Python 3.2.5

Release Date: May 15, 2013

Note: A newer security-fix release, 3.2.6, is currently available. Its use is recommended.

Python 3.2.5 was released on May 15th, 2013. This release fixes a few regressions found in Python 3.2.4, and is planned to be the final 3.2 series bugfix release.

New features of the 3.2 series, compared to 3.1

Python 3.2 is a continuation of the efforts to improve and stabilize the Python 3.x line. Since the final release of Python 2.7, the 2.x line will only receive bugfixes, and new features are developed for 3.x only.

Since PEP 3003, the Moratorium on Language Changes, is in effect, there are no changes in Python's syntax and only few changes to built-in types in Python 3.2. Development efforts concentrated on the standard library and support for porting code to Python 3. Highlights are:

numerous improvements to the unittest module
PEP 3147, support for .pyc repository directories
PEP 3149, support for version tagged dynamic libraries
PEP 3148, a new futures library for concurrent programming
PEP 384, a stable ABI for extension modules
PEP 391, dictionary-based logging configuration
an overhauled GIL implementation that reduces contention
an extended email package that handles bytes messages
a much improved ssl module with support for SSL contexts and certificate hostname matching
a sysconfig module to access configuration information
additions to the shutil module, among them archive file support
many enhancements to configparser, among them mapping protocol support
improvements to pdb, the Python debugger
countless fixes regarding bytes/string issues; among them full support for a bytes environment (filenames, environment variables)
many consistency and behavior fixes for numeric operations

More resources

Download

This is a production release. Please report any bugs you encounter.

We currently support these formats for download:

Bzipped source tar ball (3.2.5) (sig), ~ 11 MB
XZ compressed source tar ball (3.2.5) (sig), ~ 8.5 MB
Gzipped source tar ball (3.2.5) (sig), ~ 13 MB

Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit Installer (3.2.5) for Mac OS X 10.6 and later [2] (sig). [You may need an updated Tcl/Tk install to run IDLE or use Tkinter, see note 2 for instructions.]
Mac OS X 32-bit i386/PPC Installer (3.2.5) for Mac OS X 10.3 and later [2] (sig)

The source tarballs are signed with Georg Brandl's key, which has a key id of 36580288; the fingerprint is 26DE A9D4 6133 91EF 3E25 C9FF 0A5B 1018 3658 0288. The Windows installer was signed by Martin von Löwis' public key, which has a key id of 7D9DC8D2. The Mac installers were signed with Ned Deily's key, which has a key id of 6F5E1540. The public keys are located on the download page.

MD5 checksums and sizes of the released files:

ed8d5529d2aebc36b53f4e0a0c9e6728  13123323  Python-3.2.5.tgz
99e7de6abd96185480f819c5029709d2  10996792  Python-3.2.5.tar.bz2
03c5843638c576d29b3321947facd22d   9221624  Python-3.2.5.tar.xz
e119db5243fd9db25734f02fbfc48816  17773901  python-3.2.5-macosx10.3.dmg
c97c7ff305b4b8ed84c6d708e0bde27c  17461482  python-3.2.5-macosx10.6.dmg
a6597c204d0351abb3668b43a8a330aa  22029384  python-3.2.5-pdb.zip
a82e831252fdd2b1153d3ae98a707ff2  20071496  python-3.2.5.amd64-pdb.zip
b3b7bc402c630d61a37516986aaa1c4b  18812928  python-3.2.5.amd64.msi
cdd6fdc59461c968bd105fdf08f4a17d  18329600  python-3.2.5.msi

[1]	The binaries for AMD64 will also work on processors that implement the Intel 64 architecture (formerly EM64T), i.e. the architecture that Microsoft calls x64, and AMD called x86-64 before calling it AMD64. They will not work on Intel Itanium Processors (formerly IA-64).

[2]	(1, 2) There is important information about IDLE, Tkinter, and Tcl/Tk on Mac OS X here.

Full Changelog

Files

Version	Operating System	Description	MD5 Sum	File Size	GPG
Gzipped source tarball	Source release		f922d83147caf2199b02da1a4cc08ae8	54.9 MB	SIG
XZ compressed source tarball	Source release		03c5843638c576d29b3321947facd22d	8.8 MB	SIG
bzip2 compressed source tarball	Source release		99e7de6abd96185480f819c5029709d2	10.5 MB	SIG
Mac OS X 32-bit i386/PPC installer	macOS	for Mac OS X 10.3 and later	e119db5243fd9db25734f02fbfc48816	17.0 MB	SIG
Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit installer	macOS	for Mac OS X 10.6 and later	c97c7ff305b4b8ed84c6d708e0bde27c	16.7 MB	SIG
Windows help file	Windows		ee857dfdaf0ab02cad35ead2eac0dbff	10.5 KB	SIG
Windows debug information files	Windows		a6597c204d0351abb3668b43a8a330aa	21.0 MB	SIG
Windows x86 MSI installer	Windows		cdd6fdc59461c968bd105fdf08f4a17d	17.5 MB	SIG
Windows x86-64 MSI installer	Windows	for AMD64/EM64T/x64	b3b7bc402c630d61a37516986aaa1c4b	17.9 MB	SIG