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  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 29-Jul-2003

    Python Software Foundation: Press Release 29-Jul-2003 July 29, 2003 Press Release SOURCE: Python Software Foundation PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION (PSF) ANNOUNCES PYTHON VERSION 2.3 New release enhances powerful programming language FREDERICKSBURG, Va., July 29, 2003 -- The Python Software Foundation (PSF) announces the release of version 2.3 of the Python programming language. This major release introduces performance enhancements, increased robustness, several minor language feature...

  • Known bugs in Python 2.2.1

    Known bugs in Python 2.2.1 <h2>Known bugs in Python 2.2.1</h2> <p>This page now exists only to clarify incompatibilities between Python version 2.2[.x] and versions before 2.2. <h3>Incompatibilities between Python 2.1[.x] and Python 2.2[.x]</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.source...

  • Incompatibilities between Python 2.1[.x] and 2.2[.x]

    Incompatibilities between Python 2.1[.x] and 2.2[.x] <h3>Incompatibilities between Python 2.1[.x] and Python 2.2[.x]</h3> <p>The following visible differences between Python 2.2 and previous versions are intentional. <ul> <p><li>Not listed here are various deprecated modules and features that may issue warnings: the warnings shouldn't affect the correct execution of your program, and they can be disabled with a command line option or programmatically; see th...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 31-May-2003

    Python Software Foundation: Press Release 31-May-2003 May 31, 2003 Press Release SOURCE: Python Software Foundation PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION (PSF) ANNOUNCES PYTHON VERSION 2.2.3 New release enhances powerful programming language FREDERICKSBURG, Va., [May 31, 2003] -- The Python Software Foundation announces the release of version 2.2.3 of the Python programming language. This maintenance release introduces over 120 enhancements to the language and its extensive standard libraries...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 23-Sep-2003

    Python Software Foundation: Press Release 23-Sep-2003 September 23, 2003 Press Release SOURCE: Python Software Foundation PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION (PSF) ANNOUNCES PYTHON VERSION 2.3.1 First maintenance release for the latest Python FREDERICKSBURG, Va., September 23, 2003 -- The Python Software Foundation (PSF) announces the release of version 2.3.1 of the Python programming language. This minor release introduces a number of enhancements based on two months of experience since re...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 19-Dec-2003

    Python Software Foundation: Press Release 19-Dec-2003 PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION (PSF) ANNOUNCES PYTHON VERSION 2.3.3 Maintenance release for the Python programming language FREDERICKSBURG, Va., December 19, 2003 -- The Python Software Foundation (PSF) announces the release of version 2.3.3 of the Python programming language. This minor release provides fixes for a number of problems found in the previous version of Python, including several serious errors with weakrefs and the cyc...

  • Release – Python 3.14.0a6

    Version: None

    Released: March 14, 2025

    Here comes the penultimate alpha. This is an early developer preview of Python 3.14 Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0a6, is the sixth of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to …

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  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 3-Oct-2003

    Python Software Foundation: Press Release 3-Oct-2003 October 3, 2003 Press Release SOURCE: Python Software Foundation PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION (PSF) ANNOUNCES PYTHON VERSION 2.3.2 Second maintenance release for the latest Python FREDERICKSBURG, Va., October 3, 2003 -- The Python Software Foundation (PSF) announces the release of version 2.3.2 of the Python programming language. This minor release fixes several build and packaging problems found in version 2.3.1, which introduced ...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction TTTech, founded in 1998, focuses on developing a technology for safety-critical real-time systems. Our central technology is the Time-Triggered Protocol (TTP), a communication protocol used in embedded systems for distributed fault-tolerant applications, such as drive-by-wire and fly-by-wire vehicles. For TTP, we provide chip models for implementing the necessary hardware in silicon, services to customers using the technology, and a broad range of tools. ...

