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  • Python Software Foundation Staff

    ...packages. When not immersed in code, Jacob enjoys cooking, baking, and spending time with his two daughters and various pets. Jacob is excited to turn his hobby into a career, supporting the Python community through his role at the PSF. Maria Ashna PyPI Support Specialist Maria has recently worked at the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC working on research related to the impact of music and arts education on the brain and the neuroscience of creativity. Maria is also the founder ...

  • 2011-02-28 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...package status and write up that project. Facebook stats for 9 Dec - 7 Jan 8,834 monthly active users 1,450 new likes 51.191 post views 274 post feedback 5.2   Core Development Tasks B. Cannon, Core Development Tasks Project, reported continued activities from last month by saying: Finished new devguide for contributing to Python (and related patches to Python, mostly related to testing and coverage measuring) Finished Python 2/3 porting guide B. Cannon also reported new a...

  • Release – Python 3.14.0b1

    Version: None

    Released: May 7, 2025

    Only one day late, welcome to the first beta! This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b1, is the first of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features …

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  • Power Python:

    Power Python: Join in this year’s end-of-year fundraiser + membership drive! The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is the charitable organization behind Python, dedicated to advancing, supporting, and protecting the Python programming language and the community that sustains it. That mission and cause are more than just words we believe in. Our tiny but mighty team works hard to deliver the projects and services that allow Python to be the thriving, independent, community-driven languag...

  • Computer Programming for Everybody

    ...packages). While we don't expect our students to write extension modules, the use of such modules makes it possible to spruce up their learning experience, and gives teachers an opportunity to tailor lessons to the interests of their students by providing them with guarded access to other software packages. (withdrawn) The fact that Python can be used to develop large applications plays into a different aspect of our vision: The development of open source application software ...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Python is part of the winning formula for productivity, software quality, and maintainability at many companies and institutions around the world. Here are real-life Python success stories, classified by application domain. Contents Software Development Accessibility Assistive Technologies Code Generation Computer Graphics Configuration Cross-platform Development Databases Data Mining Documentation Development Email Embedded Systems Functional Testing Game Development ...

  • Notes

    ...package was updated to correctly calculate stack depth in some cases. This was affecting Zope Python Scripts rather badly. Largefile support was added (but not on by default, you'll need to follow the instructions in the documentation of the posix module). SF bug #443120: Fix a cgi.py denial-of-service attack, socketmodule's SSL_read and SSL_write now release the global interpreter lock. threading uses the PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM attribute where available. This should remove the need to add tiny sl...

  • Release – Python 3.14.0b2

    Version: None

    Released: May 26, 2025

    Here's the second 3.14 beta. https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140b2/ This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b2, is the first of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes …

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  • PSF Distinguished Service Awards

    ...package has enabled scores of developers on Windows to leverage the power of Python while integrating with lower-level Win32 APIs, as well as integrate with other Microsoft applications such as the Office suite of tools via COM. The Python Software Foundation thanks Mark Hammond for his contributions to the CPython project and the greater Python community, especially those on the Windows platform. 2014 Raymond Hettinger The 2014 Distinguished Service Award was presented to Raymond Hettinger at...

  • 2007-09-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Package Index (Cheese Shop): A. Kuchling will ask Thomas Wouters about increasing the memory on ximinez, and getting another machine for PyPI. M. von Löwis contacted Thomas Wouters, and he will talk to XS4ALL this week. Status: in progress. Originally from April 2007, Section 9, New PSF Members: D. Goodger will contact the PSF members not subscribed to the PSF-Members mailing list. Status: carried forward. Originally from May 2007, Section 4, Frank Willison Award: D. Goodger will set up a page...

  • Frank Willison Memorial Award

    ...package and PythonWin, has been a long-term contributor to Python. Without his contributions it is likely that the Windows platform would be a much less significant part of the Python landscape. Mark created software that made Python immeasurably more valuable to the Windows community, thereby ensuring that Python was not consigned to the "Linux/UNIX open source" category. He also created the first implementation of Python for Microsoft's .NET environment, was a major contributor to A...

  • Computer Programming for Everybody

    ...packages). While we don't expect students to write these extension modules, the use of such modules makes it possible to spruce up their learning experience greatly. This extensibility gives teachers an opportunity to tailor lessons to the interests of their students by providing them with guarded access to other software packages. The fact that Python can be used to develop large applications plays into a different aspect of our vision, namely the development of open source application s...

  • Release – Python 3.12.0a5

    Version: None

    Released: Feb. 7, 2023

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.12. Major new features of the 3.12 series, compared to 3.11 Python 3.12 is still in development. This release, 3.12.0a5 is the fifth of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state …

  • Release – Python 3.12.0a6

    Version: None

    Released: March 8, 2023

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.12. Major new features of the 3.12 series, compared to 3.11 Python 3.12 is still in development. This release, 3.12.0a6 is the sixth of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state …

  • Python Success Stories

    ...package. The three arrays are used to store the altitude, land type, and a database key value. The decision to query the Microsoft Access database directly from BATS was made very close to our project deadline. Again Python enabled our team to implement the idea quickly and successfully. Queries to the Access database are done through an ODBC connection using the value from the database key array to determine what city information is associated with a given location. The ability to run queries o...

  • 2007-07-09 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Package Index (Cheese Shop): A. Kuchling will ask Thomas Wouters about increasing the memory on ximinez, and getting another machine for PyPI. Status: carried forward. Originally from April 2007, Section 9, New PSF Members: D. Goodger will contact the PSF members not subscribed to the PSF-Members mailing list. Status: carried forward. Originally from May 2007, Section 4, Frank Willison Award: D. Goodger will coordinate the selection of the 2007 recipient of the Frank Willison Award. See Frank ...

  • 2007-08-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Package Index (Cheese Shop): A. Kuchling will ask Thomas Wouters about increasing the memory on ximinez, and getting another machine for PyPI. Status: carried forward. Originally from April 2007, Section 9, New PSF Members: D. Goodger will contact the PSF members not subscribed to the PSF-Members mailing list. Status: carried forward. Originally from May 2007, Section 4, Frank Willison Award: D. Goodger will coordinate the selection of the 2007 recipient of the Frank Willison Award. Status: do...

  • 2012-08-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...package reception point. Approved, 8-2-0. 8   PyCon PL 2012 Conference Grant RESOLVED, that the PSF provide funding of USD 750 to sponsor the conference to be held in Poland. Approved, 10-0-0. 9   PyCon ZA 2012 Conference Grant RESOLVED, that the PSF become a Silver Sponsor $1,500 USD of the PyCon ZA Conference 2012, to be held in Cape Town South Africa. Approved,10-0-0. 10   PyArkansas 2012 Conference Grant RESOLVED, that the PSF provide con...

  • Release – Python 3.12.0

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 2, 2023

    This is the stable release of Python 3.12.0 Python 3.12.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. Major new features of the 3.12 series, compared to 3.11 New features More flexible f-string parsing, allowing many things previously disallowed …

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  • Python 1.6 License FAQ

    ...packaged? Or change the layout of files and directories from the way CNRI ships them? Or change some file names to match my operating system's restrictions? What if I merely use the documentation, as a basis for a brand new implementation of Python? This license clause is in discussion right now. CNRI has stated that the intent is just to have people provide a very high level summary of changes, e.g. includes new features X, Y and Z. There is no requirement for a specific level of de...

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