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  • Release – Python 2.4.0

    Version: None

    Released: Nov. 30, 2004

    We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.4, final on November 30, 2004. This is a final, stable release, and we can recommend that Python users upgrade to this version. Important: This release is vulnerable to the problem described in …

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  • Python 2.4

    ...package, available from Sourceforge. pywin32 adds a number of Windows-specific extensions to Python, including COM support and the Pythonwin IDE. Debian users using Sarge: Python 2.4 has already been packaged for you. Simply apt-get install python2.4. Note that you will also need to install python2.4 versions of any other modules you use. All others should download either Python-2.4.tgz or Python-2.4.tar.bz2, the source archive. The tar.bz2 is considerably smaller, so get that one if your syste...

  • 2007-04-09 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Package Index (Cheese Shop) 7   Penguin Day DC 8   EuroPython 9   New PSF Members 10   Adjournment 1   Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were present at the meeting: Stephan Deibel, Steve Holden, Tim Peters, Brett Cannon, Andrew Kuchling, and Martin von Löwis. Also in attendance was Kurt Kaiser (Treasurer). 2   Minutes of Past Meetings The 12 March 2007 Board meeting minutes w...

  • 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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  • Python Success Stories

    ...packages. The CAPS Architecture Zoom in The Infinite Filing Cabinet (IFC) is a general Object Relational database engine with a Python API. The IFC is built on top of Postgres, with an Oracle version in the works, but it is possible to use any full-function RDBMS, as we took care to avoid non-standard SQL functionality and isolated the DB-specific idioms into a separate portability layer. Production IFCs currently run only under Linux, with others planned. The Business Logic is a layer of rul...

  • Python 2.4.1 - Bugs

    Python 2.4.1 - Bugs The Windows installer package required VBScripts. On systems which do not have VBScript available, installer will report an error 2738. On systems which have VBScript available, but in an insufficiently old version, installer will report an error 2262 (and log a DEBUG error 2896). In either case, please install Microsoft Windows Script from http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/list/webdev.asp The Windows installer will not add correct IDLE and PyDoc entries when the Python...

  • Bugs in Python 2.4.2

    Bugs in Python 2.4.2 The Windows installer package required VBScripts. On systems which do not have VBScript available, installer will report an error 2738. On systems which have VBScript available, but in an insufficiently old version, installer will report an error 2262 (and log a DEBUG error 2896). In either case, please install Microsoft Windows Script from http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/list/webdev.asp The Windows installer will not add correct IDLE and PyDoc entries when the Pytho...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...packages support development in many application domains. An unsurprising syntax and the widespread and consistent use of a few basic concepts, like namespaces, help to make Python code readable and maintainable. Extensive and easy to use introspection facilities make Python easy to learn interactively by discovering its capabilities, including documentation, from the command prompt. Python is readily extensible in C or C++, so it is easy to incorporate non-Python modules into an application. ...

  • Release – Python 2.3.2

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 3, 2003

    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 …

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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 …

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  • Python 2.3.2

    ...manager's (Anthony Baxter) public key which has a key id of 6A45C816.  

  • Python 2.3.6 Release

    Python 2.3.6 Release Python 2.3.6 We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.3.6 (FINAL), a bugfix release of Python 2.3, on November 1, 2006. Important: 2.3.6 includes a security fix (PSF-2006-001) for the repr() of unicode strings in wide unicode builds (UCS-4) 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...

  • Python 1.6

    ...package which provides a large set of standard codecs -- currently only for the new Unicode support. It has a drop-in extension mechanism which allows you to add new codecs by simply copying them into the encodings package directory. Asian codec support will probably be made available as separate distribution package built upon this technique and the new distutils package. Changed Modules readline, ConfigParser, cgi, calendar, posix, readline, xmllib, aifc, chunk, wave, random, she...

  • Release – Python 2.6.8

    Version: None

    Released: April 10, 2012

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  • Python Success Stories

    ...package. Zope and Python, unlike Java, also provided the licensing needed for complete freedom in distributing code on LiveCD, in RPM packages, and so forth. In some applications needed in ERP, such as in Point-of-Sales (POS), an autonomous client/server GUI application provides better results than a pure Web-based solution. For these cases, the ERP5 project team selected PyQt, which supports the rapid development of multi-platform client/server applications with native look and feel. Autonomous...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...packages from source and configure the packaging system. The IceBridge console running under Mac OS X Zoom in Speed, Scalability and Stability One of our concerns was the speed of our system. Python proved to be "fast enough" for our uses as the most processor-intensive stuff is already written in C (GUI toolkit, GUID generators, numeric manipulations, etc.). We only had to write, in Python, our custom RPC protocol, because XML-RPC (and it's Python implementation) proved to be too...

  • 2014-01-31 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Package “slut” Removal RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation request the PyPI administrators to remove the package "slut" (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/slut) Approved, 6–4-1. 9   Other Business The board has decided to table indefinitely: RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation grant EUR 750 to the EuroPython Society for registering the EuroPython CTM trademark in order to protect the IP rights to the EuroPython conference series. The board of director...

  • Release – Python 2.6.4

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 26, 2009

    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 …

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  • Bugs in Python 2.4

    Bugs in Python 2.4 The Windows installer package required VBScripts. On systems which do not have VBScript available, installer will report an error 2738. On systems which have VBScript available, but in an insufficiently old version, installer will report an error 2262 (and log a DEBUG error 2896). In either case, please install Microsoft Windows Script from http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/list/webdev.asp The format of the IDLE configuration files has changed between Python 2.3 and 2.4....

  • Release – Python 3.4.0

    Version: None

    Released: March 17, 2014

    Python 3.4.0 Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.0 was released on March 16th, 2014. Major new features of the 3.4 series, compared to 3.3 Python 3.4 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, including hundreds …

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