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  • Python 1.6.1

    ...What's new in release 1.6.1? A new license (see above). A core dump in the C API function PyList_Reverse() has been fixed. The 1.6 release accidentally contained a number of .pyc files; these have been removed. What's new in release 1.6? Here is a list of all relevant changes since release 1.5.2. Source Incompatibilities Several small incompatible library changes may trip you up: The append() method for lists can no longer be invoked with more than one argument. This used to append a sin...

  • Documentation Special Interest Group

    ...What output formats are needed HTML PDF Subject matter: Python core Extension modules Applications Applets THE PSA as a Catalyst Authors of software would have an incentive to write documentation according to a common standard if that were a prerequisite for receiving the PSA stamp-of-approval. For this to work the PSA will need guidelines to use for the evaluation process. The review guidelines may include things such as: ...

  • Release – Python 2.5.2

    Version: None

    Released: Feb. 21, 2008

    Python 2.5.2 was released on February 21st, 2008. This is the second 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, over 100 bugs and patches have been addressed since Python 2.5.1, many …

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  • Release – Python 2.5.3

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 19, 2008

    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 …

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  • Release – Python 2.5.1

    Version: None

    Released: April 19, 2007

    Python 2.5.1 was released on April 18th, 2007. This is the first 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, over 150 bugs and patches have been squished since Python 2.5, including …

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  • Release – Python 2.4.4

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 18, 2006

    Python 2.4 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. At least 80 bugs have been squished since Python 2.4.3, including a number of bugs and potential bugs found by with the Coverity and …

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  • Release – Python 2.5.4

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 23, 2008

    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" bugs will be fixed anymore. According …

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  • Release – Python 3.12.0a2

    Version: None

    Released: Nov. 15, 2022

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.12. Major new features of the 3.12 series, compared to 3.11 Python 3.12 is still in development. This release, 3.12.0a2 is the second of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state …

  • Python Success Stories

    ...what I've always been looking for." Results Happy programmers are good programmers, and good programmers work efficiently. That's what project management learned at this point in our effort. The group's Web services programmers quickly caught onto the new Python-based system and development progressed at amazing speed. Services could now be implemented in a few minutes rather than the days needed using the typical J2EE approach. Now most services were completed and deployed in less than a...

  • Python 2.4.3 Release

    ...What's New? See the highlights of the Python 2.4 release. Andrew Kuchling's What's New in Python 2.4 describes the most visible changes since Python 2.3 in more detail. A detailed list of the changes in 2.4.3 can be found in the release notes, or the Misc/NEWS file in the source distribution. For the full list of changes, you can poke around in Subversion. Documentation The documentation has also been updated: Browse HTML on-line Download using HTTP. Documentation is available in Windows He...

  • Python 2.4.4 Release

    ...What's New? See the highlights of the Python 2.4 release. Andrew Kuchling's What's New in Python 2.4 describes the most visible changes since Python 2.3 in more detail. A detailed list of the changes in 2.4.4 can be found in the release notes, or the Misc/NEWS file in the source distribution. For the full list of changes, you can poke around in Subversion. Documentation The documentation has also been updated: Browse HTML on-line Download using HTTP. Documentation is available in Windows He...

  • Python 2.5.1 Release

    ...What's New? See the highlights of the Python 2.5 release. Andrew Kuchling's What's New in Python 2.5 describes the most visible changes since Python 2.4 in more detail. A detailed list of the changes in 2.5.1 can be found in the release notes, or the Misc/NEWS file in the source distribution. For the full list of changes, you can poke around in Subversion. Documentation The documentation has also been updated: Download using HTTP. Documentation is available in Windows Help (.chm) format - ...

  • Python 2.5.2 Release

    ...What's New? See the highlights of the Python 2.5 release. Andrew Kuchling's What's New in Python 2.5 describes the most visible changes since Python 2.4 in more detail. A detailed list of the changes in 2.5.2 can be found in the release notes, or the Misc/NEWS file in the source distribution. For the full list of changes, you can poke around in Subversion. Documentation The documentation has also been updated: Download using HTTP. Documentation is available in Windows Help (.chm) format - ...

  • Python 2.5.3 Release

    ...What's New? See the highlights of the Python 2.5 release. Andrew Kuchling's What's New in Python 2.5 describes the most visible changes since Python 2.4 in more detail. A detailed list of the changes in 2.5.3 can be found in the release notes, or the Misc/NEWS file in the source distribution. For the full list of changes, you can poke around in Subversion. Documentation The documentation has also been updated: Browse HTML on-line Files, MD5 checksums, signatures and sizes a971f8928d6b...

  • Python 2.5.4 Release

    ...What's New? See the highlights of the Python 2.5 release. Andrew Kuchling's What's New in Python 2.5 describes the most visible changes since Python 2.4 in more detail. A detailed list of the changes in 2.5.4 can be found in the release notes, or the Misc/NEWS file in the source distribution. For the full list of changes, you can poke around in Subversion. Documentation The documentation has also been updated: Browse HTML on-line Files, MD5 checksums, signatures and sizes ad47b23778f6...

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  • 2022 PSF Annual Report

    ...what’s to come in the next year. Download and read the report today! Thank you to Robb Design Co. for the beautiful design!

  • 2023 PSF Annual Impact Report

    ...what’s to come in the next year. Download and read the report today! Thank you to Robb Design Co. for the beautiful design!

  • 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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  • Python Distutils-SIG: Proposed User Interface

    ...what's really happening behind each of those commands. It could be argued that that is an implementation detail that doesn't belong in an interface proposal, but I think that most developers, many packagers, and a few curious users will be inclined to look "under the hood" and see what's really going on as they build and install module distributions. (And the unlucky ones will have to understand the process if things go wrong!) So, here is a list of commands...

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