Python 3.2.6

Release Date: Oct. 12, 2014

This is a security-fix source-only release. The last binary release was 3.2.5.

With the 3.2.6 release, and five years after its first release, the Python 3.2 series is now officially retired. All official maintenance for Python 3.2, including security patches, has ended. For ongoing maintenance releases, please see the downloads page for information about the latest Python 3 series.

The list of fixed security related issues can be found in the NEWS file.

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

Note

Users of Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) or later may be affected by issue 18458, experiencing crashes when using the interactive interpreter. This bug is not fixed by the Python 3.2.6 release. If you are having this problem, please review your options by visiting the issue tracker.

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

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Files

Version	Operating System	Description	MD5 Sum	File Size	GPG
Gzipped source tarball	Source release		23815d82ae706e9b781ca65865353d39	12.5 MB	SIG
XZ compressed source tarball	Source release		e0ba4360dfcb4aec735e666cc0ae7b0e	8.8 MB	SIG