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  • 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...

  • Download Python 1.6 Source

    ...Python 1.6 software in source or binary form and its associated documentation, as released at the www.python.org Internet site on September 5, 2000 ("Python 1.6").</p> <p>2. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License Agreement, CNRI hereby grants Licensee a nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide license to reproduce, analyze, test, perform and/or display publicly, prepare derivative works, distribute, and otherwise use Python 1.6 alone or in any derivative version,...

  • Download Python 1.6 Windows Installer

    ...Python 1.6 software in source or binary form and its associated documentation, as released at the www.python.org Internet site on September 5, 2000 ("Python 1.6").</p> <p>2. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License Agreement, CNRI hereby grants Licensee a nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide license to reproduce, analyze, test, perform and/or display publicly, prepare derivative works, distribute, and otherwise use Python 1.6 alone or in any derivative version,...

  • Python 2.0 License

    ...Python 1.2. In 1995, Guido continued his work on Python at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) in Reston, Virginia where he released several versions of the software. Python 1.6 was the last of the versions released by CNRI. In 2000, Guido and the Python core developement team moved to BeOpen.com to form the BeOpen PythonLabs team (www.pythonlabs.com). Python 2.0 is the first release from PythonLabs. Thanks to the many outside volunteers who have worked under Gui...

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

    ...Python 2.3.5 will be released from <a href="http://www.python.org" >www.python.org</a> within a few days containing a fix for this issue. Python 2.4.1 will be released later this month containing the same fix. Patches for Python 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 are also immediately available:</p> <ul> <li> <a href="/files/news/security/PSF-2005-001/patch-2.2.txt" >http://python.org/files/news/security/PSF-2005-001/patch-2.2.txt</a> (Python 2.2) <...

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

    ...python-dev mailing list: <a href="http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-October/069260.html">http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-October/069260.html</a></p> <p>The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2006-4980 to this issue.</p> <p<a href="http://www.python.org/2.4.4/">Python 2.4.4</a> and <a href="http://www.python.org/2.3.6/">Python 2.3.6&l...

  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.4

    ...python24.repo" with the following lines: [python24] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Python 2.4 baseurl=http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4/rpms/fedora-$releasever/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 Add the KRUD GPG key by running: "rpm --import http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4/rpms/KRUD-GPG-KEY" Install Python 2.4 by running: "yum install python2.4". Note that this will only install the base RPM, list "python2.4-devel" or other packages to install them as well....

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Python? Python was chosen for this project for a number of carefully considered reasons: Portability: We knew that we needed an extremely portable language - and Python runs everywhere. Access to Source: We knew that we wanted the source code for whatever language we chose. Forming a startup is risky enough without having to worry about being completely dependent upon somebody else to fix bugs in your tool set. Python is open source with an unrestrictive license. Ability to Integrate: We had no...

  • Python 2.4.1 - Linux RPMs

    ...Python? A. The RPMs that start with "python2.4" are built to not interfere with the system Python. They install as "/usr/bin/python2.4" and will not conflict with the system Python unless you are running on a system that ships the a version of Python which has the same major/minor number. To invoke the 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/...

  • Python Distutils-SIG: Tasks and Division of Labour

    Python Distutils-SIG: Tasks and Division of Labour Python Distutils-SIG Tasks and Division of Labour At the Seventh International Python Conference Developer's Day session "Extension Building Considered Painful", we enumerated the tasks necessary to develop, distribute, and install Python modules; arrived at a rough consensus regarding the division of labour necessary to conceptualize any distribution/installation system; and came up with a proposed user...

  • Python Distutils-SIG: Tasks and Division of Labour

    Python Distutils-SIG: Tasks and Division of Labour Python Distutils-SIG Tasks and Division of Labour At the Seventh International Python Conference Developer's Day session "Extension Building Considered Painful", we enumerated the tasks necessary to develop, distribute, and install Python modules; arrived at a rough consensus regarding the division of labour necessary to conceptualize any distribution/installation system; and came up with a proposed user...

  • Help

    ...Python? Check out the Beginner's Guide. New to Python? Read the standard tutorial. Look for a suitable book from a growing list of titles. Looking for code? See the download page for links to the Python 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 communit...

  • Python 2.1 Press Release

    ...PythonLabs Releases Python 2.1</h1></center> <p>FALLS CHURCH VA (April 17, 2001) - PythonLabs and the Python Software Foundation today announced the final release of Python 2.1, a new version of the popular object-oriented programming language. Python 2.1 is the first release under the auspices of the Python Software Foundation (PSF). <p>"After months of work and many pre-releases, closely coordinated with the Python developer community, Python 2.1 is ready for the w...

  • Python 2.1 Press Release

    ...PythonLabs Releases Python 2.1</h1></center> <p>FALLS CHURCH VA (April 17, 2001) - PythonLabs and the Python Software Foundation today announced the final release of Python 2.1, a new version of the popular object-oriented programming language. Python 2.1 is the first release under the auspices of the Python Software Foundation (PSF). <p>"After months of work and many pre-releases, closely coordinated with the Python developer community, Python 2.1 is ready for the w...

  • Python 2.1 Press Release

    ...PythonLabs Releases Python 2.1</h1></center> <p>FALLS CHURCH VA (April 17, 2001) - PythonLabs and the Python Software Foundation today announced the final release of Python 2.1, a new version of the popular object-oriented programming language. Python 2.1 is the first release under the auspices of the Python Software Foundation (PSF). <p>"After months of work and many pre-releases, closely coordinated with the Python developer community, Python 2.1 is ready for the w...

  • 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 …

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  • Notes

    ...pythonw" that runs your script with an interpreter living in such a .app bundle, this interpreter should be used to run any Python script using the window manager (including Tkinter or wxPython scripts). Most of Mac/Lib has moved to Lib/plat-mac, which is again used both in MacPython-OSX and MacPython-OS9. The only modules remaining in Mac/Lib are specifically for MacPython-OS9 (CFM support, preference resources, etc). A new utility PythonLauncher will start a Python interpreter when a .py ...

  • 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 might have crashed in certain boundary conditions. See the detailed release notes for more details. …

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  • Python 2.4.6 Release

    ...Python-2.4.6.tgz (or bzcat Python-2.4.6.tar.bz2 | tar -xf -). Change to the Python-2.4.6 directory and run the "./configure", "make", "make install" commands to compile and install Python. The source archive is also suitable for Windows users who feel the need to build their own version. 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 detaile...

  • 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 decided not to include binaries for Windows or OS X in this release, nor to update …

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