Core Python Programming by Wesley J. Chun ©2007,2001 Prentice Hall PTR

PYTHON SOURCE CODE and BINARIES
Version and Release Website	Status	Release Date	Platform
Version and Release Website	Status	Release Date	Source/RPMs (all platforms)	Win32	MacOSX^*	MacOS9
2.6a1 to 2.6a2	daily snapshot of next version	yesterday	BZ2	MSI (daily builds n/a) EXE (Extensions v210 [installer]) ZIP (see below)	(n/a)
3.0a2	3rd alpha release of next generation	29 Feb 2008	TGZ BGZ	MSI (installer) MSI (Win64-AMD64 installer)	(n/a)
2.6a1	1st alpha release of next version	29 Feb 2008	TGZ BGZ	MSI (installer) MSI (Win64-AMD64 installer)	(n/a)
2.5.2	latest release of current version	21 Feb 2008	TGZ BZ2	MSI (installer) MSI (Win64-Itanium installer) MSI (Win64-AMD64 installer) EXE (Extensions v210 [installer]) ZIP (Extensions v210 [source])	DMG (Intel and PPC; requires 10.3.9+)	(n/a)
2.4.4	latest bugfix release of the previous version	18 Oct 2006	TGZ BZ2 RPMs (2.4.2)	MSI (installer) MSI (Win64-Itanium installer) EXE (Extensions v210 [installer]) ZIP (Extensions v210 [source])	DMG (2.4.3; Intel and PPC; requires 10.3.9+)	(n/a; most recent versions are 2.3.x below)
2.3.6^*	final bugfix release of 2.3	01 Nov 2006	TGZ BZ2 RPMs (most recent RPMS are 2.3.5)	EXE (2.3.5 installer) EXE (Extensions v210 [installer])	DMG (2.3[.2] add-ons for 10.3.x/Panther) DMG (2.3.3 for 10.2.x/Jaguar)	(most recent is 2.3.3) BIN (full) HQX (full) SIT (source) HQX (source)
2.2.3	final bugfix release of 2.2	30 May 2003	TGZ RPMs	EXE (installer) EXE (Extensions v210 [installer])	(n/a)	BIN (active) HQX (active) BIN (full) HQX (full) SIT (source)
2.1.3	final bugfix release of 2.1	08 Apr 2002	TGZ RPMs	EXE (installer) EXE (Extensions v151 [installer])		(most recent is 2.1.1) BIN (full) HQX (full) SIT (source) HQX (source)
2.0.1	final bugfix release of 2.0	22 Jun 2001	TGZ	EXE (installer) EXE (Extensions v144 [installer])		(most recent is 2.0) BIN (full) HQX (full) SIT (source) HQX (source)
1.5.2	final bugfix and most stable 1.x release	13 Apr 1999	TGZ	EXE (installer) EXE (Extensions v143 [installer])		BIN (full) HQX (full) SIT (source) HQX (source) HQX (GUSI)
Jython Python for Java (extensible in Java)			All Platforms
2.2.1	current release	14 Oct 2007	JAR
2.1	previous release	31 Dec 2001	CLASS
IronPython Python for .NET/Mono (extensible in C#/VisualBasic.Net)			All Platforms
1.1.1	latest release of current version	27 Jan 2007	ZIP (binaries) ZIP (source)

^* 2.3.6 is a source-only security fix. Since Win32 and Mac binaries were built using UCS-2 Unicode, they are not susceptible to the problem outlined in PSF-2006-001. The 2.3.5 Win32, docs, and RPM releases are the most current; for MacOS X and MacOS9, 2.3.3 is the most current release. Also, MacOS X Tiger (10.4.x) comes with Python 2.3.5, and MacOS X Panther (10.3.x) comes with an almost complete version of Python 2.3, so all you need are the add-ons, i.e. IDE, etc. It is not recommended to install newer versions of the same release, i.e. 2.3.1+, unless you know how to properly decouple the installed 2.3 (which annoyingly doesn't come with readline compiled in). For the most up-to-date Mac stuff for Python, visit http://undefined.org/python and http://pythonmac.org/packages.