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• Release – Python 3.10.0rc2

  Version: None

  Released: Sept. 7, 2021

  This is the first release candidate of Python 3.10 This release, 3.10.0rc2, is the last preview before the final release of Python 3.10.0 on 2021-10-04. Entering the release candidate phase, only reviewed code changes which are clear bug fixes are allowed between release candidates and the final release. …

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• 2006-10-15 Grants Committee Status Report

  ...close bugs and apply patches implement PEP 302 release Jython 2.2 Some time later, Frank Wierzbicki offered to take over maintenance of the Jython project, and the PSF board agreed to offer him the remaining funds. This project is still on-going. While the initial time plan for the grants committee (call for proposals and review) worked out fairly well, it turned out that the follow-up activities had significant delays; many delays due to inactivity on my part. From the PSF side, the projects w...

• 2011-05-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...closed to move forward with financial obligations for Pycon 2012." K. Kaiser: "I'm hoping that we can clear the PyCon hotel bill soon and recognize PyCon [2012]. I can't do that w/o the bill!" Holden: "Seems to me you need help." K. Kaiser: "Last year was a big problem. We introduced sponsor levels and a new accounting system. 5   Progress Reports The following board reports were submitted to the board mailing list one week prior to this month's m...

• Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, February 14, 2006

  ...closed on February 14. 4   Financials The initial ruling period on the PSF's 501(c)(3) status has ended. We have surpassed the 1/3 public support ratio needed. K. Kaiser will ping the sponsor members who have not yet paid their 2006 PSF sponsor fees. K. Kaiser reported that he has rewritten all the transaction processing and processed everything to date. The 2005 books are reconciled with credit cards and bank statements. The remaining things to do are to reclassify the Py...

• Release – Python 3.12.0b2

  Version: None

  Released: June 6, 2023

  This is a beta preview of Python 3.12 Python 3.12 is still in development. This release, 3.12.0b2 is the second of four beta release previews of 3.12. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to …

• Python 2.1 Press Release

  ...closely coordinated with the Python developer community, Python 2.1 is ready for the world," said Guido van Rossum, Python's creator and director of PythonLabs at Digital Creations. <p>Python 2.1 contains several important innovations over previous versions. Nested scopes, a feature found in many other languages, are finally coming to Python. This will become a standard feature in the future, but because this change can break a small amount of existing code, in Python 2.1 it must be e...

• Python 2.1 Press Release

  ...closely coordinated with the Python developer community, Python 2.1 is ready for the world," said Guido van Rossum, Python's creator and director of PythonLabs at Digital Creations. <p>Python 2.1 contains several important innovations over previous versions. Nested scopes, a feature found in many other languages, are finally coming to Python. This will become a standard feature in the future, but because this change can break a small amount of existing code, in Python 2.1 it must be e...

• Python 2.1 Press Release

  ...closely coordinated with the Python developer community, Python 2.1 is ready for the world," said Guido van Rossum, Python's creator and director of PythonLabs at Digital Creations. <p>Python 2.1 contains several important innovations over previous versions. Nested scopes, a feature found in many other languages, are finally coming to Python. This will become a standard feature in the future, but because this change can break a small amount of existing code, in Python 2.1 it must be e...

• Release – Python 3.12.0rc1

  Version: None

  Released: Aug. 6, 2023

  This is the first release candidate of Python 3.12.0 This release, 3.12.0rc1, is the penultimate release preview. Entering the release candidate phase, only reviewed code changes which are clear bug fixes are allowed between this release candidate and the final release. The second candidate (and the last planned …

• Release – Python 3.12.0rc2

  Version: None

  Released: Sept. 6, 2023

  This is the second release candidate of Python 3.12.0 This release, 3.12.0rc2, is the last release preview for Python 3.12. There will be no ABI changes from this point forward in the 3.12 series. The intent is for the final release of 3.12.0, scheduled for Monday, 2023-10-02, …

