Ned Deily added the comment:

AFAIK, traditionally, there have not been separate download pages for each 
pre-release of a new feature (e.g. 3.4.0) or maintenance (e.g. 3.3.5) release.  
The usual practice has been to create *one* release page at the usual URI (e.g. 
https://www.python.org/download/releases/3.3.5) for the first pre-release 
(alpha, beta, or rc) and then update the contents of that page for each 
subsequent pre-release through the final release.  The download links for the 
bits of earlier pre-releases are replaced on the page by those of later 
pre-releases or the final release.  Thus, even though the pre-release bits are 
still available to download at their original URIs, the links to them are no 
longer provided on a download page.  With the transition to the new python.org 
website near the end of the 3.4.0 release cycle, there were some experiments 
and changes in process.  In particular, separate download pages *were* created 
for 3.4.0rc{1,2,3} but not for earlier pre-releases of 3.4.0.  There is no g
 uarantee at the moment that that will happen again for future releases.  If it 
is important that there be download links for pre-release bits, the release 
process needs to change and someone would need to go back and re-create those 
for previous releases somewhere.

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nosy: +ned.deily

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