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  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (August 10, 2004)

    ...what the initial expenses would be, and at what time they would be due. Steve answered a 10% deposit would be required, roughly $2,500. Stephan then moved that it is RESOLVED that the conference committee is authorized to spend $3000 for room reservations for PyCon 2005. The motion passed unanimously (6/0/0). 7. Other business Tim nagged Jeremy about 1023 progress. Jeremy volunteered to scan the documents sometime during this week. Martin asked how the grant committee should deal with t...

  • Release – Python 2.4.5

    Version: None

    Released: March 11, 2008

    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 applications. This release includes just a small number of fixes, primarily preventing crashes of the interpreter in …

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  • Release – Python 2.3.6

    Version: None

    Released: Nov. 1, 2006

    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. There are 3 bugs fixed in this release - a problem with the email package's handling of RFC2231 headers, the unicode repr() fix for PSF-2006-01, …

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  • Python 2.3.6 Release

    ...What's New? See the highlights of the Python 2.3 release. Andrew Kuchling's What's New in Python 2.3 describes the most visible changes since Python 2.2 in more detail. A detailed list of the changes in 2.3.6 can be found in the release notes, or the Misc/NEWS file in the source distribution. This is a very short list - only security fixes have been included. For the full list of changes, you can poke around in Subversion. Documentation The documentation for 2.3.5 is still current for this r...

  • Python 2.3.7 Release

    ...What's New? See the highlights of the Python 2.3 release. Andrew Kuchling's What's New in Python 2.3 describes the most visible changes since Python 2.2 in more detail. A detailed list of the changes in 2.3.7 can be found in the release notes, or the Misc/NEWS file in the source distribution. This is a very short list - only security fixes have been included. For the full list of changes, you can poke around in Subversion. Documentation The documentation for 2.3.5 is still current for this r...

  • Python 2.4.5 Release

    ...What's New? See the highlights of the Python 2.4 release. Andrew Kuchling's What's New in Python 2.4 describes the most visible changes since Python 2.3 in more detail. A detailed list of the changes in 2.4.5 can be found in the release notes, or the Misc/NEWS file in the source distribution. For the full list of changes, you can poke around in Subversion. Documentation The documentation has also been updated: Browse HTML on-line Download using HTTP. Documentation is available in Windows He...

  • Mailing lists

    ...what hardware platform, what OS (and version), what Python version, and (when using Tkinter) what Tcl/Tk version you are using. If you're using an older Python version, try upgrading to the latest version first -- things often get better! You can't subscribe to python-help -- it is not for bystanders, only for questioners to submit questions and for helpers to receive and field them. The archives are not accessible, to protect the questioners' privacy. If you would like to help answer questions,...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...what I saw at the time. It was early 1997, and Mark Lutz's book Programming Python from O'Reilly & Associates had recently come out. O'Reilly books occasionally land on my doorstep, selected from among the new releases by some mysterious benefactor inside the organization using a random process I've given up trying to understand. One of them was Programming Python . I found this somewhat interesting, as I collect computer languages. I know over two dozen general-purpose languages, write comp...

  • Release – Python 2.5.6

    Version: None

    Released: May 26, 2011

    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 release is the final release of Python 2.5; …

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  • Python 2.5.5

    ...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 detailed list of the changes in 2.5.5 can be found in the release notes, or the Misc/NEWS file in the source distribution. For the full list of changes, you can poke around in Subversion. Documentation The documentation has not been updated since the 2.5.4 release: Browse HTML on-line Files, MD5 checksums, signatures an...

  • Python 2.5.6

    ...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 detailed list of the changes in 2.5.6 can be found in the release notes, or the Misc/NEWS file in the source distribution. For the full list of changes, you can poke around in Subversion. Documentation The documentation has not been updated since the 2.5.4 release: Browse HTML on-line Files, MD5 checksums, signatures an...

  • 2006-10-15 Grants Committee Status Report

    ...what kind of projects we would like to see happen, instead of giving submitters the freedom to offer whatever they want to do. Frequency of calls. I learned that the Perl Foundation has an ongoing application process, where people can apply for a grant any time they want. Every 3 months the incoming proposals are reviewed, and a fixed amount of $5000 is distributed among the applications. This would produce more smaller projects, instead of few larger ones. Alternatively, the PSF could fund sele...

  • Sunsetting Python 2

    ...What should I do? If you buy software or software support from vendors, ask them. If you pay developers or system administrators, ask them. If you don't have vendors or technical staff, then use "Can I Use Python 3?" to find out whether you depend on any software written in Python 2. To find out more about whether specific tools can work with Python 3, look at Python 2.7 Readiness, the Python 3 Statement, and Python 3 Readiness. I depend on some software written in Python 2. What shoul...

  • Release – Python 2.5.0

    Version: None

    Released: Sept. 19, 2006

    Python 2.5 was released on September 19th 2006. There's a bunch of places you can look for more information on what's new in this release -- see the "What's New" section further down this page. This is a final release, and should be suitable for production use. …

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  • Debugging Reference Count Problems

    ...what you said earlier: adding the INCREF calls didn't remove the problem. So, my questions of the hour: 1) What's the c api equiv for sys.refcount? (so I can watch refcounts across calls and determine which are reference neutral) (Echoed by Mark Hammond, who believes the reference count is the first 2 bytes of the object -- in fact, it is the first 4 bytes, and this reveals that he is working in a little-endian machine, otherwise he would have said it's the 3rd and 4th byt...

  • Python 2.5 Release

    ...what's new in this release -- see the "What's New" section further down this page. This is a final release, and should be suitable for production use. PEP 356 includes the schedule and will be updated as the schedule evolves. At this point, any testing you can do would be greatly, greatly appreciated. Extension authors should note that changes to improve Python's support for 64 bit systems mean that some C extension modules may very well break. This post has some pointers to more infor...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (July 12, 2005)

    ...What problem is trying to be solved? Is the status quo broken? Are Python releases a PSF product or a python-dev product? The PSF holds the copyright on Python and sets the license. Historically, many decisions were left to the BDFL (Benevolent Dictator for Life, Guido van Rossum). What impact has Guido's resignation from the PSF board had? It's likely that Guido is having less time and interest; he'd rather spend what time he has working on the language. At some point, we may need to figure ...

  • Summary of "Extension Building" Session

    ...what's needed, what will work for various classes of users, and what ideas to steal from other related systems (the closest being Red Hat's RPM and Perl's MakeMaker). Decisions made Everyone seemed to agree with my proposed mode of operation: the user downloads a package, unpacks it, and runs a Python script tentatively called setup.py (the fact that this name overlaps somewhat with the module description file in the Python distribution and in many large module...

  • Release – Python 3.12.0b2

    Version: None

    Released: June 6, 2023

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.12 Python 3.12 is still in development. This release, 3.12.0b2 is the second 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 …

  • Catalog Requirements

    ...what I need? Download : where can I get a copy? Security : is this actually from the package author, and not a Trojan horse? Installation : how do I compile the package, install it, and set it up? Updating : what's the latest version of a package? do I need to get an updated version for my system? The Distutils SIG focuses on the hardest and most complicated step, #4, so the Catalog SIG doesn't really have to concern itself with that proble...

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