[Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 2.6.8, 2.7.3, 3.1.5, and 3.2.3

[Georg Brandl]

On 12.04.2012 06:47, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 4/11/2012 3:37 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>
>>  Downloads are at
>>
>>       http://python.org/download/releases/2.6.8/
>>       http://python.org/download/releases/2.7.3/
>
> This page lists 'program databases' after the normal msi installers for
> Windows. I am puzzled and curious as to what those are, and I suspect
> other naive users will be too.
>
>>       http://python.org/download/releases/3.1.5/
>>       http://python.org/download/releases/3.2.3/
>
> No such thing here.

Here they are called "Visual Studio debug information files".  I agree
that "program database", while it is the official name of the file and
the literal meaning of the file extension ".pdb", is not a very good
description.

Georg