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  • Python 2.5.3 Release

    Python 2.5.3 Release Python 2.5.3 Python 2.5.3 has been replaced by a newer bugfix release of Python. Please download Python 2.5.6 instead. Python 2.5.3 was released on December 19th, 2008. This is the last bugfix release of Python 2.5. Python 2.5 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. According to the release notes, about 80 bugs and patches have been addressed since Python 2.5.2, many of them improving the stability of the interpreter, and improving its portability. F...

  • Python 2.5.4 Release

    Python 2.5.4 Release Python 2.5.4 We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.5.4 (final), a bugfix release of Python 2.5, on December 23rd, 2008. Python 2.5.4 has been replaced by a newer bugfix release of Python. Please download Python 2.5.6 instead, unless you need to use the Windows and OS X binaries provided here. This is the last bugfix release of Python 2.5. Future releases of Python 2.5 will only contain security patches; no new features are being added, and no "regular&...

  • Python 2.4.1 - Release Notes

    ...compilation environment. This doesn't mean that the supplied values are always correct, or that cross-compilation now works flawlessly -- but it's a first step (and it shuts up most of autoconf's warnings about AC_TRY_RUN). The Unix build is now a bit less chatty, courtesy of the parser generator. The build is completely silent (except for errors) when using "make -s", thanks to a -q option to setup.py. C API The "structmember" API now supports some new flag bits to den...

  • Release – Python 2.2.1

    Version: None

    Released: April 10, 2002

    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 to remain with Python 2.2, there's a patch available from the …

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  • Release – Python 3.8.0rc1

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 1, 2019

    This is the release candidate of Python 3.8.0 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.0rc1, an outdated release. Python 3.9 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.9.x here. Please keep in mind that this is a preview release …

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  • 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 current state of …

  • Release – Python 3.14.0a6

    Version: None

    Released: March 14, 2025

    Here comes the penultimate alpha. This is an early developer preview of Python 3.14 Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0a6, is the sixth of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to …

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  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 3-Oct-2003

    Python Software Foundation: Press Release 3-Oct-2003 October 3, 2003 Press Release SOURCE: Python Software Foundation PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION (PSF) ANNOUNCES PYTHON VERSION 2.3.2 Second maintenance release for the latest Python FREDERICKSBURG, Va., October 3, 2003 -- The Python Software Foundation (PSF) announces the release of version 2.3.2 of the Python programming language. This minor release fixes several build and packaging problems found in version 2.3.1, which introduced ...

  • Notes

    ...compilation problems on Solaris. Patch #914291: Set locale while getting a line from readline. Bug #1005308: Define _BSD_TYPES. Patch #1005568: Use _SC_PAGESIZE on Irix in resourcemoudle. Patch #924294: Do no check for AF_INET6 if it is not defined. Patch #954115: Properly handle UNC roots in nt.stat. Bug #841757: xmlrpclib failed on structs with Unicode keys. Bug #954364: inspect.getframeinfo() sometimes produces incorrect traceback line numbers Patch #909007: Enable a bunch of safe bug workaro...

  • Release – Python 2.5.5

    Version: None

    Released: Jan. 31, 2010

    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 …

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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 current state of …

  • Release – Python 3.14.0a7

    Version: None

    Released: April 8, 2025

    Here comes the final alpha! This means we have just four weeks until the first beta to get those last features into 3.14 before the feature freeze on 2025-05-06! This is an early developer preview of Python 3.14 Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13 Python 3.14 …

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  • Python For Beginners

    Python For Beginners Welcome! Are you completely new to programming? If not then we presume you will be looking for information about why and how to get started with Python. Fortunately an experienced programmer in any programming language (whatever it may be) can pick up Python very quickly. It's also easy for beginners to use and learn, so jump in! Installing Installing Python is generally easy, and nowadays many Linux and UNIX distributions include a recent Python. Even some Windows comput...

  • Python 2.2.1

    Python 2.2.1 Python 2.2.1 Note: See Python 2.2.3 for a patch release which supersedes 2.2.1. 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 to remain with Python 2.2, there's a patch available from the security advisory page. We are pleased to announce the release o...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 22-Oct-2002

    Python Software Foundation: Press Release 22-Oct-2002 Python Software Foundation (PSF) Announces Python Version 2.2.2 New release enhances powerful programming language FREDERICKSBURG, Va., October 22 /PRNewswire/ The Python Software Foundation announces the release of version 2.2.2 of the Python programming language. This Maintenance Release introduces a number of enhancements to the language core and its standard libraries. "This release is an invaluable upgrade for all Py...

  • What's New In Python 3.0

    ...Compilation on OpenBSD has been restored. Issue #3574: compile() incorrectly handled source code encoded as Latin-1. Issues #2384 and #3975: Tracebacks were not correctly printed when the source file contains a coding: header: the wrong line was displayed, and the encoding was not respected. Issue #3740: Null-initialize module state. Issue #3946: PyObject_CheckReadBuffer crashed on a memoryview object. Issue #1688: On Windows, the input() prompt was not correctly displayed if it contains non-asc...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction Cog is a simple code generation tool written in Python. We use it or its results every day in the production of Kubi. Kubi is a collaboration system embodied in a handful of different products. We have a schema that describes the representation of customers' collaboration data: discussion topics, documents, calendar events, and so on. This data has to be handled in many ways: stored in a number of different data stores, shipped over the wire in an XML repr...

  • Known bugs in Python 2.2.1

    Known bugs in Python 2.2.1 <h2>Known bugs in Python 2.2.1</h2> <p>This page now exists only to clarify incompatibilities between Python version 2.2[.x] and versions before 2.2. <h3>Incompatibilities between Python 2.1[.x] and Python 2.2[.x]</h3> <p>The following visible differences between Python 2.2 and previous versions are intentional. <ul> <p><li>Not everything is listed here; for the full list see the <a href="http://cvs.source...

  • Incompatibilities between Python 2.1[.x] and 2.2[.x]

    Incompatibilities between Python 2.1[.x] and 2.2[.x] <h3>Incompatibilities between Python 2.1[.x] and Python 2.2[.x]</h3> <p>The following visible differences between Python 2.2 and previous versions are intentional. <ul> <p><li>Not listed here are various deprecated modules and features that may issue warnings: the warnings shouldn't affect the correct execution of your program, and they can be disabled with a command line option or programmatically; see th...

  • Release – Python 2.0.1

    Version: None

    Released: June 22, 2001

    We're releasing Python 2.0.1 - the final bugfix release for Python 2.0. Why would we come with a bugfix release now (June 2001), when Python 2.0 was released in October 2000 and Python 2.1 has been released for months (April 2001)? Two very good …

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