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  • 2007-02-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    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...

  • Release – Python 3.8.2rc1

    Version: None

    Released: Feb. 10, 2020

    This is the release candidate of Python 3.8.2, the second maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.2rc1, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x …

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  • Release – Python 3.8.3

    Version: None

    Released: May 13, 2020

    This is the third maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.3, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. Major new features of …

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  • Release – Python 3.8.4rc1

    Version: None

    Released: June 30, 2020

    This is the release candidate of the fourth maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.4rc1, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. …

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  • Release – Python 3.8.6

    Version: None

    Released: Sept. 24, 2020

    This is the sixth maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.6, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. Major new features of …

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  • Release – Python 3.8.8

    Version: None

    Released: Feb. 19, 2021

    This is the eight maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.8, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. 3.8.8 introduces two security …

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  • Release – Python 3.8.10

    Version: None

    Released: May 3, 2021

    This is the tenth and final regular maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.10, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. According …

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  • 2011-07-18 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2011-07-18 PSF Board Meeting Minutes .. declare custom role for action items: .. role:: action .. class:: minutes-title | The Python Software Foundation | Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors | | July 18, 2011 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 18 July 2011. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. Pat Campbell prepared the minutes. All votes are reported in the form "*Y-N...

  • Python 2.0

    ...4-bit machines. (It assumed that signed right shift sign-extends.) operator: Add contains(), invert(), __invert__() as aliases for __contains__(), inv(), and __inv__() respectively. os: Add support for popen2() and popen3() on all platforms where fork() exists. (popen4() is still in the works.) os: (Windows only:) Add startfile() function that acts like double- clicking on a file in Explorer (or passing the file name to the DOS "start" command). os.path: (Windows, DO...

  • 2007-04-09 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2007-04-09 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors April 9, 2007 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 17:06 UTC, 9 April 2007. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1   Attendance 2   Minutes of Past Meetings 3   Status of Pa...

  • Python 2.4.2 Release

    Python 2.4.2 Release Python 2.4.2 Python 2.4.2 has been replaced by a newer bugfix release of Python. Please see the releases page to select a more recent release. We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.4.2 (final), a bugfix release, on September 28, 2005. 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 Pyt...

  • Release – Python 3.8.2rc2

    Version: None

    Released: Feb. 17, 2020

    This is the second release candidate of Python 3.8.2, the second maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.2rc2, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of …

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  • Release – Python 3.9.0b2

    Version: None

    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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  • SIG for development of Python/C++ integration

    SIG for development of Python/C++ integration SIG for development of Python/C++ integration The Python C++ SIG is a forum for discussions about the integration of Python and C++, with an emphasis on the development of the Boost.Python library. At the point of this writing (Jan 2002), Boost.Python is undergoing a major rewrite to add powerful new features and to take full advantage of the new type system introduced in Python 2.2. Suggestions regarding the direction of the develop...

  • Python Software Foundation Board Meeting Minutes 2006-08-14

    Python Software Foundation Board Meeting Minutes 2006-08-14 The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors August 14, 2006 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 17:00 UTC, 14 August 2006. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1   Attendance 2   Minutes of Past Meetings 3&nb...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Background MayaVi is an open source scientific data visualization tool written entirely in Python. I started work on MayaVi in 2000. At that time, a few colleagues of mine needed to visualize their computational fluid dynamics (CFD) data but the only suitable tools available were commercial, closed source programs that were prohibitively expensive. We looked at some open source tools as alternatives. OpenDX had just been released to the public and at that time was har...

  • Python 1.6

    Python 1.6 Python 1.6 Note: See the download pages for more recent releases. The final version of Python 1.6 is released on September 5, 2000. (What's new?) CNRI has placed an open source license on this version. CNRI believes that this version is compatible with the GPL, but there is a technicality concerning the choice of law provision, which Richard Stallman believes may make it incompatible. CNRI is still trying to work this out with Stallman. Future versions of Python ...

  • Release – Python 2.4.2

    Version: None

    Released: Sept. 27, 2005

    We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.4.2 (final), a bugfix release, on September 28, 2005. 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 …

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  • Highlights: Python 2.4

    Highlights: Python 2.4 Highlights: Python 2.4 Here are the (subjective) highlights of what's new in Python 2.4. Faster A number of modules that were added in Python 2.3 (such as sets and heapq) have been recoded in C. In addition, there's been a number of other speedups to the interpreter. (See section 8.1, Optimizations, of the "What's New" document for more). New language features multi-line imports - when using imports in the form from foo import bar, baz, bing, bang, you c...

  • Notes

    Notes (editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.) What's New in Python 2.4 final? Release date: 30-NOV-2004 Core and builtins Bug 875692: Improve signal handling, especially when using threads, by forcing an early re-execution of PyEval_EvalFrame() "periodic" code when things_to_do is not cleared by Py_MakePendingCalls(). What's New in Python 2.4 (release candidate 1) Release date: 18-NOV-2004 Core and builtins Bug 1061968: Fixes in 2.4a3 to ad...

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