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  • Download Python for other platforms

    ...integration with Python. Pythonista is a complete development environment for writing Python scripts including third-party libraries and system integration on your iPad or iPhone. Pyto also provides a complete development environment for running Python 3 including many third-party libraries and system integration on an iPad or iPhone. Alternate Python packages for Linux You can purchase ActivePython (commercial and community versions, including scientific computing modules, not open source) ...

  • Python 2.5 Release

    ...installed. The new format installer allows for automated installation and many other shiny new features. There are also separate installers for Win64-Itanium users (on XP/2003 64-bit Itanium Edition) - Python-2.5.ia64.msi and for Win64 users on AMD64 machines (on XP/2003/Vista x64 Edition) - Python-2.5.amd64.msi. Windows users may also be interested in Mark Hammond's pywin32 package, available from Sourceforge. pywin32 adds a number of Windows-specific extensions to Python, including COM support...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 20-Dec-2019

    ...in Python 3 was forcing the resolution of non-trivial Unicode handling issues in the reference interpreter and standard library, and in migrated libraries and applications. Python 3 is a noticeable improvement to Python. There is ground-up support for Unicode and internationalization. It better expresses common idioms and patterns, which in code makes it easier to read and reason about. Improvements in concurrency, fault handling, testing, and debugging provide developers with the opportunity t...

  • Release – Python 2.5.0

    Version: None

    Released: Sept. 19, 2006

    Python 2.5 was released on September 19th 2006. There's a bunch of places you can look for more information on what's new in this release -- see the "What's New" section further down this page. This is a final release, and should be suitable for production use. …

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  • Python 2.5.4 Release

    ...installers, the Windows system must support Microsoft Installer 2.0. Just save the installer file to your local machine and then run it to find out if your machine supports MSI. Windows XP and later already have MSI; many older machines will already have MSI installed. If your machine lacks Microsoft Installer, you'll have to download it freely from Microsoft for Windows 95, 98 and Me and for Windows NT 4.0 and 2000. Windows users may also be interested in Mark Hammond's pywin32 package, availab...

  • Python 3.0 Release

    ...incompatible with the 2.x line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed considerably, and a lot of deprecated features have finally been removed. Also, the standard library has been reorganized in a few prominent places. Here are some Python 3.0 resources: What's new in Python 3000 Python 3.0 change log. Online Documentation Read more in PEP 3000 To help out, sign up for python-3000@pyt...

  • Sunsetting Python 2

    ...inds a security problem in it. You should upgrade to Python 3 as soon as you can. Why are you doing this? We needed to sunset Python 2 so we can help Python users by improving Python faster. We released Python 2.0 in 2000. We realized a few years later that we needed to make big changes to improve Python. So in 2006, we started Python 3.0. Many people did not upgrade, and we did not want to hurt them. So, for many years, we have kept improving and publishing both Python 2 and Python 3. But this ...

  • Release – Python 2.5.4

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 23, 2008

    This is the last bugfix release of Python 2.5. Future releases of Python 2.5 will only contain security patches; no new features are being added, and no "regular" bugs will be fixed anymore. According …

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  • Python documentation by version

    ...in available online. Use the list below to select a version to view. For unreleased (in development) documentation, see In development versions. Python 3.14.0, documentation released on 7 October 2025. Python 3.13.9, documentation released on 14 October 2025. Python 3.13.8, documentation released on 7 October 2025. Python 3.13.7, documentation released on 14 August 2025. Python 3.13.6, documentation released on 6 August 2025. Python 3.13.5, documentation released on 11 June 2025. Python 3.13.4...

  • Python 2.5.3 Release

    ...installers, the Windows system must support Microsoft Installer 2.0. Just save the installer file to your local machine and then run it to find out if your machine supports MSI. Windows XP and later already have MSI; many older machines will already have MSI installed. If your machine lacks Microsoft Installer, you'll have to download it freely from Microsoft for Windows 95, 98 and Me and for Windows NT 4.0 and 2000. Windows users may also be interested in Mark Hammond's pywin32 package, availab...

