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Python for Mac

Object-oriented programming language.

Free
In English
4.5
Based on 11 user rates

Python overview

Python is an extremely versatile, dynamic, interpreted, and general-purpose language. It is one of the most popular and in-demand languages today. Python supports multiple programming techniques, including procedural, object-oriented, and functional programming.

Features:
  • Python is an excellent option for beginner-level developers.
  • Python programming on Mac is easy. Since it is based on a high-level language, you don't need to remember the system architecture, nor to manage the memory.
  • Python for Mac is developer-friendly. It uses an elegant and simple syntax that is easy-to-code and easy-to-read.
  • You can enjoy smooth programming on your Macbook with a Python's interactive mode that allows you to easily test short snippets of code and interact with the interpreter directly to write your programs.
  • Python is a dynamically typed language. It means that you don't need to declare the type of variable because it is decided at run time, not in advance.

What's new in version 3.14.7

Security
  • Fixed quadratic complexity in incremental parsing of long unterminated constructs (such as tags or comments) in html.parser.HTMLParser, which could be exploited for a denial of service.
  • The xml.etree.ElementTree.Element methods findall(), iterfind() and find() avoid quadratic behavior when using XPath index predicates ([1], [last()], [last()-N]) on XML documents with many same-tag siblings.
  • Update bundled libexpat to version 2.8.2.
  • The tarfile.TarFile.extract() method now applies the given filter when it extracts a link target from the archive as a fallback.
  • In tarfile, seeking a stream now stops when end of the stream is reached.
  • Modules/Setup.local is no longer used as a landmark to discover whether Python is running in a source tree, as it could potentially affect actual installs. The pybuilddir.txt file is now the sole indicator of running in a source tree.
  • Fixed an vulnerability in the tarfile data and tar extraction filters where crafted archives could create a symlink pointing outside the destination directory. This was a bypass of CVE 2025-4330.
  • http.client now limits the number of chunked-response trailer lines it will read to 100, and the number of interim (1xx) responses it will skip to 100. A malicious or broken server could previously stream trailer lines or 100 Continue responses forever, hanging the client even when a socket timeout was in use. Reported by @YLChen-007 via GHSA-w4q2-g22w-6fr4.
  • Normalize all line endings (CR, CRLF, and LF) to LF+TAB when writing multi-line configparser values.
  • Reject NUL, CR and LF characters in IMAP commands. Other control characters are allowed and sent quoted.

Full list of changes available here

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Mcr
Mcr
Aug 5, 2026
3.14.6
0.0
Aug 5, 2026
0.0
Version: 3.14.6
3.14.7 released Aug 5, 2026 https://www.python.org/downloads/
umaromc
umaromc
Sep 30, 2012
3.30
0.0
Sep 30, 2012
0.0
Version: 3.30
Link is for 32/64-bit Intel Only, OS X 10.6+ 32-bit Intel/PPC Build, OS X 10.3-10.6 http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.3.0/python-3.3.0-macosx10.5.dmg
Iliketrash
Iliketrash
Mar 20, 2012
3.2.3rc2
0.0
Mar 20, 2012
0.0
Version: 3.2.3rc2
>>> range(3,7) [3, 4, 5, 6] WTF? How stupid can a language get?
SickTeddyBear
SickTeddyBear
Feb 21, 2011
3.2.0
0.0
Feb 21, 2011
0.0
Version: 3.2.0
FYI, there are universal installers for Intel/PPC and 10.3->10.6: http://www.python.org/download/
Trashie
Trashie
Oct 24, 2010
3.1.2
0.0
Oct 24, 2010
0.0
Version: 3.1.2
Indentation thing is not a big deal - how else will the interpreter be able to work. For all the brace lovers maybe they should implement 2 modes I dunno...but once you get into it not having braces all over the place makes for some tidy reading code! I would take this as an overhead to have no braces any day of the week.
iAziz
iAziz
Sep 6, 2021
3.9.7
5.0
Sep 6, 2021
5.0
Version: 3.9.7
Rob85
Rob85
Nov 16, 2018
5.0
Nov 16, 2018
5.0
Version: null
Cyzor
Cyzor
Jun 21, 2014
5.0
Jun 21, 2014
5.0
Version: null
Quiiick
Quiiick
Apr 25, 2014
4.0
Apr 25, 2014
4.0
Version: null
Ededed
Ededed
Apr 22, 2014
2.5
Apr 22, 2014
2.5
Version: null
Ingerj
Ingerj
Apr 1, 2014
4.0
Apr 1, 2014
4.0
Version: null
Talking28
Talking28
Jul 12, 2011
4.5
Jul 12, 2011
4.5
Version: null
Pneshati
Pneshati
Dec 17, 2010
5.0
Dec 17, 2010
5.0
Version: null
John-E
John-E
Dec 8, 2010
4.0
Dec 8, 2010
4.0
Version: null
cheeseinspector
cheeseinspector
Dec 8, 2010
5.0
Dec 8, 2010
5.0
Version: null
Guest
Guest
Apr 3, 2005
5.0
Apr 3, 2005
5.0
Version: null