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  • Python 2.4.4 Release

    ...Python 2.5 is the latest release of Python. This release of the older 2.4 code is to provide bug fixes for people who are still using Python 2.4. This is the last planned release in the Python 2.4 series - future maintenance releases of Python will be in the 2.5 series, starting of course with 2.5.1. This is a final release, and is suitable for production use. There was one change since the release candidate. This fixed a problem with cross- compiling Python that was introduced between 2.4.3 and...

  • Release – Python 2.4.4

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 18, 2006

    Python 2.4 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. At least 80 bugs have been squished since Python 2.4.3, including a number of bugs and potential bugs found by with the Coverity and Klocwork static analysis tools. We'd like to offer our thanks to both …

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  • 2007-10-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Python to highlight it on their business card -- as far as the perception among companiest that there are or aren't enough Python programmers out there. Holden: Personally I think we should instead have an approved "I use Python" motif, which incorporates the logo in an approved design. Cannon: I basically don't want the guy to look like he represents the PSF or himself as a developer of Python instead of a developer in Python. I am fine with it, but I don't mind giving his pr...

  • 2008-01-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Python Papers: S. Deibel will post his PSF article on python.org, but well after it is published in The Python Papers. The article had been published, but it's too early to post it on python.org. Status: carried forward. Originally from November 2007, Section 8, PyCon 2008: D. Goodger will put out a call for new member nominations, board candidates, and meeting topics & resolutions for the PSF members' meeting to be held at PyCon. On-list discussions will be encouraged so we can keep the m...

  • 2011 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes (draft)

    ...getting a little better. We have spent as much money as we felt we safely could on supporting community-oriented activities of the kind that I described with other conferences." Next, Guido van Rossum, PSF President, was acknowledged and then asked to say a few words on how he felt about the current state of affairs with the PSF; "Basically, I would like to hear from the president who I know had certain criticisms last year about the way the foundation was conducting itself -- that he ...

  • 2009-02-09 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...with the contributor agreement. Status: carried forward. [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). Status: carried forward. [29] 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]. Includ...

  • 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 …

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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...

  • 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 …

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  • Built-in Package Support in Python 1.5

    ...python1.5/site-packages $prefix/lib/site-python The site-packages directory can be used for packages that are likely to depend on the Python version (e.g. package containing shared libraries or using new features). The site-python directory is used for backward compatibility with Python 1.4 and for pure Python packages or modules that are not sensitive to the Python version used. Recommended use of these directories is to place each package in a subdirectory of its own in either ...

  • PSF Grants Program

    ...Python conferences (in-person, virtual, or hybrid) and workshops. We also fund Python-related Meetup site subscriptions. Grants for non-Python events will only be considered where there's a clear Python component to the event, and the grant will only be utilized for the Python component of the event. Categories of the types of grants we currently fund include: Conferences (e.g. PyCon Italia) Event site subscriptions (Meetup.com) (e.g. London Django Meetup) Django Girls Workshops (e.g. Django ...

  • Known bugs in Python 2.2.1

    ...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/pytho...

  • What's New In Python 3.0

    ...with Visual Studio 2008 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow without limit. Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by exploitation of poor argument checking. bsddb code updated to version 4.7.3pre2. This code is the same than Python 2.6 one, since the intention is to keep an unified 2.x/3.x codebase. The Python code is automatically translated using "2to3". Please, do not update this code in Python 3.0 by hand. Update t...

  • 2009-05-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...with giving him another chance to expand further ..." T. Peters: "I suggest we ask him for a plain budget..." [60] S. Holden will ask Ian Benson for an updated "NiceTime" proposal with a detailed budget. 8   US and International Trademark Registration of the Python Logo S. Holden reported that Van Lindberg recommended trademark registration for the Python logo in parallel with the "Python" word mark. J. Rush noted that this will cost about...

  • 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...

  • 2007-06-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...python.org to list the recipients of the Frank Willison Award. Status: in progress. Section 5, Funding for Jornada Python en Santa Fe (Argentina): S. Deibel will notify Facundo Batista about the PSF's grant for the Jornada Python en Santa Fe (Argentina). K. Kaiser sent the grant money on June 4. Status: done. Section 6, EuroPython Sponsorship: A. Kuchling will contact the EuroPython organizers to arrange for the PSF's sponsorship. The EuroPython Society has been informed of the PSF's spon...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Python's text processing capabilities helped make it possible to build a solution 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...

  • Python 2.0

    Python 2.0 Python 2.0 Note: This is no longer the most current Python release. See Python 2.0.1 for a patch release and the download page for more recent releases. The final version of Python 2.0 was released on October 16, 2000. Download What's new (overview) What's new (details) Post-release news For critical patches, a Python 2.0 specific FAQ, and other issues that have come up since the release, please go to the new Python 2.0 info area, a set of user-editabl...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...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 the HTTP server to the user's browser. Although this w...

  • 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 …

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