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  • Release – Python 2.4.5

    Version: None

    Released: March 11, 2008

    Python 2.4 is now in security-fix-only mode. No new features are being added, and bugs are not fixed anymore unless they affect the stability and security of the interpreter, or of Python …

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  • Release – Python 3.8.2rc2

    Version: None

    Released: Feb. 17, 2020

    This is the second release candidate of Python 3.8.2, the second maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.2rc2, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of …

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  • Release – Python 3.13.0b3

    Version: None

    Released: June 27, 2024

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is still in development. This release, 3.13.0b3, is the third of four beta release previews of 3.13. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their …

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  • Applications for Python

    ...build control and management, testing, and in many other ways. SCons for build control. Buildbot and Apache Gump for automated continuous compilation and testing. Roundup or Trac for bug tracking and project management. Business Applications Python is also used to build ERP and e-commerce systems: Odoo is an all-in-one management software that offers a range of business applications that form a complete suite of enterprise management applications. Tryton is a three-tier high-level general p...

  • Python 2.4.5 Release

    ...build your own binaries from the sources, or (better) upgrade to a more recent Python release for which we still do provide binaries and documentation updates. See the detailed release notes for more details. Since the release candidate, we received various reports that the this release may fail to build on current operating systems, in particular on OS X. We have made no attempt to fix these problems, as the release is targeted for systems that were current at the time Python 2.4 was originally...

  • Release – Python 2.2.2

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 14, 2002

    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 and Python 2.5. If you need to remain with Python 2.2, there's a patch available from the …

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  • Python 2.2.2

    Python 2.2.2 Python 2.2.2 Note: See Python 2.2.3 for a patch release which supersedes 2.2.2. 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 and Python 2.5. If you need to remain with Python 2.2, there's a patch available from the security advisory page. We are pleased to announce the release...

  • Bugs in Python 2.4.3

    ...building Python on AIX requires you to build in 32 bit mode. Some tests may unexpectedly fail on certain platforms. Here are failures that we know (something) about and intend to fix in a following patch release. These bugs may simply be in the test suite, but they may indicate bugs in Python. test_grp and test_pwd may fail. We've had reports of this on *nix systems that use a "+" at the beginning of a line in the /etc/group or /etc/passwd file to indicate NIS/YP or LDAP consulta...

  • Bugs in Python 2.4.4

    ...building Python on AIX requires you to build in 32 bit mode. Some tests may unexpectedly fail on certain platforms. Here are failures that we know (something) about and intend to fix in a following patch release. These bugs may simply be in the test suite, but they may indicate bugs in Python. test_grp and test_pwd may fail. We've had reports of this on *nix systems that use a "+" at the beginning of a line in the /etc/group or /etc/passwd file to indicate NIS/YP or LDAP consulta...

  • Bugs in Python 2.4.5

    ...building Python on AIX requires you to build in 32 bit mode. Some tests may unexpectedly fail on certain platforms. Here are failures that we know (something) about and intend to fix in a following patch release. These bugs may simply be in the test suite, but they may indicate bugs in Python. test_grp and test_pwd may fail. We've had reports of this on *nix systems that use a "+" at the beginning of a line in the /etc/group or /etc/passwd file to indicate NIS/YP or LDAP consulta...

  • Bugs in Python 2.4.5

    ...building Python on AIX requires you to build in 32 bit mode. Some tests may unexpectedly fail on certain platforms. Here are failures that we know (something) about and intend to fix in a following patch release. These bugs may simply be in the test suite, but they may indicate bugs in Python. test_grp and test_pwd may fail. We've had reports of this on *nix systems that use a "+" at the beginning of a line in the /etc/group or /etc/passwd file to indicate NIS/YP or LDAP consulta...

  • Python Distutils-SIG: Design Proposal

    ...Build directories (all under ./blib by default) build_lib - where to put platform-independent library files build_platlib - where to put platform-dependent library files build_exe - where to put executable programs (ie. scripts) build_html - where to put processed documentation (HTML) Installation directories (under sysconfig.LIBDEST by default) install_lib install_platlib ...

  • Python Distutils-SIG: Design Proposal

    ...Build directories (all under ./blib by default) build_lib - where to put platform-independent library files build_platlib - where to put platform-dependent library files build_exe - where to put executable programs (ie. scripts) build_html - where to put processed documentation (HTML) Installation directories (under sysconfig.LIBDEST by default) install_lib install_platlib ...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...build, when the need arises. Once slave machines have received their copy of the build, they grab the ID of a few unallocated tests from the database, and run those tests locally, updating the database with the results. Test results are visible at any time using a web interface, which also makes it easy to ask a particular machine to drop out of the build once it has finished running it's current batch of tests. Once all test records are marked as either pass or fail, we know the build is comple...

  • Release – Python 2.6.8

    Version: None

    Released: April 10, 2012

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  • Release – Python 3.8.0rc1

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 1, 2019

    This is the release candidate of Python 3.8.0 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.0rc1, an outdated release. Python 3.9 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.9.x here. Please keep in mind that this is a preview release …

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  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 3-Oct-2003

    Python Software Foundation: Press Release 3-Oct-2003 October 3, 2003 Press Release SOURCE: Python Software Foundation PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION (PSF) ANNOUNCES PYTHON VERSION 2.3.2 Second maintenance release for the latest Python FREDERICKSBURG, Va., October 3, 2003 -- The Python Software Foundation (PSF) announces the release of version 2.3.2 of the Python programming language. This minor release fixes several build and packaging problems found in version 2.3.1, which introduced ...

  • Release – Python 3.13.0b4

    Version: None

    Released: July 17, 2024

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is still in development. This release, 3.13.0b4, is the final beta release preview of 3.13. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their projects to …

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  • Python Success Stories

    ...building the node configuration tool TTP-Build, which uses a network configuration generated by TTP-Plan to produce the configuration of an individual node in the network. Productivity of Programmers Using the Framework Meanwhile, new tools were built using the existing framework. A programmer new to both Python and our framework was able to build a new configuration tool for the LIN protocol, a product that is now called LIN-Plan, within three months. The tool was initially built for a firs...

  • Notes

    ...Build procedure: the zlib project is built in a different way that ensures the zlib header files used can no longer get out of synch with the zlib binary used. See PCbuildreadme.txt for details. Your old zlib-related directories can be deleted; you'll need to download fresh source for zlib and unpack it into a new directory. Build: New subproject _test for the benefit of test_capi.py (see above). Build: New subproject _symtable, for new DLL _symtable.pyd (a nascent interface to some Python ...

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