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  • 2010-09-20 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...inks P. Campbell, Honorary Associate Membership (HAM) WebPages Start-up Project, currently working on providing new web pages & links to the official Python web site regarding the new Honorary Associate Membership to provide the webpage reader with some insights into how to go about gaining their HAM membership into the PSF organization. 5.4   Marketing Material M.A. Lemburg, Marketing Material Project, is meeting with contacts, working on writing a proposal for board consid...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...intained these dependencies manually with a set of 'if' statements that specified which prediction routines should be called, and in which order, during execution of an analysis. In this approach, adding new dependencies soon led to a combinatorial nightmare. To solve this problem in Python, we developed a simple rule base which acts like a Python dictionary. It contains a data cache and a mapping from property name to prediction function. If a requested property name (the dictionary key) is in ...

  • PSF Fellow Membership

    ...inating, organizing, teaching, writing, and evangelizing, the following statement should be true: Nominated Person has served the Python community through extraordinary efforts in organizing Python events, publicly promoting Python, and teaching and coordinating others. Nominated Person's efforts have shown leadership and resulted in long-lasting and substantial gains in the number and quality of Python users, and have been widely recognized as being above and beyond normal volunteering. If so...

  • Notes

    ...ingle factory function, xreadlines(). The intention is that this code is the absolutely fastest way to iterate over all lines in an open file(-like) object: import xreadlines for line in xreadlines.xreadlines(file): ...do something to line... This is equivalent to the previous the speed record holder using file.readlines(sizehint). Note that if file is a real file object (as opposed to a file-like object), this is equivalent: for line in file.xreadlines(): ...do something to line......

  • 2007-08-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...ighlighted in the minutes (Section 3, Status of Past Action Items): Originally from October 2005, Section 4, Public Support Committee: D. Goodger will pursue web page and installer donation link ideas. Status: carried forward. Originally from June 2006, Section 6, PSF Records: The Board agreed to assemble the existing records in one place, have them scanned, and enter them into the PSF data repository. D. Goodger will coordinate this work and maintain the records. Status: in progress. Origina...

  • Python 1.6.1

    ...icode object, this is converted to an 8-bit string. Unicode string comparisons is no longer aware of UTF-16 encoding peculiarities; it's a straight 16-bit compare. The Windows installer now installs the LICENSE file and no longer registers the Python DLL version in the registry (this is no longer needed). It now uses Tcl/Tk 8.3.2. A few portability problems have been fixed, in particular a compilation error involving socklen_t. The PC configuration is slightly friendlier to non-Microsoft compil...

  • July 2010 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes (draft)

    ...ing. 4   New Business New business discussions during the members' meeting revolved around the following subject matter: Interest in having regular PSF member meetings at EuroPython There was definitively interest in having PSF member meetings at EuroPython, so we will try to have regular meetings in the future. Increasing awareness for the PSF in Europe This was briefly discussed. I mentioned the project for creation of Python marketing material, a project that is still in...

  • Python Software Foundation Board Meeting Minutes 2006-08-14

    ...python.org/psf/mission, be revised as follows, to take effect on August 20, 2006. Revise the first paragraph, replacing: It intends to qualify under the US Internal Revenue Code as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) scientific and educational public charity, and will conduct its business according to the rules for such organizations. with: It qualifies under the US Internal Revenue Code as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) scientific and educational public charity, and conducts its business according to the rules ...

  • Python 2.4.1 - Release Notes

    ...ixed in the installer (disabled Wise's "delete in- use files" uninstall option). Fixed a bug in urllib's proxy handling in Windows. [SF bug #503031] The installer now installs Start menu shortcuts under (the local equivalent of) "All Users" when doing an Admin install. file.truncate([newsize]) now works on Windows for all newsize values. It used to fail if newsize didn't fit in 32 bits, reflecting a limitation of MS _chsize (which is no longer used). os.waitpid() is now ...

