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  • Python Success Stories

    ...set of the IDEs on Windows and Linux was also an issue. As a result, we looked at other options, including Python. At the time of our investigation, Python had reached version 2.5, and a what we felt was a credible level of maturity. While not a "main-stream" choice, Python was attractive because of its cross-platform abilities and the productivity I felt the language could bring to the team. Some of my team members were skeptical and preferred the tried-and-true power of C/C++ for sys...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...set of libraries, and fewer memory management bugs to deal with. Python's built-in serialization features would also simplify saving and restoring state in the engine. Python could be used to build a set of internal interfaces, and as a scripting language would allow customers to programmatically alter the behavior of the indexing spider and parser to meet local requirements. This extensibility without the need to learn proprietary scripting languages or API's has been highly regarded by many c...

  • Foreword for "Programming Python" (1st ed.)

    ...set up, and educate me or nudge me in the right direction where my initial intuition failed me. There have been too many contributors to thank individually. I'll make one exception, however: this book's author was one of Python's early adopters and evangelists. With its publication, his longstanding wish (and mine!) of having a more accessible description of Python than the standard set of manuals, is fulfilled. But enough rambling. I highly recommend this book to anyone interest...

  • Python 2.7.2 Release

    ...Set literals Set and dictionary comprehensions Dictionary views New syntax for nested with statements The sysconfig module See these resources for further information: What's new in 2.7? 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 download: Gzipped source tar ball (2.7.2) (sig) Bzipped source ta...

  • Python 2.7.4 Release

    ...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 download: XZ compressed source tar ball (2.7.4) (sig) Gzipped source tar ball (2.7.4) (s...

  • Python 2.7.6 Release

    ...Set literals Set and dictionary comprehensions Dictionary views New syntax for nested with statements The sysconfig module [1](1, 2) The binaries for AMD64 will also work on processors that implement the Intel 64 architecture (formerly EM64T), i.e. the architecture that Microsoft calls x64, and AMD called x86-64 before calling it AMD64. They will not work on Intel Itanium Processors (formerly IA-64). [2](1, 2) There is important information about IDLE, Tkinter, and Tcl/Tk on Mac OS X he...

  • Notes

    ...setting arbitrarily named attributes (PEP 232). Functions have a new __dict__ (a.k.a. func_dict) which hold the function attributes. Methods get and set attributes on their underlying im_func. It is a TypeError to set an attribute on a bound method. The xrange() object implementation has been improved so that xrange(sys.maxint) can be used on 64-bit platforms. There's still a limitation that in this case len(xrange(sys.maxint)) can't be calculated, but the common idiom "for i in xrange...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...set the project in motion. Bishop had been seeking users who could benefit from the development of assistive tools customized for their needs. At the time of their meeting, there were no maps of the ancient world in a format accessible to the visually impaired. After their initial conversation, Dr. Bishop created the opportunity for a team of undergraduate students to implement a solution in a semester-long software engineering course. We were fortunate to be part of the five-person team assembl...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (February 8, 2005)

    ...setting the board membership, but the board could make a recommendation. There was not clear consensus on the issue, although a few board members expressed interest in keeping as many active board members as possible. If a motion is to be voted on in the meeting, it should be included in the meeting notice and proxy forms. 8. Miscellaneous Ascher reported on a Perl Foundation meeting that he was invited to attend. Van Rossum reported on some tensions on the python IRC channel. Hylton sugge...

  • Alternative Python implementations

    ...sets) ActiveState ActivePython (commercial and community versions, including scientific computing modules) Nuitka (a compiler that packages user code with CPython into a static binary for improved performance and IP protection) pyodide (a Python distribution for the browser and Node.js based on WebAssembly) WinPython (a portable scientific Python distribution for Windows) Python(x, y) (Scientific-oriented distribution based on Qt and Spyder) Conceptive Python SDK (targets business, desktop and ...

  • Release – Python 3.9.0a5

    Version: None

    Released: March 23, 2020

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.9 Python 3.9 is still in development. This release, 3.9.0a5 is the fifth of six planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of new features and bug fixes and to test the release …

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  • Catalog Requirements

    Catalog Requirements Catalog Requirements There are a few steps needed to find and install a package: Discovery : which module does 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 ...

  • Python 2.6.7 Release

    ...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 production release; we currently support these formats: Gzipped source tar ball (2.6.7) (sig) Bzipped source tar ball (2.6.7) (sig) MD5 checksums and sizes of the released files: af474f85a3af69ea50438a2a48039d7d 13322372 Python-2.6.7.tgz d40ef58ed88438a870bbeb0ac5d4217b 11084667 Python-2.6.7.tar.bz2 The signatures for the source tarballs abo...

  • Python 2.7.7 Release

    ...Set literals Set and dictionary comprehensions Dictionary views New syntax for nested with statements The sysconfig module Binary installer support for OS X 10.4 and 10.3.9 to be discontinued Python 2.7.7 is the last release for which binary installers will be released on python.org that support Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther) and 10.4.x (Tiger) systems. For Python 2.7.7 only, we are providing three OS X binary installers: the unchanged 10.6+ 64-bit/32-bit format, the deprecated 10.3+ 32-bit-only ...

  • Release – Python 2.7.5

    Version: None

    Released: May 12, 2013

    Note: A newer bugfix release, 2.7.6, is currently available. Its use is recommended over previous versions of 2.7. Python 2.7.5 was released on May 15, 2013. This is a 2.7 series bugfix release. It contains several regression fixes to 2.7.4. Modules with regressions fixed include zipfile, gzip, …

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  • Release – Python 2.7.7rc1

    Version: None

    Released: May 17, 2014

    Note: Python 2.7.7 has been superseded by Python 2.7.8 Python 2.7.7 was released on May 31, 2014. This is a regularly scheduled 2.7 series bugfix and includes numerous bugfixes over 2.7.6. Download This is a production release. Please report any bugs you encounter. We currently support these formats for download: …

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  • Release – Python 2.7.7

    Version: None

    Released: June 1, 2014

    Note: Python 2.7.7 has been superseded by Python 2.7.8 Python 2.7.7 was released on May 31, 2014. This is a regularly scheduled 2.7 series bugfix and includes numerous bugfixes over 2.7.6. Download This is a production release. Please report any bugs you encounter. We currently support these formats for download: …

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  • Python 2.7.5 Release

    ...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 download: XZ compressed source tar ball (2.7.5) (sig) Gzipped source tar ball (2.7.5) (s...

  • 2009-02-09 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...set up. Status: done. [35] Added 2009-01-12: S. Holden will write a PSF blog entry thanking 2008 donors. Status: done. 4.2   New On 12 January These action items originated at the 12 January 2009 Board meeting on IRC. [37] Section 7.1, Trademarks Committee (TMC): J. Tauber will set up the PSF private wiki for the Trademarks Committee to record decisions and salient points of discussion. A set of Trademarks Committee pages was set up on the PSF private wiki on 2009-01-28. Sta...

  • Metaclasses in Python 1.5

    ...set to aninstance and name set to the string "method1". The __getattr__ method looks the name up in the __namespace__ dictionary. If it isn't found, it raises an AttributeError exception. (In a more realistic example, it would first have to look through the base classes as well.) If it is found, there are two possibilities: it's either a function or it isn't. If it's not a function, it is assumed to be a class variable, and its value is returned. If it's a function, we have to `...

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