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  • Summary of "Extension Building" Session

    Summary of "Extension Building" Session "Extension Building Considered Painful": Session Summary by Greg Ward The "Extension Building Considered Painful" session at IPC7 was very productive, and there was a good consensus in the room as to what's needed, what will work for various classes of users, and what ideas to steal from other related systems (the closest being Red Hat's RPM and Perl's MakeMaker). Decisions made Everyone seemed to agree with my p...

  • Standard Exception Classes in Python 1.5

    Standard Exception Classes in Python 1.5 Standard Exception Classes in Python 1.5 (updated for Python 1.5.2 -baw) User-defined Python exceptions can be either strings or Python classes. Since classes have many nice properties when used as exceptions, it is desirable to migrate to a situation where classes are used exclusively. Prior to Python 1.5 alpha 4, Python's standard exceptions (IOError, TypeError, etc.) were defined as strings. Changing these to classes posed some particula...

  • 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...

  • 2010-10-18 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2010-10-18 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors October 18, 2010 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 18 October 2010. 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" mean...

  • 2013-05-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...numbers for 2013 and commission checks. Currently working on getting commission checks. PyCon Internet Nothing to report for April PyCon Printing Nothing to report for April PyCon Registration Management Worked on the open payment registrations with Jackie and Kurt. Currently working on getting payment from one last company before we close the books. PyCon Site Visits Worked on site visit for Diana to visit the Palais. Has to reschedule it for July since the Palais is not...

  • 2014 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes

    2014 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of the 2014 Members' Meeting July 23, 2014 The Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") held its annual members' meeting on July 23, 2014 at 17:30 CEST in the BCC Berlin in Berlin, Germany (EuroPython 2014). The agenda is available here. Marc-Andre Lemburg presided over the meeting and also prepared these minutes with the assistance of EJ. Contents 1   Attendance 2   Introd...

  • 2009-06-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...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 May 2009 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] Originally from June 2006, Section 6, PSF Records: The Board agreed to assemble the existing records in one place, have them scanned, and enter th...

  • 2011-03-21 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2011-03-21 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors March 21, 2011 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 21 March 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" mea...

  • 2011-05-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2011-05-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors May 16, 2011 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 16 May 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 &...

  • 2011-11-21 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...numbers and to fully close the books on this year." 5.8   Sprint Committee J. Noller, Sprint Committee Chair, provided a summary of activities for this month, he reported: We had two sprints occur this month: The Plone Conference which was organized months ago, and Open Hatch which was a last minute group. Both events went well and we should be receiving some type of report from both groups to publicize how their sprints went. As far as the continued activities from last m...

  • PSF Fellow Membership

    PSF Fellow Membership psf fellow members The deadline to nominate someone for Quarter 4 consideration is 11:59 p.m. UTC, November 20, 2025. Please send your nomination to: psf-fellow@python.org Your nomination should include: The name of the person you are nominating. Why you think they meet the Fellow criteria, i.e. how they have served the Python community. Please also include an email address for the person you are nominating. Example nomination: I, Marcia Nominator, propose that Mar...

  • 2012-01-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...numbers/quotes. Program guide progress is moving more slowly than anticipated. As far as the continued activities from last month, he reported: 1. Sponsor signups have continued. We now have 100 sponsors and OSS partners, and more in the pipeline. We have had to announce that we will be closing down sponsorship applications after Jan. 20th: http://pycon.blogspot.com/2012/01/pycon-2012-close-of-sponsorship.html Financial updates will be sent to the private board list. Registration for the co...

  • 2006-12-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2006-12-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors December 11, 2006 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 18:01 UTC, 11 December 2006. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1   Attendance 2   Minutes of Past Meetings 3   Stat...

  • 2013-09-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2013-09-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors September 13, 2013 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Group Conference Call via phone and Internet Relay Chat beginning at 18:00 CEST/ 12:00 EDT, on September 13 2013. Van Lindberg presided over the meeting. Ewa Jodlowska prepared the minutes. All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in fa...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction The Devil Framework is a multi-platform (Linux, OS X, Windows), multi-user, multi-tier, distributed platform for developing process and technology integration solutions: developers can easily collect, integrate, correlate, control and visualize all information produced and consumed by heterogeneous networked hardware and software technologies. The project started in 1999 as a network security data integration system, but when we "discovered" that...

  • Python 1.6.1

    Python 1.6.1 Python 1.6.1 Note: See the download pages for more recent releases. What's new? Python 1.6 was the last of the versions developed at CNRI and the only version issued by CNRI with an open source license. Following the release of Python 1.6, and after Guido van Rossum left CNRI to work with commercial software developers, it became clear that the ability to use Python with software available under the GNU General Public License (GPL) was very desirable. CNRI and the Free Softwa...

  • 2009-07-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...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 08 June 2009 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] Originally from June 2006, Section 6, PSF Records: The Board agreed to assemble the existing records in one place, have them scanned, and enter t...

  • 2014-01-31 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...numbers. PyCon Legal: We have been able to determine that no one speaking at PyCon will need a workers permit. There are some people who will need entry visas but the individuals are responsible for that. We are currently working on finding out what we need to do to make honorarium for tutorial speakers legal. Sponsor Management: I am continuing to answer emails and special requests from sponsors. I spend the majority of my time per day going through sponsor emails and updating their dashboards ...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction This article shows how I integrated Python, COM, DocBook, OpenJade, and Word together to create a documentation tool for BEACON, a visual programming environment. This documentation tool was used for code reviews in the software development methodology at my company, and led to significant (>$1M) in cost savings. Before starting this project, I had no prior experience using SGML, XML, or other document markup languages. It was only when I was perilously ...

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