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  • t1python - A Type1 Font Renderer for Python

    ...allows for use of the fonts with PIL's ImageDraw class. Release 0.9.1 After not keeping with the 0.8 or 0.9 releases of t1lib, t1python will return shortly after the release of t1lib 0.9.1; expect it to arrive in early July (1999). It will be available from this page, and will contain support for all the new functions in t1lib, including the outline support. I plan on producing new documentation after the release is ...

  • Python 2.1

    ...aller, from one of the download locations below, run it, and follow the friendly instructions on the screen to complete the installation. (Python-2.1-Debug.zip is a set of DLLs for Windows developers compiled in debug mode; it contains nothing of value for regular Python users.) After downloading and installing Python 2.1 for Windows, you may also want to download and install win32all, an add-on with many Windows-specic modules (e.g. COM support), plus an alternative development enviro...

  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.1.2

    ...All you need to do to build a binary package tailored to your system is run <pre> rpm --rebuild &lt;packagename>.src.rpm</pre> Note: this does not actually install &lt;packagename&gt;. The end products (.rpm files as indicated by the "Wrote:" stdout lines) must be subsequently installed with rpm -U or the equivalent.

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (March 26, 2004)

    ...All appointments were unanimous. The treasurer and secretary are both looking for help with their work. The Board expressed interest in appointing an assistant treasurer or assistant secretary to involve more people in these tasks. 3. Committee charters The Board voted unanimously to re-appoint the Python Conference Committee and the Public Support Committee. (There was some discussion about whether any action was necessary; regardless of the need, it seemed appropriate.) Marc-Andre Lembur...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (March 25, 2005)

    ...All board members and treasurer Neal Norwitz attended the meeting. David Ascher arrived late, because he was not informed of the meeting in advance. 2. Appointment of officers The board appointed officers by unanimous vote. The officers are: Stephan Deibel, chairman of the board Guido van Rossum, president Neal Norwitz, treasurer Kurt Kaiser, assistant treasurer Jeremy Hylton, secretary The board asked Hylton to appoint an assistant secretary and to avoid taking on tasks unless ...

  • Python Software Foundation GitHub Organization

    ...all other users of the web site an irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive license to reproduce, distribute, transmit, display, perform, and publish such content, on an unrestricted basis for any purpose,including in digital form. Third party content providers represent and warrant that they have obtained the proper governmental authorizations for the export and reexport of any software or other content contributed to the organization by the third-party content provider, and further a...

  • Become a Member of the PSF

    ...all eligible to vote in PSF Board Elections. 1. Sign up as a Supporting Member here! Supporting Members donate an annual membership fee of $99 to the PSF to sustain the Foundation and support the Python community. We have also introduced a sliding scale rate for Supporting Membership, which you can sign up for here. Your support is crucial to the PSF's ability to do our work making Python available and supporting our community. More details are available on our Supporting Membership page. 2. Sel...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...all the required coding and was a programming language that I enjoyed using. I was not entirely confident about some parts of the task, especially building a graphical user interface, but decided to face my fears, trusting to Python's maturity, powerful libraries, and third-party support. The SPE editor together with Python's interpreted nature proved especially valuable. Screen shot of the eBukal messaging configuration user interface, based on wxPython After some trial and error I settled ...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...ally on the recommendation of a friend, Steve Madere, who had founded Dejanews.com (now a part of Google). Describing the rationale for his choice, Curt said "I looked at Java and C and came to the conclusion that 1 line of Python is 10 lines of Java or 100 lines of C. Developers write code at basically a constant rate so I chose Python which was (and is) the highest level language I've ever seen that is also flexible enough to be generally useful." Architecture From the beginning, T...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...alled LIN-Plan, within three months. The tool was initially built for a first-time customer and is now generally available. It will soon see its second release. Tools not Written in Python The good experiences with the Python-based tools are confirmed by other projects originally coded in C++. The development of TTP-Load, the download tool, started in 1999. We decided to write this tool in C++ because the tool had to use a low-level Ethernet driver in order to communicate with an Ethernet-...

  • Python Distutils-SIG: Proposed User Interface

    ...all Copy .py, .pyc, and .pyo files into the shared installation directory (which would default to the site-specific area of the Python system library tree); copy dynamic libraries (shared objects or DLLs) to the architecture-specific installation directory; copy processed documentation (man pages, Info files, whatever) to the documentation installation directory. (Perhaps this should be split up into install_py, install_extensions, ...

  • Python Documentation Index

    ...ally found it, I was a bit overwhelmed and so far have not yet found the time to update the article.) Proposed Improvements to Module Cleanup A revised version of the proposal I posted to comp.lang.python on Feb 6, 1998. This has been adopted in Python 1.5.1. Open Source Summit Trip Report My trip report of O'Reilly's Open Source Summit, essentially as posted on c.l.p. This version published in the Linux Gazette (it's an external link), in their May 1998 issue. Debugging Reference Count Pro...

  • Comparing Python to Other Languages

    ...alltalk Perhaps the biggest difference between Python and Smalltalk is Python's more "mainstream" syntax, which gives it a leg up on programmer training. Like Smalltalk, Python has dynamic typing and binding, and everything in Python is an object. However, Python distinguishes built-in object types from user-defined classes, and currently doesn't allow inheritance from built-in types. Smalltalk's standard library of collection data types is more refined, while Python's library has more...

  • 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 features and bug fixes …

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  • Python Success Stories

    ...ally typed language. For expressive power, we wanted a high-level object-oriented language. Speed of development, not application runtime speed, was most critical for us. Python is a very productive way to write code. Support for Selective Optimization: We knew there was a chance that profiling would later reveal that small portions of our application were time-critical, and therefore might need to be re-coded in C or C++. Python integrates seamlessly with these languages, so you truly can "...

  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.4

    ...all these packages. Q) I'm trying to build the RPMS, but I get: RPM build errors: File not found by glob: /var/tmp/python2.4-2.4-root/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/_tkinter.so* A) You need to have the Tk development package installed. This package is usually called "tk-devel", and can be obtained from the same place that you normally find packages for your system. You may also need to install the "tcl-devel" package, if your distribution includ...

  • 2010-11-15 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...allation tools. The main idea is to make all PyPI static content available via Amazon Cloudfront, a content delivery network maintained by Amazon." MAL hopes to get his project started by December 2010. He would also like to start recruiting for volunteers to help implement the startup facets of the project. 5.6   PyCon US Website D. Napoleone, PyCon US Website Project, reports that the call for proposals, tutorials, and posters was very successful: "The call for parti...

  • 2009-03-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...ally 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 affiliation program [ref. July 2008 section 8]. Ready for member vote after incorporation of attorney comments. Status: in progress. [23] Originally from 14 April 2008, Section 5, Treasurer's Report: S. Holden will assist K. Kaiser with accounts receivable reminders. Status: in progress. [15] Originally from 14 April 2008, Section 7,...

  • EDU-SIG: Python in Education

    ...ally version 3.4, if you can, making use of the growing number of third-party libraries available for it. This is especially true if you plan to teach Python as an introductory language (say in a CS-1 course), since Python 3 is the future of Python. Also, if you teach Python in languages other than English, where non-ascii characters could be put to good use in writing identifiers, then Python 3 should definitely be your choice. Use Python 2, and more specifically version 2.7, if you need third-...

  • Release – Python 3.11.0a2

    Version: None

    Released: Nov. 5, 2021

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.11 Major new features of the 3.11 series, compared to 3.10 Python 3.11 is still in development. This release, 3.11.0a2 is the second of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of …

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