Python 3.0

We are pleased to announce the release of Python 3.0 (final), a new production-ready release, on December 3rd, 2008.

Python 3.0 (a.k.a. "Python 3000" or "Py3k") is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed considerably, and a lot of deprecated features have finally been removed. Also, the standard library has been reorganized in a few prominent places.

Here are some Python 3.0 resources:

• What's new in Python 3000
• Python 3.0 change log.
• Online Documentation
• Read more in PEP 3000
• To help out, sign up for python-3000@python.org
• Conversion tool for Python 2.x code: 2to3

Please report bugs at http://bugs.python.org

Download

This is a production release; we currently support these formats:

• Gzipped source tar ball (3.0) (sig)
• Bzipped source tar ball (3.0) (sig)
• Windows x86 MSI Installer (3.0) (sig)
• Windows AMD64 MSI Installer (3.0) (sig)

MD5 checksums and sizes of the released files:

ac1d8aa55bd6d04232cd96abfa445ac4  11191348  Python-3.0.tgz
28021e4c542323b7544aace274a03bed   9474659  Python-3.0.tar.bz2
054131fb1dcaf0bc20b23711d1028099  13421056  python-3.0.amd64.msi
2b85194a040b34088b64a48fa907c0af  13168640  python-3.0.msi

Documentation

• Online Documentation is updated twice a day
• What's new in Python 3000
• Guido van Rossum's blog