  • Notes

    ...ixed in the installer (disabled Wise's "delete in- use files" uninstall option). Fixed a bug in urllib's proxy handling in Windows. [SF bug #503031] The installer now installs Start menu shortcuts under (the local equivalent of) "All Users" when doing an Admin install. file.truncate([newsize]) now works on Windows for all newsize values. It used to fail if newsize didn't fit in 32 bits, reflecting a limitation of MS _chsize (which is no longer used). os.waitpid() is now ...

  • 2010-03-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...ion items appear like this.) Action items are tracked in the private PSF wiki and their status is recorded in the regular minutes. The numbers in square brackets (like "[0]") refer to the action item ID on the wiki. 4.1   Carried Forward The following are action items carried forward from the 11 January 2010 meeting, as highlighted in the minutes (Section 4, Status of Past Action Items). Numbers in [brackets] represent the item ID in the PSF private wiki. [11] Origin...

  • Python Software Foundation Board Meeting Minutes 2006-06-12

    ...itive actions to take to move Python forward. 3.3   Carried Forward The following are action items carried forward from the 10 April 2006 meeting, as highlighted in the minutes (Section 3, Status of Past Action Items): Originally from October 2005, Section 4, Public Support Committee: D. Goodger will pursue web page and installer donation link ideas. Status: carried forward. Originally from October 2005, Section 5, Ubuntu Development Meeting: Add "swag for events" ...

  • 2006-11-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...ion Items (Pending action items appear like this.) 3.1   Carried Forward The following are action items carried forward from the 9 October 2006 meeting, as highlighted in the minutes (Section 3, Status of Past Action Items): Originally from October 2005, Section 4, Public Support Committee: D. Goodger will pursue web page and installer donation link ideas. Status: carried forward. Originally from October 2005, Section 5, Ubuntu Development Meeting: Add "swag for events&quo...

  • 2012-01-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...ignup pages is preliminary and needs improvement. I'm looking for help here! Continuing work on a front page with Associate Member sign-up information. Decide how to present the HAM Membership to the world, probably via a python.org link. Working on access control issues. This project didn't get as much attention in December as I had hoped, due to the year end accounting activity. However, we were able to bring the Boston Python donation page online. At this point the CiviCRM installation at p...

  • Towards a Standard Parser Generator

    ...isambiguation rules specify that in */para, the asterisk has its wildcard meaning, whereas in 3 * 5, it indicates multiplication. Likewise, in para[last()], last is a function call, whereas in last[1] it is an element name. The disambiguation rules are necessary for XPath to avoid the definition of keywords, since all identifiers (NCNames) should be allowed as XML element and attribute names. Since the XPath disambiguation operates on lexical context, it does not easily fit into sca...

  • PSF Community Service Awards

    ...ials, and in regional PyCon organizing. April 2025 Q1 2025 Community Service Award was given to Jay Miller for his service to the global Python community in improving the community’s diversity, inclusion, and equity through founding and sustaining Black Python Devs. Q1 2025 Community Service Award was given to Matt Lebrun & Micaela Reyes for building, growing and sustaining the Python community in the Philippines, including through organising conferences, meetups, and volunteer training ...

  • Python 2.6.8 license

    ...ight notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of Stichting Mathematisch Centrum or CWI not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. STICHTING MATHEMATISCH CENTRUM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL STICHTING MATHEMATISCH CENTRUM BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIR...

  • Python 2.6.9 license

    ...ight notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of Stichting Mathematisch Centrum or CWI not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. STICHTING MATHEMATISCH CENTRUM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL STICHTING MATHEMATISCH CENTRUM BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIR...

  • 2012-02-27 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...I hope that you'll all enjoy the conference. If you find people interested in the brochure, please feel free to direct them to the website or via email to brochure at getpython.info. Meanwhile, we're still getting new success stories - which is good, since we are actively collecting them in our tracker with the aim of putting them online after the first edition has been released and plan on using them for the second edition. If you know possible sponsors or are interested in sponsoring the broch...

  • Proposed PSF Bylaws Prior for March 2009 Members' Meeting

    ...ise, in defending any civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding, shall be paid by the corporation in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such person to repay such amount if it is ultimately determined that he or she is not entitled under applicable law to be indemnified by the corporation. Section 12.3. Right of Claimant to Bring Suit. If a claim under this Article is not paid in f...

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