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• Python Success Stories

  ...compiler, then we would not have had occasional misgivings while worrying about hitting performance snags. Java's JIT provides much better performance than Python when executing complex algorithms. The one problem that I see with Python is that there isn't a single dominant web application development framework / paradigm at the moment. However, we're pretty optimistic that TurboGears is going to become the long-term de facto standard for building web applications in Python, and Botonomy is curr...

• Parade of the PEPs

  ...compiler, using a much more appropriate abstract parse tree, and introducing explicit multiple passes. I predict that this alone is already barely doable in the time left before 2.3 beta1 (July 17). PEP 268 - Extended HTTP functionality and WebDAV - Stein I'm all for this, but it's library development work, and I'm not going to do it. It seems the author has dropped the ball, and nobody has picked it up. There's an actual prototype checked into the sandbox/Lib directory (strang...

• Release – Python 2.4.6

  Version: None

  Released: Dec. 19, 2008

  This release includes just a small number of fixes, primarily preventing crashes of the interpreter in certain boundary cases. This is the last planned release in the Python 2.4 series. We have …

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• Release – Python 3.8.2rc1

  Version: None

  Released: Feb. 10, 2020

  This is the release candidate of Python 3.8.2, the second maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.2rc1, 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 …

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• Release – Python 3.8.3

  Version: None

  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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• Release – Python 3.8.4rc1

  Version: None

  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. …

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• 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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• Release – Python 3.8.8

  Version: None

  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 …

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• Release – Python 3.8.10

  Version: None

  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 …

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• Release – Python 3.13.0b1

  Version: None

  Released: May 8, 2024

  This is a beta preview of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is still in development. This release, 3.13.0b1, is the first 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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• Release – Python 3.13.0

  Version: None

  Released: Oct. 7, 2024

  This is the stable release of Python 3.13.0 Python 3.13.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations compared to Python 3.12. (Compared to the last release candidate, 3.13.0rc3, 3.13.0 contains two small bug fixes and some documentation and testing …

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• Release – Python 3.13.2

  Version: None

  Released: Feb. 4, 2025

  This is the second maintenance release of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations compared to Python 3.12. 3.13.2 is the latest maintenance release, containing almost 250 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.13.1. …

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• Release – Python 3.14.0a5

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  Released: Feb. 11, 2025

  Here comes the antepenultimate 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, 3.14.0a5, is the fifth of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to …

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• Release – Python 3.13.3

  Version: None

  Released: April 8, 2025

  This is the third maintenance release of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations compared to Python 3.12. 3.13.3 is the latest maintenance release, containing almost 320 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.13.2. …

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• Release – Python 3.13.6

  Version: None

  Released: Aug. 6, 2025

  This is the sixth maintenance release of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations compared to Python 3.12. 3.13.6 is the sixth maintenance release of 3.13, containing around 200 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes …

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• Python 2.4.6 Release

  Python 2.4.6 Release Python 2.4.6 We are pleased to announce Python 2.4.6 (final), a bugfix release of Python 2.4, on Dec 19, 2008. Important: 2.4.6 is a source-only release. If you need a binary release of 2.4, use 2.4.4. If you need the fixes that are included in this release, use 2.6.1 or later. This release includes just a small number of fixes, primarily preventing crashes of the interpreter in certain boundary cases. This is the last planned release in the Python 2.4 series. We have ...

• Python Software Foundation: Press Release 13-Feb-2003

  Python Software Foundation: Press Release 13-Feb-2003 Creators of Python Sponsor PyCon 2003, First Annual Developers Conference in March FREDERICKSBURG, VA, February 13, 2003 No, it's not a snake or the name of a British comedy group. Python is one of the most useful, compelling and intelligently designed programming platforms to have emerged into the computer industry mainstream in recent years. It is rapidly gaining wide acceptance and being deployed in major IT shops around the wor...

• Python Software Foundation: Press Release 9-Feb-2004

  Python Software Foundation: Press Release 9-Feb-2004 February 9, 2004 Press Release SOURCE: Python Software Foundation PyCon 2004 - Second Annual Python Developers Conference Keynote Speech by Mitchell Kapor, founder of Lotus FREDERICKSBURG, Va., February 9, 2004 -- PyCon 2004, the second annual Python developers conference, will be held at George Washington University's Cafritz Conference Center in Washington DC on March 24-26, 2004. Mitchell Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Co...

• Known bugs in Python 2.2

  Known bugs in Python 2.2 <h2>Known bugs in Python 2.2</h2> <h3>Real bugs</h3> <p>These are actual bugs, and we will make fixes available as soon as we have them. (There may be other bugs that aren't generally worth knowing about; search the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=5470">SourceForge bug tracker</a>; you can also use that to report new bugs you find, of course.) <ul> <p><li>The ftplib module's FTP class...

• Release – Python 2.2.0

  Version: None

  Released: Dec. 21, 2001

  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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