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  • Python Success Stories

    ...with dynamic languages getting ever more attention, IronPython forms the flagship language for Microsoft's recent Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR), upon which future versions of Visual Basic will be based, and a healthy future seems assured. The success of IronPython is well deserved. It has proven to be a very capable implementation, with transparent mappings between Python and .NET types, and very few differences between it and CPython to catch out unwary developers. Pairing up the expressivity ...

  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.2.2

    ...with the .spec file in the base tar file. Use the SRPM that is on this page... System Message: WARNING/2 (<string>, line 99) Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. <hr /> <li />Q) When running "rpm -ba", "rpm -ta" or "rpm --rebuild" I get the error "-ba: unknown option" or "--rebuild: unknown option" or "-ta: unknown option". <li />A) With the Red Hat 8.0 release, the building options...

  • Release – Python 2.4.5

    Version: None

    Released: March 11, 2008

    Python 2.4 is now in security-fix-only mode. No new features are being added, and bugs are not fixed anymore unless they affect the stability and security of the interpreter, or of Python applications. This release includes just a small number of fixes, primarily preventing crashes of the interpreter in …

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  • Release – Python 3.7.0b1

    Version: None

    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 …

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  • Release – Python 3.7.0b2

    Version: None

    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 …

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  • 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 …

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  • Release – Python 3.9.0b2

    Version: None

    Released: June 9, 2020

    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 …

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  • Release – Python 3.13.0b3

    Version: None

    Released: June 27, 2024

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is still in development. This release, 3.13.0b3, is the third 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 …

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  • Python 2.4.5 Release

    ...with it. Unpack the archive with tar -zxvf Python-2.4.5.tgz (or bzcat Python-2.4.5.tar.bz2 | tar -xf -). Change to the Python-2.4.5 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...

  • Audio/Video Instructional Materials for Python

    ...with key Python contributors. Ron has built up quite a collection of podcasts since he started in May 2005 - over fifty as of April 2007. They are great for listening to on the train or in traffic. The site provides an XML/RSS feed to which you can subscribe with your favorite reader or make a live bookmark of dropdown podcast titles using Mozilla Firefox. Djangodose A podcast about all things Django, discussing new features in the development tree, how-tos, and listener questions. Jython Mont...

  • Notes

    ...With that module, it is not necessary to statically link Tix with _tkinter, since Tix will be loaded with Tcl's "package require" command. See Demo/tix/. tzparse.py is now obsolete. In gzip.py, the seek() and tell() methods are removed -- they were non-functional anyway, and it's better if callers can test for their existence with hasattr(). Python/C API PyDict_Next(): it is now safe to call PyDict_SetItem() with a key that's already in the dictionary during a PyDict_Next() iteratio...

  • 2012-06-18 & 2012-06-25 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...with "Other PSF Conferences". She listed the following: Sent tips for finding locations to PyCon Africa with some tips and offered my help whenever they may need it Sent tips for organization to a python meeting happening in October in Chapel Hill, NC Working on attending EuroPython. Ewa also reported on other event activities for the month. Please see the following report: PyCon AV Management Nothing to Report for May 2012 PyCon Budgeting Worked with Van on how to properly e...

  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.3.2

    ...with other Red Hat applications that expect a different version of Python? System Message: WARNING/2 (<string>, line 125) Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. <li />A) The RPMs that start with "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 num...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...with the pygame module. The simulator proved to be very realistic; code running on on it can be uploaded to the main computer with very little modification. Only the simulated I/O module is replaced by the real I/O module. Conclusion The control software of the CD/DVD disc partitioner took one developer about 4 months to complete. The software development process was almost parallel with the hardware development process. At the end of the project, the control software passed all field tests an...

  • 2009-12-21 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...with previous years." S. Holden: "The question is, are we prepared to commit to being guided by the budget figures I prepared?" K. Kaiser: "We have a page on the PSF website. I'll see to it that it is up-to-date with financials and tax filings." S. Holden: "The point is first of all to start planning. Then we can improve our planning. The accountants [Wendroff] should be providing a much better picture of our position on a monthly basis this year." RESOLVED, t...

  • Notes

    ...without arguments now returns False rather than raising an exception. This is consistent with calling the constructors for the other builtin types -- called without argument they all return the false value of that type. (SF patch #724135) In support of PEP 269 (making the pgen parser generator accessible from Python), some changes to the pgen code structure were made; a few files that used to be linked only with pgen are now linked with Python itself. The repr() of a weakref object now shows t...

  • Release – Python 3.7.0b5

    Version: None

    Released: May 30, 2018

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.7 Python 3.7 is still in development. This release, 3.7.0b5, is now the final planned beta release preview. Originally, 3.7.0b4 was intended to be the final beta but, due to some unexpected compatibility issues discovered during beta testing of third-party packages, …

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  • Release – Python 3.13.0b2

    Version: None

    Released: June 5, 2024

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is still in development. This release, 3.13.0b2, is the second 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 …

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  • Release – Python 3.13.0b4

    Version: None

    Released: July 17, 2024

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is still in development. This release, 3.13.0b4, is the final beta release preview 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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  • Bugs in Python 2.3.2

    Bugs in Python 2.3.2 <h3>Bugs in Python 2.3.2</h3> <ul> <li>IDLE now executes code in a separate process. To communicate between the main process and executing processes, IDLE opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE.</li> </ul> &...

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