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Python 3.6.2

Warning: Python 3.6.2 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Note: Python 3.6.2 has been superseded by Python 3.6.15.

Release date: July 17, 2017

Note: The release you are looking at is Python 3.6.2, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.6 series which has now reached end-of-life and is no longer supported. See the downloads page for currently supported versions of Python. The final source-only security fix release for 3.6 was 3.6.15 and the final bugfix release was 3.6.8.

Among the new major new features in Python 3.6 were:

  • PEP 468, Preserving Keyword Argument Order
  • PEP 487, Simpler customization of class creation
  • PEP 495, Local Time Disambiguation
  • PEP 498, Literal String Formatting
  • PEP 506, Adding A Secrets Module To The Standard Library
  • PEP 509, Add a private version to dict
  • PEP 515, Underscores in Numeric Literals
  • PEP 519, Adding a file system path protocol
  • PEP 520, Preserving Class Attribute Definition Order
  • PEP 523, Adding a frame evaluation API to CPython
  • PEP 524, Make os.urandom() blocking on Linux (during system startup)
  • PEP 525, Asynchronous Generators (provisional)
  • PEP 526, Syntax for Variable Annotations (provisional)
  • PEP 528, Change Windows console encoding to UTF-8
  • PEP 529, Change Windows filesystem encoding to UTF-8
  • PEP 530, Asynchronous Comprehensions

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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".)
  • Windows users: If installing Python 3.6 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.
  • macOS users: If you are using the Python 3.6 from the python.org binary installer linked on this page, please carefully read the Important Information displayed during installation; this information is also available after installation by clicking on /Applications/Python 3.6/ReadMe.rtf. There is important information there about changes in the 3.6 installer-supplied Python, particularly with regard to SSL certificate validation.
  • macOS users: There is important information about IDLE, Tkinter, and Tcl/Tk on macOS here.

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Source release

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Version Operating system Description File size GPG MD5 checksum
Gzipped source tarball Source release 21.5 MB SIG e1a36bfffdd1d3a780b1825daf16e56c
XZ compressed source tarball Source release 16.1 MB SIG 2c68846471994897278364fc18730dd9
Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit installer macOS for Mac OS X 10.6 and later 26.3 MB SIG 86e6193fd56b1e757fc8a5a2bb6c52ba
Windows help file Windows 7.6 MB SIG e520a5c1c3e3f02f68e3db23f74a7a90
Windows x86 embeddable zip file Windows 6.0 MB SIG 2ca4768fdbadf6e670e97857bfab83e8
Windows x86 executable installer Windows 29.1 MB SIG 8d8e1711ef9a4b3d3d0ce21e4155c0f5
Windows x86 web-based installer Windows 1.2 MB SIG ccb7d66e3465eaf40ade05b76715b56c
Windows x86-64 embeddable zip file Windows for AMD64/EM64T/x64 6.7 MB SIG 0fdfe9f79e0991815d6fc1712871c17f
Windows x86-64 executable installer Windows for AMD64/EM64T/x64 30.0 MB SIG 4377e7d4e6877c248446f7cd6a1430cf
Windows x86-64 web-based installer Windows for AMD64/EM64T/x64 1.3 MB SIG 58ffad3d92a590a463908dfedbc68c18