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  • Frank Willison Memorial Award

    Frank Willison Memorial Award Contributions can encompass so much more than code. A successful software community requires time, dedication, communication, and education as well as elegant code. With the Frank Willison Memorial Award, we hoped to acknowledge all of those things. —Tim O'Reilly The Frank Willison Memorial Award for Contributions to the Python Community is given annually to a person judged to have made an outstanding contribution to the Python community. The award was ...

  • Release – Python 2.4.0

    Version: None

    Released: Nov. 30, 2004

    We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.4, final on November 30, 2004. This is a final, stable release, and we can recommend that Python users upgrade to this version. Important: This release is vulnerable to the problem described in …

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  • Python 2.4

    Python 2.4 Python 2.4 Python 2.4 has been replaced by a newer bugfix release. Please see the releases page to select a more recent release. We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.4, final on November 30, 2004. This is a final, stable release, and we can recommend that Python users upgrade to this version. Important: This release is vulnerable to the problem described in security advisory PSF-2006-001 "Buffer overrun in repr() of unicode strings in wide unicode builds (UCS-...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction This is the story of Python at the Philips semiconductor manufacturing facility in Fishkill, NY. This facility, originally built by IBM, was acquired by Philips in 2000. I have been involved with this facility on and off for the past twelve years and was responsible for redesigning substantial portions of the factory tool control software using Python. In the early 1990s, the factory adopted an automation strategy based around Asyst Technology's tool loader...

  • 2010 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes (informal)

    2010 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes (informal) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of the 2010 Members' Meeting February 19, 2010 The Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") held an informal annual members' meeting on February 19, 2010 during lunch at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, USA (PyCon 2010 Atlanta). Steve Holden presided over the meeting. Pat Campbell prepared these minutes. Contents 1   Attendance 2   Greetings &a...

  • Release – Python 2.5.5

    Version: None

    Released: Jan. 31, 2010

    This is a source-only release that only includes security fixes. The last full bug-fix release of Python 2.5 was Python 2.5.4. User are encouraged to upgrade to the latest release of Python 2.7 (which is 2.7.2 …

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  • Job - Senior Ground Software Engineer

    Location: Saratoga, California United States

    E-Space is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Ground Software team. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams to build the mission-critical software that powers our satellite constellation operations. You will develop highly available, highly-scalable backend systems using Python in an API-first, event-driven architecture deployed in the …

  • PSF Membership Types & FAQ

    PSF Membership Types & FAQ The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of the international community of Python programmers. —from the Mission Statement page What does it mean to be a member of the PSF? What membership classes are there? Who is allowed to vote? Why am I a Basic Member even though I’m a Supporting/Contributing/Fellow Member? How does a person become a PS...

  • Unpacking Archives

    Unpacking Archives Downloads available from python.org may be of many different types. The following provides a bit of information about them, and what applications can be used to unpack them. .tar.bz2 These files are TAR archives that have been compressed using the bzip2 application. Most Unix users will want to use these, as they offer the best compression and the tools to work with them are likely already installed. Windows users may want to install the bzip2 tools on their systems as wel...

  • PSF Membership Application for Nominated Member

    PSF Membership Application for Nominated Member To be eligible for membership in the Python Software Foundation as a nominated member, a person must be nominated by a current member of the corporation. A nominated member will be admitted upon receipt of this completed application and a majority vote of the existing members of the corporation. See the PSF Membership FAQ for details. Name: ___________________________________________________ Email: ____________________________________________...

  • Help Fund Python Development and Maintenance

    Help Fund Python Development and Maintenance Donate to Python Development and Maintenance The Python Software Foundation's goal is to increase the support we provide for Python development and maintenance. Through the donation button above, you can financially contribute to this cause. The PSF will use Python development fundraising to support CPython development and maintenance. Additionally, the funds will be used for mission-related sprints, such as the annual core dev...

  • Notes

    Notes Python 2.1.3 Release Notes Release date: 08-April-2002 What's new in Python 2.1.3 (final)? Core Fixed two bugs reported as SF #535905: under certain conditions, deallocating a deeply nested structure could cause a segfault in the garbage collector, due to interaction with the "trashcan" code; access to the current frame during destruction of a local variable could access a pointer to freed memory. SF #457466: popenx() argument mangling hangs python (win9x only). Under certa...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction ProjectPipe is a hosted project management solution developed by Botonomy LLC. It provides everything that you need to manage the full lifecycle of a midsized project. Although it is a hosted browser-based application, ProjectPipe seamlessly integrates with MS Project, Excel, and Word, allowing users to leverage the benefits of ProjectPipe without abandoning the desktop tools that they (and their peers) use and understand. We believe that dependency managem...

  • Python 1.6 License FAQ

    Python 1.6 License FAQ Python 1.6 License FAQ This FAQ addresses questions concerning the CNRI Open Source License and its impact on past and future Python releases. The text below has been approved for posting on the Python website and newsgroup by CNRI's president, Dr. Robert E. Kahn. The old Python license from CWI worked well for almost 10 years. Why a new license for Python 1.6? CNRI claims copyright in Python code and documentation from releases 1.3 through 1.6 inc...

  • Python 1.6 License FAQ

    Python 1.6 License FAQ Python 1.6 License FAQ This FAQ addresses questions concerning the CNRI Open Source License and its impact on past and future Python releases. The text below has been approved for posting on the Python website and newsgroup by CNRI's president, Dr. Robert E. Kahn. The old Python license from CWI worked well for almost 10 years. Why a new license for Python 1.6? CNRI claims copyright in Python code and documentation from releases 1.3 through 1.6 inc...

  • PSF Trademark Usage Policy

    PSF Trademark Usage Policy PSF Trademark Policy and Guidelines In case you have questions regarding our trademark policy, please check our PSF Trademark FAQ or contact the PSF Trademarks Committee for help. Introduction This document outlines the policy of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") regarding the use of its trademarks. Any use of any PSF trademark must be in accordance with this policy. "Python" is a registered trademark of the PSF. The Python logos (in severa...

  • Metaclasses in Python 1.5

    Metaclasses in Python 1.5 Metaclasses in Python 1.5 (A.k.a. The Killer Joke :-) (Postscript: reading this essay is probably not the best way to understand the metaclass hook described here. See a message posted by Vladimir Marangozov which may give a gentler introduction to the matter. You may also want to search Deja News for messages with "metaclass" in the subject posted to comp.lang.python in July and August 1998.) In previous Python releases (and still in 1.5), there ...

  • PSF Contributor Agreement

    PSF Contributor Agreement Contributor Agreement NOTE: The easiest and fastest way to sign a Contributor Agreement with the Python Software Foundation is to do it while you are submitting your first change to a Python-owned repository on GitHub. That's the recommended way as it is fully automated. The Contributor Agreement page you're looking at now is mainly intended for signing Contributor Agreements on behalf of organizations. This form is manually reviewed which takes time to pro...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (March 8, 2005)

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (March 8, 2005) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors March 8, 2005 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 18:00 GMT. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. 1. Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were present at the meeting: Martin v. Löwis, Stephan Deibel, Steve Holden, a...

  • 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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