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Python 3.3.7rc1

Release Date: Sept. 6, 2017

This is a security-fix source-only release. The last binary release was 3.3.5.

This is the release candidate of Python 3.3.7. Python 3.3.0 was released on 2012-09-29 and has been in security-fix-only mode since 2014-03-08. Per Python Development policy, all support for the 3.3 series of releases ends on 2017-09-29, five years after the initial release. Python 3.3.7 is expected to be the final security-fix release for the 3.3 series. Python 3.3.7 final is expected to be released by 2017-09-18.

After 2017-09-29, we will no longer accept bug reports nor provide fixes of any kind for Python 3.3.x (third-party distributors of Python 3.3.x may choose to offer their own extended support). Because 3.3.x has long been in security-fix mode, 3.3.7 may no longer build correctly on all current operating system releases and some tests may fail. If you are still using Python 3.3.x, we strongly encourage you to upgrade to a more recent, fully supported version of Python 3; see https://www.python.org/downloads/.

Major new features of the 3.3 series, compared to 3.2

Python 3.3 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, as well as easier porting between 2.x and 3.x.

  • PEP 380, syntax for delegating to a subgenerator (yield from)
  • PEP 393, flexible string representation (doing away with the distinction between "wide" and "narrow" Unicode builds)
  • A C implementation of the "decimal" module, with up to 120x speedup for decimal-heavy applications
  • The import system (__import__) is based on importlib by default
  • The new "lzma" module with LZMA/XZ support
  • PEP 397, a Python launcher for Windows
  • PEP 405, virtual environment support in core
  • PEP 420, namespace package support
  • PEP 3151, reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy
  • PEP 3155, qualified name for classes and functions
  • PEP 409, suppressing exception context
  • PEP 414, explicit Unicode literals to help with porting
  • PEP 418, extended platform-independent clocks in the "time" module
  • PEP 412, a new key-sharing dictionary implementation that significantly saves memory for object-oriented code
  • PEP 362, the function-signature object
  • The new "faulthandler" module that helps diagnosing crashes
  • The new "unittest.mock" module
  • The new "ipaddress" module
  • The "sys.implementation" attribute
  • A policy framework for the email package, with a provisional (see PEP 411) policy that adds much improved unicode support for email header parsing
  • A "collections.ChainMap" class for linking mappings to a single unit
  • Wrappers for many more POSIX functions in the "os" and "signal" modules, as well as other useful functions such as "sendfile()"
  • Hash randomization, introduced in earlier bugfix releases, is now switched on by default

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This is a preview release, and its use is not recommended in production settings.

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Files

Version Operating System Description MD5 Sum File Size GPG
Gzipped source tarball Source release e1f276f4a5c6b50764246edee8c90d52 16.1 MB SIG
XZ compressed source tarball Source release d6e7a5960b052aa4135c278e33ec046c 11.6 MB SIG