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...generator expressions, a number of new modules (including subprocess, decimal and cookielib) and a host of bug fixes and other improvements. See the (subjective) highlights or the detailed release notes for more, or consult Andrew Kuchling's What's New In Python for a detailed view of some of the new features of Python 2.4. Please see the separate bugs page for known issues and the bug reporting procedure. Download the release Starting with the Python 2.4 releases the Windows Python installer ...
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Released: Oct. 14, 2002
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 …
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Released: April 4, 2023
This is an early developer preview of Python 3.12. Major new features of the 3.12 series, compared to 3.11 Python 3.12 is still in development. This release, 3.12.0a7 is the seventh and final alpha release of 3.12. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to …
Documentation Special Interest Group Documentation SIG Status This page is completely out of date. Follow the Doc-SIG mailing list for information on current activities. Emerging Products The Doc SIG members have produced some tools: Doug Hellmann has created HappyDoc, a tool for extracting documentation from Python source code. It differs from other such applications by the fact that it uses the parse tree for a module to...
...generators by David Mertz on IBM developerWorks. Documentation The documentation has been updated too: Browse HTML on-line Download using HTTP. Files, MD5 checksums and sizes 9914cd4fc203008decf9ca7fb5aa1252 Python-2.2.2.exe (7282997 bytes) 1c1067396e5aa0299978486eb5bd1a5c Python-2.2.2.tgz (6669400 bytes)
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 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 (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...
Released: Oct. 29, 2013
With the 2.6.9 release, and five years after its first release, the Python 2.6 series is now officially retired. All official maintenance for Python 2.6, including security patches, has ended. For ongoing maintenance releases, please see the Python 2.7 series. The NEWS file lists every change in each alpha, …
Released: April 10, 2012
Python 2.6 is now in security-fix-only mode; no new features are being added, and no new bug fix releases are planned. We intend to provide source-only security fixes for the Python 2.6 series until October 2013 (five years after the 2.6 final release). For ongoing maintenance releases, please see …
Released: April 10, 2002
Released: July 2, 2019
Note: The release you are looking at is Python 3.6.9, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.6 series which has now reached end-of-life and is no longer supported. See the downloads page for currently supported versions of Python. The final source-only security fix release for 3.6 was 3.6.15 …
Released: June 19, 2023
This is a beta preview of Python 3.12 Python 3.12 is still in development. This release, 3.12.0b3, is the third of four beta release previews of 3.12. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to …
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 …
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 is part of the winning formula for productivity, software quality, and maintainability at many companies and institutions around the world. Here are real-life Python success stories, classified by application domain. Contents Software Development Accessibility Assistive Technologies Code Generation Computer Graphics Configuration Cross-platform Development Databases Data Mining Documentation Development Email Embedded Systems Functional Testing Game Development ...
...generator. The Mersenne Twister algorithm is implemented in C, threadsafe, faster than the previous generator, has an astronomically large period (2**19937-1), creates random floats to full 53-bit precision, and may be the most widely tested random number generator in existence. The random.jumpahead(n) method has different semantics for the new generator. Instead of jumping n steps ahead, it uses n and the existing state to create a new state. This means that jumpahead() continues to support ...
Released: March 18, 2010
Python 2.6.5 was a maintenance release for Python 2.6.4, fixing dozens of issues in the core, builtin modules, libraries, and documentation. Python 2.6.5 final was released on March 19, 2010. Python 2.6 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. The NEWS file lists …
Released: Oct. 2, 2009
Python 2.6.3 was released on October 2, 2009. Python 2.6 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. Somewhere near 100 bugs have been fixed since the release of Python 2.6.2. The NEWS file lists every change in each alpha, beta, and release candidate of …
Released: Jan. 31, 2010
This is a source-only release that only includes security fixes. The last full bug-fix release of Python 2.5 was Python 2.5.4. User are encouraged to upgrade to the latest release of Python 2.7 (which is 2.7.2 at this point). This releases fixes issues with the logging, tarfile …
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