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  • Diversity

    ...help each other live up to these principles. We want our community to be more diverse: whoever you are, and whatever your background, we welcome you. Diversity Appendix We have created this diversity statement because we believe that a diverse Python community is stronger and more vibrant. A diverse community where people treat each other with respect has more potential contributors and more sources for ideas. Although we have phrased the formal diversity statement generically to make it all-...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (September 13, 2005)

    ...help Tim, or do we just wait until he's done it all by himself? S. Holden replied that we want to recruit as many of the existing pydotorg-maintainers as possible, and he plans to write some documentation to help newbie members of the team. A. Kuchling noted that the pydotorg list is seeing little action lately. M. von Löwis asked if we can identify fixed-deadline tasks for which we need volunteers, so they can drop out when they are done with specific tasks. S. Holden replied that the plan i...

  • Release – Python 3.4.0

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    Released: March 17, 2014

    Python 3.4.0 Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.0 was released on March 16th, 2014. Major new features of the 3.4 series, compared to 3.3 Python 3.4 includes a range …

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  • Release – Python 2.6.6

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    Released: Aug. 24, 2010

    Python 2.6 is now in security-fix-only mode; no new features are being added, and no new bug fix releases are planned. We intend to provide source-only security fixes for the Python 2.6 series until October 2013 (five years after the 2.6 final release). For ongoing maintenance releases, please see …

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  • Release – Python 3.4.5

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    Released: June 27, 2016

    Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.5 was released on June 26th, 2016. Python 3.4 has now entered "security fixes only" mode, and as such the only improvements between Python 3.4.4 and Python 3.4.5 are …

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  • Release – Python 3.4.6rc1

    Version: None

    Released: Jan. 3, 2017

    Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.6 release candidate 1 was released on January 2nd, 2017. Python 3.4 has now entered "security fixes only" mode, and as such the only improvements between Python 3.4.4 and …

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  • Release – Python 3.4.6

    Version: None

    Released: Jan. 17, 2017

    Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.6 was released on January 17th, 2017. Python 3.4 has now entered "security fixes only" mode, and as such the only improvements between Python 3.4.4 and Python 3.4.5 are …

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  • Release – Python 3.4.7rc1

    Version: None

    Released: July 25, 2017

    Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.7rc1 was released on July 25th, 2017. Python 3.4 has now entered "security fixes only" mode, and as such the only improvements between Python 3.4.6 and Python 3.4.7 are …

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  • Release – Python 3.4.7

    Version: None

    Released: Aug. 9, 2017

    Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.7 was released on August 9th, 2017. Python 3.4 has now entered "security fixes only" mode, and as such the only improvements between Python 3.4.6 and Python 3.4.7 are …

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  • Release – Python 3.4.8rc1

    Version: None

    Released: Jan. 23, 2018

    Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.8rc1 was released on January 23rd, 2018. Python 3.4 has now entered "security fixes only" mode, and as such the only improvements between Python 3.4.7 and Python 3.4.8rc1 are …

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  • Release – Python 3.4.8

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    Released: Feb. 5, 2018

    Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.8 was released on February 4th, 2018. Python 3.4 has now entered "security fixes only" mode, and as such the only improvements between Python 3.4.7 and Python 3.4.8 are …

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  • Release – Python 3.4.9rc1

    Version: None

    Released: July 20, 2018

    Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.9rc1 was released on July 19th, 2018. Python 3.4 has now entered "security fixes only" mode, and as such the only changes since Python 3.4.7 are security fixes. Also, …

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  • Release – Python 3.4.9

    Version: None

    Released: Aug. 2, 2018

    Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.9 was released on August 2nd, 2018. Python 3.4 has now entered "security fixes only" mode, and as such the only changes since Python 3.4.7 are security fixes. Also, …

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  • Release – Python 3.4.10rc1

    Version: None

    Released: March 4, 2019

    Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.10rc1 was released on March 4th, 2019. Python 3.4 has now entered "security fixes only" mode, and as such the only changes since Python 3.4.7 are security fixes. Also, …

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  • Release – Python 3.15.0a7

    Version: None

    Released: March 10, 2026

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.15 Major new features of the 3.15 series, compared to 3.14 Python 3.15 is still in development. This release, 3.15.0a7, is the seventh of eight planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the …

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  • Release – Python 3.15.0a8

    Version: None

    Released: April 7, 2026

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.15 Major new features of the 3.15 series, compared to 3.14 Python 3.15 is still in development. This release, 3.15.0a8, is the final planned alpha release. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state …

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  • Python Distutils-SIG: Tasks and Division of Labour

    ...help the distutils do their job create source distribution not much more than tarring up a subset of the source tree, but -- given that the distutils will have information such as name, version number, etc. -- can be made trivial with its help The developer will also have to build the software repeatedly in the course of development, which means that the interface for building has to be geared towards both installers (possibly naive end-...

  • Python Distutils-SIG: Tasks and Division of Labour

    ...help the distutils do their job create source distribution not much more than tarring up a subset of the source tree, but -- given that the distutils will have information such as name, version number, etc. -- can be made trivial with its help The developer will also have to build the software repeatedly in the course of development, which means that the interface for building has to be geared towards both installers (possibly naive end-...

  • Python 2.6.6 Release

    ...Help fund Python and its community by donating to the Python Software Foundation. Download This is a production release; we currently support these formats: Gzipped source tar ball (2.6.6) (sig) Bzipped source tar ball (2.6.6) (sig) Windows x86 MSI Installer (2.6.6) (sig) Windows X86-64 MSI Installer (2.6.6) [1] (sig) Windows help file (sig) Mac Installer disk image (2.6.6) (sig) MD5 checksums and sizes of the released files: b2f209df270a33315e62c1ffac1937f0 13318547 Python-2.6.6.tgz c...

  • Python 3.4.0

    ...help generate introspection information for builtins PEP 442, improved semantics for object finalization PEP 443, adding single-dispatch generic functions to the standard library PEP 445, a new C API for implementing custom memory allocators PEP 446, changing file descriptors to not be inherited by default in subprocesses PEP 450, a new "statistics" module PEP 451, standardizing module metadata for Python's module import system PEP 453, a bundled installer for the pip package manager P...

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