

    ....2? Releases of Python prior to 1.6 were shared with the community without a formal license from CNRI. The CWI Copyright Notice and Permissions statement (which was included with Python releases prior to 1.6b1), as well as the combined CWI-CNRI disclaimer, were required to be included as a condition for using the prior Python software. CNRI does not intend to require users of prior versions of Python to upgrade to 1.6 unless they voluntarily choose to do so. OK, on to the new li...

  • Python 1.6 License FAQ

    ....2? Releases of Python prior to 1.6 were shared with the community without a formal license from CNRI. The CWI Copyright Notice and Permissions statement (which was included with Python releases prior to 1.6b1), as well as the combined CWI-CNRI disclaimer, were required to be included as a condition for using the prior Python software. CNRI does not intend to require users of prior versions of Python to upgrade to 1.6 unless they voluntarily choose to do so. OK, on to the new li...

  • Known bugs in Python 2.2

    ....2</h3> <p>The following visible differences between Python 2.2 and previous versions are intentional. <ul> <p><li>Not everything is listed here; for the full list see the <a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/~checkout~/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS?rev=1.337.2.4 " >Misc/NEWS</a> file in the distribution. <p><li>Not listed here are various deprecated modules and features that may issue warnings: the warnings sh...

  • 2007-02-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ....2beta1 was released in the past week. Charles Groves, who's steering the 2.2 release, would like to change the license to be the PSF license, removing the 2.0/2.1 part of the license that says "Copyright Jython developers". The push toward 2.2beta/final is increasing the pressure a bit. A. Kuchling asked if everyone looked at his proposed e-mail to jython-dev; some changes were suggested. T. Peters noted that removing the CNRI license would not be possible. A. Kuchling will advise...

  • 2007-11-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ....2   New in October 4   Credit Card Payment System 5   New Sponsor Application 6   PyCon 2007 Audio 7   PSF Article for The Python Papers 8   PyCon 2008 9   Adjournment 1   Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were present at the meeting: Tim Peters, Stephan Deibel, David Goodger, Martin von Löwis, Steve Holden, Brett Cannon, and Andrew Kuchling. Als...

  • Fiscal Sponsorees

    Fiscal Sponsorees The Python Software Foundation promotes, protects, and advances the Python programming language and supports and facilitates the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers. Part of that mission includes acting as a fiscal sponsor to mission-related Python events, groups, and projects. The PSF provides 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status to fiscal sponsorees and manages back office issues like cash flow, accounting, budgeting, insurance, and contract/legal ...

  • Release – Python 2.2.0

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 21, 2001

    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 to remain with Python 2.2, there's a patch available from the …

    View Release Notes

  • 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 …

    View Release Notes

  • Release – Python 2.4.5

    Version: None

    Released: March 11, 2008

    Python 2.4 is now in security-fix-only mode. No new features are being added, and bugs are not fixed anymore unless they affect the stability and security of the interpreter, or of Python …

    View Release Notes

  • Release – Python 2.3.3

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 19, 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 …

    View Release Notes

  • Release – Python 3.7.0b1

    Version: None

    Released: Jan. 31, 2018

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.7 Python 3.7 is still in development. This release, 3.7.0b1, is the first of four planned beta release previews. Among the major new features in Python 3.7 are: PEP 538, Coercing the legacy C locale to a UTF-8 based locale PEP 539 …

    View Release Notes

  • Release – Python 3.9.1rc1

    Version: None

    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 …

    View Release Notes

  • Release – Python 3.13.0b3

    Version: None

    Released: June 27, 2024

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is still in development. This release, 3.13.0b3, is the third of four beta release previews of 3.13. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their …

    View Release Notes

  • Release – Python 3.9.20

    Version: None

    Released: Sept. 6, 2024

    This is a security release of Python 3.9 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.9.20, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.9 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 …

    View Release Notes

Python language documentation

If you didn't find what you need, try your search in the Python language documentation.