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...orted from 3.x Tile support for Tkinter A backport of the memoryview object from 3.x Set literals Set and dictionary comprehensions Dictionary views New syntax for nested with statements The sysconfig module Resources What's new in 2.7? Complete change log for this release. Online Documentation Report bugs at http://bugs.python.org. Help fund Python and its community. Download This is a production release. Please report any bugs you encounter. We currently support these formats for down...
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Released: Feb. 13, 2009
Python 3.0.1 was released on February 13, 2009. It was a bugfix release of Python 3.0. This is the first bugfix release of Python 3.0. Python 3.0 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. Dozens of bugs that were reported since the …
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...or the Python 2.6 series until October 2013 (five years after the 2.6 final release). For ongoing maintenance releases, please see the Python 2.7 series. The NEWS file lists every change in each alpha, beta, and release candidate of Python 2.6. What's New in Python 2.6. Report bugs at http://bugs.python.org. Read the Python license. PEP 361 set out the development schedule for 2.6. Help fund Python and its community by donating to the Python Software Foundation. Download This is a produc...
Released: May 27, 2004
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 …
Released: Dec. 19, 2003
Released: June 3, 2011
Python 2.6 is now in security-fix-only mode; no new features are being added, …
...ore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and NASA, to name a few. Hundreds of thousands of programmers are using Python around the world today, and the number is growing steadily. More information is available at Python.org. "The community enthusiastically supports the creation of a single, focused organization to help further Python's development and adoption," said Guido van Rossum, creator of Python speaking at the Ninth International Python Conference. "For examp...
...Python 2.7, the 2.x line will only receive bugfixes, and new features are developed for 3.x only. Since PEP 3003, the Moratorium on Language Changes, is in effect, there are no changes in Python's syntax and only few changes to built-in types in Python 3.2. Development efforts concentrated on the standard library and support for porting code to Python 3. Highlights are: numerous improvements to the unittest module PEP 3147, support for .pyc repository directories PEP 3149, support for version...
Released: July 3, 2010
Note: A bugfix release, 2.7.13, is currently available. Its use is recommended. Python 2.7.0 was released on July 3rd, 2010. Python 2.7 is scheduled to be the last major version in the 2.x series before it moves into an extended maintenance period. This release contains many of the features …
...or more information, see the Python website http://www.python.org. Like Tcl, Python is easily extensible with C/C++/Java code, and easily embeddable in applications. Python even uses Tk, the Tcl GUI toolkit, for a de-facto standard portable GUI toolkit. Unlike Tcl, however, Python supports object-oriented programming. Python programmers can create classes, use multiple inheritance, define methods, overload operators, and so on. Python's Strengths Syntactically, Python code lo...
Released: April 6, 2013
Note: A newer security-fix release, 3.2.6, is currently available. Its use is recommended. Python 3.2.4 was released on April 7th, 2013. This is the final 3.2 series bugfix release. New features of the 3.2 series, compared to 3.1 Python 3.2 is a continuation of the efforts to improve and …
Released: Oct. 3, 2003
Released: Sept. 3, 2011
Note: A newer security-fix release, 3.2.6, is currently available. Its use is recommended. Python 3.2.2 was released on September 4th, 2011. It mainly fixes a regression in the urllib.request module that prevented opening many HTTP resources correctly with Python 3.2.1. Python 3.2 is a continuation of the efforts to …
Released: Feb. 20, 2011
Note: A newer security-fix release, 3.2.6, is currently available. Its use is recommended. Python 3.2 was released on February 20th, 2011. Python 3.2 is a continuation of the efforts to improve and stabilize the Python 3.x line. Since the final release of Python 2.7, the 2.x line will only …
Released: Oct. 18, 2006
Python 2.4 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. At least 80 bugs have been squished since Python 2.4.3, including a number of bugs and potential bugs found by with the Coverity and …
Released: July 29, 2003
...Python-2.5.6.tgz (or bzcat Python-2.5.6.tar.bz2 | tar -xf -). Change to the Python-2.5.6 directory and run the "./configure", "make", "make install" commands to compile and install Python. The source archive is also suitable for Windows users who feel the need to build their own version. What's New? See the highlights of the Python 2.5 release. Andrew Kuchling's What's New in Python 2.5 describes the most visible changes since Python 2.4 in more detail. A detail...
...Python. Please download Python 2.6.6 instead. Python 2.6.4 was a critical bug fix for Python 2.6.3, which had regressions in the logging package and in setuptools compatibility. Python 2.6.4 was released on 25-Oct-2009. Python 2.6 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. The NEWS file lists every change in each alpha, beta, and release candidate of Python 2.6. What's New in Python 2.6. Report bugs at http://bugs.python.org. Read the Python license. PEP 361 set out the dev...
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