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  • 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 2.2.1

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    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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  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (May 14, 2002)

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (May 14, 2002) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors May 14, 2002. Present: David Ascher Marc-Andre Lemburg Martin v. Löwis Jeremy Hylton Tim Peters Guido van Rossum Thomas Wouters was absent; the Board had quorum. The meeting starts at 17:00 UTC. Agenda: 1. Minutes from two previous IRC board meetings still need to be approved. 2. Reports. 3. How are we doing on new ...

  • Python Distutils-SIG: Proposed User Interface

    Python Distutils-SIG: Proposed User Interface Python Distutils-SIG Proposed User Interface In addition to identifying the common tasks and division of labour involved in developing, distributing, and installing Python modules, the "Extension Building Considered Painful" Developer's Day Session also came up with a proposed user interface. The core idea of the interface is that the module developer would provide a small Python script, called setup.py ...

  • What's New In Python 3.0

    What's New In Python 3.0 (editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.) What's New in Python 3.0 final Release date: 03-Dec-2008 Core and Builtins Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!") instead of throwing a MemoryError. Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed ite...

  • Notes

    Notes Python 2.1.3 Release Notes Release date: 08-April-2002 What's new in Python 2.1.3 (final)? Core Fixed two bugs reported as SF #535905: under certain conditions, deallocating a deeply nested structure could cause a segfault in the garbage collector, due to interaction with the "trashcan" code; access to the current frame during destruction of a local variable could access a pointer to freed memory. SF #457466: popenx() argument mangling hangs python (win9x only). Under certa...

  • Notes

    Notes (editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.) What's New in Python 2.3.5? Release date: 08-FEB-2005 Core and builtins Partially revert the fix for #1074011; don't try to fflush stdin anymore. Library Applied a security fix to SimpleXMLRPCserver (PSF-2005-001). This disables recursive traversal through instance attributes, which can be exploited in various ways. Bug #1114776. Applied a fix to the copy.py fix in 2.3.5rc1 to deal with types that don't hav...

  • 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...

  • 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 3.14.0rc2

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    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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  • Release – Python 3.14.0rc3

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    Released: Sept. 18, 2025

    It's 🪄 finally 🪄 the final 3.14 release candidate! Note: It's another magic release. We fixed another bug that required bumping the magic number stored in Python bytecode (.pyc) files. This means file .pyc files created for rc2 cannot be used for rc3, and they'll be recompiled. The …

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  • 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 ...

  • Release – Python 3.7.2rc1

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    Released: Dec. 11, 2018

    Python 3.7.2rc1 is the release candidate preview of the second maintenance release of Python 3.7. The Python 3.7 series is the newest major release of the Python language and contains many new features and optimizations. Among the major new features in Python 3.7 are: PEP 539, new C API …

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  • Release – Python 3.7.3rc1

    Version: None

    Released: March 12, 2019

    Python 3.7.3rc1 is the release candidate preview of the third maintenance release of Python 3.7. The Python 3.7 series is the newest major release of the Python language and contains many new features and optimizations. Among the major new features in Python 3.7 are: PEP 539, new C API …

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  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (March 11, 2003)

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (March 11, 2003) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors March 11, 2003 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 7 p.m. EST. Guido van Rossum, president of the Foundation and chairman of the Board, presided at the meeting. 1. Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were present at ...

  • Python 2.6.8 license

    Python 2.6.8 license History and License¶ History of the software¶ Python was created in the early 1990s by Guido van Rossum at Stichting Mathematisch Centrum (CWI, see http://www.cwi.nl/) in the Netherlands as a successor of a language called ABC. Guido remains Python’s principal author, although it includes many contributions from others. In 1995, Guido continued his work on Python at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI, see http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/) ...

  • Python 2.6.9 license

    Python 2.6.9 license History and License¶ History of the software¶ Python was created in the early 1990s by Guido van Rossum at Stichting Mathematisch Centrum (CWI, see http://www.cwi.nl/) in the Netherlands as a successor of a language called ABC. Guido remains Python’s principal author, although it includes many contributions from others. In 1995, Guido continued his work on Python at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI, see http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/)...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction This is a story about how Python's elegant design can make the language useful in an unexpected way. Carmanah Technologies Inc. (http://www.carmanah.com/) was conceived in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The founder, David Green, was sailing his boat from Fiji, bound for Victoria, British Columbia. He was running low on battery power for his navigation lights, and had an insight. The eventual result of that mid-ocean idea was the world's first self-conta...

  • Python 2.0

    Python 2.0 Python 2.0 Note: This is no longer the most current Python release. See Python 2.0.1 for a patch release and the download page for more recent releases. The final version of Python 2.0 was released on October 16, 2000. Download What's new (overview) What's new (details) Post-release news For critical patches, a Python 2.0 specific FAQ, and other issues that have come up since the release, please go to the new Python 2.0 info area, a set of user-editabl...

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