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2023 PSF Annual Impact Report The Python Software Foundation 2023 Annual Impact Report In 2023, we did MORE of a lot to contribute to the impact of our mission. We welcomed Seth Larson, Mike Fiedler, Marisa Comacho, and Marie Nordin, all fulfilling crucial roles in our support of the Python community. We celebrated the 20th anniversary of PyCon US in Salt Lake City, Utah. We were delighted to welcome seven new organizations into our Fiscal Sponsoree Program. And we are excited to share ...
Highlights: Python 2.5 Highlights: Python 2.5 Here are some of the (subjective) highlights of Python 2.5. More detail on almost all of the new features can be found in the document What's New In Python 2.5 More Reliable Python now uses the Buildbot tool for continuous testing on a wide range of platforms. This allows us to spot problems faster during development, and resulted in a much more robust release. Andrew Kuchling determined that there were over 350 patches and over 450 bugs fixed ...
Python 3.1.3 Release Python 3.1.3 Note: It is recommended that you use the latest bug fix release of the 3.1 series, 3.1.4. Python 3.1.3 was released on November 27th, 2010. The Python 3.1 version series is a continuation of the work started by Python 3.0, the new backwards-incompatible series of Python. For ongoing maintenance releases, please see the Python 3.2 series. Improvements in this release include: An ordered dictionary type Various optimizations to the int type New unittest feat...
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Released: Nov. 27, 2010
Note: It is recommended that you use the latest bug fix release of the 3.1 series, 3.1.4. Python 3.1.3 was released on November 27th, 2010. The Python 3.1 version series is a continuation of the work started by Python 3.0, the new backwards-incompatible series of Python. For ongoing …
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Python 3.3.0 Release Python 3.3.x has reached end-of-life. Python 3.3.7, the final security-fix release, is available here. Python 3.3.0 was released on September 29th, 2012. Python 3.3 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, as well as easier porting between 2.x and 3.x. Major new features in the 3.3 release series are: PEP 380, syntax for delegating to a subgenerator (yield from) PEP 393, flexible string representation (doing away with the distinction between "wide" ...
The Python Logo Python logo Inline image sizing The Python Logo Projects and companies that use Python are encouraged to incorporate the Python logo on their websites, brochures, packaging, and elsewhere to indicate suitability for use with Python or implementation in Python. Use of the "two snakes" logo element alone (the logo device), without the accompanying wordmark is permitted on the same terms as the combined logo. Combined logo: Logo device only: Currently, the following la...
PSF Developers in Residence The Python Software Foundation’s Developer in Residence Program supports full-time developers who are focused on improving the Python programming language and its ecosystem. These developers play a crucial role in advancing Python’s core development, maintaining critical infrastructure, and supporting the broader community through mentorship, documentation, and tooling. Their work also addresses essential areas such as packaging, supply chain security, and the conti...
Python Software Foundation: Python Conference Committee Report (December 2003) <center> <h3>The Python Software Foundation <br>Python Conference Committee Report </h3> </center> <p>December 2003 <p>David Ascher reports that he and Steve Holden had a phone call, and Ascher, Holden, Jeremy Hylton, Neal Norwitz, and Itamar Shtull-Trauring met on IRC. <h3>Deadlines</h3> <ul> System Message: ERROR/3 (<string>, line 15) Unexpected in...
...Python-2.6.tar.bz2 d16d29a77db2cd3af882a591f431a403 13023860 Python-2.6.tgz fe34764ad0027d01176eb1b321dd20c5 14503936 python-2.6.amd64.msi 6c62c123d248a48dccbaa4d3edc12680 14173184 python-2.6.msi 29a1a22f8d9fd8a4501b30d97fbee61c 23593748 python-2.6-macosx2008-10-01.dmg The signatures for the source tarballs above were generated with GnuPG using release manager Barry Warsaw's public key which has a key id of EA5BBD71. The Windows installers was signed by Martin von Löwis' public key whi...
Released: Oct. 2, 2008
Python 2.6 (final) was released on October 1st, 2008. There are a huge number of new features, modules, improvements and bug fixes. For information on what's changed, see: Andrew Kuchling's guide to What's New in Python 2.6. NEWS file contains a …
Python 3.1.4 Release Python 3.1.4 Note: It is recommended that you use the latest bug fix release of the 3.1 series, 3.1.5. Python 3.1.4 was released on June 11th, 2011. The Python 3.1 version series is a continuation of the work started by Python 3.0, the new backwards-incompatible series of Python. For ongoing maintenance releases, please see the Python 3.2 series. Improvements in the the 3.1 series release include: An ordered dictionary type Various optimizations to the int type New uni...
Released: June 11, 2011
Note: It is recommended that you use the latest bug fix release of the 3.1 series, 3.1.5. Python 3.1.4 was released on June 11th, 2011. The Python 3.1 version series is a continuation of the work started by Python 3.0, the new backwards-incompatible series of Python. For ongoing …
Released: May 30, 2003
We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.2.3 (final), on May 30, 2003. This is a bug-fix release for Python 2.2 and supersedes the previous bugfix release, Python 2.2.2. Note: there's a security fix for SimpleXMLRPCServer.py. Download the release Windows users should download the Windows installer, …
Released: March 4, 2019
Python 2.7.16 is a bugfix release in the Python 2.7 series. Note Attention macOS users: As of 2.7.16, all current python.org macOS installers ship with builtin copies of OpenSSL and Tcl/Tk 8.6. See the installer README for more information.
2013-07-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors July 12, 2013 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Group Conference Call via phone and Internet Relay Chat beginning at 18:00 CEST/ 12:00 EDT, on July 12 2013. Van Lindberg presided over the meeting. Ewa Jodlowska prepared the minutes. All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor-Yâop...
Python 3.4.0 Release Candidate 1 Release Python 3.4.0 release candidate 1 Note: Python 3.4.0rc1 has been superseded by Python 3.4.9. Python 3.4.0 release candidate 1 was released on February 10th, 2014. This is a preview release of the next major release of Python, Python 3.4, and is not suitable for production environments. Major new features of the 3.4 series, compared to 3.3 Python 3.4 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, including hundreds of small improvements and bug fix...
Released: Feb. 17, 2019
Python 2.7.16 release candidate 1 is a prelease for a bugfix release in the Python 2.7 series. Note Attention macOS users: As of 2.7.16, all current python.org macOS installers ship with builtin copies of OpenSSL and Tcl/Tk 8.6. See the installer README for more information.
2013-04-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors April 12, 2013 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Group Conference Call via phone and Internet Relay Chat beginning at 17:00 CEST/ 12:00 EDT, on April 12 2013. Van Lindberg presided over the meeting. Ewa Jodlowska prepared the minutes. All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor-Y‚op...
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...
Python 2.5 license Python 2.5 license This is the official license for the Python 2.5 release: A. 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 Corp...
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