I’m pleased to announce the 0.7 alpha release of Lepton, a
high-performance, pluggable particle engine and API for Python. It is
designed for creating graphical special effects for games or other
visual applications. The engine is designed to be very flexible and
does not rely on any other libraries directly. You can use it either
with OpenGL (via pyglet, PyOpenGL, [...]

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I’m
happy to announce the release of Python 2.4.6 and 2.5.3 (final).
2.5.3 is the last bug fix release of Python 2.5. Future 2.5.x releases
will only include security fixes. According to the release notes, about
80 bugs and patches have been addressed since Python 2.5.2, many of
them [...]

Hot on the heals of Python 3.0 comes the Python 2.6.1 bug-fix release.  This is the latest production-ready version in the Python 2.6 family.  Dozens of issues have fixed since Python 2.6 final was released in October.  Please see the NEWS file for details:
http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.1/NEWS.txt
For more information on Python 2.6 please see
http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.6.html
Source tarballs and Windows installers [...]

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final.
Python 3.0 (a.k.a. “Python 3000″ or “Py3k”) represents a major milestone in Python’s history, and was nearly three years in the making.  This is a new version of the language that is incompatible with [...]

Announcing the first public release of Aviate, a cross-platform web
deployment tool written in Python.
Aviate is designed to make deploying your web applications very easy,
while providing you with a rich feature set to make repeated task
performed in a snap, and being extensible so you can extend its
features with your own Python code.
Among its feature is being [...]

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the third and last planned release candidate for Python 3.0.
This is a release candidate, so while it is not quite suitable for production environments, we strongly encourage you to download and test this release on your software.  We expect [...]

We’ll be having our regular Toronto Python User’s Group (PyGTA) at our regular location, Linux Caffe, at our regular time, 7pm on the Third Tuesday of the month.  This month’s topic is:
If you had up to 1 million dollars to spend on a Python project,
what would you spend it on?
What features would you [...]

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the second release candidate for Python 3.0.
This is a release candidate, so while it is not suitable for production environments, we strongly encourage you to download and test this release on your software.  We expect only critical bugs to [...]

I am pleased to announce that I won the competition for the next 5
euro commemorative coin with the theme ‘Netherlands and Architecture’.
The design of the coin was totally developed with python. I used PIL
for raster image manipulation and pyCairo for generating vector
graphics.
For more info see:
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-make-money-with-free-software.html
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Typically, each new version of the Python programming language has been gentle on users, more or less maintaining backward compatibility with previous versions. But in 2000, when Python creator Guido van Rossum announced that he was embarking on a new version of Python, he did not sugar coat his plan: Version 3.0 would not be [...]

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the release of Python 2.6 final.  This is the production-ready version of the latest in the Python 2 series.
There are many new features and modules, improvements, bug fixes, and other changes in Python 2.6.  Please see the “What’s new” [...]

The period for submitting tutorial proposals for Pycon 2009 (US) is open and will continue through Friday, October 31th. This year features two “pre-conference” days devoted to tutorials on Wednesday March 25 & Thursday March 26 in Chicago. This allows for more classes than ever.

Tutorials are 3-hours long on a specific topic of [...]

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the second and final planned release candidate for Python 2.6, as well as the first release candidate for Python 3.0.
These are release candidates, so while they are not suitable for production environments, we strongly encourage you to download and [...]

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the first release candidate for Python 2.6.
This is a release candidate, so while it is not suitable for production environments, we strongly encourage you to download the release and test it on your software.  We expect only critical bugs [...]

Andrew Kuchling has done his usual top-quality job in the recently-posted What’s New in Python 2.6 document. “The major theme of Python 2.6 is preparing the migration path to Python 3.0, a major redesign of the language. Whenever possible, Python 2.6 incorporates new features and syntax from 3.0 while remaining compatible with existing code by [...]

Dear Elisa users,
The Elisa team is happy to announce the release of Elisa Media Center
0.5.7 codenamed “The Tipping Point”.
This release fixes a handful of bugs and enhances the current user
experience with the following new features:
- “Add Folders” now allows you to browse all your devices (including
external hard drives), not just your home folder as it [...]

People,
As a preparation for the next Portable Python release I created some
alpha packages (PP modules) and posted on the group (http://
groups.google.com/group/portablepython). It would be very nice if some
of you can find the time to test these packages. Please report all
issues you find on the Portable Python google group. Check this page
for description how to install/use [...]

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy
to announce the third and last planned beta releases of Python 2.6 and Python
3.0.
Please note that these are beta releases, and as such are not suitable for
production environments. We continue to strive for a high degree of quality,
and these releases are [...]

Hello,
I’m pleased to announce that ETS 3.0.0 has just been tagged and
released! Source distributions have been pushed to PyPi and over the
next couple hours, Win32 and OSX binaries will also be uploaded to PyPi.
This means you can install ETS, assuming you have the prereq software
installed, via the simple command:
easy_install ETS[nonets]
Please see the Install page on [...]

Hi,
I’m happy to announce release 0.70.2 of Task Coach. This release fixes some bugs and brings back the Fedora RPM.
Bugs fixed:
- Using the “Save selection” feature together with mail attachments could result in data loss.
- Under KDE, the maximized state of the main window would not be restored.
- One couldn’t e-mail tasks [...]