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  • Release – Python 2.3.7

    Version: None

    Released: March 11, 2008

    Python 2.3 is now well and truly in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added, and only security critical bugs have been fixed. This release addresses a number of cases interpreter might have crashed in certain boundary conditions. See the detailed release notes for more details. …

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  • Python 2.4.6 Release

    ...Python-2.4.6.tgz (or bzcat Python-2.4.6.tar.bz2 | tar -xf -). Change to the Python-2.4.6 directory and run the "./configure", "make", "make install" commands to compile and install Python. The source archive is also suitable for Windows users who feel the need to build their own version. What's New? See the highlights of the Python 2.4 release. Andrew Kuchling's What's New in Python 2.4 describes the most visible changes since Python 2.3 in more detail. A detaile...

  • 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 decided not to include binaries for Windows or OS X in this release, nor to update …

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  • What's New In Python 3.0

    ...python interpreter, some environment variables would grow without limit. Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by exploitation of poor argument checking. bsddb code updated to version 4.7.3pre2. This code is the same than Python 2.6 one, since the intention is to keep an unified 2.x/3.x codebase. The Python code is automatically translated using "2to3". Please, do not update this code in Python 3.0 by hand. Update the 2.6 one and then do "2to3"...

  • What's new in Python 2.3

    ...Python 2.3 What's new in Python 2.3 Here are the (subjective) highlights of what's new in Python 2.3. Faster According to a couple of simple benchmark, Python 2.3 is about 20-30% faster than Python 2.2.3. Some of this speed-up was obtained by removing the SET_LINENO opcodes, which means that the difference is less impressive when comparing "python -O"; the rest was various careful tune-ups. New Tools A brand new version of IDLE (from the IDLEfork project at SourceForge) is now ...

  • PSF Developers in Residence

    ...Python ecosystem they want to fill with a focused DiR, we are open to additional support for the program. We welcome you to reach out to the sponsors@python.org with inquiries or questions. Łukasz Langa Over the years as the PSF's CPython Developer in Residence, Łukasz Langa has played a key role in shaping the future of Python. He’s worked on everything from improving the user experience—like helping introduce a more modern, user-friendly Python shell—to keeping releases on track and stable. A...

  • Python 2.3.7 Release

    ...Python 2.3 is now well and truly in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added, and only security critical bugs have been fixed. This release addresses a number of cases interpreter might have crashed in certain boundary conditions. See the detailed release notes for more details. Python 2.5 and Python 2.4 are newer releases of Python. This release of the older 2.3 code is to provide bug fixes for people who are still using Python 2.3. For more information on the new features of Python 2....

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 29-Jul-2003

    ...Python has met or exceeded every requirement we've had," said Steve Waterbury, Software Group Leader, NASA STEP Testbed. For more information about Python 2.3 or to download it, please visit http://www.python.org/2.3/ About Python Python is a powerful object oriented programming language that is developed and maintained by a global community of Open Source contributors, under the oversight of the Python Software Foundation. Python's unique blend of simplicity and power excels in a ...

  • Built-in Package Support in Python 1.5

    ...python1.5/site-packages $prefix/lib/site-python The site-packages directory can be used for packages that are likely to depend on the Python version (e.g. package containing shared libraries or using new features). The site-python directory is used for backward compatibility with Python 1.4 and for pure Python packages or modules that are not sensitive to the Python version used. Recommended use of these directories is to place each package in a subdirectory of its own in either ...

  • FSF response to the Python 2.1 license

    ...Python 2.1 license FSF response to the Python 2.1 license Today, I received the following email from Eben Moglen, the Free Software Foundation's attorney. (See also a postscript.) Subject: Re: Python 1.6.1 and GPL compatibility From: Eben Moglen <moglen@columbia.edu> To: Guido van Rossum <guido@digicool.com> Cc: "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn@gnu.org>, rms@gnu.org Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 07:44:11 -0400 (EDT) On Wednesday, 18 April 2001, Guido van Rossum wrote: Please ge...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Python-driven. To the user, it presents itself as a pure Python library. The C code in MMTK was written from scratch in the form of Python extension modules that only handle the few time-critical aspects: evaluation of interaction energies, and long-running iterative algorithms such as energy minimization and Molecular Dynamics, which run without any Python-related overhead. Extensive use is made of Numerical Python, LAPACK, and the netCDF library. MMTK provides multi-threading support for share...

