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
Daily Builds	daily development build (highly unstable!)	unreleased (built yesterday)	3.1 BZ2 3.0.2a0 BZ2 2.7a0 BZ2 2.6.3a0 BZ2	(n/a)
3.1c2	release candidate 2 of first minor update to next generation	13 Jun 2009	TGZ BZ2	MSI (installer) MSI (Win64-AMD64 installer)	(n/a)
3.0.1	1st bug release of next generation	13 Feb 2009	TGZ BZ2	MSI (installer) MSI (Win64-AMD64 installer)	(n/a)
2.6.2	bugfix release of current version	14 Apr 2009	TGZ BZ2	MSI (installer) MSI (Win64-AMD64 installer) EXE (Extensions v212 installer) EXE (Extensions v212 Win64-AMD64 installer)	DMG (Latest is 2.6 only; Intel and PPC; Requires 10.3.9+)	(n/a)
2.5.4	latest minor release of previous version	19 Dec 2008	TGZ BZ2	MSI (installer) MSI (Win64-Itanium installer) MSI (Win64-AMD64 installer) EXE (Extensions v212 installer) ZIP (Extensions v212 source)	DMG (Intel and PPC; requires 10.3.9+)	(n/a)
2.4.6	latest bugfix release of 2.4 family (2.4.5 & 2.4.6 are source-only releases; for binaries, stick with 2.4.4)	19 Dec 2008; 18 Oct 2006 (2.4.4)	*2.4.6* TGZ BZ2	*2.4.4* MSI (installer) MSI (Win64-Itanium installer) EXE (Extensions v212 installer) ZIP (Extensions v212 source)	*2.4.4* DMG (Intel or PPC; req 10.3.9+)	(n/a; most recent versions are 2.3.x below)
2.3.7	final bugfix release of 2.3 family (2.3.6 & 2.3.7 source-only releases; for binaries, stick with 2.3.5 or earlier)	11 Mar 2008; 01 Nov 2006 (2.3.6); 08 Feb 2005 (2.3.5);	*2.3.7* TGZ BZ2 *2.3.5* RPMs	*2.3.5* EXE (installer) EXE (Extensions v212 installer)	*2.3.2* DMG (for 10.3.x/Panther) *2.3.3* DMG (for 10.2.x/Jaguar)	*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 v212 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
2.5	current release	8 Jun 2009	JAR
2.2.1	previous release	14 Oct 2007	JAR
2.1	older release	31 Dec 2001	CLASS
IronPython Python for .NET/Mono (extensible in C#/VisualBasic.Net)			All Platforms
2.6b1	1st beta release of next generation	20 May 2009	(via website)
2.0.1	1st bugfix release of current release	13 Feb 2009	(via website)
1.1.2	bugfix release of current version	8 Aug 2008	ZIP (binaries) ZIP (source)
1.1.1	latest release of current version (compatible with Python 2.4.3)	27 Jan 2008	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.