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  • Comparing Python to Other Languages

    ...declarations for a and b, and does not allow overloading of the + operator for instances of user-defined classes. For these reasons, Python is much better suited as a "glue" language, while Java is better characterized as a low-level implementation language. In fact, the two together make an excellent combination. Components can be developed in Java and combined to form applications in Python; Python can also be used to prototype components until their design can be "hardened" in a Java...

  • What's new in Python 1.5 and beyond

    ...namespace instead of as a submodule. For more information, see Built-in Package Support. The new "re" module (Perl style regular expressions) is here. It is based on Philip Hazel's pcre code; the Python interfaces were put together by Andrew Kuchling. The regex module is declared obsolete. In support of the re module, a new form of string literals is introduced, "raw strings": e.g. r"n" is equal to "\n". All standard exceptions and most exceptions defin...

  • Release – Python 3.12.12

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    Released: Oct. 9, 2025

    This is a security release of Python 3.12 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.12.12, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.12 series. Python 3.14 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.14.x here. Security content …

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  • Release – Python 3.3.5rc1

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    Released: Feb. 23, 2014

    Python 3.3.5 includes fixes for these important issues: a 3.3.4 regression in zipimport (see http://bugs.python.org/issue20621) a 3.3.4 regression executing scripts with a coding declared and Windows newlines (see http://bugs.python.org/issue20731) potential DOS using compression codecs in bytes.decode() (see http://bugs.python.org/issue19619 and http://bugs.python.org/issue20404) …

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  • Release – Python 3.3.5rc2

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    Released: March 2, 2014

    Python 3.3.5 includes fixes for these important issues: a 3.3.4 regression in zipimport (see http://bugs.python.org/issue20621) a 3.3.4 regression executing scripts with a coding declared and Windows newlines (see http://bugs.python.org/issue20731) potential DOS using compression codecs in bytes.decode() (see http://bugs.python.org/issue19619 and http://bugs.python.org/issue20404) …

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  • Release – Python 3.3.5

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    Released: March 9, 2014

    Python 3.3.5 includes fixes for these important issues: a 3.3.4 regression in zipimport (see http://bugs.python.org/issue20621) a 3.3.4 regression executing scripts with a coding declared and Windows newlines (see http://bugs.python.org/issue20731) potential DOS using compression codecs in bytes.decode() (see http://bugs.python.org/issue19619 and http://bugs.python.org/issue20404) …

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  • Release – Python 3.3.5rc1

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    Released: Feb. 23, 2014

    Python 3.3.5 includes fixes for these important issues: a 3.3.4 regression in zipimport (see http://bugs.python.org/issue20621) a 3.3.4 regression executing scripts with a coding declared and Windows newlines (see http://bugs.python.org/issue20731) potential DOS using compression codecs in bytes.decode() (see http://bugs.python.org/issue19619 and http://bugs.python.org/issue20404) …

  • Release – Python 3.9.24

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    Released: Oct. 9, 2025

    This is a security release of Python 3.9 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.9.24, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.9 series. Python 3.14 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.14.x here. Security content …

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  • Release – Python 3.10.19

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    Released: Oct. 9, 2025

    This is a security release of Python 3.10 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.10.19, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.10 series. Python 3.14 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.14.x here. Security content …

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  • Release – Python 3.11.14

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    Released: Oct. 9, 2025

    This is a security release of Python 3.11 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.11.14, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.11 series. Python 3.14 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.14.x here. Security content …

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  • Built-in Package Support in Python 1.5

    Built-in Package Support in Python 1.5 Built-in Package Support in Python 1.5 Starting with Python version 1.5a4, package support is built into the Python interpreter. This implements a slightly simplified and modified version of the package import semantics pioneered by the "ni" module. "Package import" is a method to structure Python's module namespace by using "dotted module names". For example, the module name A.B designates a submodule named B in a package named A. Just like...

  • Notes

    ...namespaces where the lambda is defined. In some unusual cases, this change will break code. In all previous version of Python, names were resolved in exactly three namespaces -- the local namespace, the global namespace, and the builtin namespace. According to this old definition, if a function A is defined within a function B, the names bound in B are not visible in A. The new rules make names bound in B visible in A, unless A contains a name binding that hides the binding in B. Section 4.1 ...

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