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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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• Software Bill-of-Materials Information

  ...Python-3.12.2.tgz the SBOM document will be named Python-3.12.2.tgz.spdx.json. SBOM documents can be downloaded from the Python release page or can be downloaded using an HTTP client. Below is an example of downloading the SBOM document using curl: $ curl --remote-name https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.12.2/Python-3.12.2.tgz.spdx.json After downloading the SBOM document there should be a file named Python-3.12.2.tgz.spdx.json in your working directory. What's included in CPython's Software Bi...

• Software Bill-of-Materials Information

  ...Python-3.12.2.tgz the SBOM document will be named Python-3.12.2.tgz.spdx.json. SBOM documents can be downloaded from the Python release page or can be downloaded using an HTTP client. Below is an example of downloading the SBOM document using curl: $ curl --remote-name https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.12.2/Python-3.12.2.tgz.spdx.json After downloading the SBOM document there should be a file named Python-3.12.2.tgz.spdx.json in your working directory. What's included in CPython's Software Bi...

• Event – Python New Zealand, Online Group, Presentation and Code-along-at-home

  28 Aug. from 6:30am UTC to 8:30am UTC, 2024

  Location: Online

  Python New Zealand, Online Group, Presentation and Code-along-at-home

• 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 3.14.0rc2

  Version: None

  Released: Aug. 14, 2025

  It's the final 🪄 penultimate 🪄 3.14 release candidate! Note: rc2 was originally planned for 2025-08-26, but we fixed a bug that required bumping the magic number stored in Python bytecode (.pyc) files. This means .pyc files created for rc1 cannot be used for rc2, and they'll be …

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• Release – Python 3.14.0rc3

  Version: None

  Released: Sept. 18, 2025

  It's 🪄 finally 🪄 the final 3.14 release candidate! Note: It's another magic release. We fixed another bug that required bumping the magic number stored in Python bytecode (.pyc) files. This means file .pyc files created for rc2 cannot be used for rc3, and they'll be recompiled. The …

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• Release – Python 3.7.16

  Version: None

  Released: Dec. 6, 2022

  This is a security release of Python 3.7 Note: The release you are looking at is a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.7 series which has now reached end-of-life and is no longer supported. See the downloads page for currently supported versions of Python. The final security bugfix release …

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• Release – Python 3.14.0b3

  Version: None

  Released: June 17, 2025

  It's 3.14 beta 3! https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140b3/ This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b3, is the third of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and …

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• Release – Python 3.14.0rc1

  Version: None

  Released: July 22, 2025

  It's the first 3.14 release candidate! https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140rc1/ This is the first release candidate of Python 3.14 This release, 3.14.0rc1, 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 …

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• Release – Python 3.14.1

  Version: None

  Released: Dec. 2, 2025

  This is the first maintenance release of Python 3.14 Python 3.14.1 is the first maintenance release of 3.14, containing around 558 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.14.0. Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13 Some of the major new features and changes in Python 3.14 …

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• 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

  Python Distutils-SIG: Tasks and Division of Labour Python Distutils-SIG Tasks and Division of Labour At the Seventh International Python Conference Developer's Day session "Extension Building Considered Painful", we enumerated the tasks necessary to develop, distribute, and install Python modules; arrived at a rough consensus regarding the division of labour necessary to conceptualize any distribution/installation system; and came up with a proposed user...

• Python Distutils-SIG: Tasks and Division of Labour

  Python Distutils-SIG: Tasks and Division of Labour Python Distutils-SIG Tasks and Division of Labour At the Seventh International Python Conference Developer's Day session "Extension Building Considered Painful", we enumerated the tasks necessary to develop, distribute, and install Python modules; arrived at a rough consensus regarding the division of labour necessary to conceptualize any distribution/installation system; and came up with a proposed user...

• Glue It All Together With Python

  ...Python website http://www.python.org. Like Tcl, Python is easily extensible with C/C++/Java code, and easily embeddable in applications. Python even uses Tk, the Tcl GUI toolkit, for a de-facto standard portable GUI toolkit. Unlike Tcl, however, Python supports object-oriented programming. Python programmers can create classes, use multiple inheritance, define methods, overload operators, and so on. Python's Strengths Syntactically, Python code looks like executable pseudo cod...

• Release – Python 3.14.0a7

  Version: None

  Released: April 8, 2025

  Here comes the final alpha! This means we have just four weeks until the first beta to get those last features into 3.14 before the feature freeze on 2025-05-06! 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 …

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• Event – NZPUG-Auckland Coding Evening

  07 Dec. from 5:30am UTC to 7:30am UTC, 2022

  Location: Online

  Crafting Software - Coding Evening, New Zealand Python User Group - Auckland

• Import Sig

  ...Python 3.3 is released.

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  ...Python uses a bytecode virtual machine; PyPy supports just-in-time (JIT) compilation to machine code. Also, Jython and IronPython (see below) support JIT compilation on their respective virtual machine implementations. Python plays well with others Python can integrate with COM, .NET, and CORBA objects. For Java libraries, use Jython, an implementation of Python for the Java Virtual Machine. For .NET, try IronPython , Microsoft's new implementation of Python for .NET, or Python for .NET. Pytho...

• Release – Python 3.11.0b2

  Version: None

  Released: May 31, 2022

  This is a beta preview of Python 3.11 Python 3.11 is still in development. 3.11.0b2 is the second of four 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 to support …

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