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Warning: Python 3.4.0 reached end-of-life on 2019-03-18. It is no longer supported and does not receive security updates. We recommend upgrading to the latest Python release.
Note: Python 3.4.0 has been superseded by Python 3.4.10.

Release date: March 17, 2014

Python 3.4.0

Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here.

Python 3.4.0 was released on March 16th, 2014.

Major new features of the 3.4 series, compared to 3.3

Python 3.4 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, including hundreds of small improvements and bug fixes. Among the new major new features and changes in the 3.4 release series are

  • PEP 428, a "pathlib" module providing object-oriented filesystem paths
  • PEP 435, a standardized "enum" module
  • PEP 436, a build enhancement that will help generate introspection information for builtins
  • PEP 442, improved semantics for object finalization
  • PEP 443, adding single-dispatch generic functions to the standard library
  • PEP 445, a new C API for implementing custom memory allocators
  • PEP 446, changing file descriptors to not be inherited by default in subprocesses
  • PEP 450, a new "statistics" module
  • PEP 451, standardizing module metadata for Python's module import system
  • PEP 453, a bundled installer for the pip package manager
  • PEP 454, a new "tracemalloc" module for tracing Python memory allocations
  • PEP 456, a new hash algorithm for Python strings and binary data
  • PEP 3154, a new and improved protocol for pickled objects
  • PEP 3156, a new "asyncio" module, a new framework for asynchronous I/O

More resources

  • Online Documentation
  • 3.4 Release Schedule
  • Report bugs at http://bugs.python.org.
  • Help fund Python and its community.

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Notes on this release:

  • The binaries for AMD64 will also work on processors that implement the Intel 64 architecture. (Also known as the "x64" architecture, and formerly known as both "EM64T" and "x86-64".) They will not work on Intel Itanium Processors (formerly "IA-64").
  • There is important information about IDLE, Tkinter, and Tcl/Tk on Mac OS X here.

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macOS

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Windows

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Source release

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Version Operating system Description File size GPG MD5 checksum
Gzipped source tarball Source release 18.3 MB SIG 3ca973eb72bb06ed5cadde0e28eaaaca
XZ compressed source tarball Source release 13.4 MB SIG 77c22725e14af3d71022cbfdebff4903
Mac OS X 32-bit i386/PPC installer macOS for Mac OS X 10.5 and later 21.7 MB SIG 5298bfa96ea61e0f96de33f879f730c0
Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit installer macOS for Mac OS X 10.6 and later 21.8 MB SIG d464bfe275a58715d35623d95d2b977d
Windows help file Windows 6.9 MB SIG c75ae8a94e664f51b52ebe3d21e8b758
Windows debug information files Windows 35.0 MB SIG 283ed83b73b257129dc13e024b21093b
Windows debug information files for 64-bit binaries Windows 23.0 MB SIG a65731cdbd538716072e1a07add04c32
Windows x86 MSI installer Windows 23.4 MB SIG e3be8a63294e42e126493ca96cfe48bd
Windows x86-64 MSI installer Windows for AMD64/EM64T/x64 24.0 MB SIG d59aaf1bb32d1bc01a051b3613ab0966
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