Notice: While JavaScript is not essential for this website, your interaction with the content will be limited. Please turn JavaScript on for the full experience.

Search Python.org

Results

  • 2013-12-06 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...all: I will want to send an email to all of the sponsors making sure they received reg info and booth info. In this email I will include the forms from the Palais. Convention Center Management: work on lunch setup Expo Hall: Create a page on the pycon site for all signed up sponsors to see sponsor kit, deadlines, and ad requirements. Budgeting: I am going to contact all outstanding balances from 2013 sponsors. Ongoing Projects Financial Aid planning 2016/2017 RFPs: Received word that Portl...

  • Release – Python install manager 25.1 beta 1

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 27, 2025

    The Python install manager for Windows is our tool for installing and managing runtimes. The traditional executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16 This is a beta release of the next update. Provide feedback at python/pymanager on GitHub. You should uninstall your existing Python install manager before installing …

  • Release – Python install manager 25.1 beta 2

    Version: None

    Released: Nov. 14, 2025

    The Python install manager for Windows is our tool for installing and managing runtimes. The traditional executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16 This is a beta release of the next update. Provide feedback at python/pymanager on GitHub. You should uninstall your existing Python install manager before installing …

  • Conversion to Emeritus PSF Membership

    ...allot. Some decisions require a two-thirds majority vote of all members. PSF members who are inactive make achieving quorum less likely, and may make two-thirds majority votes impossible. To convert to emeritus status, please fill out the blanks below and send a copy to the PSF. The form may be sent by email to: psf at python.org or faxed to: +1 858 712 8966 or mailed to: Python Software Foundation 9450 SW Gemini Dr. ECM# 90772 Beaverton, OR 97008 USA Thank you! I, __________________...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (April 8, 2003)

    ...all documents from Jeremy, and a procedure to give him access to the PSF maildrop will be established. Jeremy moves to appoint Neal as the treasurer. Motion passes with 7 ayes. The board thanks Neal for volunteering. 4. Grant proposals Jeremy reports that several PSF members (Michael McLay, Keven Altis, Aron Traurin, Dan Moore) have been suggested that the PSF applies for grants for Python development. Possible sponsors are the Mellon Foundation, Intel, and DARPA. Board members ask how the mon...

  • Release – Python 3.3.7rc1

    Version: None

    Released: Sept. 6, 2017

    This is a security-fix source-only release. The last binary release was 3.3.5. This is the release candidate of Python 3.3.7. Python 3.3.0 was released on 2012-09-29 and has been in security-fix-only mode since 2014-03-08. Per Python Development policy, all support for the 3.3 series of releases ends on 2017-09-29 …

    View Release Notes

  • Release – Python 3.3.7

    Version: None

    Released: Sept. 19, 2017

    Python 3.3.x has reached end-of-life. This is its final release. It is a security-fix source-only release. Python 3.3.0 was released on 2012-09-29 and has been in security-fix-only mode since 2014-03-08. Per Python Development policy, all support for the 3.3 series of releases ended on 2017-09-29, five years after the …

    View Release Notes

  • Release – Python 3.12.0a3

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 6, 2022

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.12. Major new features of the 3.12 series, compared to 3.11 Python 3.12 is still in development. This release, 3.12.0a3 is the second of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state …

  • FSF response to the Python 2.1 license

    ...allowed a license with a choice-of-law clause to be treated as fully compatible with GPL. Virginia is the worst of all choices, because that state has passed the UCITA law, which adds a whole new range of risks and burdens in the distribution of free software. We explained all this to CNRI, but it was the other subject on which they were immovable. So we settled for a clause that specifically exempted any GPL'd code in Python from that clause, except as it applied to the warranty dis...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 13-Feb-2003

    ...all wrote perfect documentation all of the time, code can hardly be considered reusable if it's not readable." Python is also extremely portable. There are currently identical versions available for nearly every computing platform, major and obscure, from PDAs to mainframes. Python is also an open-source platform, which encourages sharing of ideas and code. These characteristics make Python an excellent choice for enterprise application integration, large-scale web development, Web service...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 9-Feb-2004

    ...all types, from newbies to veterans, to exchange ideas, work on code, discuss future directions for the language, and in general to foster the continued success and growth of the Python technology base. This is a community-oriented conference and the Python community includes everyone, from grade schoolers just learning about computer science, to renowned scientists interested in using the best tools, to business people looking for a secret weapon," said Guido van Rossum, creator of Pytho...

  • 2013-06-28 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...all via phone and Internet Relay Chat beginning at 18:00 CEST/ 12:00 EDT, on June 28 2013. Van Lindberg presided over the meeting. Ewa Jodlowska prepared the minutes. All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor-Y‚opposed-N‚abstentions-A; e.g. "5-1-2" means "5 in favor, 1 opposed, and 2 abstentions"). Contents 1   Attendance 2   Minutes of Past Meetings 3   Votes Taken Between Meetings 4   Vot...

  • Python 1.6.1

    ...aller no longer runs a separate Tcl/Tk installer; instead, it installs the needed Tcl/Tk files directly in the Python directory. If you already have a Tcl/Tk installation, this wastes some disk space (about 4 Megs) but avoids problems with conflicting Tcl/Tk installations, and makes it much easier for Python to ensure that Tcl/Tk can find all its files. Note: the alpha installers don't include the documentation. The Windows installer now installs by default in Python16on the default volume, in...

  • None

    ...all you need to do to identify changes is to check the differences between the revision that was translated and the current revision of the file.

  • Standard Exception Classes in Python 1.5

    ...ally show up in the standard exceptions; the builtin module expects the current hierarchy as defined in exceptions.py. Details on the standard exception classes are available in the Python library reference manual's entry for the exceptions module. Changes to raise The raise statement has been extended to allow raising a class exception without explicit instantiation. The following forms, called the "compatibility forms" of the raise statement, are allowed: raise excep...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (September 13, 2005)

    ...ally care that much about voting, or even shouldn't really be part of the voting core of the PSF." All donors are listed together; there's no clear distinction (no logo displayed, for example) between $20,000 donors and $10 donors. After some discussion, the issue was tabled for now. S. Deibel will add to the agenda of a future meeting, and may begin discussions via email before that. 5   PyCon 2006 Sponsorship S. Holden asked for support in seeking larger sponsorship con...

  • 2010-10-18 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...alls to take the idea forward." 5.5   PyCon US Website D. Napoleone, PyCon US Website Project, says that the new website for 2011 has been launched and that calls for proposals, tutorials, and posters are currently being accepted:"The website us.pycon.org/2011 is live with complete information, including sponsorship, and blog integration on planet python. Calls for proposals, tutorials and posters have been sent out and the website is now accepting all three. The revie...

  • Python Community

    ...All Mailing Lists (to start a new list, send e-mail to postmaster(at)python.org) Python Wikis Planet Python Local User Groups Event Calendar Training Classes Writers/Editors

  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.1.1

    ...All you need to do to build a binary package tailored to your system is run <pre> rpm --rebuild &lt;packagename>.src.rpm</pre>

  • PSF Contributor Agreement for Jython

    ...all have the irrevocable and perpetual right to make and distribute copies of any Contribution, as well as to create and distribute collective works and derivative works of any Contribution, under the Initial License or under any other open source license approved by a unanimous vote of the PSF board. Contributor shall identify each Contribution by placing the following notice in its source code adjacent to Contributor's valid copyright notice: "Licensed to PSF under a Contributor Agreem...

Python language documentation

If you didn't find what you need, try your search in the Python language documentation.