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Mailing Lists Python Mailing Lists and Newsgroups Here's an overview of the mail and news resources for python. For a complete listing of python.org's public mailing lists you can view them on Mailman 3. To request a new list, send e-mail to postmaster @ python.org; please check first to make sure a similar list does not already exist. Mailing lists for users speaking languages other than English are listed in the non-English python resources guide, which includes mailing lists, translate...
Python Special Interest Groups - Guidelines Python SIG Creation Guidelines The guidelines for creation of new SIGs are rather informal, but a few key things are necessary. First we outline the general framework of the SIGs and then we describe what you have to do if you want us to create a new SIG. The SIG mailing lists are managed by GNU Mailman, a web-based interface for mailing lists written in Python. Un/subscription requests, archiving of messages, etc. all happen automatically, without...
Python Core Mentorship Introduction The Python Core Mentorship Program is predicated on the idea that Python core, and Python as a whole would be served by further lowering the barrier to entry of contribution to Python core (original proposal) The mission of the Python Core Mentor Program is to provide an open and welcoming place to connect students, programmers – and anyone interested in contributing to the Python core development. This project is based on the idea that the best way to welc...
Conferences and Workshops Conference Listings There are quite a number of Python conferences happening all year around and in many parts of the world. Many of them are taking place yearly or even more frequent: Python Conferences List on the Python Wiki -- this is the main and most complete list of conferences around the world Subsets of this list are also available on other sites: pycon.org -- lists a subset of mostly national Python conferences PyData -- listings of Python conferences sp...
Python Patterns - An Optimization Anecdote Warning This page stays here for historical reasons and it may contain outdated or incorrect information. The other day, a friend asked me a seemingly simple question: what's the best way to convert a list of integers into a string, presuming that the integers are ASCII values. For instance, the list [97, 98, 99] should be converted to the string 'abc'. Let's assume we want to write a function to do this. The first version I came ...
String-SIG - SIG on Enhancement of Python String Processing SIG on Enhancement of Python String Processing This sig has been retired. New postings to the mailing list will be rejected, but the archives of the old list are still available for perusal. See the SIGs home page for info about active and inactive lists. This is forum for discussion of ideas, designs, and implementations of enhancements to Python's string pro...
Progenv SIG - Python programming-environment issues Progenv SIG - Python programming-environment issues This sig has been retired. New postings to the mailing list will be rejected, but the archives of the old list are still available for perusal. See the SIGs home page for info about active and inactive lists. This list was intended for the discussion of the issues concerning the Python programming environment - the facilities, including editors, interp...
Python Special Interest Groups - Coordinator Resource Guide Each PSA SIG </community/sigs> coordinator has at their disposal: A Mailman mailing list A SIG Web directory, situated in http://python.org/community/sigs/ </community/sigs/> These resources are available on python.org, under the name of the SIG. The SIG coordinator has remote control of them, with email and web-mediated administrative authority of the mailing list. Currently, SIG coordinators do not have direct acces...
PythonWin Special Interest Group PythonWin SIG This sig has been retired. New postings to the mailing list will be rejected, but the archives of the old list are still available for perusal. See the SIGs home page for info about active and inactive lists. Further information: Pipermail archives Findmail archives The old list mission statement
Python Locator Special Interest Group Python Locator SIG This sig has been retired. New postings to the mailing list will be rejected, but the archives of the old list are still available for perusal. See the SIGs home page for info about active and inactive lists. Further information: eGroups archives The old list mission statement The catalog-sig can be seen as a revival of the locator-sig.
Plot-SIG - SIG on Data Plotting Solutions for Python SIG on Data Plotting Solutions for Python This sig has been retired. New postings to the mailing list will be rejected, but the archives of the old list are still available for perusal. See the SIGs home page for info about active and inactive lists. The purpose of this list is to develop, coddle together, adopt or otherwise make available Python tools for plotting of scientific and business plots of dat...
SIG for Idioms, Patterns, and Frameworks in Python SIG for Idioms, Patterns, and Frameworks in Python This sig has been retired. New postings to the mailing list will be rejected, but the archives of the old list are still available for perusal. See the SIGs home page for info about active and inactive lists. Further information: Pipermail archives Findmail archives The old list mission statement
Structured Text Formatting Rules Structured Text Formatting Rules For the gendoc processor we (Daniel and Robin) have decided on the following format rules for Python doc strings so that they may be marked up in a reasonable manner. People developing other automated tools may think about adopting this standard as well. Feel free to discuss this in the doc-sig list. By and large we have decided to use the Structured Text approach offered by ...
SIG on Tabular Databases in Python SIG on Tabular Databases in Python This list is intended to work through and resolve issues related to tabular database access from Python. Being somewhat related, this list may also cover persistency issues in Python. The list will cover a number of topics, attempting to produce documentation, modules, and/or sample code.
Thread-SIG - SIG on Process Threading in Python SIG on Process Threading in Python This sig has been retired. New postings to the mailing list will be rejected, but the archives of the old list are still available for perusal. See the SIGs home page for info about active and inactive lists. This list's mission is to improve the status of threading in Python. Specifically: Python will have a sufficiently powerful threading interface ...
SIG on PSF SIGs and Mailing Lists SIG on PSF SIGs and Mailing Lists This SIG exists in order to discuss creation of and policies for PSF Special Interest Groups, and the mailing lists to support them. SIG Creation Guidelines SIG Coordinator Info Subscribing to the maillist Archives
SIG for Built-in Matrix Types in Python SIG for Built-in Matrix Types in Python This sig has been retired. The purpose of this SIG was to continue development of a Python matrix type. This effort succeeded and resulted in Numerical Python, a high-speed array language for Python. New postings to the Matrix-SIG mailing list will be rejected, but the Archives of the old list are still available for perusal by historians. Note that for technical questions, these archives are ...
Python Job Board Please Note: The job board has been relaunched (March 2015) and is now available under the new URL https://www.python.org/jobs/. Please update your bookmarks. Employers / Recruiters: See our HOW-TO for instructions on how to post to the jobs board Unpaid volunteer positions are listed in the Wiki on the VolunteerOpportunities page. Job seekers: We also have an RSS feed which lists the employer, location and a snippet of each posting. Do not send us your resume. We're not set ...
Python.org Maintenance and Administration Warning This document is outdated. Please visit https://pythondotorg.readthedocs.io/ for up-to-date information about maintaining python.org. Python.org Maintenance and Administration This document is incomplete; we're updating it as questions come up. If you have questions, try the webmaster alias first, then pydotorg-www if you don't get a response. Getting Started To learn how to maintain the Python.org website, please read the Python.org Websi...
SIG on Graphical User Interfaces for Python SIG on Graphical User Interfaces for Python This sig has been retired. New postings to the mailing list will be rejected, but the archives of the old list are still available for perusal. See the SIGs home page for info about active and inactive lists. Over a dozen graphical user-interface Python modules have been developed. While this speaks to the power of Python's extension capabilities, there is significant interest in defi...
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