  • Incompatibilities between Python 2.1[.x] and 2.2[.x]

    Incompatibilities between Python 2.1[.x] and 2.2[.x] <h3>Incompatibilties between Python 2.2.2 and Python 2.2.3</h3> <p>The following visible differences between Python 2.2.2 and Python 2.2.3 are intentional. <ul> <p><li>It is no longer possible to use object.__setattr__ to circumvent the restrictions on setting attributes of type objects. <p><li>list.extend() works with any iterable. <p><li>In pdb, you can no longer enable breakpo...

  • Release – Python 3.14.0a7

    Version: None

    Released: April 8, 2025

    Here comes the final alpha! This means we have just four weeks until the first beta to get those last features into 3.14 before the feature freeze on 2025-05-06! This is an early developer preview of Python 3.14 Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13 Python 3.14 …

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  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 22-Oct-2002

    Python Software Foundation: Press Release 22-Oct-2002 Python Software Foundation (PSF) Announces Python Version 2.2.2 New release enhances powerful programming language FREDERICKSBURG, Va., October 22 /PRNewswire/ The Python Software Foundation announces the release of version 2.2.2 of the Python programming language. This Maintenance Release introduces a number of enhancements to the language core and its standard libraries. "This release is an invaluable upgrade for all Py...

  • Python Software Foundation: Articles of Incorporation

    Python Software Foundation: Articles of Incorporation Articles of Incorporation of the Python Software Foundation State of Delaware Secretary of State Division of Corporations Filed 04:30 PM 02/20/2001 010084958 - 3359300 Certificate of Incorporation of Python Software Foundation The undersigned, acting as incorporators of a corporation under the Delaware General Corporation Law, adopt the following certificate of incorporation for such corporation: Article I Name The n...

  • About

    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...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 27-Dec-2004

    Python Software Foundation: Press Release 27-Dec-2004 December 27, 2004 Press Release SOURCE: Python Software Foundation PYCON 2005 - THIRD ANNUAL PYTHON DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE Keynote Speech by Jim Hugunin, author of IronPython. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., December 27, 2004 -- PyCon 2005, the third annual Python developers' conference, will be held at George Washington University's Cafritz Conference Center in Washington DC on March 23-25, 2005. The keynote speaker will be Jim Huguni...

  • Known bugs in Python 2.2

    ...c=detail&atid=105470&aid=496549&group_id=5470" >SourceForge bug report #496549</a>. <p><li>Attempting to pickle the result of time.localtime() causes infinite recursion. See <a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=496873&group_id=5470" >SourceForge bug report #496873</a>. <p><li>In Python 2.1, the StringIO module (though not cStringIO) supported Unicode. This capability is accidenta...

  • Python Distutils-SIG: Requirements

    Python Distutils-SIG: Requirements Python Distutils-SIG Requirements The proposed Module Distribution Utilities for Python, or distutils for short, are needed to fill a number of long-standing holes in the Python distribution and culture. In roughly decreasing order of priority: There must be an easy, standardized way for users and administrators to add new modules (including extension modules) to an existing Python installatio...

  • Python Distutils-SIG: Requirements

    Python Distutils-SIG: Requirements Python Distutils-SIG Requirements The proposed Module Distribution Utilities for Python, or distutils for short, are needed to fill a number of long-standing holes in the Python distribution and culture. In roughly decreasing order of priority: There must be an easy, standardized way for users and administrators to add new modules (including extension modules) to an existing Python installatio...

  • Release – Python 3.7.0a2

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 17, 2017

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.7 Major new features of the 3.7 series, compared to 3.6 Python 3.7 is still in development. This releasee, 3.7.0a2, is the second of four planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of …

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  • A Journey to Python

    A Journey to Python by Alex Martelli, 2006 recipient of the Frank Willison Award After a quarter century of experience in programming (once as a sideline of my main job as a hardware designer, at Texas Instruments and IBM Research, but as my main job for over half that time, at IBM Research and Cad.Lab/think3), I finally stumbled upon Python in 1999. This was thanks to the kind nagging of a friend and colleague whose judgment I respected and to whom I still feel grateful for his insistence (A...

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