Release Date: April 10, 2002

Important: This release is vulnerable to the problem described in security advisory PSF-2006-001 "Buffer overrun in repr() of unicode strings in wide unicode builds (UCS-4)". This fix is included in Python 2.4.4 and Python 2.5. If you need to remain with Python 2.2, there's a patch available from the security advisory page.

We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.2.1, on April 10, 2002. This is a bug-fix release for Python 2.2 and supersedes the 2.2 release.

Download the release

Windows users should download the Windows installer, Python-2.2.1.exe, run it and follow the friendly instructions on the screen to complete the installation. Windows users may also be interested in Mark Hammond's win32all, a collection of Windows-specific extensions including COM support and Pythonwin, an IDE built using Windows components.

Update (2002/04/23): Windows users should download a new UNWISE.EXE from Wise that fixes a bug which could cause the uninstaller to disappear in some circumstances. Just drop it over the old uninstaller, which will be at C:\Python22\UNWISE.EXE unless you chose a different directory at install time.

Macintosh users can find binaries and source on the Mac page or Jack Jansen's MacPython page. (MacOS X users who have a C compiler can also build from the source tarball below.)

Red Hat Linux 7.3, 7.2 and 6.2 users can download RPMs, or build from source. An SRPM is also available for other RPM-based systems, or the source tar-file can be used (see the "rpm" man page for the "-ta" options).

All others should download Python-2.2.1.tgz, the source tarball, and do the usual "gunzip; tar; configure; make" dance.

What's New?

Other sources of information on 2.2

• Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2 by Guido van Rossum -- a tutorial on the material covered by PEPs 252 and 253.

• What's New in Python 2.2 by Andrew Kuchling describes the most visible changes since Python 2.1.

• Guido gave a talk on what's new in 2.2 at the ZPUG-DC meeting on September 26, 2001; here are his powerpoint slides.

• Charming Python: Iterators and simple generators by David Mertz on IBM developerWorks.

Documentation

The documentation has been updated too:

• Browse HTML on-line
• Download using HTTP.

Files, MD5 checksums and sizes

    1d1d8c1922177fd9e603552f0507d33b Python-2.2.1.exe (7142643 bytes)
    e7012d611602b62e36073c2fd02396a3 Python-2.2.1.tgz (6535104 bytes)
    9ae1d572cbd2bfd4e0c4b92ac11387c6 UNWISE.EXE (162304 bytes)

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