Python Release Python 3.3.0 (original) (raw)

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Release Date: Sept. 29, 2012

Python 3.3 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, as well as easier porting between 2.x and 3.x. Major new features in the 3.3 release series are:

• 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 (seePEP 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

See these resources for further information:

• What's new in 3.3?
• 3.3 Release Schedule
• Change log for this release.
• Online Documentation
• Report bugs at http://bugs.python.org.
• Help fund Python and its community.

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This is a production release. Please report any bugs you encounter.

We currently support these formats for download:

• Bzipped source tar ball (3.3.0) (sig), ~ 14 MB
• XZ compressed source tar ball (3.3.0) (sig), ~ 11 MB
• Gzipped source tar ball (3.3.0) (sig), ~ 16 MB
• Windows x86 MSI Installer (3.3.0) (sig) and Visual Studio debug information files (sig)
• Windows X86-64 MSI Installer (3.3.0) [1] (sig) and Visual Studio debug information files (sig)
• Windows help file (sig)
• Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit Installer (3.3.0) for Mac OS X 10.6 and later [2] (sig). [You may need an updated Tcl/Tk install to run IDLE or use Tkinter, see note 2 for instructions.]
• Mac OS X 32-bit i386/PPC Installer (3.3.0) for OS X 10.5 and later [2] (sig)

The source tarballs are signed with Georg Brandl's key, which has a key id of 36580288; the fingerprint is 26DE A9D4 6133 91EF 3E25 C9FF 0A5B 1018 3658 0288. The Windows installer was signed by Martin von Löwis' public key, which has a key id of 7D9DC8D2. The Mac installers were signed with Ned Deily's key, which has a key id of 6F5E1540. The public keys are located on the download page.

MD5 checksums and sizes of the released files:

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