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  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (October 8, 2002)

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (October 8, 2002) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors October 8, 2002. A regular regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 1:05 pm EST. Guido van Rossum, president of the Foundation and chairman of the Board, presided at the meeting. 1. Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors we...

  • comp.lang.python.announce Posting Guidelines

    comp.lang.python.announce Posting Guidelines comp.lang.python.announce comp.lang.python.announce The comp.lang.python.announce newsgroup (or c.l.py.a for short) has been created in early 1998 as a companion newsgroup for comp.lang.python focused on Python-related announcements. The newsgroup charter is as follows: comp.lang.python.announce is a moderated, low-volume newsgroup for announcements regarding the Python programming language, including: new releases of the core distribution and con...

  • Release – Python 3.13.0b4

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    Released: July 17, 2024

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is still in development. This release, 3.13.0b4, is the final beta release preview of 3.13. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their …

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  • Release – Python 3.13.4

    Version: None

    Released: June 3, 2025

    This is the fourth maintenance release of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations compared to Python 3.12. 3.13.4 is the latest maintenance release, containing a few important security fixes as well as around …

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  • Release – Python 3.13.11

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 5, 2025

    This is the eleventh maintenance release of Python 3.13 Note: This is Python 3.13.11, a maintenance release for Python 3.13. Python 3.14 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.14.x here. Python 3.13.11 is the eleventh maintenance release of …

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  • Foreword for "Programming Python" (2nd ed.)

    Foreword for "Programming Python" (2nd ed.) Foreword for "Programming Python" (2nd ed.) This is the foreword I wrote for Mark Lutz' book "Programming Python" (2nd ed.), published by O'Reilly in 2001. Less than five years ago, I wrote the foreword for the 1st edition of Programming Python. Since then, the book has changed about as much as the language and the Python community! I no longer feel the need to defend Python: the statistics and developments listed in Mark's ...

  • Python Software Foundation Board Meeting Minutes 2006-07-10

    Python Software Foundation Board Meeting Minutes 2006-07-10 The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors July 10, 2006 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 17:00 UTC, 10 July 2006. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1   Attendance 2   Minutes of Past Meetings 3 &nb...

  • 2010-06-21 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2010-06-21 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors June 21, 2010 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:03 UTC, 21 June 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 "...

  • 2012-08-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2012-08-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors August 8, 2012 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Group Conference Call via phone and Internet Relay Chat beginning at 18:00 CEST/ 12:00 EDT, on August 8 2012. Van Lindberg presided over the meeting. Ewa Jodlowska prepared the minutes. All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor=Y‚op...

  • Notes

    Notes (editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.) What's New in Python 2.3.5? Release date: 08-FEB-2005 Core and builtins Partially revert the fix for #1074011; don't try to fflush stdin anymore. Library Applied a security fix to SimpleXMLRPCserver (PSF-2005-001). This disables recursive traversal through instance attributes, which can be exploited in various ways. Bug #1114776. Applied a fix to the copy.py fix in 2.3.5rc1 to deal with types that don't hav...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction This article shows how I integrated Python, COM, DocBook, OpenJade, and Word together to create a documentation tool for BEACON, a visual programming environment. This documentation tool was used for code reviews in the software development methodology at my company, and led to significant (>$1M) in cost savings. Before starting this project, I had no prior experience using SGML, XML, or other document markup languages. It was only when I was perilously ...

  • 2007 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes

    2007 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of the 2007 Members' Meeting February 23, 2007 The Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") held its annual members' meeting on February 23, 2007 at 19:00 CST (01:00 UTC) in the Marriott Quorum Hotel in Dallas/Addison, Texas, USA (PyCon TX 2007). The agenda is available here. Stephan Deibel presided over the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1   Attendance 2 &...

  • 2011-07-18 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2011-07-18 PSF Board Meeting Minutes .. declare custom role for action items: .. role:: action .. class:: minutes-title | The Python Software Foundation | Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors | | July 18, 2011 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 18 July 2011. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. Pat Campbell prepared the minutes. All votes are reported in the form "*Y-N...

  • 2014-01-31 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2014-01-31 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors January 31, 2014 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Group Conference Call via phone and Internet Relay Chat beginning at 18:00 CET/ 12:00 EST, on January 31, 2014. Van Lindberg presided over the meeting. Ewa Jodlowska prepared the minutes. All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor-...

  • 2010-11-15 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2010-11-15 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors November 15, 2010 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 15 November 2010. David Mertz 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" mea...

  • Release – Python 2.6.3

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    Released: Oct. 2, 2009

    Python 2.6.3 was released on October 2, 2009. Python 2.6 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. Somewhere near 100 bugs have been fixed since the release of Python 2.6.2. The NEWS file lists every change in each alpha, beta, and release candidate of …

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  • Release – Python 3.2.6

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 12, 2014

    This is a security-fix source-only release. The last binary release was 3.2.5. With the 3.2.6 release, and five years after its first release, the Python 3.2 series is now officially retired. All official maintenance for Python 3.2, including security patches, has ended. For ongoing maintenance releases, please see …

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  • Python for Mac OS X

    Python for Mac OS X Python for Mac OS X Python comes pre-installed on Mac OS X so it is easy to start using. However, to take advantage of the latest versions of Python, you will need to download and install newer versions alongside the system ones. The easiest way to do that is to install one of the binary installers for OS X from the Python Download page. Installers are available for the latest Python 3 and Python 2 releases that will work on all Macs that run Mac OS X 10.5 and later. Py...

  • Member meeting at PyCon 2006

    Member meeting at PyCon 2006 <h1>Member meeting at PyCon 2006</h1> <p>The annual PSF member meeting will be at <a href="http://us.pycon.org/TX2006/">PyCon 2006</a> on February 24th, at 5:10 pm, in the Bent Tree room. <h3>Vote</h3> <p>You can vote by <a href="ballot-february-2006">absentee ballot</a> or by <a href="proxy-february-2006">designating a proxy</a>. If you cannot attend the meeting ...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (March 8, 2001)

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (March 8, 2001) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors March 8, 2001 Long Beach, Calif., USA A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "Foundation") Board of Directors was held at the Hilton Long Beach at 2 p.m. Dick Hardt, president of the Foundation, presided at the meeting. 1. Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were presen...

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