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  • Release – Python 3.12.1

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    Released: Dec. 8, 2023

    This is the first maintenance release of Python 3.12 Python 3.12 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. 3.12.1 is the latest maintenance release, containing more than 400 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.12.0. Major …

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  • Release – Python 3.12.2

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    Released: Feb. 6, 2024

    This is the second maintenance release of Python 3.12 Python 3.12 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. 3.12.2 is the latest maintenance release, containing more than 350 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.12.1. Major …

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  • Release – Python 3.12.3

    Version: None

    Released: April 9, 2024

    This is the third maintenance release of Python 3.12 Python 3.12 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. 3.12.3 is the latest maintenance release, containing more than 300 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.12.2. Major …

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  • Release – Python 3.12.4

    Version: None

    Released: June 6, 2024

    This is the fourth maintenance release of Python 3.12 Python 3.12 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. 3.12.4 is the latest maintenance release, containing more than 250 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.12.3. Major …

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  • Release – Python 3.12.7

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    Released: Oct. 1, 2024

    This is the seventh maintenance release of Python 3.12 Python 3.12 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. 3.12.7 is the latest maintenance release, containing about 120 bug fixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.12.6. Major …

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  • Release – Python 3.12.5

    Version: None

    Released: Aug. 6, 2024

    This is the fifth maintenance release of Python 3.12 Python 3.12 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. 3.12.5 is the latest maintenance release, containing more than 250 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.12.4. This …

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  • Job - Senior Back-End Python Engineer - FULLY REMOTE-WORLDWIDE

    Location: Mountain View, California United States

    This is a FULLY REMOTE-WORLDWIDE position As a senior software engineer, you'll join a team tackling genuinely hard problems: distributed data processing at enterprise scale, complex deduplication algorithms, and systems that need to handle billions of records without breaking. The kind of challenges that require actual engineering thinking, not …

  • Job - Senior Backend Python Developer

    Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka India

    Job Title: Senior Backend Python Developer Location: Bengaluru (Onsite) Experience: 5–8 Years Notice Period: Immediate / ≤15 days Role Overview We are looking for an experienced Backend Python Developer to design, build, and maintain scalable backend applications and services. The role involves working on enterprise systems that handle data, …

  • Release – Python 3.12.9

    Version: None

    Released: Feb. 4, 2025

    This is the ninth maintenance release of Python 3.12 Python 3.12.9 is the latest maintenance release of Python 3.12, containing about 180 bug fixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.12.8. Major new features of the 3.12 series, compared to 3.11 New features More flexible …

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  • Release – Python 3.12.10

    Version: None

    Released: April 8, 2025

    This is the tenth maintenance release of Python 3.12 Python 3.12.10 is the latest maintenance release of Python 3.12, and the last full maintenance release. Subsequent releases of 3.12 will be security-fixes only. This last maintenance release contains about 230 bug fixes, build improvements and documentation changes since …

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  • Release – Python 3.12.8

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    Released: Dec. 3, 2024

    This is the eighth maintenance release of Python 3.12 Python 3.12.8 is the latest maintenance release of Python 3.12, containing more than 250 bug fixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.12.7. Security content in this release gh-126623: Upgraded libexpat to 2.6.4 to fix CVE-2024-50602 …

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  • Release – Python 3.12.6

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    Released: Sept. 6, 2024

    This is the sixth maintenance release of Python 3.12 Python 3.12 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. 3.12.6 is the latest maintenance release, containing about 90 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.12.5. This is an …

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  • Release – Python 3.12.0rc3

    Version: None

    Released: Sept. 19, 2023

    This is the third release candidate of Python 3.12.0 This release, 3.12.0rc3, is the absolutely last release preview for Python 3.12. There will be no ABI changes from this point forward in the 3.12 series. The intent is for the final release of 3.12.0, scheduled for Monday, …

  • Python Success Stories

    ...performance ever becomes an issue, it is easy to write extensions using the Python/C API. Understand that we did evaluate other solutions, which included Ruby and Java. But our impression of Ruby was that it was too immature at the time and Java can often be unpleasant to work with. Project Results It is imperative that we provide 24/7/365 availability to our clients, as WordStream is an online Software as a Service solution used by people all around the world. Given that prerequisite, Python ...

  • Python Patterns - Implementing Graphs

    ...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, end): dist = {start: [start]} q = deque(start) while len(q): at = q.popleft() ...

  • Release – Python 3.12.0rc1

    Version: None

    Released: Aug. 6, 2023

    This is the first release candidate of Python 3.12.0 This release, 3.12.0rc1, 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 final release. The second candidate (and the last planned …

  • Release – Python 3.12.0rc2

    Version: None

    Released: Sept. 6, 2023

    This is the second release candidate of Python 3.12.0 This release, 3.12.0rc2, is the last release preview for Python 3.12. There will be no ABI changes from this point forward in the 3.12 series. The intent is for the final release of 3.12.0, scheduled for Monday, 2023-10-02, …

  • 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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  • Python Patterns - An Optimization Anecdote

    Python Patterns - An Optimization Anecdote Warning This page stays here for historical reasons and it may contain outdated or incorrect information. The other day, a friend asked me a seemingly simple question: what's the best way to convert a list of integers into a string, presuming that the integers are ASCII values. For instance, the list [97, 98, 99] should be converted to the string 'abc'. Let's assume we want to write a function to do this. The first version I came ...

  • Highlights: Python 2.5

    ...optimizations came out of the NeedForSpeed sprint in Iceland. There were major speedups in exception handling and string operations, as well as a number of other changes to improve performance. New language features Internally, the Python compiler now converts the source code to an abstract syntax tree (AST) before producing the bytecode. The 'with' operator replaces a common try/finally idiom that results in much cleaner and safer code. Generators gained send, throw and close methods. Values ...

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