Python One#
Historical Python source documentation, from 1.0.1 (February 1994) through 2.0c1 (October 2000). Each version’s docs are converted from the original LaTeX sources in the tarball and presented here as browsable Markdown.
The source tarballs come from legacy.python.org/download/releases/src.
Browse by version in the left sidebar, or jump straight to a release:
| Version | Released | Highlights |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0.1 | 1994-02-15 | First stable release; portability fixes |
| 1.1 | 1994-10-11 | Operator overloading, Tkinter, dynamic modules |
| 1.2 | 1995-04-10 | pickle, shelve, import a.b.c syntax |
| 1.3 | 1995-10-12 | Keyword arguments |
| 1.4 | 1996-10-25 | Universal Makefile.pre.in for extensions |
| 1.5 | 1997-12-31 | Saner module path, -O flag, 64-bit fixes |
| 1.5.1 | 1998-04-14 | Bare raise, threaded import, tab warnings |
| 1.5.2b1 | 1998-12-22 | NotImplementedError, BeOS port |
| 1.5.2b2 | 1999-02-18 | winsound, -OO strips docstrings |
| 1.5.2c1 | 1999-04-08 | Win/CE threads, zlib inflate fix |
| 1.5.2 | 1999-04-13 | sha module, last 1.5 release |
| 1.6b1 | 2000-08-04 | Unicode preview, string methods, SRE |
| 1.6 | 2000-09-05 | Unicode, string methods, SRE final |
| 2.0b1 | 2000-09-05 | List comprehensions, augmented assignment |
| 2.0b2 | 2000-09-26 | Unbounded int formats, distutils 0.9.3 |
| 2.0c1 | 2000-10-10 | Bug fixes; release candidate |