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  • SIG for development of Python/C++ integration

    SIG for development of Python/C++ integration SIG for development of Python/C++ integration The Python C++ SIG is a forum for discussions about the integration of Python and C++, with an emphasis on the development of the Boost.Python library. At the point of this writing (Jan 2002), Boost.Python is undergoing a major rewrite to add powerful new features and to take full advantage of the new type system introduced in Python 2.2. Suggestions regarding the direction of the develop...

  • Release – Python 2.4.2

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    Released: Sept. 27, 2005

    We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.4.2 (final), a bugfix release, on September 28, 2005. 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 …

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  • Highlights: Python 2.4

    Highlights: Python 2.4 Highlights: Python 2.4 Here are the (subjective) highlights of what's new in Python 2.4. Faster A number of modules that were added in Python 2.3 (such as sets and heapq) have been recoded in C. In addition, there's been a number of other speedups to the interpreter. (See section 8.1, Optimizations, of the "What's New" document for more). New language features multi-line imports - when using imports in the form from foo import bar, baz, bing, bang, you c...

  • Python 2.4.2 Release

    Python 2.4.2 Release Python 2.4.2 Python 2.4.2 has been replaced by a newer bugfix release of Python. Please see the releases page to select a more recent release. We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.4.2 (final), a bugfix release, on September 28, 2005. 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 Pyt...

  • Release – Python 2.5.2

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    Released: Feb. 21, 2008

    Python 2.5.2 was released on February 21st, 2008. This is the second bugfix release of Python 2.5. Python 2.5 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. According to the release notes, over 100 bugs and patches have been addressed since Python 2.5.1, many of …

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  • Python 2.5.2 Release

    ...64-bit systems. Again, see the release notes. For more information on the new features of Python 2.5.2 see the 2.5 highlights or consult Andrew Kuchling's What's New In Python for a more detailed view. Please see the separate bugs page for known issues and the bug reporting procedure. See also the license. Download the release Windows For x86 processors: python-2.5.2.msi For Win64-Itanium users: python-2.5.2.ia64.msi For Win64-AMD64 users: python-2.5.2.amd64.msi This installer allows for auto...

  • Notes

    ...64-bit machines in UCS-4 mode. Bug #938076: Consider output encoding in XMLGenerator. Bug #936637: Properly delegate startElementNS in saxutils.XMLFilterBase. Bug #944082: Empty passwords in urllib2 are now supported. Bug #926075: Fixed a bug that returns a wrong pattern object for a string or unicode object in sre.compile() when a different type pattern with the same value exists. Bug #924361: Properly support normalization of empty unicode strings. Fixed a caching bug in platform.platfor...

  • Python 2.4.1 - Release Notes

    ...64-bit systems, a dictionary could contain duplicate long/int keys if the key value was larger than 2**32. See SF bug #689659. Fixed SF bug #663074. The codec system was using global static variables to store internal data. As a result, any attempts to use the unicode system with multiple active interpreters, or successive interpreter executions, would fail. "%c" % u"a" now returns a unicode string instead of raising a TypeError. u"%c" % 0xffffffff now raises a Ove...

  • Notes

    Notes (editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.) What's New in Python 2.4 final? Release date: 30-NOV-2004 Core and builtins Bug 875692: Improve signal handling, especially when using threads, by forcing an early re-execution of PyEval_EvalFrame() "periodic" code when things_to_do is not cleared by Py_MakePendingCalls(). What's New in Python 2.4 (release candidate 1) Release date: 18-NOV-2004 Core and builtins Bug 1061968: Fixes in 2.4a3 to ad...

  • PSF Board Resolutions

    PSF Board Resolutions The Python Software Foundation Resolutions of the Board of Directors Vote counts are of the form "4-2-1" (4 in favor — 2 opposed — 1 abstention) RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation approve the minutes at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/psf-important@python.org/thread/WURXJ7SFDWVQHNOTGDH2RYPUF3TRSV4D/ as representing a true and accurate record of the November 12, 2025 meeting. Approved; 7-0-1, 2025-12-10 RESOLVED, that the Python Software...

  • Frank Willison Memorial Award

    ...64-bit systems. In 1997, as one of his earliest contributions to the Python community, Christian launched the Starship Python website… When he's not working on Python, Christian enjoys watching movies, reading, and playing piano. You can follow him on twitter @ctismer.” Mark Hammond (2009) Mark Hammond, author and long-term maintainer of the pywin32 package and PythonWin, has been a long-term contributor to Python. Without his contributions it is likely that the Windows platform would be a...

  • 2011-05-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2011-05-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors May 16, 2011 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 16 May 2011. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. Pat Campbell prepared the minutes. All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor — opposed — abstentions; e.g. "5-1-2" means &...

  • PSF Community Service Awards

    ...64-bit Armin Ronacher for his work on the Jinja2 templating library, the Flask web framework, the Logbook logging library, the Click command line application library (including making all of the preceding Python 2/3 compatible), the python-modernize Python 2/3 migration tool, contributions to the modernisation of the Web Server Gateway Interface for Python 3, as well as invaluable detailed feedback given to the core development team on some of the remaining operating system integration issues in...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories First published in Linux Journal, May 2000. Copyright 2000 Specialized Systems Consultants, Inc. All rights reserved. Introduction My first look at Python was an accident, and I didn't much like what I saw at the time. It was early 1997, and Mark Lutz's book Programming Python from O'Reilly & Associates had recently come out. O'Reilly books occasionally land on my doorstep, selected from among the new releases by some mysterious benefactor inside the organization u...

  • 2009-06-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2009-06-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors June 8, 2009 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 8 June 2009. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. Pat Campbell and David Goodger prepared the minutes. All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor — opposed — abstentions; e.g. "5-1-2&...

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