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  • Python Software Foundation Board Meeting Minutes 2006-10-09

    Python Software Foundation Board Meeting Minutes 2006-10-09 The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors October 9, 2006 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 17:05 UTC, 9 October 2006. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1   Attendance 2   Minutes of Past Meetings 3&nb...

  • Built-in Package Support in Python 1.5

    ...in package A.B.C can refer to modules defined in package A.B.K via names of the form __.__.K.module. This feature has been dropped because of its limited use and poor readability. Incompatible Semantics For __init__ Using ni, the __init__.py file inside a package (if present) would be imported as a standard submodule of the package. The built-in package support instead loads the __init__.py file in the package's namespace. This means that if __init__.py in package A defines a name ...

  • Known bugs in Python 2.2.1

    ...in Python 2.2.1</h2> <p>This page now exists only to clarify incompatibilities between Python version 2.2[.x] and versions before 2.2. <h3>Incompatibilities between Python 2.1[.x] and Python 2.2[.x]</h3> <p>The following visible differences between Python 2.2 and previous versions are intentional. <ul> <p><li>Not everything is listed here; for the full list see the <a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/~checkout~/python/py...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Python to know that it is what is nowadays called a "scripting language", an interpretive language with its own built-in memory management and good facilities for calling and cooperating with other programs. So I dived into Programming Python with one question uppermost in my mind: what has this got that Perl does not? Perl, of course, is the 800-pound gorilla of modern scripting languages. It has largely replaced shell as the scripting language of choice for system administrators, tha...

  • What's New In Python 3.0

    ...install" is now an alias for "make altinstall", to prevent accidentally overwriting a Python 2.x installation. Use "make fullinstall" to force Python 3.0 to be installed as "python". Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when gcc is used as compiler. What's New in Python 3.0a4? Release date: 02-Apr-2008 Core and Builtins Bug #2301: Don't try decoding the source code into the original encoding for syntax errors. Extension Modules...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...ing system has been a godsend in deploying and maintaining the many components of Gusto.com. Database Integration - Python's database tools are top notch, allowing for quick and painless development of data mining tools in a matter of hours, rather than the days or weeks it would take in a language like Java. Batteries Included - Except for a few database libraries and domain-specific libraries developed in-house, almost everything needed by Gusto.com developers is included in the Python distrib...

  • Python 2.0

    ...in9x workaround described there is implemented by the new w9xpopen.exe helper in the root of your Python installation. Note that Python uses this internally; it is not a standalone program. Administrator privileges are no longer required to install Python on Windows NT or Windows 2000. If you have administrator privileges, Python's registry info will be written under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Otherwise the installer backs off to writing Python's registry info under HKEY_CURRENT_USER. The ...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...ing to see our work reused and integrated so easily with other systems. Integrating Python with Apache With the API in place, our next task in developing CORE was to find a useful templating module to integrate our Python code with HTML pages running on the Apache web server. After looking at a number of available Python-based templating modules, we opted to create a simple parser of our own. Our approach was to convert server-side template pages into Python servlets whose output is sent by th...

  • 2007-06-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...inally from April 2007, Section 6, Python Package Index (Cheese Shop): A. Kuchling will ask Thomas Wouters about increasing the memory on ximinez, and getting another machine for PyPI. Status: carried forward. Originally from April 2007, Section 9, New PSF Members: D. Goodger will contact the PSF members not subscribed to the PSF-Members mailing list. Status: carried forward. 3.2   New in May These action items originated at the 15 May 2007 board meeting on IRC. Section 4, F...

  • 2009-05-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...into acquiring errors and omissions insurance for the Board of Directors. Status: pending. [43] Originally from 9 February 2009, Section 9, Internet Domain Management: S. Holden will frame a motion regarding the management of the PSF's Internet domains. Status: pending. [44] Originally from 9 February 2009, Section 12, PSF Community Awards: D. Goodger will ask the members for nominations for the PSF Community Awards. Status: pending. [46] Originally from 12 March 2009, Section 5, Internet Dom...

  • 2008-05-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...ing team was already familiar with it and explained that Python had a reputation for being powerful while getting the job done quickly. They suggested we develop our first models using Python and so that's the route we decided on. After 6 months of hard work in our basement we launched our business online in no small part to Python and the ease with which we were able to get our ideas from our head into actual functional modules. Three years later our programmers are still using Python as our ...

  • Release – Python 3.14.0b2

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    Released: May 26, 2025

    Here's the second 3.14 beta. https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140b2/ This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b2, is the first of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes …

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  • Incompatibilities between Python 2.1[.x] and 2.2[.x]

    ...in 2.1[.1]). This may change the meaning of code like the following: <pre> def f(<font color="red">str</font>): def g(x): return <font color="red">str</font>(x) return g System Message: WARNING/2 (<string>, line 58) Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. </pre> In this example, the use of <font color="red">str</font> inside the inner function g() now refers to the argument <font...

  • 2008-03-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...ing Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors March 10, 2008 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 17:03 UTC, 10 March 2008. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1   Attendance 2   Minutes of Past Meetings 3   Status of Past Action Items 3.1&nbs...

  • 2009-11-09 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...ing Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors November 9, 2009 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 17:00 UTC, 9 November 2009. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. Pat Campbell prepared the minutes. All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor — opposed — abstentions; e.g. "5-1-2" means "5 in favor, 1 opp...

  • Python Software Foundation Board Meeting Minutes 2006-09-18

    Python Software Foundation Board Meeting Minutes 2006-09-18 The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors September 18, 2006 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 17:29 UTC, 18 September 2006. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1   Attendance 2   Minutes of Past Meeting...

  • Incompatibilities between Python 2.1[.x] and 2.2[.x]

    ...in 2.1[.1]). This may change the meaning of code like the following: <pre> def f(<font color="red">str</font>): def g(x): return <font color="red">str</font>(x) return g System Message: WARNING/2 (<string>, line 84) Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. </pre> In this example, the use of <font color="red">str</font> inside the inner function g() now refers to the argument <font...

  • Notes

    ...ing values in ConfigParser. Moved the new string-only restriction added in rev. 1.65 to the SafeConfigParser class, leaving existing ConfigParser & RawConfigParser behavior alone, and documented the conditions under which non-string values work. Build Building on darwin now includes /opt/local/include and /opt/local/lib for building extension modules. This is so as to include software installed as a DarwinPorts port <http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/> pyport.h now defines a Py_I...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, November 8, 2005

    ...in: N. Norwitz will ask the lawyer about the python.com domain (carried forward). Originally from September 2005, Section 10.2, Open Source Foundations Meeting at EuroOSCON: M. von Lรถwis will report about the event to psf-board. Status: done (discussed in Open Source Foundations Meeting at EuroOSCON below). The following action items originated with the October 2005 meeting, as highlighted in the minutes: Section 4, Public Support Committee: N. Norwitz will investigate setting up a weekly o...

  • Standard Exception Classes in Python 1.5

    ...in Python 1.5 Standard Exception Classes in Python 1.5 (updated for Python 1.5.2 -baw) User-defined Python exceptions can be either strings or Python classes. Since classes have many nice properties when used as exceptions, it is desirable to migrate to a situation where classes are used exclusively. Prior to Python 1.5 alpha 4, Python's standard exceptions (IOError, TypeError, etc.) were defined as strings. Changing these to classes posed some particularly nasty backward compati...

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