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  • Python 2.2.3

    ...interpreters (new releases initially appear in unstable). Macintosh users can find binaries and source on Jack Jansen's MacPython page. (MacOS X users who have a C compiler can also build from the source tarball below.) All others should download Python-2.2.3.tgz, the source archive. Unpack it with "tar -zxvf Python-2.2.3.tgz". Change to the Python-2.2.3 directory and run the "./configure", "make", "make install" commands to compile and install Python. ...

  • Python 2.6.9 Release

    ...interpreter. This bug is not fixed by the Python 2.6.9 release. If you are having this problem, please review your options by visiting the issue tracker. Developers on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) or later may experience problems when building Python 2.6 from source, due to the adoption of multiarch support. See issue 9762 for additional details and workarounds. Documentation The documentation has also been updated. You can browse the HTML on-line or download the HTML.

  • PSF-2005-001 - SimpleXMLRPCServer.py allows unrestricted traversal

    PSF-2005-001 - SimpleXMLRPCServer.py allows unrestricted traversal <h2>PSF-2005-001 - SimpleXMLRPCServer.py allows unrestricted traversal</h2> <hr> <h3>Python Security Advisory</h3> <pre><b> Advisory ID: <a href="/files/news/security/PSF-2005-001/PSF-2005-001.txt">PSF-2005-001</a> Issue Date: February 3, 2005 Product: Python Versions: 2.2 all versions, 2.3 prior to 2.3.5, 2.4 CVE Names: CAN-2005-0089 </b></...

  • PSF-2006-001 - Buffer overrun in repr() for UCS-4 encoded unicode strings

    PSF-2006-001 - Buffer overrun in repr() for UCS-4 encoded unicode strings <h2>PSF-2006-001 - Buffer overrun in repr() for UCS-4 encoded unicode strings</h2> <hr> <h3>Python Security Advisory</h3> <pre><b> Advisory ID: <a href="/files/news/security/PSF-2006-001/PSF-2006-001.txt">PSF-2006-001</a> Issue Date: October 12, 2006 Product: Python Versions: 2.2, 2.3 prior to 2.3.6, 2.4 prior to 2.4.4, wide unicode (UCS-4) build...

  • 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 ...

  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.4

    ...interpreter with these packages, you will explicitly have to run "python2.4". Note that all Python RPMs provided by Python.org and Red Hat provide a "/usr/bin/python2.4" (or similar, with major/minor number), even if they also provide "/usr/bin/python". So, yes, it should be safe. Note that you may need to build and install a second copy of any packages which you need access to with the supplemental version of Python. You can build pack...

  • Python 2.4.1 - Linux RPMs

    ...interpreter with these packages, you will explicitly have to run "python2.4". Note that all Python RPMs provided by Python.org and Red Hat provide a "/usr/bin/python2.4" (or similar, with major/minor number), even if they also provide "/usr/bin/python". So, yes, it should be safe. Note that you may need to build and install a second copy of any packages which you need access to with the supplemental version of Python. You can build packages of these files for the...

  • What's New In Python 3.0

    ...interpreters. Issue #4213: The file system encoding is now normalized by the codec subsystem, for example UTF-8 is turned into utf-8. Issue #4200: Changed the atexit module to store its state in its PyModuleDef atexitmodule. This fixes a bug with multiple subinterpeters. Issue #4237: io.FileIO() was raising invalid warnings caused by insufficient initialization of PyFileIOObject struct members. Issue #4170: Pickling a collections.defaultdict object would crash the interpreter. Issue #4146: Compi...

  • What's new in Python 2.3

    ...interpreter to enter the interactive prompt at program exit, as if Python had been invoked with the -i option. os.walk() - generator-based replacement for os.path.walk(). (New in 2.3b1.) os.fsync() - now supported on Windows. (New in 2.3b1.) winsound.MessageBeep() - new function on Windows. (New in 2.3b1.) time.tzset() - interface to platform tzset(). (New in 2.3b1.) sys.getfilesystemencoding() - returns the file system default encoding. (New in 2.3b1.) sys.exc_clear() - clears the current ...

