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  • Computer Programming for Everybody

    ...packages). While we don't expect students to write these extension modules, the use of such modules makes it possible to spruce up their learning experience greatly. This extensibility gives teachers an opportunity to tailor lessons to the interests of their students by providing them with guarded access to other software packages. The fact that Python can be used to develop large applications plays into a different aspect of our vision, namely the development of open source application s...

  • Release – Python 3.4.1rc1

    Version: None

    Released: May 5, 2014

    Python 3.4.1rc1 Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.1 was released on May 18th, 2014. Python 3.4.1 has over three hundred bugfixes and other improvements over 3.4.0. One notable change: the version of OpenSSL bundled with the Windows …

  • Release – Python 2.7.9rc1

    Version: None

    Released: Nov. 26, 2014

    Python 2.7.9rc1 is the first release candidate for the next bugfix version of the Python 2.7 series. Python 2.7.9 will include several significant changes unprecedented in a "bugfix" release: The entirety of Python 3.4's ssl module has been backported for Python 2.7.9. See PEP 466 for justification. HTTPS certificate validation …

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  • Frank Willison Memorial Award

    ...manager (written in Python, naturally), and contributed large parts of the related 'email' standard library module. He has vigorously advocated for Python 3 adoption; he has helped with infrastructure; with the security list; and he has been Python release manager for several versions. Barry has worked for Canonical since 2007, focusing especially on Python support in the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. Anna Martelli Ravenscroft (2013) Anna Martelli Ravenscroft received the Frank Willison...

  • 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 final release. The …

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  • Release – Python 2.5.0

    Version: None

    Released: Sept. 19, 2006

    Python 2.5 was released on September 19th 2006. There's a bunch of places you can look for more information on what's new in this release -- see the "What's New" section further down this page. This is a final release, and should be suitable for production use. …

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  • Python 2.5 Release

    ...packages (such as Word and Office) also include MSI, so you may already have it on your system. If not, you can download it freely from Microsoft for Windows 95, 98 and Me and for Windows NT 4.0 and 2000. Windows XP and later already have MSI; many older machines will already have MSI installed. The new format installer allows for automated installation and many other shiny new features. There are also separate installers for Win64-Itanium users (on XP/2003 64-bit Itanium Edition) - Python-2.5...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 29-Jul-2003

    ...package meta data, extended date/time processing, a logging module, and improved support for several operating systems, including Mac OS X. "The combination of the open source Unix-based core of Mac OS X running on PowerBook G4 high-performance portables has attracted a large number of developers using open source scripting languages like Python," said Bud Tribble, Apple's vice president of Software Technology. "Python 2.3 provides greatly improved support for existing Mac OS X users, a...

  • Python 2.0

    ...package with XML support code organized (so far) in three subpackages: xml.dom, xml.sax, and xml.parsers. Describing these would fill a volume. There's a special feature whereby a user-installed package named _xmlplus overrides the standard xmlpackage; this is intended to give the XML SIG a hook to distribute backwards-compatible updates to the standard xml package. webbrowser - a platform-independent API to launch a web browser. Changed Modules array - new methods for array ob...

  • Release – Python 3.14.0b1

    Version: None

    Released: May 7, 2025

    Only one day late, welcome to the first beta! This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b1, is the first 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 3.14.0b4

    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 features and bug fixes …

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  • Release – Python 3.14.0rc2

    Version: None

    Released: Aug. 14, 2025

    It's the final 🪄 penultimate 🪄 3.14 release candidate! Note: rc2 was originally planned for 2025-08-26, but we fixed a bug that required bumping the magic number stored in Python bytecode (.pyc) files. This means .pyc files created for rc1 cannot be used for rc2, and they'll be …

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  • Python Special Interest Groups

    ...package SIG archive, subscribe i18n-sig Andy Robinson Internationalization archive, subscribe image-sig Fredrik Lundh Image Processing archive, subscribe import-sig Barry Warsaw Import SIG archive, subscribe meta-sig Barry Warsaw SIG about the SIGs archive, subscribe mobile-sig Jeff Hardy Python for mobile devices archive, subscribe pythonmac-sig Jack Jansen On Apple Macintosh archive, subscribe sssc-sig Dustin Ingram Secure Software Supply Chains for Python discussion list archive, subsc...

  • 2013-11-15 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...package name that is inappropriate. Further discussion will continue on the board mailing list before any action is taken. 8   Adjournment Van Lindberg adjourned the meeting at 18:43 CET/ 12:43 EST.

  • 2012-07-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Manager, provided a summary of his work. He said: The project is lead by Marc-André Lemburg who is in contact with the people behind the Plone brochure created by the German Zope User Group (DZUG): Jan Ulrich Hasecke and Armin Stroß-Radschinski. We started working on the concept a few weeks after World Plone Day in April 2010 and had several meetings and conference calls to take the idea forward. For more details, please see the brochure support site at: http://brochure.getpython.info/learn-mo...

  • 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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  • Support Python in 2023!

    ...Manager. We are excited to add two full time dedicated staff members to the PSF to support PyCon US, our communications, and the community as a whole. CPython Developer in Residence - Our CPython Developer in Residence, Łukasz Langa, continued to provide trusted support and advancement of the Python language, including oversight for the releases of Python 3.8 and 3.9, adoption of Sigstore, and stewardship of PEP 703 (to name a few of many!). Łukasz also engaged with the community by orchestrati...

  • 2013-11-01 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...package from marketwired.com for 10 releases at a cost of $4,000, to be used by both PyCon and the Foundation. Approved, 11-0-0. 5   Reports 5.1   Event Coordinator Report Continued Activities from Last Month Website Management: Coordinating between CTE and Caktus: Worked on how they will communicate between each other so that email communication may be possible to tutorial registrants from the Caktus website. I have signed a new SOW with Caktus that will giv...

  • 2013-12-06 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...package name. No decisions were made, the discussion will continue on the board mailing list. 14   Adjournment Van Lindberg adjourned the meeting at 19:05 CET/ 13:05 EST.

  • Release – Python 2.4.3

    Version: None

    Released: April 15, 2006

    We are pleased to announce the release of …

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