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  • Ancient Releases

    ...cient Releases Andrew Dalke was clever and persistent enough to scrape Python 0.9.1 out of the Usenet alt.sources archives and assemble a compressed tarball. It's here mostly as a historical relic. If you want a compiled binary (on Linux) you can install it with conda (ideally in its own conda environment): conda install -c davidmertz python=0.9 Skip Montanaro has created a GitHub repository of Python 0.9.1 source.

  • Python Success Stories

    ...and support libraries are written in C and can be compiled with most C compilers. In this project, the ability for Python to be embedded into other code worked very well. The documentation is excellent and the examples are easy to follow. However, the PowerPanel hardware has no hard disk and thus could not itself compile the Python interpreter's C sources. To work around this problem, the developers cross-compiled Python from another machine, producing object code for the PowerPC using a compile...

  • Python Patterns - An Optimization Anecdote

    ...ccessful ones, because of the way the hash chaining works. The second reason why f3() is faster than f1() is that the call to chr(item), as executed by the bytecode interpreter, is probably a bit slower than when executed by the map() function - the bytecode interpreter must execute three bytecode instructions for each call (load 'chr', load 'item', call), while the map() function does it all in C. This led us to consider a compromise, which wouldn't waste extra space, but whic...

  • Release – Python 3.14.3

    Version: None

    Released: Feb. 3, 2026

    This is third maintenance release of Python 3.14 Python 3.14.3 is the third maintenance release of 3.14, containing around 299 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.14.2. Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13 Some of the major new features and changes …

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  • Release – Python 3.9.3

    Version: None

    Released: April 2, 2021

    This is the third maintenance release of Python 3.9 NOTE: The release you're looking at has been recalled due to unintentional breakage of ABI compatibility with C extensions built in Python 3.9.0 - 3.9.2. Details in bpo-43710. Please use Python 3.9.4 or newer instead. Python …

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  • Release – Python 3.13.1

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 3, 2024

    This is the first maintenance release of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations compared to Python 3.12. 3.13.1 is the latest maintenance release, containing almost 400 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since …

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  • Python Success Stories

    ...Python C Extension Modules IronPython scripts can in general import and use regular Python modules. However, IronPython cannot import C extension modules. Such modules generally have a .pyd extension, and consist of compiled C or C++, exposing an API to let them be imported like a Python library. Such modules include some of the Python standard library, such as cmath, array, parser, and subprocess. Much of this missing functionality is compensated for by the availability of equivalent .NET libra...

  • Release – Python 3.13.0rc3

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    Released: Oct. 1, 2024

    This is the third release candidate of Python 3.13.0 This release, 3.13.0rc3, is the final release preview (no really) of 3.13. This release is expected to become the final 3.13.0 release, barring any critical bugs being discovered. The official release of 3.13.0 is now scheduled for Monday, 2024-10-07. …

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  • Python Success Stories

    ...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. Python has played an important role in the success of LivingLogic AG, and will co...

  • Release – Python 3.14.0b4

    Version: None

    Released: July 8, 2025

    It's the final 3.14 beta! https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140b4/ This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b4, is the last of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new …

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  • Notes

    ...cause Python's cyclic gc had no knowledge of Python's weakref objects. It does now. When weakrefs with callbacks become part of cyclic garbage now, those weakrefs are cleared first. The callbacks don't trigger then, preventing the problems. If you need callbacks to trigger, then just as when cyclic gc is not involved, you need to write your code so that weakref objects outlive the objects they weakly reference. Critical bugfix, for SF bug 840829: if cyclic garbage collection happened to occ...

  • Python 2.4.1 - Release Notes

    ...cipate in GC. To upgrade an extension module: rename Py_TPFLAGS_GC to PyTPFLAGS_HAVE_GC use PyObject_GC_New or PyObject_GC_NewVar to allocate objects and PyObject_GC_Del to deallocate them rename PyObject_GC_Init to PyObject_GC_Track and PyObject_GC_Fini to PyObject_GC_UnTrack remove PyGC_HEAD_SIZE from object size calculations remove calls to PyObject_AS_GC and PyObject_FROM_GC Two new functions: PyString_FromFormat() and PyString_FromFormatV(). These can be used safely to construct strin...

  • Release – Python 3.14.0a4

    Version: None

    Released: Jan. 14, 2025

    Hello, three dot fourteen dot zero alpha four! 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, 3.14.0a4, is the fourth of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases …

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  • Release – Python 3.14.2

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    Released: Dec. 5, 2025

    This is the second maintenance release of Python 3.14 Python 3.14.2 is the second maintenance release of 3.14, containing 18 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.14.1. This is an expedited release to fix the following regressions: gh-142206: Exceptions in multiprocessing in …

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  • Release – Python 3.14.0b3

    Version: None

    Released: June 17, 2025

    It's 3.14 beta 3! https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140b3/ This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b3, is the third of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features …

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  • Release – Python 3.14.0

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    Released: Oct. 7, 2025

    This is the stable release of Python 3.14.0 Python 3.14.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimisations compared to Python 3.13. Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13 Some of the major …

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  • Release – Python 3.7.0a1

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    Released: Sept. 19, 2017

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.7 Major new features of the 3.7 series, compared to 3.6 Python 3.7 is still in development. This releasee, 3.7.0a1 is the first of four planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the …

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  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 9-Mar-2005

    ...ct and releases of their CollabNet Enterprise Edition product. He also worked at Microsoft as a Development Manager, in the Commerce Server and Site Server groups. Greg was a co-founder and the Corporate Technologist of eShop, one of the first electronic commerce software companies, before its acquisition by Microsoft. In Greg's spare time, he works on many open source projects, such as Subversion, WebDAV, and Python. He also works on Apache projects and is the current Chairman of t...

  • Python Humor

    ...ce) language of my choice, because stallman.el wasn't compatible with the new fangled Emacs 18 that was being worked on, and nobody understood how the old code worked anyway. So I chose Python because of its cool name and the fact that font-lock actually worked for Python syntax, and I wrote a Python C extension that allowed me to embed Emacs in Python, and to seamlessly call Elisp programs from Python. This was actually cleaner than JPython is now (sorry Jim), except for one little problem. ...

  • Release – Python 3.14.0rc1

    Version: None

    Released: July 22, 2025

    It's the first 3.14 release candidate! https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140rc1/ This is the first release candidate of Python 3.14 This release, 3.14.0rc1, is the penultimate release preview. Entering the release candidate phase, only reviewed code changes which are clear bug fixes are allowed between this release candidate and the …

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