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  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 8-Apr-2002

    Python Software Foundation: Press Release 8-Apr-2002 Python Software Foundation Announces Python Version 2.1.3 Maintenance release confirms support for Python 2.1 FREDERICKSBURG, VA -- April 8, 2002 -- The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has announced release of version 2.1.3 of the Python programming language and standard libraries. This maintenance release confirms the PSF's commitment to supporting older Python versions. "We're happy to offer this maintenance release. This is ...

  • Alternative Python implementations

    Alternative Python implementations alternative python implementations This site hosts the "traditional" implementation of Python (nicknamed CPython). A number of alternative implementations are available as well and several vendors have repackaged CPython to include more libraries or specialized it for a particular application. This site hosts the "traditional" implementation of Python (nicknamed CPython). A number of alternative implementations are available as well, namely ...

  • Release – Python 2.7.9

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 10, 2014

    Python 2.7.9 is a bugfix version for the Python 2.7 release series. Python 2.7.9 includes several significant changes unprecedented in a "bugfix" release: The entirety of Python 3.4's ssl module has been backported for Python 2.7.9. See PEP 466 for justification. HTTPS certificate validation using the system's …

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  • Release – Python 3.2.6rc1

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 4, 2014

    This is a security-fix source-only release. The last binary release was 3.2.5. The list of fixed security related issues can be found in the NEWS file. New features of the 3.2 series, compared to 3.1 Python 3.2 is a continuation of the efforts to …

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  • What's new in Python 1.5 and beyond

    ...library modules are warning-free. The freeze tool now supports hierarchical module names. New standard modules: threading, getpass, imaplib, poplib, smtplib, Tkdnd (Tkinter drag-and-drop). Some modules that were declared obsolete a while ago have been moved out of the standard library path. From 1.4 To 1.5 - Highlights It's much faster (almost twice for the Lib/test/pystone.py benchmark.) There is now an assert statement: assert <condition> or assert <condition>, <errormessage...

  • Grant Types

    Grant Types Sprints These types of dev events are usually 1-4 days long and the goal is to complete a set of objectives for a project. Sprints are usually on the small side and tend to be less than 20 people. Sprints that happen at conferences can have larger turnout though (like [PyCon Sprints](https://us.pycon.org/2017/community/sprints/) for example). [OpenHatch created a helpful in-person event handbook](http://opensource-events.com/) that can help you run a productive dev sprint. User ...

  • Highlights: Python 2.5

    ...library, in 2.5 we've added ctypes, ElementTree, hashlib, sqlite3 and wsgiref to the standard library that ships with Python. Google's summer of code resulted in a new cProfile profiling module. This is a much more efficient version of the venerable profile.py module that's shipped with Python for many many years. GSoC also gave us a rewritten mailbox module that can both read and write mailboxes in a variety of formats. The struct module was updated to support a new Struct object. These are sim...

  • Python 3.4.0 Release Candidate 1 Release

    ...library PEP 445, a new C API for implementing custom memory allocators PEP 446, changing file descriptors to not be inherited by default in subprocesses PEP 450, a new "statistics" module PEP 451, standardizing module metadata for Python's module import system PEP 453, a bundled installer for the pip package manager PEP 454, a new "tracemalloc" module for tracing Python memory allocations PEP 456, a new hash algorithm for Python strings and binary data PEP 3154, a new and imp...

  • Python 3.4.0 Release Candidate 2 Release

    ...library PEP 445, a new C API for implementing custom memory allocators PEP 446, changing file descriptors to not be inherited by default in subprocesses PEP 450, a new "statistics" module PEP 451, standardizing module metadata for Python's module import system PEP 453, a bundled installer for the pip package manager PEP 454, a new "tracemalloc" module for tracing Python memory allocations PEP 456, a new hash algorithm for Python strings and binary data PEP 3154, a new and imp...

  • SIG for development of Python/C++ integration

    ...Library), so it does not tie its users to the services of any one programmer or organization. Developers worldwide have contributed significant unsolicited improvements to the project. The main developer and coordinator of the library is David Abrahams. Development goals The following sections describe the current development goals. Suggestions regarding the direction of the development work and contributions in the form of source code should be posted to the Python C...

  • Release – Python 3.13.0a5

    Version: None

    Released: March 12, 2024

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.13 Major new features of the 3.13 series, compared to 3.12 Python 3.13 is still in development. This release, 3.13.0a5, is the fifth of six planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the …

  • Job - Senior Data Privacy Software Developer

    Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts United States

    Telecommuting: Yes

    Reporting to the Vicky Joseph Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), the focus of this position is to develop the OpenDP Library (https://docs.opendp.org/), a modular toolkit of differential privacy routines. You will work with …

  • Image Processing with Python SIG Status

    ...Library (PIL). An interface to a Type1 font engine is also in production, see A Type1 Font Renderer for Python for more information.

  • Python Success Stories

    ...library, VTK, was also available as open source. VTK is an extremely powerful visualization library written in C++. It is very portable and runs on various flavors of Unix, Windows, and recently on Mac OS X. VTK was chosen as the most appropriate solution, but it was not enough to solve the problem at hand. An application was needed on top of the VTK library before non-programmers equipped only with specialized domain knowledge could sit at a computer and visualize their data. Python Chosen...

  • Release – Python 3.2.6

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 12, 2014

    This is a security-fix source-only release. The last binary release was 3.2.5. With the 3.2.6 release, and five years after its first release, the Python 3.2 series is now officially retired. All official maintenance for Python 3.2, including security patches, has ended. For ongoing maintenance releases, please see …

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  • Release – Python 3.13.0a6

    Version: None

    Released: April 9, 2024

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.13 Major new features of the 3.13 series, compared to 3.12 Python 3.13 is still in development. This release, 3.13.0a6, is the sixth and last planned alpha release. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the …

  • Python Success Stories

    ...library and third party modules: email, time, and ConfigParser -- for email parsing, phone message generation and log book entry on the server side cgi and sha -- for a CGI module to edit the server configuration file wxPython and wx.xrc -- for the GUI written in XRCed serial, pickle, ConfigParser, and time -- for the serial-communication library for eBukal setpoint download Unfortunately there is no PIC compiler using Python syntax; if such a tool existed, the circle would have been completed...

  • Comparing Python to Other Languages

    ...library of collection data types is more refined, while Python's library has more facilities for dealing with Internet and WWW realities such as email, HTML and FTP. Python has a different philosophy regarding the development environment and distribution of code. Where Smalltalk traditionally has a monolithic "system image" which comprises both the environment and the user's program, Python stores both standard modules and user modules in individual files which can easily be rearranged ...

  • Release – Python 3.13.0a2

    Version: None

    Released: Nov. 21, 2023

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.13 Major new features of the 3.13 series, compared to 3.12 Python 3.13 is still in development. This release, 3.13.0a2 is the second of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the …

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 10-Apr-2002

    Python Software Foundation: Press Release 10-Apr-2002 Python Software Foundation Announces Python Version 2.2.1 Over 100 enhancements made to powerful programming language Fredericksburg, VA -- April 10th, 2002 -- The Python Software Foundation announced today the release of version 2.2.1 of the Python programming language and standard libraries. This release includes over 100 enhancements for users of version 2.2 of Python. "We're pleased to offer this release to the Python users...

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