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Python 1.6 License FAQ Python 1.6 License FAQ This FAQ addresses questions concerning the CNRI Open Source License and its impact on past and future Python releases. The text below has been approved for posting on the Python website and newsgroup by CNRI's president, Dr. Robert E. Kahn. The old Python license from CWI worked well for almost 10 years. Why a new license for Python 1.6? CNRI claims copyright in Python code and documentation from releases 1.3 through 1.6 inc...
Known bugs in Python 2.2 <h2>Known bugs in Python 2.2</h2> <h3>Real bugs</h3> <p>These are actual bugs, and we will make fixes available as soon as we have them. (There may be other bugs that aren't generally worth knowing about; search the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=5470">SourceForge bug tracker</a>; you can also use that to report new bugs you find, of course.) <ul> <p><li>The ftplib module's FTP class...
2007-02-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors February 12, 2007 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 18:12 UTC, 12 February 2007. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1 Attendance 2 Minutes of Past Meetings 3 Stat...
2007-11-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors November 12, 2007 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 18:04 UTC, 12 November 2007. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1 Attendance 2 Minutes of Past Meetings 3 Stat...
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 ...
About Python is a remarkably powerful dynamic programming language that is used in a wide variety of application domains. Python is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Ruby, Scheme or Java. Some of its key distinguishing features include: very clear, readable syntax strong introspection capabilities intuitive object orientation natural expression of procedural code full modularity, supporting hierarchical packages exception-based error handling very high level dynamic data types extensive standard l...
Applications for Python Python is used in many application domains. Here's a sampling. The Python Package Index lists thousands of third party 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. Suppor...
Python Success Stories Introduction TEMPEST, a.s. is one of leading system integrators in Slovakia and surrounding countries. TEMPEST has long-term experience in the area of IT service management (ITSM). ITSM is aimed at fulfilling strategic business objectives in order to allow flexible reaction to market demand, to connect the IT capabilities with the business needs, and to enable planning, management and measurement of the quality of IT services. Many large organizations have different tec...
Python Internationalization-SIG Internationalization-SIG ("i18n") This SIG provides a forum for discussing issues relating to the internationalization of Python. At the time of writing (March 2000), internationalization (henceforth spelled as "i18n" to save typing) features are being added to Python. This sig is the primary forum for discussing those features. Topics covered include but are not limited to: Unicode support and building a library of codecs Support for local...
Bugs in Python 2.3.1 <h3>Bugs in Python 2.3.1</h3> <ul> <li>IDLE now executes code in a separate process. To communicate between the main process and executing processes, IDLE opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE.</li> <li>The...
Python 2.3.4 Python 2.3.4 Note: See Python 2.3.5 for 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 to remain with Python 2.3, there's a patch available from the security advisory page. Important: 2.3.5 in...
Python 2.3.7 Release Python 2.3.7 We are pleased to announce Python 2.3.7 (final), a bugfix release of Python 2.3, on March 11, 2008. Important: 2.3.7 is a source-only release. If you need a binary release of 2.3, use 2.3.5. If you need the fixes that are included in this release, use 2.5.2 or later. Python 2.3 is now well and truly in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added, and only security critical bugs have been fixed. This release addresses a number of cases interpreter migh...
Python 2.4.5 Release Python 2.4.5 We are pleased to announce Python 2.4.5 (final), a bugfix release of Python 2.4, on March 11, 2008. Important: 2.4.5 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 2.5.2 or later. 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 appli...
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
This is a security release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.20, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 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 …
Released: Sept. 7, 2024
This is a security release of Python 3.10 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.10.15, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.10 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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