  • Python 3.1.4 Release

    ...indows x86 MSI Installer (3.1.4) (sig) Windows x86 MSI program database (3.1.4) (sig) Windows X86-64 MSI Installer (3.1.4) [1] (sig) Windows X86-64 program database (3.1.4) [1] (sig) Mac OS X 32-bit i386/PPC Installer (3.1.4) for Mac OS X 10.3 through 10.6 [2] (sig) The source tarballs are signed with Benjamin Peterson's key (fingerprint: 12EF 3DC3 8047 DA38 2D18 A5B9 99CD EA9D A413 5B38). The Windows installers are signed with Martin von Löwis' public key which has a key id of 7D9DC8D2. The Ma...

  • Release – Python 3.0.0

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 3, 2008

    Python 3.0 final was released on December 3rd, 2008. Python 3.0 (a.k.a. "Python 3000" or "Py3k") is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x …

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  • The Python Logo

    ...Inline image sizing The Python Logo Projects and companies that use Python are encouraged to incorporate the Python logo on their websites, brochures, packaging, and elsewhere to indicate suitability for use with Python or implementation in Python. Use of the "two snakes" logo element alone (the logo device), without the accompanying wordmark is permitted on the same terms as the combined logo. Combined logo: Logo device only: Currently, the following larger sized and vector varian...

  • Python 3.1.1 Release

    ...inuation of the work started by Python 3.0, the new backwards-incompatible series of Python. Improvements in this release include: An ordered dictionary type Various optimizations to the int type New unittest features including test skipping and new assert methods. A much faster io module Tile support for Tkinter A pure Python reference implementation of the import statement New syntax for nested with statements See these resources for further information: What's New in 3.1? What's new in Py...

  • Python 2.5.2 Release

    ...installers, the Windows system must support Microsoft Installer 2.0. Just save the installer file to your local machine and then run it to find out if your machine supports MSI. Windows XP and later already have MSI; many older machines will already have MSI installed. If your machine lacks Microsoft Installer, you'll have to download it freely from Microsoft for Windows 95, 98 and Me and for Windows NT 4.0 and 2000. Windows users may also be interested in Mark Hammond's pywin32 package, availab...

  • Release – Python 2.7.9rc1

    Version: None

    Released: Nov. 26, 2014

    Python 2.7.9rc1 is the first release candidate for the next bugfix version of the Python 2.7 series. Python 2.7.9 will include several significant changes unprecedented in a "bugfix" release: The entirety of Python 3.4's ssl module has been backported for Python 2.7.9. See PEP 466 for justification. HTTPS certificate validation …

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  • Python 2.3.5

    ...ing procedure. Download the release Windows users should download the Windows installer, Python-2.3.5.exe, run it and follow the friendly instructions on the screen to complete the installation. Windows users may also be interested in Mark Hammond's win32all, a collection of Windows-specific extensions including COM support and Pythonwin, an IDE built using Windows components. RPMs suitable for Red Hat/Fedora and source RPMs for other RPM-using operating systems are available from...

  • Release – Python 2.5.3

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 19, 2008

    Python 2.5.3 was released on December 19th, 2008. This is the last bugfix release of Python 2.5. Python 2.5 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. According to the release notes, about 80 bugs and patches have been addressed since Python 2.5.2, many …

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  • Python 2.5.1 Release

    ...installers, the Windows system must support Microsoft Installer 2.0. Just save the installer file to your local machine and then run it to find out if your machine supports MSI. Windows XP and later already have MSI; many older machines will already have MSI installed. If your machine lacks Microsoft Installer, you'll have to download it freely from Microsoft for Windows 95, 98 and Me and for Windows NT 4.0 and 2000. Windows users may also be interested in Mark Hammond's pywin32 package, availab...

  • Python 3.1.3 Release

    ...indows x86 MSI Installer (3.1.3) (sig) Windows x86 MSI program database (3.1.3) (sig) Windows X86-64 MSI Installer (3.1.3) [1] (sig) Windows X86-64 program database (3.1.3) [1] (sig) Mac OS X 32-bit i386/PPC Installer (3.1.3) for Mac OS X 10.3 through 10.6 [2] (sig) The source tarballs are signed with Benjamin Peterson's key (fingerprint: 12EF 3DC3 8047 DA38 2D18 A5B9 99CD EA9D A413 5B38). The Windows installers are signed with Martin von Löwis' public key which has a key id of 7D9DC8D2. The Ma...

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