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GeezerVison is showing www.python.org — Python Release Python 3.4.6

Warning: Python 3.4.6 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Note: Python 3.4.6 has been superseded by Python 3.4.10.

Release date: Jan. 17, 2017

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

Python 3.4.6 was released on January 17th, 2017.

Python 3.4 has now entered "security fixes only" mode, and as such the only improvements between Python 3.4.4 and Python 3.4.5 are security fixes. Also, Python 3.4.6 has only been released in source code form; no more official binary installers will be produced.

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

  • Change log for this release.
  • Online Documentation
  • What's new in 3.4?
  • 3.4 Release Schedule
  • Report bugs at http://bugs.python.org.
  • Help fund Python and its community.

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Gzipped source tarball Source release 18.7 MB SIG 74a7cbe1bd9652013ae6087ef346b9da
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