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    ...interpreters. Patch #798145: Return correct information from nl_langinfo(RADIXCHAR). Bug #797447: Correct confusing error message for unsupported locales. Patch #798534: fixed memory leak in os.popen(). Bug #793826: re-ordered the reference counting code in itertools.izip() to prevent re-entrancy anomalies. Also, if given zero arguments, it now returns an empty iterator rather than raising a type error. Bug #770485: cStringIO did not support the f.closed attribute. Patch #781722: Gracefully r...

  • Release – Python 2.2.3

    Version: None

    Released: May 30, 2003

    We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.2.3 (final), on May 30, 2003. This is a bug-fix release for Python 2.2 and supersedes the previous bugfix release, Python 2.2.2. Note: there's a security fix for SimpleXMLRPCServer.py. Download the release Windows users should download the Windows installer, …

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  • Python Distutils-SIG: Tasks and Division of Labour

    Python Distutils-SIG: Tasks and Division of Labour Python Distutils-SIG Tasks and Division of Labour At the Seventh International Python Conference Developer's Day session "Extension Building Considered Painful", we enumerated the tasks necessary to develop, distribute, and install Python modules; arrived at a rough consensus regarding the division of labour necessary to conceptualize any distribution/installation system; and came up with a proposed user...

  • Python Distutils-SIG: Tasks and Division of Labour

    Python Distutils-SIG: Tasks and Division of Labour Python Distutils-SIG Tasks and Division of Labour At the Seventh International Python Conference Developer's Day session "Extension Building Considered Painful", we enumerated the tasks necessary to develop, distribute, and install Python modules; arrived at a rough consensus regarding the division of labour necessary to conceptualize any distribution/installation system; and came up with a proposed user...

  • Download Python 2.4.4 Documentation

    Download Python 2.4.4 Documentation To download an archive containing all the documents for this version of Python in one of various formats, follow one of links in this table. The numbers in the table are the size of the download files in Kilobytes. Content Format ZIP BZip2 HTML 3639K 1366K PDF (US-Letter) 5314K 5242K PDF (A4) 5293K 5220K PostScript (US-Letter) 2280K 1656K PostScript (A4) 2285K 1660K GNU Info   932K LaTeX 1915K 1334K Contents These archives conta...

  • Download Python 2.5 Documentation

    Download Python 2.5 Documentation To download an archive containing all the documents for this version of Python in one of various formats, follow one of links in this table. The numbers in the table are the size of the download files in Kilobytes. Content Format ZIP BZip2 HTML 4001K 1526K PDF (US-Letter) 5495K 5417K PDF (A4) 5465K 5491K PostScript (US-Letter) 2427K 1771K PostScript (A4) 2433K 1774K LaTeX 1910K 1333K Contents These archives contain the following documen...

  • Download Python 2.5.2 Documentation

    Download Python 2.5.2 Documentation To download an archive containing all the documents for this version of Python in one of various formats, follow one of links in this table. The numbers in the table are the size of the download files in Kilobytes. Content Format ZIP BZip2 HTML 4.0M 1.6M PDF (US-Letter) 5.3M 5.3M PDF (A4) 5.3M 5.3M PostScript (US-Letter) 2.5M 1.8M PostScript (A4) 2.5M 1.8M LaTeX 1.9M 1.3M Contents These archives contain the following documents: What'...

  • Download Python 2.5.3 Documentation

    Download Python 2.5.3 Documentation To download an archive containing all the documents for this version of Python in one of various formats, follow one of links in this table. The numbers in the table are the size of the download files in Kilobytes. Content Format ZIP BZip2 HTML 4.0M 1.6M PDF (US-Letter) 5.3M 5.3M PDF (A4) 5.3M 5.3M PostScript (US-Letter) 2.5M 1.8M PostScript (A4) 2.5M 1.8M Contents These archives contain the following documents: What's New in Python 2...

  • Download Python 2.5.4 Documentation

    Download Python 2.5.4 Documentation To download an archive containing all the documents for this version of Python in one of various formats, follow one of links in this table. The numbers in the table are the size of the download files in Kilobytes. Content Format ZIP BZip2 HTML 4.0M 1.6M PDF (US-Letter) 5.3M 5.3M PDF (A4) 5.3M 5.3M PostScript (US-Letter) 2.5M 1.8M PostScript (A4) 2.5M 1.8M Contents These archives contain the following documents: What's New in Python 2...

  • Download Python 1.6 Source

    Download Python 1.6 Source <h2>Python 1.6</h2> <p>CNRI OPEN SOURCE LICENSE AGREEMENT</p> </center> <br><br> <p>IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING AGREEMENT CAREFULLY.</p> <p>BY CLICKING ON "ACCEPT" WHERE INDICATED BELOW, OR BY COPYING, INSTALLING OR OTHERWISE USING PYTHON 1.6 SOFTWARE, YOU ARE DEEMED TO HAVE AGREED TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT.</p> <p>1. This LICENSE AGREEMENT is betwee...

