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  • 2007 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes

    ...list, to other lists, and to the PSF blog. We had a good response, with 4 new candidates stepping forward, in addition to the 8 incumbents. We have a total of 12 candidates for Director this year, but currently the Board is limited to 8 Directors. As Tim Peters put it, "the bigger the board, the more gets done." This motion aims to increase the limit on the number of Directors going forward. We learned in the past that it's better to expand the Board than to miss out on offers of he...

  • What's new in Python 2.3

    ...list of objects directly referenced by an object. (New in 2.3b1.) dict.pop() - now takes an optional argument specifying a default value to return if the key is not in the dict. (New in 2.3b1.) list.insert(i, x) now interprets negative i as it would be interpreted by slicing, so negative values count from the end of the list. (New in 2.3b1.) As of 2.3b2, list.index() now accepts optional start and end arguments. New-style classes that don't define __new__ or __init__ no longer ignore constru...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, December 13, 2005

    ...list. D. Goodger suggested that the PSF board set a deadline, to push from our end, and not wait on Tim. A. Kuchling agreed, suggesting it might also stir the pydotorg list participants into action. S. Deibel remarked that it would be great to have the site up and running, but it seems like time is short and there are probably a lot of snags. D. Goodger replied that we "won't know if we don't try ... let's get it off Tim's plate and onto ours". S. Deibel agreed. S. Holden remarked t...

  • 2011-04-18 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...list one week prior to this month's meeting. Please see a summary of each board report listed below and a possible board discussion at the end of the report(s): 5.1   Communication Status D. Hellmann, Communication Officer, reported continued activities from last month, by saying: Paulo Nuin finished the post on the email project. http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/04/psf-grant-funds-porting-work-for-email.html Announced grant to fund Python Miro Community. http://pyfound.blogsp...

  • PSF Board Resolutions

    ...list actions to further support the Python Software Foundation bylaws, improve governance, and provide greater transparency for the membership: RESOLVE to retire psf-members mailing list where the psf-members mailing list will be locked for new posts and new subscribers and the psf-members archives will be open to list subscribers as of July 9, 2015 RESOLVE to create a new psf-vote mailing list where all Python Software Foundation membership classes with voting rights granted by the Python Sof...

  • What's New In Python 3.0

    ...list was not freed on interpreter shutdown. Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256 entries each. Patch #1953: Added sys._compact_freelists() and the C API functions PyInt_CompactFreeList and PyFloat_CompactFreeList to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats. Bug #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty() calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie returns pi_t. Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j w...

  • Python Software Foundation Board Meeting Minutes 2006-03-13

    ...list. Status: done Originally from November 2005, Section 8, Trademark Policy: D. Ascher will probably work with ActiveState's legal person on trademark policy. Status: carried forward. Originally from December 2005, Section 4, Python.org Redesign: S. Holden said that he would be responsible for making sure that documentation is available for the new python.org system. Status: done, although we still need better docs. Originally from December 2005, Section 6, PSF Member Meeting: J. Hylton ple...

  • 2007-06-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...list. Status: carried forward. 3.2   New in May These action items originated at the 15 May 2007 board meeting on IRC. Section 4, Frank Willison Award: D. Goodger will coordinate the selection of the 2007 recipient of the Frank Willison Award. D. Goodger reported that he is currently gathering candidates; several have been nominated. He will discuss them over email this week. Status: in progress. Section 4, Frank Willison Award: D. Goodger will set up a page on www.python.o...

  • 2013-08-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...lists also making sure emails are being answered/followed up on. I am continuing to read through all of the email threads that occur on the board/members mailing lists. Contributor Agreements collecting agreements coming through EchoSign and marking them in bug tracker. Documentation Upkeep and Wiki working on helping with the 2013 PSF Budget and keeping it up to date Other Conferences Please see the Event Coordinator Report for the detail. 5.3   Sprints Comm...

  • 2009-05-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...List and Repository Access to PSF Administrator The Board discussed adding the PSF Administrator to the Board mailing list in order for her to be informed of Board deliberations and to therefore prepare the monthly Board meeting minutes. Also, PSF Administrator access to the Repository was discussed. After speaking with V. Lindberg, S. Holden reported that there should be no legal problem. [65] S. Holden will initiate further discussion via email about adding the PSF Administrator to the Board ...

  • 2013-12-06 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...list of sponsors to CTE. I will continue to send an updated sponsor list to CTE about once a week until the conference. Expo Hall: I have planned and finalized a new floor plan for the expo. Attendee Registration: I received the web app from CTE to create registration promo codes and I have created and sent out the codes that were requested. Planned for Next Month Attendee Reg: Work with CTE to get the tutorial registrations up and work with Caktus to get the conference program out PyCon d...

  • Release – Python 3.11.0a1

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    Released: Oct. 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, 3.11.0a1 is the first of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the …

  • Release – Python 3.11.0a4

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    Released: Jan. 14, 2022

    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, 3.11.0a4 is the fourth of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the …

  • Release – Python 3.8.19

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    Released: March 19, 2024

    This is a security release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.19, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.12 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.12.x here. Security content …

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  • Release – Python 3.9.19

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    Released: March 19, 2024

    This is a security release of Python 3.9 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.9.19, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.9 series. Python 3.12 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.12.x here. Security content …

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  • Release – Python 3.9.25

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    Released: Oct. 31, 2025

    This is a security release of Python 3.9 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.9.25, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.9 series. Python 3.14 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.14.x here. Security content …

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  • Python 2.1

    ...lists of what was new in each alpha, beta or candidate release. Download Windows users should download Python-2.1.exe, the Windows installer, 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 a...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (January 14, 2003)

    ...list for a volunteer to take over his duties. 7. PyCon conference status Steve Holden reported that there were 27 submissions at this point, most credible. There is a lack of "buzz" around PyCon planning. There was general agreement that the price structure should be: $150 for early bird registration (at least 4 weeks before the conference) $200 for regular registration (up to 1 day before the conference) $250 for on-site registration Steve Holden was glad to learn that the PSF...

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

    ...list of specific questions about the current contributor agreement. We will not have a member meeting at EuroPython, because Van Rossum is the only officer or director who is going to attend. We will arrange a social or informational event there. Kuchling plans to improve the gender diversity of PyCon presenters and attendees for next year. Hylton will look at improving diversity in the broader Python / PSF community. Ascher will take the lead on developing a trademark policy for the PSF. 5...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (May 10, 2005)

    ...list whether there are any volunteers that need support. 5. Grants committee von Löwis reported that Brian Zimmer had to withdraw from the grant, because of changes in employment. The board agreed to pay that work that was done up to that point. 6. Other business A number of other things would need to be discussed. Because the meeting was running out of time, they were deferred to email or to the next meeting. 7. Adjournment. The meeting was adjourned at 19:05 GMT.

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