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• 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...

• 2010-02-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...ing refunds and donations, manually processing the Google Checkout transactions, processing PyCon Sponsor invoices and payments, producing the 2010 Sponsor Invoices, collecting Sponsor Member receivables, processing the year-end 1042 tax forms, converting the bookkeeping to an outside service, updating our insurance coverage, and expediting the remaining tax documentation so the tutorial honoraria AP can be cleared. Van Lindberg has done an outstanding job bringing in PyCon Sponsors. We are abo...

• PSF Community Service Awards

  ...ing the Windows Management Interface in Python and supporting that code and Windows users generally on comp.lang.python. Robin Dunn for being the principal maintainer of wxPython. December 2012 The following awards were announced in December 2012: Antoine Pitrou for his contribution to CPython, including his work on the GIL and his work involving the PSF infrastructure. Stefan Krah for his contribution to closing out PEP 3118, including being a maintainer of cdecimal. October 2012 The fol...

• EDU-SIG: Python in Education

  ...ing with python". Learning environments Since Python is an interpreted language, all one needs to start programming is a terminal window. However, for your students, this would not be the friendliest environment; instead, we recommend that you use something like IDLE (which stands for Integrated DeveLopment Environment), which is included in the installation Python files on any platform that supports Tcl, including Windows. As for yourself, if you prefer programming directly from a termi...

• Known bugs in Python 2.2

  ...in the standard <a href="http://docs.python.org/">documentation bundle</a> ("Distributing Python Modules"). </ul> <h3>Incompatibilities between Python 2.1[.1] and Python 2.2</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/p...

• Release – Python 3.12.0b1

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  Released: May 22, 2023

  This is a beta preview of Python 3.12 Python 3.12 is still in development. This release, 3.12.0b1 is the first of four beta release previews of 3.12. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their …

• 2010-05-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...ing Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors May 10, 2010 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:05 UTC, 10 May 2010. 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 opposed, an...

• Frank Willison Memorial Award

  ...including (but not limited to) writing the initial version of the CPython developer's guide, the initial version of the design documentation for the current CPython compiler, converting the bulk of the import system implementation from C to Python, creating the "devinabox" project to make it easier for new contributors to get started at development sprints, writing the "Python-dev Summaries" articles from 2002 to 2005, and moderating the python-ideas mailing list since its in...

• Linux RPMs for Python 2.2.1

  ...includes a Makefile.pre.in, for building Zope. <li>Installs "python2.2" as well as "python2.2". This should allow it to interoperate better with the Red Hat provided Python 2.2 package in 7.3. <li>Available as source and binaries for Red Hat 7.3. </ul> <p><b>Warning:</b> These packages install as "/usr/bin/python2". This is because many of the Red Hat tools rely on "/usr/bin/python" being 1.5. For Python code which ...

• 2008-08-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...ing Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors August 11, 2008 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 11 August 2008. Steve Holden 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...

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

  ...ing</li> <li>Martin von Loewis</li> <li>Tim Peters</li> System Message: WARNING/2 (<string>, line 81) Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. </ul> In addition, the following people have been nominated as new directors: <ul> System Message: ERROR/3 (<string>, line 85) Unexpected indentation. <li>Brett Cannon</li> <li>David Goodger</li> System Message: WARNING/2 (<string>, line 87) Block qu...

• 2009-04-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...ing Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors April 13, 2009 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:02 UTC, 13 April 2009. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1   Attendance 2   Minutes of Past Meetings 3   Votes Taken Between Meetings 4 &...

• Python Success Stories

  ...in a huge amount of sample data fit for testing the Word content inserter. Problems with the Inserter The first version of the content inserter was based on principles demonstrated in Python Programming on Win32, which contains a detailed description of how Python can create and manipulate Word documents with the Word 97 COM object model. This implementation inserted the content into Word documents by driving Word directly through its COM interface. Unfortunately, the COM interface was much t...

• 2008-04-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...ing Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors April 14, 2008 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 14 April 2008. Steve Holden 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 ...

• 2010-03-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...ing Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors March 8, 2010 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 17:08 UTC, 8 March 2010. 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 opposed, ...

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