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Python 3.6.0a4

Warning: Python 3.6.0 reached end-of-life on 2021-12-23. It is no longer supported and does not receive security updates. We recommend upgrading to the latest Python release.
Note: Python 3.6.0a4 has been superseded by Python 3.6.15.

Release date: Aug. 15, 2016

Python 3.6.0a4

Python 3.6.0a4 was released on 2016-08-15.

Major new features of the 3.6 series, compared to 3.5

Python 3.6 is still in development; 3.6.0a4 is the last of four planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of new features and bug fixes and to test the release process. During the alpha phase, features may be added, modified, or deleted up until the start of the beta phase (2016-09-12). Please keep in mind that this is a preview release and its use is not recommended for production environments.

Many new features for Python 3.6 are still being planned and written. Among the new major new features and changes so far:

  • PEP 498, Formatted string literals

The next pre-release of Python 3.6 will be 3.6.0b1, currently scheduled for 2016-09-12.

Notes on this release

  • Windows users: 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").
  • Windows users: If installing Python 3.6.0a1 as a non-privileged user, you may need to escalate to administrator privileges to install an update to your C runtime libraries.
  • Windows users: There are now "web-based" installers for Windows platforms; the installer will download the needed software components at installation time.
  • Windows Users: There are redistributable zip files containing the Windows builds, making it easy to redistribute Python as part of another software package. Please see the documentation regarding Embedded Distribution for more information.
  • OS X users: There is important information about IDLE, Tkinter, and Tcl/Tk on Mac OS X here.

Full Changelog

Files

macOS

Download Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit installer

Windows

Download Python install manager

Source release

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Version Operating system Description File size GPG MD5 checksum
Gzipped source tarball Source release 19.5 MB SIG 250b1afed9b18b06987b100ece82296a
XZ compressed source tarball Source release 14.5 MB SIG e26eccce0f5f0edfe889b5af314c4cd0
Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit installer macOS for Mac OS X 10.6 and later 23.6 MB SIG 3e379ff6568e6cf859a7d7813763558b
Windows help file Windows 7.5 MB SIG b77010bfd94dec3483fb5551eabfb017
Windows x86 embeddable zip file Windows 5.7 MB SIG 0c663104f7e066d70403fdbd2358f19b
Windows x86 executable installer Windows 28.0 MB SIG c7fcec95b576b19dcf31606ce6588f7a
Windows x86 web-based installer Windows 926.0 KB SIG b9bd9d093cb84afba92ef3bacfb746bd
Windows x86-64 embeddable zip file Windows for AMD64/EM64T/x64 6.5 MB SIG 64f2c2c489cacc8910ab42919357693f
Windows x86-64 executable installer Windows for AMD64/EM64T/x64 28.9 MB SIG 4b6201dfee439f273b846ac892ef636a
Windows x86-64 web-based installer Windows for AMD64/EM64T/x64 951.2 KB SIG 63ee595457ca439cd54b470884ece5c4