Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7

2014-09-29 Thread Steve Dower
Microsoft has released a compiler package for Python 2.7 to make it easier for people to build and distribute their C extension modules on Windows. The Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 is available from: http://aka.ms/vcpython27 This package contains all the tools and headers requir

[ANN] Daily Windows builds of Python 3.x

2017-08-09 Thread Steve Dower
Hi all As part of a deal with Zach Ware at PyCon, I agreed that if he removed the Subversion dependency from our builds, I would set up daily Windows builds of Python. Zach did an excellent job, and so I am now following through on my half of the deal :) For a while I've been uploading the o

Vulnerability: urlsplit does not handle NFKC normalization

2019-03-14 Thread Steve Dower
We recently disclosed and patched a potential vulnerability in Python applications that use urlsplit() or urlparse() on user-provide URLs. You may be impacted if a user can provide a Unicode URL to your application that is later converted to IDNA (Punycode) or ASCII. This conversion will decom