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  • 2009-05-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...with the contributor agreement. Status: pending. [13] Originally from December 2006, Section 4, Jython Contributor Agreements: D. Goodger will write to the Jython contributors and ask them to sign contributor agreement forms, in combination with item 1 [11] above (transferred from A. Kuchling). Item transferred to A. Kuchling on 2009-05-08 (item [57]). Status: dropped (transferred). [23] Originally from 14 April 2008, Section 5, Treasurer's Report: S. Holden will assist K. Kaiser with accounts...

  • 2008-05-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...with the contributor agreement. Status: carried forward. Originally from December 2006, Section 4, Jython Contributor Agreements: D. Goodger will write to the Jython contributors and ask them to sign contributor agreement forms, in combination with item 2 above (transferred from A. Kuchling). Status: carried forward. Originally from March 2007, Section 18, Bylaw Change Survey: S. Holden will call for a separate discussion of changes to the bylaws [with S. Deibel's help]. Status: carried forwar...

  • 2010-02-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...with raising a further $10,000. Status: pending. [112] Originally from 14 December 2009, Section 9, Appointment of Wendroff as PSF Accountants: S. Holden will inform Wendroff & Associates, LLC of the board's decision to contract with them according to the terms of the agreement. Status: pending. [113] Originally from 21 December 2009, Section 5, PSF budget for 2010: K. Kaiser will update the PSF website to reflect the changes on financial & tax filing data. Status: pending. [114] Orig...

  • Built-in Package Support in Python 1.5

    ...with the same name as a global module that has already been used in the package, the result is generally known as a "mess", and the proper solution is to quit the interpreter and start over. What If I Have a Module and a Package With The Same Name? You may have a directory (on sys.path) which has both a module spam.py and a subdirectory spam that contains an __init__.py (without the __init__.py, a directory is not recognized as a package). In this case, the subdirectory has precedenc...

  • Release – Python 3.14.0b1

    Version: None

    Released: May 7, 2025

    Only one day late, welcome to the first beta! This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b1, is the first of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features …

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  • Release – Python 3.14.0b4

    Version: None

    Released: July 8, 2025

    It's the final 3.14 beta! https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140b4/ This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b4, is the last 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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  • Known bugs in Python 2.2.1

    ...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 color="red">str</font> in the outer function f(); previously (without nested scopes), it would refer to the built-in function <font color="blue">str</font>. <p><li>Unbound method objects have their im_class field set differently. In previous ver...

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

    ...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 color="red">str</font> in the outer function f(); previously (without nested scopes), it would refer to the built-in function <font color="blue">str</font>. <p><li>Unbound method objects have their im_class field set differently. In previous ver...

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

    ...with Mark Shuttleworth: B. Cannon will post a detailed summary of the conversation via email for further discussion. Status: done. Section 9, Brett's Discussion with Mark Shuttleworth: B. Cannon will contact Mark Shuttleworth to tell him we're interested in further discussion. Status: done. S. Deibel and B. Cannon will follow up regarding further discussion with Mark Shuttleworth. Section 10: T. Peters will ask the advice of Larry Rosen regarding concerns with the contributor agreement. Status...

  • What's New In Python 3.0

    ...with failmalloc. Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file. Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads. Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker. Issue #3650: Fixed a reference leak in bytes.split('x'). bytes(o) now tries to use o.__bytes__() before using fallbacks. Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues with x86_...

  • Python Success Stories

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  • 2008-03-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...without requiring any formalties; or Free registration at PyCon, with optionally a contribution of up to $500 towards the recipient's travel and accommodation expenses; the amounts to be determined by the Board at the time the award is approved. Approved 7-0-0. S. Deibel noted: "What we really need is a commitee with a budget, then the Board doesn't need to do more voting on this." S. Holden suggested that we call for committee members at the upcoming members' meeting. M. von Löwis...

  • Python 2.0

    ...with -Wall and -Wstrict-prototypes. Users compiling Python with GCC should see exactly one warning, except if they have passed configure the --with-pydebug flag. The expected warning is for getopt() in Modules/main.c. This warning will be fixed for Python 2.1. Fixed configure to add -threads argument during linking on OSF1. Tools and other miscellany The compiler in Tools/compiler was updated to support the new language features introduced in 2.0: extended pri...

  • Release – Python 3.14.0b2

    Version: None

    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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  • Python Success Stories

    ...with much higher productivity per man hour than would have been possible using Java as the development language. Web Services To The Rescue In the past year or so, the larger suppliers have been slowly rolling out Web services for some of their products and services. These also work seamlessly with our Python code. The XML processing tools in Python are, like everything else included with Python, well thought out, spec compliant, and powerful. Gusto.com often builds automated test suites in Py...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...with Rackspace's business practices, or assigning data that would result in other types of high-level corruption of the data in the database. With the creation of this second layer, we achieved our original goal of Core Objects Reused Everywhere. Programmers throughout the company began to use this API to implement interfaces to application functionality. This required little interaction with our API development team, and it could be done without fear of misusing the API. While we designed the A...

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

    ...with any iterable. <p><li>In pdb, you can no longer enable breakpoints with negative numbers. <p><li>The Bastion.py and rexec.py modules are disabled. <p><li>There are some additional restrictions on __class__ assignments. <p><li>__delitem__ for WeakKeyDictionary has been improved and fixed, but may change visible behavior. </ul> See the <a href="../NEWS.txt">NEWS file</a> for more detail. <h3>Incompatibilities...

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

    ...with the conference committee and make a proposal to the board. 7   Public Support Committee D. Ascher will ask Bram Cohen (BitTorrent) about PSF sponsorship. 8   Trademark Policy D. Ascher brought up the PSF's trademark policy. A wide-ranging discussion ensued without resolution. J. Hylton suggested that D. Ascher discuss a list of general concerns and allowable uses with Milind Shah and see what he comes up with. D. Ascher will probably work with ActiveStat...

  • Notes

    ...within the default sys.getrecursionlimit() default value of 1000 were able to suffer undetected C stack overflows. The standard test program test_compiler was one such program. If a Python process on Windows "just vanishes" without a trace, and without an error message of any kind, but with an exit code of 128, undetected stack overflow may be the problem. Mac What's New in Python 2.4 alpha 2? Release date: 05-AUG-2004 Core and builtins Patch #980695: Implements efficient s...

  • Absentee ballot for February 24, 2006 member meeting in Dallas, TX

    ...WITH BALLOT, current with agenda 8851--> <h3>Election of Sponsor Members</h3> <p>The following organizations have been nominated as sponsor members of the PSF. <ul> <table width="50%" border="1" cellspacing="0"> <tr><th>Nominee</th><th colspan=3>Vote yes to accept as new member</th></tr> <tr><td>CCP Games</td> System Message: ERROR/3 (<string>, line 19) Unexpected indentati...

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