[Core Python Programming]

PYTHON SOURCE CODE and BINARIES
Version and
Release Website
Status Release
Date
Platform
Source/RPMs
(all platforms)
Win32 MacOSX* MacOS9
Daily Builds daily development build (highly unstable!) unreleased
(built yesterday)
3.1a0 BZ2
2.7a0 BZ2
2.5.3a0 BZ2
2.4.6a0 BZ2
(HTML -> MSI)
(n/a)
3.0 1st release of next generation 3 Dec
2008
TGZ
BZ2
MSI
(installer)
MSI
(Win64-AMD64 installer)
(n/a)
2.6.1 bugfix release of current version 4 Dec
2008
TGZ
BZ2
MSI
(installer)
MSI
(Win64-AMD64 installer)
EXE
(Extensions
v212 installer)

EXE
(Extensions v212
Win64-AMD64 installer)

DMG
(Latest is 2.6 only;
Intel and PPC;
Requires 10.3.9+)

(n/a)
2.5.3 latest minor release of previous version 19 Dec
2008
TGZ
BZ2
MSI
(installer)
MSI
(Win64-Itanium installer)
MSI
(Win64-AMD64 installer)
EXE
(Extensions
v212 installer)

ZIP
(Extensions
v212 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 source-only releases; for binaries, stick with 2.4.4) 11 Mar
2008;
18 Oct
2006 (2.4.4)
2.4.6
TGZ
BZ2
2.4.4
MSI
(installer)
MSI
(Win64-Itanium installer)
EXE
(Extensions
v212 installer)

ZIP
(Extensions
v212 source)

2.4.4
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 source-only releases; for binaries, stick with 2.3.5 or earlier) 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
v212 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
2.5b0 1st beta release of next version 31 Oct
2008
JAR
2.2.1 current release 14 Oct
2007
JAR
2.1 previous release 31 Dec
2001
CLASS
IronPython
Python for .NET/Mono
(extensible in C#/VisualBasic.Net)
All Platforms
2.0b5 5th beta release of next generation 17 Sep
2008
ZIP (binaries)
ZIP (source)
MSI (single installer)
1.1.2 bugfix release of current version 8 Aug
2008
ZIP (binaries)
ZIP (source)
1.1.1 latest release of current version (compatible with Python 2.4.3) 27 Jan
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.
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