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  • What's new in Python 2.3

    What's new in Python 2.3 What's new in Python 2.3 Here are the (subjective) highlights of what's new in Python 2.3. Faster According to a couple of simple benchmark, Python 2.3 is about 20-30% faster than Python 2.2.3. Some of this speed-up was obtained by removing the SET_LINENO opcodes, which means that the difference is less impressive when comparing "python -O"; the rest was various careful tune-ups. New Tools A brand new version of IDLE (from the IDLEfork project at S...

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

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, December 13, 2005 The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors December 13, 2005 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 18:04 UTC, 13 December 2005. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. 1   Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were present at the ...

  • 2011-04-18 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2011-04-18 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors April 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 April 2011. 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 &qu...

  • PSF Board Resolutions

    ...lists and the PSF’s email traffic. Approved, 11-0-0, 2022-06-07 RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation award the 2022 Q1 Community Service Award to John Hawley, Matthew Lagoe and James Lopeman, for their many years of volunteering on behalf of the PSF to support students and their mentors working on Python projects via Google Summer of Code. Approved, 11-0-0, 2022-06-07 RESOLVED, that the Executive Director of the PSF is authorized to sign individual annual expense contracts on behalf o...

  • What's New In Python 3.0

    ...lists() 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 when they appear in the same code unit. Issue #2025: Added tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply with the collections.Sequence API. Fixed multipl...

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

    Python Software Foundation Board Meeting Minutes 2006-03-13 The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors March 13, 2006 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 18:00 UTC, 13 March 2006. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. 1   Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were present at the meeting: Stephan Deibel, David ...

  • 2007-06-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2007-06-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors June 11, 2007 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 17:07 UTC, 11 June 2007. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1   Attendance 2   Minutes of Past Meetings 3   Status of Pa...

  • 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

    2009-05-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors May 11, 2009 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:01 UTC, 11 May 2009. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. Pat Campbell and David Goodger prepared these minutes. All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor – opposed – abstentions; e.g. "5-1-...

  • 2013-12-06 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: I continue to collect agreements coming through EchoSign and marking them in bug tracker. PSF Infrastructure: the new VM host is up, spec?ed out PyPI on public cloud, worked on static fallback for PyPI, wrapping up new PyPI infrastructure, looking to deploy testpypi.python.org on new infr. ASAP, fixing PyP...

  • Release – Python 3.11.0a1

    Version: None

    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

    Version: None

    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

    Version: None

    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)

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (January 14, 2003) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors January 14, 2003. A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 13:08 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 were present...

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

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (March 25, 2005) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Special Meeting of the Board of Directors March 25, 2005 A special meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held at George Washington University on March 25 at noon. Stephan Deibel presided. Jeremy Hylton recorded the minutes. 1. Attendance A quorum was present. All board members and treasurer Neal Norwitz attended the meeti...

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

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (May 10, 2005) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors May 10, 2005 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 17:00 GMT. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. 1. Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were present at the meeting: David Ascher, Stephan Deibel, Tim Peters, Andrew K...

  • Release – Python 2.3.5

    Version: None

    Released: Feb. 8, 2005

    Python 2.3.5 (final) on Feb 8th, 2005. This is a bug-fix release for Python 2.3. There have been around 50 bugs fixed since 2.3.4 - in the Python interpreter, the standard library and also in the build process - see the release notes for details. Important: This release …

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