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• Release – Python 3.14.4

  Version: None

  Released: April 7, 2026

  This is fourth maintenance release of Python 3.14 Python 3.14.4 is the fourth maintenance release of 3.14, containing around 337 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.14.3. Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13 Some of the major new features and changes …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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.

• About

  ...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 3.15.0a6

  Version: None

  Released: Feb. 11, 2026

  This is an early developer preview of Python 3.15 Major new features of the 3.15 series, compared to 3.14 Python 3.15 is still in development. This release, 3.15.0a6, is the sixth of eight planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the …

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• 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 …

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• Comparing Option-Parsing Libraries

  ...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 implementing the same real-world command-line interface with several different libraries. Currently, implementations exist for: Greg Ward's (that's me) Optik Russ Cox' iter...

• Release – Python 3.12.0a2

  Version: None

  Released: Nov. 15, 2022

  This is an early developer preview of Python 3.12. Major new features of the 3.12 series, compared to 3.11 Python 3.12 is still in development. This release, 3.12.0a2 is the second of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test …

• Release – Python 3.14.0b1

  Version: None

  Released: May 7, 2025

  Only one day late, welcome to the first beta! This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b1, is the first of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to …

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• Python Patterns - Implementing Graphs

  ...code written in Python). In another Python Patterns column, I will try to analyze their running speed and improve their performance, at the cost of more code. UPDATE: Eryk Kopczyński pointed out that these functions are not optimal. To the contrary, "this program runs in exponential time, while find_shortest_path can be done in linear time using BFS [Breadth First Search]. Furthermore a linear BFS is simpler:" # Code by Eryk Kopczyński def find_shortest_path(graph, start,...

• Release – Python 3.10.0

  Version: None

  Released: Oct. 4, 2021

  This is the stable release of Python 3.10.0 Python 3.10.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. Major new features of the 3.10 series, compared to 3.9 Among the new major new features and changes …

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• Release – Python 3.14.0b2

  Version: None

  Released: May 26, 2025

  Here's the second 3.14 beta. https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140b2/ This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b2, is the first of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new …

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