• Release – Python 3.12.0rc3

  Version: None

  Released: Sept. 19, 2023

  This is the third release candidate of Python 3.12.0 This release, 3.12.0rc3, is the absolutely last release preview for Python 3.12. There will be no ABI changes from this point forward in the 3.12 series. The intent is for the final release of 3.12.0, scheduled for Monday, …

• PSF Developers in Residence

  PSF Developers in Residence The Python Software Foundation’s Developer in Residence Program supports full-time developers who are focused on improving the Python programming language and its ecosystem. These developers play a crucial role in advancing Python’s core development, maintaining critical infrastructure, and supporting the broader community through mentorship, documentation, and tooling. Their work also addresses essential areas such as packaging, supply chain security, and the conti...

• Python Success Stories

  ...closed program, is essential for many applications. An important aspect of biomolecular simulations is visualization. MMTK delegates this task to external tools. Two visualization programs, VMD and PyMOL, are particularly well integrated. Most MMTK users access the library from simple Python scripts, but MMTK has also been used as a basis for end-user programs with graphical user interfaces, such as nMOLDYN and DomainFinder. MMTK currently consists of about 18,000 lines of Python code, 12,000 li...

• 2012-01-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...close-of-sponsorship.html Financial updates will be sent to the private board list. Registration for the conference and tutorials continues at a healthy pace. 4. Idan Gazit has been tapped to do the artwork for the Program Guide and T-Shirts. This is still under way. Negotiations with Elegant Stitches are ongoing. The official talk schedule has been announced: https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/ Financial aid deadline has closed; acceptance letters have been sent. Jesse also listed the new ...

• 2012-05-21 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...close to being able to recognize the income from a very strong PyCon 2012. Concerning the Associate Member Program (AM), he said: Associate Member program: The website is available to accept Associate Member registrations. Andrew Kuchling has offered to work on improving the site content and the attractiveness of the Associate Membership offering. We still need to link psfmember.org to python.org, improve the attractiveness of the offering by adding content on python.org relating to the Assoc...

• Release – Python 3.13.0rc1

  Version: None

  Released: Aug. 1, 2024

  This is the first release candidate of Python 3.13.0 This release, 3.13.0rc1, is the penultimate release preview. Entering the release candidate phase, only reviewed code changes which are clear bug fixes are allowed between this release candidate and the final release. The second candidate (and the last planned …

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• Release – Python 3.13.0rc2

  Version: None

  Released: Sept. 6, 2024

  This is the second release candidate of Python 3.13.0 This release, 3.13.0rc2, is the final release preview. This release is expected to become the final 3.13.0 release, barring any critical bugs being discovered. The official release of 3.13.0 is scheduled for Tuesday, 2024-10-01. There will be no …

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• Release – Python 3.13.0rc3

  Version: None

  Released: Oct. 1, 2024

  This is the third release candidate of Python 3.13.0 This release, 3.13.0rc3, is the final release preview (no really) of 3.13. This release is expected to become the final 3.13.0 release, barring any critical bugs being discovered. The official release of 3.13.0 is now scheduled for Monday, 2024-10-07. …

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• Python Success Stories

  ...closed source programs that were prohibitively expensive. We looked at some open source tools as alternatives. OpenDX had just been released to the public and at that time was hard for me to get up and running. OpenDX was also a fairly complex system with a steep learning curve. Another visualization/graphics library, VTK, was also available as open source. VTK is an extremely powerful visualization library written in C++. It is very portable and runs on various flavors of Unix, Windows, and...

• Parade of the PEPs

  ...closer to new-style classes. I haven't made a start with this work, and I think maybe it's not necessary -- the classic clas simplementation may as well remain exactly the way it is, until it is simply dropped in Python 3000. Somewhere along the way, when we believe that most users are using new-style classes anyway, we should add warnings for uses of old-style classes. The PEP could be used to describe the timeframe for these warnings. But before then, we should first make sure that t...

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