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  • 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...

  • PSF Community Partner Program

    ...with this form is for a long-term initiative, that I will re-apply if there are any substantial changes to the initiative's goals, purpose, mission, or leadership. I acknowledge that the PSF Community Partnership being applied for with this form does not explicitly endorse any particular action, feature, or part of the event or initiative. I acknowledge that the PSF Community Partnership being applied for with this form does not constitute the authority for events or initiatives ...

  • 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...

  • Standard Exception Classes in Python 1.5

    ...with the exception to have a particular type (usually string or tuple). With the new scheme, the type is a class and the value is a class instance. For example, the following code will break: try: raise Exception() except: print "Sorry:", sys.exc_type + ":", sys.exc_value because it tries to concatenate the exception type (a class object) with a string. A fix (also for the previous example) would be to write try: raise Exception() except: etype =...

  • Known bugs in Python 2.2

    ...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...

  • 2008-08-11 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]. Include an affiliatio...

  • 2010-05-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...within 90 days of date of receipt or invoice. Late filings will not be processed or refunded, unless prior arrangements have been made with the PSF Board, with a summary sent to psf@python.org. Expenses in non-USD currencies will be refunded in USD at the representative exchange rate as published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as-of the date on the receipt/invoice (http://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/data/param_rms_mth.aspx). Approved, 10-0-0. 11   Exoweb, Ltd. Spon...

  • PSF Community Service Awards

    ...started and has been a consistent source of guidance. He continues to be a member of the Django Software Foundation and has spoken at many PyCons and DjangoCons around the world. December 2020 The Q4 2020 Community Service Award was given to Georgi Ker. Georgi has been instrumental with establishing PyLadies Global, she is also a PyLadies Bangkok organizer, member of the PSF Diversity & Inclusion WG, and an organizer with PyCon Thailand and APAC PyCon. The Q4 2020 Community Service Award...

  • 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 …

  • EDU-SIG: Python in Education

    ...with topics in mathematics. An Interview with Guido van Rossum, by Phil Hugues for the Linux Journal, is a conversation with the creator of Python about an effort to teach Python to non-computer science students. Hackers and Trackers: CP4E and Teaching Math with Python, both by Stephen Figgins, are older articles about the beginning of the Computer Programming for Everybody initiative. SIG administrivia Subscribe to the edu-sig mailing list Browse the edu-sig mailing list archives Send sugge...

  • Frank Willison Memorial Award

    ...with the first implementation of generators and continuations. You can learn more about Stackless from the project's history page and this IBM developerWorks interview with Christian by David Mertz. Christian also co-founded PyPy, an implementation of Python in Python, with Armin Rigo and Holger Krekel. Christian worked on PyPy full time for a period, using EU funding. Later, he worked on the JIT compiler Psyco with Raymond Hettinger to create Psyco V2. Most recently, he has been employed by CCP...

  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.2.1

    ...with "<b>Wrote:</b>". For example: <pre> [...] Finding Provides: (using /usr/lib/rpm/find-provides)... Finding Requires: (using /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires)... PreReq: rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) &lt;= 4.0-1 System Message: ERROR/3 (<string>, line 234) Unexpected indentation. rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) &lt;= 3.0.4-1 System Message: WARNING/2 (<string>, line 235) Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. Requires(rpmlib...

  • 2009-04-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...with the Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration for the next meeting. 6   PyCon Italia We received a funding request from PyCon Italia to help with a $7,000 shortfall in their budget. The PSF sponsored PyCon Italia 2007 & 2008 at 1,500 Euros each. S. Holden: "It's a rather larger conference this year, with Guido [van Rossum] and [Alex] Martelli visiting." RESOLVED, that the PSF support PyCon Italia 2009 with funding of $3,500. Approved, 8-0-0. B. Cannon: &quo...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...with the Popen4 Python standard library call. Post-Processing using Word Automation with PythonCOM The Microsoft Rich Text Format files created by OpenJade are quite attractive in overall appearance. However, they did not conform with many of the corporate level standards for formatted Word documentation files. A local DSSSL stylesheet (Local.DSL) was written to override several of the default DocBook DSSSL settings and bring them into alignment with corporate standards. However, this did not ...

  • 2008-04-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...with accounts receivable reminders. D. Goodger asked that they coordinate with Van Lindberg, who sent out invoices to PyCon sponsors. D. Goodger reported that he will be going over the PyCon hotel bill with CTE this week, but it looks fine. K. Kaiser sent a statement of accounts receivable to the Board mailing list. 6   PyCon 2009 Venue D. Goodger reported that there are two options for larger venues for PyCon 2009, as he emailed previously. RESOLVED, that the PyCon chairman be...

  • Python Software Foundation: Vendor Policies

    ...with a US TIN W-8BEN: for foreign individuals without a US TIN W-8BEN-E: for foreign organizations Please contact the PSF accounting team if you have questions about tax documents and we will try to assist you. Tax Withholding for Contractors Domestic Individuals and Organizations Tax Withholding Payments made to domestic individuals and organizations are not subject to tax withholding by the PSF. Form 1099 The PSF issues one Form 1099 per vendor by January 31 of the year after vendor payment...

  • 2009-08-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...with a grant of $750. Approved, 9-0-0. [94] S. Holden will inform the DjangoCon 2009 organizers of the PSF's grant funding of $750 and request an invoice. 10   Discussion of Adopting MatrixMaxx The Board discussed the adoption of a content management system with MatrixGroup. S. Holden: "A. Kuchling, would your employers be happy to support the PSF with a MatrixMaxx account?" A. Kuchling: "My CEO has approved it. I need to check with the technical staff about which...

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