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Released: May 13, 2020
This is the third maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.3, 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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Released: June 9, 2020
This is a beta preview of Python 3.9 Python 3.9 is still in development. This release, 3.9.0b3, is the third of five planned beta release previews. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their projects …
Released: June 30, 2020
This is the release candidate of the fourth maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.4rc1, 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. …
Released: Aug. 11, 2020
This is the first release candidate of Python 3.9 This release, 3.9.0rc1, is the penultimate release preview. Entering the release candidate phase, only reviewed code changes which are clear bug fixes are allowed between this release candidate and the final release. The second candidate and the last planned release …
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 …
Released: Oct. 5, 2020
This is the stable release of Python 3.9.0 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.9.0, a legacy release. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. Installer news This is the first version of Python to …
Released: Feb. 19, 2021
This is the eight maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.8, 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. 3.8.8 introduces two security …
Released: May 3, 2021
This is the tenth and final regular maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.10, 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. According …
Comparing Option-Parsing Libraries Comparing Option-Parsing Libraries NOTE: this page is present for historical purposes only. The getopt-sig is retired, and Optik was added to the Python standard library (as optparse) in Python 2.3. (It was checked in to Python's CVS tree in November 2002, and first released in July 2003.) Since I proposed Optik for the Python standard library, a number of other option-parsing libraries have come to light. I'm trying to evaluate them by ...
...bits or have a different sign than the left operand. To be precise: x<<n where this currently doesn't yield the same value as long(x)<<n; in Python 2.4, the outcome will be long(x)<<n. Conversions from ints to string that show negative values as unsigned ints in the inclusive range [0x80000000..0xffffffff]; this affects the functions hex() and oct(), and the string formatting codes %u, %o, %x, and %X. In Python 2.4, these will show signed values (e.g. hex(-1) currently return...
Summary of "Extension Building" Session "Extension Building Considered Painful": Session Summary by Greg Ward The "Extension Building Considered Painful" session at IPC7 was very productive, and there was a good consensus in the room as to what's needed, what will work for various classes of users, and what ideas to steal from other related systems (the closest being Red Hat's RPM and Perl's MakeMaker). Decisions made Everyone seemed to agree with my p...
Python 1.6 Python 1.6 Note: See the download pages for more recent releases. The final version of Python 1.6 is released on September 5, 2000. (What's new?) CNRI has placed an open source license on this version. CNRI believes that this version is compatible with the GPL, but there is a technicality concerning the choice of law provision, which Richard Stallman believes may make it incompatible. CNRI is still trying to work this out with Stallman. Future versions of Python ...
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 …
Released: Jan. 31, 2018
This is a beta preview of Python 3.7 Python 3.7 is still in development. This release, 3.7.0b1, is the first of four planned beta release previews. Among the major new features in Python 3.7 are: PEP 538, Coercing the legacy C locale to a UTF-8 based locale PEP 539 …
Released: Feb. 28, 2018
This is a beta preview of Python 3.7 Python 3.7 is still in development. This release, 3.7.0b2, is the second of four planned beta release previews. Among the major new features in Python 3.7 are: PEP 538, Coercing the legacy C locale to a UTF-8 based locale PEP 539 …
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 …
WARNING: this release has a known regression See BPO-40924 for details. Use Python 3.9.0b3 or newer instead, please. This is a beta preview of Python 3.9 Python 3.9 is still in development. This release, 3.9.0b2, is the second of four planned beta release previews. Beta release previews are intended to …
Released: Nov. 26, 2020
This is the release candidate of the first maintenance release of Python 3.9 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.9.1rc1, the release candidate of a bugfix release for the legacy 3.9 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release …
Other Documentation Tools Other Documentation Tools When considering the state of documentation tools for Python, one should consider what is being done for other systems. This should include tools that work with documentation embedded in source code and tools that work with separated documentation. If you can think of additional tools that should be noted, please let me know about them (free or commercial). If you can point to an example of the markup, that would be great; thank...
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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