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• Release – Python install manager 25.0 beta 10

  Version: None

  Released: June 9, 2025

  This is a beta preview of the new Windows Python install manager. The Python install manager for Windows is our tool for installing and managing runtimes. The traditional executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16 As well as the files below, the Python install manager can be installed …

• Release – Python install manager 25.0 beta 11

  Version: None

  Released: June 30, 2025

  This is a beta preview of the new Windows Python install manager. The Python install manager for Windows is our tool for installing and managing runtimes. The traditional executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16 As well as the files below, the Python install manager can be installed …

• Release – Python install manager 25.0 beta 12

  Version: None

  Released: July 22, 2025

  This is a beta preview of the new Windows Python install manager. The Python install manager for Windows is our tool for installing and managing runtimes. The traditional executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16 As well as the files below, the Python install manager can be installed …

• Release – Python install manager 25.0 beta 13

  Version: None

  Released: Aug. 14, 2025

  This is a beta preview of the new Windows Python install manager. The Python install manager for Windows is our tool for installing and managing runtimes. The traditional executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16 As well as the files below, the Python install manager can be installed …

• Release – Python install manager 25.0 beta 14

  Version: None

  Released: Aug. 27, 2025

  This is a beta preview of the new Windows Python install manager. The Python install manager for Windows is our tool for installing and managing runtimes. The traditional executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16 As well as the files below, the Python install manager can be installed …

• Release – Python install manager 25.0 beta 15

  Version: None

  Released: Sept. 18, 2025

  This is a beta preview of the new Windows Python install manager. The Python install manager for Windows is our tool for installing and managing runtimes. The traditional executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16 As well as the files below, the Python install manager can be installed …

• Release – Python 3.8.6

  Version: None

  Released: Sept. 24, 2020

  This is the sixth maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.6, 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 3.11.x here. Major new features of …

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• Python Special Interest Groups - Guidelines

  ...all happen automatically, without human intervention. This is A Good Thing (TM) because such responses should be processed very quickly. (While the normal way to interact with a mailing list is via the SIG's "listinfo" web page, it is also possible to send commands to a special administrative address, see below.) Every SIG must have a clear mission, with a well defined conclusion and end date, and a coordinator - a specific person responsible for reporting on the SIG activity and for...

• Release – Python 2.7.16

  Version: None

  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.

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• Release – Python 3.14.0a6

  Version: None

  Released: March 14, 2025

  Here comes the penultimate alpha. This is an early developer preview of Python 3.14 Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0a6, is the sixth of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to …

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• Release – Python 2.7.16rc1

  Version: None

  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.

• Summary of "Extension Building" Session

  ...aller for Windows). Supporting the old-fashioned "dumb" built distribution model is important, though -- not everyone will have that fancy new installer (or they might have a different smart installer). User utilities Finally, and perhaps most importantly, we most consider the lucky user who wishes to install a Python module distribution on his computer. Users come in all shapes and sizes, but we're mainly concerned with two distinctions: built dist...

• Release – Python 2.7.15rc1

  Version: None

  Released: April 15, 2018

  Python 2.7.15 release candidate one is a preview release for Pthon 2.7.15, the next bug fix release in the Python 2.x series. Note Attention macOS users: as of 2.7.15, all python.org macOS installers ship with a builtin copy of OpenSSL. Additionally, there is a new additional installer variant for macOS …

• Built-in Package Support in Python 1.5

  ...ally the suffixes are searched in the following order: ".so", "module.so", ".py", ".pyc". Directories don't explicitly occur in this list, but precede all entries in it.) A Proposal For Installing Packages In order for a Python program to use a package, the package must be findable by the import statement. In other words, the package must be a subdirectory of a directory that is on sys.path. Traditionally, the easiest way to ensure that a package was on sys.path was to either i...

• 2013-06-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...all for proposals. 5.2   Administrator Report Board Agenda / Minutes I continue to write up the Board Agenda and keep it up to date. I continue to write up the Board Meeting minutes. Grant and Award Notification I continue to notify respective parties of board resolutions. Email and Communication I am continuing to monitor all PSF Board/Members mailing lists also making sure emails a re being answered/followed up on. I am continuing to read through all of the e...

• Release – Python 3.14.0

  Version: None

  Released: Oct. 7, 2025

  This is the stable release of Python 3.14.0 Python 3.14.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimisations compared to Python 3.13. Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13 Some of the major new features and changes …

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• Python Distutils-SIG: Tasks and Division of Labour

  ...all tests install copy the mockup installation tree into an existing Python library tree (not necessarily the system Python library -- could be in a user's home directory, or a temporary directory) Note that these assume the installer is working from a source distribution -- if this is always the case, then the packager has wasted his time, and we don't want that. Installing built distributions should be trivial, but there are a few ...

• Python Distutils-SIG: Tasks and Division of Labour

  ...all tests install copy the mockup installation tree into an existing Python library tree (not necessarily the system Python library -- could be in a user's home directory, or a temporary directory) Note that these assume the installer is working from a source distribution -- if this is always the case, then the packager has wasted his time, and we don't want that. Installing built distributions should be trivial, but there are a few ...

• Sponsor the PSF

  ...all-in-one sponsorship program: all PSF sponsorships support the full scope of the PSF’s work, including PyCon US as well as PyPI (Python Package Index), CPython, and more. PSF sponsors receive an array of benefits that include a broad selection of promotional opportunities during PyCon US and also year-round. Join us as a sponsor to help make a difference and stand out in the Python ecosystem! See Sponsorship Options and Apply ABOUT THE PSF The PSF is th...

• Towards a Standard Parser Generator

  ...allow scanning wchar_t strings; it is not clear whether these patches would allow to implement full Unicode support for an XPath scanner. Due to usage of callbacks into Python from bison code, the parser was not thread safe. It should be noted that some of these problems have been resolved with the 0.11.1 release of 4Suite. When analysing parser generators, the following absolute requirements where defined: The generated parsers should allow semantic actions ...

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