  • Download Python 1.6 Windows Installer

    Download Python 1.6 Windows Installer <h2>Python 1.6</h2> <p>CNRI OPEN SOURCE LICENSE AGREEMENT</p> </center> <br><br> <p>IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING AGREEMENT CAREFULLY.</p> <p>BY CLICKING ON "ACCEPT" WHERE INDICATED BELOW, OR BY COPYING, INSTALLING OR OTHERWISE USING PYTHON 1.6 SOFTWARE, YOU ARE DEEMED TO HAVE AGREED TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT.</p> <p>1. This LICENSE AGREEMEN...

  • Python 2.0 License

    Python 2.0 License Python 2.0 License Information HISTORY OF THE SOFTWARE Python was created in the early 1990s by Guido van Rossum at Stichting Mathematisch Centrum (CWI) in the Netherlands as a successor of a language called ABC. Guido is Python's principal author, although it includes many contributions from others. The last version released from CWI was Python 1.2. In 1995, Guido continued his work on Python at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) in Res...

  • Python 2.2.3

    ...interpreters (new releases initially appear in unstable). Macintosh users can find binaries and source on Jack Jansen's MacPython page. (MacOS X users who have a C compiler can also build from the source tarball below.) All others should download Python-2.2.3.tgz, the source archive. Unpack it with "tar -zxvf Python-2.2.3.tgz". Change to the Python-2.2.3 directory and run the "./configure", "make", "make install" commands to compile and install Python. ...

  • Python 2.6.9 Release

    Python 2.6.9 Release Python 2.6.9 Python 2.6.9 is a security-fix source-only release for Python 2.6.8, fixing several reported security issues: issue 16037, issue 16038, issue 16039, issue 16040, issue 16041, and issue 16042 (CVE-2013-1752, long lines consuming too much memory), as well as issue 14984 (security enforcement on $HOME/.netrc files), issue 16248 (code execution vulnerability in tkinter), and issue 18709 (CVE-2013-4238, SSL module handling of NULL bytes inside subjectAltName). Py...

  • PSF-2005-001 - SimpleXMLRPCServer.py allows unrestricted traversal

    PSF-2005-001 - SimpleXMLRPCServer.py allows unrestricted traversal <h2>PSF-2005-001 - SimpleXMLRPCServer.py allows unrestricted traversal</h2> <hr> <h3>Python Security Advisory</h3> <pre><b> Advisory ID: <a href="/files/news/security/PSF-2005-001/PSF-2005-001.txt">PSF-2005-001</a> Issue Date: February 3, 2005 Product: Python Versions: 2.2 all versions, 2.3 prior to 2.3.5, 2.4 CVE Names: CAN-2005-0089 </b></...

  • PSF-2006-001 - Buffer overrun in repr() for UCS-4 encoded unicode strings

    PSF-2006-001 - Buffer overrun in repr() for UCS-4 encoded unicode strings <h2>PSF-2006-001 - Buffer overrun in repr() for UCS-4 encoded unicode strings</h2> <hr> <h3>Python Security Advisory</h3> <pre><b> Advisory ID: <a href="/files/news/security/PSF-2006-001/PSF-2006-001.txt">PSF-2006-001</a> Issue Date: October 12, 2006 Product: Python Versions: 2.2, 2.3 prior to 2.3.6, 2.4 prior to 2.4.4, wide unicode (UCS-4) build...

  • Release – Python 3.14.0b2

    Version: None

    Released: May 26, 2025

    Here's the second 3.14 beta. https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140b2/ This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b2, is the first of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes …

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  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction Strakt is a Swedish company which specializes in developing scalable and secure products for collaboration in workflow intensive workplaces. Our vision is to empower professionals to collaborate in an enjoyable, intuitive, and efficient way that is tailored to their and their organisations' needs, while simultaneously developing and maintaining digitally stored organisational memory. In 2001, AB Strakt embarked on a large software development project aimed ...

  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.4

    ...interpreters for packages which use Distutils, by using the command "python2.4 setup.py bdist_rpm". Q) How do I build a version of these RPMs which will install as "/usr/bin/python". A) First of all, realize that you are likely to break many Red Hat provided programs which rely on having a version of Python with the same major/minor version as that which was shipped. Also, any additional packages which were installed will not be available for ...

  • Python 2.4.1 - Linux RPMs

    ...interpreters for packages which use Distutils, by using the command "python2.4 setup.py bdist_rpm". Q. How do I build a version of these RPMs which will install as "/usr/bin/python". A. First of all, realize that you are likely to break many Red Hat provided programs which rely on having a version of Python with the same major/minor version as that which was shipped. Also, any additional packages which were installed will not be available for the new version, you will proba...

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