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Python 3.4.4

Release Date: Dec. 21, 2015

Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here.

Python 3.4.4 was released on December 6th, 2015.

Python 3.4.4 has many bugfixes and other small improvements over 3.4.3.

Major new features of the 3.4 series, compared to 3.3

Python 3.4 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, including hundreds of small improvements and bug fixes. Among the new major new features and changes in the 3.4 release series are

  • PEP 428, a "pathlib" module providing object-oriented filesystem paths
  • PEP 435, a standardized "enum" module
  • PEP 436, a build enhancement that will help generate introspection information for builtins
  • PEP 442, improved semantics for object finalization
  • PEP 443, adding single-dispatch generic functions to the standard library
  • PEP 445, a new C API for implementing custom memory allocators
  • PEP 446, changing file descriptors to not be inherited by default in subprocesses
  • PEP 450, a new "statistics" module
  • PEP 451, standardizing module metadata for Python's module import system
  • PEP 453, a bundled installer for the pip package manager
  • PEP 454, a new "tracemalloc" module for tracing Python memory allocations
  • PEP 456, a new hash algorithm for Python strings and binary data
  • PEP 3154, a new and improved protocol for pickled objects
  • PEP 3156, a new "asyncio" module, a new framework for asynchronous I/O

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Notes on this release:

  • The OS X installers are now distributed as signed installer package files compatible with the OS X Gatekeeper security feature.
  • The binaries for AMD64 will also work on processors that implement the Intel 64 architecture. (Also known as the "x64" architecture, and formerly known as both "EM64T" and "x86-64".) They will not work on Intel Itanium Processors (formerly "IA-64").
  • There is important information about IDLE, Tkinter, and Tcl/Tk on Mac OS X here.

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Files

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Mac OS X 32-bit i386/PPC installer macOS for Mac OS X 10.5 and later 8491d013826252228ffcdeda0d9348d6 23.7 MB SIG
Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit installer macOS for Mac OS X 10.6 and later 349c61e374f6aeb44ca85481ee14d2f5 22.1 MB SIG
Windows help file Windows 5fa4e75dd4edc25e33e56f3c7486cd15 7.1 MB SIG
Windows debug information files Windows d6ffcb8cdabd93ed7f2feff661816511 36.0 MB SIG
Windows debug information files for 64-bit binaries Windows a0eea5b3742954c1ed02bddf30d07101 23.9 MB SIG
Windows x86 MSI installer Windows e96268f7042d2a3d14f7e23b2535738b 23.8 MB SIG
Windows x86-64 MSI installer Windows for AMD64/EM64T/x64 963f67116935447fad73e09cc561c713 24.8 MB SIG