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Warning: Python 3.8.1 reached end-of-life on 2024-10-07. It is no longer supported and does not receive security updates. We recommend upgrading to the latest Python release.

Note: Python 3.8.1 has been superseded by Python 3.8.20.

Release date: Dec. 18, 2019

This is Python 3.8.1, the first maintenance release of Python 3.8

Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.1, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here.

Major new features of the 3.8 series, compared to 3.7

PEP 572, Assignment expressions
PEP 570, Positional-only arguments
PEP 587, Python Initialization Configuration (improved embedding)
PEP 590, Vectorcall: a fast calling protocol for CPython
PEP 578, Runtime audit hooks
PEP 574, Pickle protocol 5 with out-of-band data
Typing-related: PEP 591 (Final qualifier), PEP 586 (Literal types), and PEP 589 (TypedDict)
Parallel filesystem cache for compiled bytecode
Debug builds share ABI as release builds
f-strings support a handy = specifier for debugging
continue is now legal in finally: blocks
on Windows, the default asyncio event loop is now ProactorEventLoop
on macOS, the spawn start method is now used by default in multiprocessing
multiprocessing can now use shared memory segments to avoid pickling costs between processes
typed_ast is merged back to CPython
LOAD_GLOBAL is now 40% faster
pickle now uses Protocol 4 by default, improving performance

There are many other interesting changes, please consult the "What's New" page in the documentation for a full list.

More resources

Windows users

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".)
There are now "web-based" installers for Windows platforms; the installer will download the needed software components at installation time.
There are redistributable zip files containing the Windows builds, making it easy to redistribute Python as part of another software package. Please see the documentation regarding Embedded Distribution for more information.

macOS users

For Python 3.8.0, we provide one installer: 64-bit-only that works on macOS 10.9 (Mavericks) and later systems.
Please read the "Important Information" displayed during installation for information about SSL/TLS certificate validation and the running the "Install Certificates.command".

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Full Changelog

Version	Operating system	Description	File size	GPG	MD5 checksum
Gzipped source tarball	Source release		22.9 MB	SIG	`f215fa2f55a78de739c1787ec56b2bcd`
XZ compressed source tarball	Source release		17.0 MB	SIG	`b3fb85fd479c0bf950c626ef80cacb57`
macOS 64-bit installer	macOS	for OS X 10.9 and later	27.7 MB	SIG	`d1b09665312b6b1f4e11b03b6a4510a3`
Windows help file	Windows		8.1 MB	SIG	`f6bbf64cc36f1de38fbf61f625ea6cf2`
Windows x86 embeddable zip file	Windows		6.8 MB	SIG	`980d5745a7e525be5abf4b443a00f734`
Windows x86 executable installer	Windows		25.2 MB	SIG	`2d4c7de97d6fcd8231fc3decbf8abf79`
Windows x86 web-based installer	Windows		1.3 MB	SIG	`d21706bdac544e7a968e32bbb0520f51`
Windows x86-64 embeddable zip file	Windows	for AMD64/EM64T/x64	7.6 MB	SIG	`4d091857a2153d9406bb5c522b211061`
Windows x86-64 executable installer	Windows	for AMD64/EM64T/x64	26.3 MB	SIG	`3e4c42f5ff8fcdbe6a828c912b7afdb1`
Windows x86-64 web-based installer	Windows	for AMD64/EM64T/x64	1.3 MB	SIG	`662961733cc947839a73302789df6145`

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