  • Help

    ...interpreter. Explore the development repository. Got a Python problem or question? First check the Python FAQs, with answers to many common, general Python questions. The Python Help category of the discuss.python.org website hosts usage questions and answers from the Python community. The tutor list offers interactive help. If the tutor list isn't your cup of tea, there are many other mailing lists and newsgroups. Stack Overflow has many Python questions and answers. You can post questions ...

  • Python 2.1 Press Release

    ...interpreter issue warning messages about code that will become obsolete in the future. Python programmers can use this framework to issue their own warnings. The warnings framework has a flexible filtering mechanism that allows end users to selectively disable warnings or change their disposition. <p>This release also introduces two frameworks for automatic software testing: doctest, which allows Python modules and classes to include snippets of self-test code in their in-line documentatio...

  • Python 2.1 Press Release

    ...interpreter issue warning messages about code that will become obsolete in the future. Python programmers can use this framework to issue their own warnings. The warnings framework has a flexible filtering mechanism that allows end users to selectively disable warnings or change their disposition. <p>This release also introduces two frameworks for automatic software testing: doctest, which allows Python modules and classes to include snippets of self-test code in their in-line documentatio...

  • Python 2.1 Press Release

    ...interpreter issue warning messages about code that will become obsolete in the future. Python programmers can use this framework to issue their own warnings. The warnings framework has a flexible filtering mechanism that allows end users to selectively disable warnings or change their disposition. <p>This release also introduces two frameworks for automatic software testing: doctest, which allows Python modules and classes to include snippets of self-test code in their in-line documentatio...

  • 2008 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes

    2008 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of the 2008 Members' Meeting March 14, 2008 The Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") held its annual members' meeting on March 14, 2008 at 12:40 CDT (17:40 UTC) at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare hotel in Rosemont, Illinois, USA (PyCon 2008 Chicago). The agenda is available here. Stephan Deibel presided over the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1   Attendance 2...

  • Release – Python 2.3.7

    Version: None

    Released: March 11, 2008

    Python 2.3 is now well and truly in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added, and only security critical bugs have been fixed. This release addresses a number of cases interpreter …

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  • Release – Python 2.4.6

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 19, 2008

    This release includes just a small number of fixes, primarily preventing crashes of the interpreter in certain boundary cases. This is the last planned release in the Python 2.4 series. We have …

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  • FSF response to the Python 2.1 license

    FSF response to the Python 2.1 license FSF response to the Python 2.1 license Today, I received the following email from Eben Moglen, the Free Software Foundation's attorney. (See also a postscript.) Subject: Re: Python 1.6.1 and GPL compatibility From: Eben Moglen <moglen@columbia.edu> To: Guido van Rossum <guido@digicool.com> Cc: "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn@gnu.org>, rms@gnu.org Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 07:44:11 -0400 (EDT) On Wednesday, 18 April 2001, Guido van Rossum w...

  • Python 2.4.6 Release

    ...interpreter in certain boundary cases. This is the last planned release in the Python 2.4 series. We have decided not to include binaries for Windows or OS X in this release, nor to update any online documentation, as the overhead for doing so would have greatly outweighed the amount of changes that we release. If you need the security fixes included in this release, please build your own binaries from the sources, or (better) upgrade to a more recent Python release for which we still do provid...

  • PSF Developers in Residence

    ...interpreter and standard library that we're suspicious if he's really a single person. Serhiy is often the fastest responder on new issues and a champion of resolving and closing old ones. His quick reactions and consistent output make Serhiy invaluable for fixing crashes, release blockers, and other obscure issues that puzzle the average core developer. Serhiy's role is generously sponsored by an anonymous donor. Seth Larson As Security Developer-in-Residence Seth focuses on the security postu...

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