Core Python Programming by Wesley J. Chun ©2007,2001 Prentice Hall PTR

PYTHON SOURCE CODE and BINARIES
Version and Release Website	Status	Release Date	Platform
Version and Release Website	Status	Release Date	Source/RPMs (all platforms)	Win32	MacOSX^*	MacOS9
Daily Builds	daily development build (highly unstable!)	unreleased (built yesterday)	3.2a0 BZ2 3.0.2a0 BZ2 2.7a4 BZ2 2.6.6a0 BZ2	EXE(for 2.7a4) (Extensions v214 installer) EXE(for 2.7a4) (Extensions v214 Win64-AMD64 installer)	(n/a)
3.1.2	2nd minor release of the 1st update to next generation	21 Mar 2010	TGZ BZ2	MSI (installer) MSI (Win64-AMD64 installer) EXE (Extensions v214 installer) EXE (Extensions v214 Win64-AMD64 installer)	DMG (3.1.1)	(n/a)
3.0.1	1st bug release of next generation	13 Feb 2009	TGZ BZ2	MSI (installer) MSI (Win64-AMD64 installer) EXE (Extensions v214 installer) EXE (Extensions v214 Win64-AMD64 installer)	(n/a)
2.6.5	bugfix release of current version	19 Mar 2010	TGZ BZ2	MSI (installer) MSI (Win64-AMD64 installer) EXE (Extensions v214 installer) EXE (Extensions v214 Win64-AMD64 installer)	DMG(2.6.4) (Intel and PPC; Requires 10.3.9+)	(n/a)
2.5.5	latest minor release of previous version (src-release only; binaries are 2.5.4)	31 Jan 2010; 23 Dec 2008 (2.5.4)	TGZ BZ2	MSI (installer) MSI (Win64-Itanium installer) MSI (Win64-AMD64 installer) EXE (Extensions v214 installer) ZIP (Extensions v214 source)	DMG (Intel and PPC; requires 10.3.9+)	(n/a)
2.4.6	latest bugfix release of 2.4 family (2.4.5 & 2.4.6 are src-releases only; binaries are 2.4.4)	19 Dec 2008; 18 Oct 2006 (2.4.4)	TGZ BZ2	MSI (installer) MSI (Win64-Itanium installer) EXE (Extensions v214 installer) ZIP (Extensions v214 source)	DMG (Intel or PPC; req 10.3.9+)	(n/a; most recent versions are 2.3.x below)
2.3.7	final bugfix release of 2.3 family (2.3.6 & 2.3.7 are src-releases only; binaries are 2.3.5 or older)	11 Mar 2008; 01 Nov 2006 (2.3.6); 08 Feb 2005 (2.3.5)	*2.3.7* TGZ BZ2 *2.3.5* RPMs	*2.3.5* EXE (installer) EXE (Extensions v214 installer)	*2.3.2* DMG (for 10.3.x/Panther) *2.3.3* DMG (for 10.2.x/Jaguar)	*2.3.3* BIN (full) HQX (full) SIT (source) HQX (source)
2.2.3	final bugfix release of 2.2	30 May 2003	TGZ RPMs	EXE (installer) EXE (Extensions v212 installer)	(n/a)	BIN (active) HQX (active) BIN (full) HQX (full) SIT (source)
2.1.3	final bugfix release of 2.1	08 Apr 2002	TGZ RPMs	EXE (installer) EXE (Extensions v151 installer)		(most recent is 2.1.1) BIN (full) HQX (full) SIT (source) HQX (source)
2.0.1	final bugfix release of 2.0	22 Jun 2001	TGZ	EXE (installer) EXE (Extensions v144 installer)		(most recent is 2.0) BIN (full) HQX (full) SIT (source) HQX (source)
1.5.2	final bugfix and most stable 1.x release	13 Apr 1999	TGZ	EXE (installer) EXE (Extensions v143 installer)		BIN (full) HQX (full) SIT (source) HQX (source) HQX (GUSI)
Jython Python for Java (extensible in Java)			All Platforms
2.5.1	current release	26 Sep 2009	JAR
2.5	previous release	8 Jun 2009	JAR
2.2.1	older release	14 Oct 2007	JAR
2.1	much older release	31 Dec 2001	CLASS
IronPython Python for .NET/Mono (extensible in C#/VisualBasic.Net)			All Platforms
2.6	current release	11 Dec 2009	MSI (single installer) ZIP (binaries) ZIP (source)
2.0.3	3rd bugfix release of previous release	22 Oct 2009	MSI (single installer) ZIP (binaries) ZIP (source)
1.1.2	bugfix release of final 1.1 release	8 Aug 2008	ZIP (binaries) ZIP (source)

^* 2.3.6 is a source-only security fix. Since Win32 and Mac binaries were built using UCS-2 Unicode, they are not susceptible to the problem outlined in PSF-2006-001. The 2.3.5 Win32, docs, and RPM releases are the most current; for MacOS X and MacOS9, 2.3.3 is the most current release. Also, MacOS X Tiger (10.4.x) comes with Python 2.3.5, and MacOS X Panther (10.3.x) comes with an almost complete version of Python 2.3, so all you need are the add-ons, i.e. IDE, etc. It is not recommended to install newer versions of the same release, i.e. 2.3.1+, unless you know how to properly decouple the installed 2.3 (which annoyingly doesn't come with readline compiled in). For the most up-to-date Mac stuff for Python, visit http://undefined.org/python and http://pythonmac.org/packages.