  • Python 2.3.5

    ...Python 2.4.4 and Python 2.5. If you need to remain with Python 2.3, there's a patch available from the security advisory page. Python 2.3.5 supersedes the previous Python 2.3.4 release. No new features have been added in Python 2.3.5 -- the 2.3 series is in bugfix-only mode. 2.3.5 contains an important security fix for SimpleXMLRPCServer - see the advisory (PSF-2005-001) for more. Python 2.3.5 is the last planned release in the Python 2.3 series, and is being rele...

  • Release – Python 2.3.5

    Version: None

    Released: Feb. 8, 2005

    Python 2.3.5 (final) on Feb 8th, 2005. This is a bug-fix release for Python 2.3. There have been around 50 bugs fixed since 2.3.4 - in the Python interpreter, the standard library and also in the build process - see the release notes for details. Important: This release …

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  • Comparing Python to Other Languages

    ...Python; Python can also be used to prototype components until their design can be "hardened" in a Java implementation. To support this type of development, a Python implementation written in Java is under development, which allows calling Python code from Java and vice versa. In this implementation, Python source code is translated to Java bytecode (with help from a run-time library to support Python's dynamic semantics). Javascript Python's "object-based" subset is roughly equivalen...

  • Foreword for "Programming Python" (2nd ed.)

    ...Python" (2nd ed.) Foreword for "Programming Python" (2nd ed.) This is the foreword I wrote for Mark Lutz' book "Programming Python" (2nd ed.), published by O'Reilly in 2001. Less than five years ago, I wrote the foreword for the 1st edition of Programming Python. Since then, the book has changed about as much as the language and the Python community! I no longer feel the need to defend Python: the statistics and developments listed in Mark's Preface speak for themselves. ...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Python for an implementation language has proven to be good choice. Python is currently used for all application logic in the Timesheet application. This includes all code between the initial Apache dispatch, where mod_python is employed to expedite interpreter instantiation, though the application logic, and down to the point of call out to the database transport layer. Timesheet uses not only the Python standard library but also several independently developed open source Python subsystems, su...

  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.3.3

    ...python2.3" are built to not interfere with the system Python. They install as "/usr/bin/python2.3" and will not conflict with the system Python unless you are running on a system that ships the a version of Python which has the same major/minor number. <p /> To invoke the interpreter with these packages, you will explicitly have to run "python2.3". Note that all Python RPMs provided by Python.org and Red Hat provide a "/usr/bin/python2.3" (or similar, w...

  • Release – Python 3.12.0

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 2, 2023

    This is the stable release of Python 3.12.0 Python 3.12.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. Major new features of the 3.12 series, compared to 3.11 New features More flexible f-string parsing, …

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  • Community Stories

    ...Python itself and its C-API, I am very excited about the things to come and what awaits for the Python Language and its community :) Pablo Galindo Salgado, Python Core Developer Community trainings A huge turning point in my career was a Python workshop. I programmed a bit as a kid, and took a single CS class in college, and tried to poke along doing some self-study so I could get better. And then I attended a Boston Python Workshop for Women And Their Friends http://bostonpythonworkshop.com/...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Python was discovered quite early when a member of the development team read about Python in a computer magazine. After some initial experimentation there were really no other contenders. Python had it all. It was a beautiful programming language that was extensible, embeddable, platform independent, and had no license cost. When it came to incorporate Python into the Tribon software, we found the integration to be quite easy and problem-free, and it was achieved with very little effort. The res...

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