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Released: June 17, 2025
It's 3.14 beta 3! https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140b3/ This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b3, is the third of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features …
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Released: Oct. 7, 2025
This is the stable release of Python 3.14.0 Python 3.14.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimisations compared to Python 3.13. Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13 Some of the major …
Released: Dec. 5, 2025
This is the second maintenance release of Python 3.14 Python 3.14.2 is the second maintenance release of 3.14, containing 18 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.14.1. This is an expedited release to fix the following regressions: gh-142206: Exceptions in multiprocessing in …
...API, with the caveat that only one-dimensional contiguous buffers are supported and exercised right now. Slicing, slice assignment and comparison (equality and inequality) have been added. Also, the tolist() method has been implemented, but only for byte buffers. Endly, the API has been updated to return bytes objects wherever it used to return bytearrays. Issue #3560: clean up the new C PyMemoryView API so that naming is internally consistent; add macros PyMemoryView_GET_BASE() and PyMemoryVie...
...API documentation, external API documentation, and online help and general application manuals. An example of embedded documentation is available on the website, as is the Doc-O-Matic manual. Out-of-line Documentation Please send me a note if you can think of anything that really needs to be listed here. Remember, we're interested in markup targeted specifically at reference documentation for programming APIs (in any language). ...
Released: July 22, 2025
It's the first 3.14 release candidate! https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140rc1/ This is the first release candidate of Python 3.14 This release, 3.14.0rc1, 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 …
Released: May 7, 2025
Only one day late, welcome to the first beta! This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b1, is the first of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to …
Released: July 8, 2025
It's the final 3.14 beta! https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140b4/ This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b4, is the last of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new …
Released: Aug. 14, 2025
It's the final 🪄 penultimate 🪄 3.14 release candidate! Note: rc2 was originally planned for 2025-08-26, but we fixed a bug that required bumping the magic number stored in Python bytecode (.pyc) files. This means .pyc files created for rc1 cannot be used for rc2, and they'll …
Released: Sept. 18, 2025
It's 🪄 finally 🪄 the final 3.14 release candidate! Note: It's another magic release. We fixed another bug that required bumping the magic number stored in Python bytecode (.pyc) files. This means file .pyc files created for rc2 cannot be used for rc3, and they'll be recompiled. …
...API Reference Manual Documenting Python Installing Python Modules Distributing Python Modules The HTML bundle also contain the Global Module Index, which contains direct links to the documentation for all the modules documented in the Python Library Reference and Macintosh Library Modules. These documents are not available for download individually. Information on unpacking the archive files containing the documentation is available in the general downloads section. If you have comments or sugg...
Released: May 26, 2025
Here's the second 3.14 beta. https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140b2/ This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b2, is the first of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new …
...API Improving performance and usability Adding support for additional email RFCs Several versions of the email package are available, and may be included with your Python distribution. All are also available as distutils-based standalone packages from the Python Cheese Shop. Here is the breakdown of package availability and compatibility: email package version released with compatible with 2.5.7 Python 2.3.6 [*] Python 2.1 to 2.5 3.0.1 Python 2.4.3 ...
...API, COM support, and Pythonwin extensions. It's available from the pywin32 project on SourceForge. Alternative Packages for Windows. ActiveState ActivePython (commercial and community versions, including scientific computing modules). ActivePython also includes Mark Hammond's pywin32 by default as well as other improvements. Enthought Python Distribution The Enthought Python Distribution provides scientists with a comprehensive set of tools to perform rigorous data analysis and visualizatio...
...API Add three new convenience functions for module initialization -- PyModule_AddObject(), PyModule_AddIntConstant(), and PyModule_AddStringConstant(). Cleaned up definition of NULL in C source code; all definitions were removed and add #error to Python.h if NULL isn't defined after #include of stdio.h. Py_PROTO() macros that were removed in 2.0b1 have been restored for backwards compatibility (at the source level) with old extensions. A wrapper API was added for s...
...API calls means Windows Only IronPython is a Microsoft .NET Language, and as such, is ostensibly limited to running on Windows only. The Mono project is a fantastic effort to improve that situation, and many .NET projects will run without recompilation under Mono on Linux, Mac OS X and others. However, in our case, Resolver One uses a 3rd party grid component in our GUI, which makes direct Win32 API calls. This precludes us running on different platforms for the time being. We are, however, work...
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