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    ...and privacy of your data. We want you to know what data we collect, how we collect it, and what we do with it so that you may decide whether or not to provide information to us. By visiting PSF websites or are otherwise providing your personal information to us via any other means, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Policy. Unless specified otherwise, the term “visitor” includes both PSF members and nonmembers, whether you upload information to our websites...

  • Notes

    ...andom.seed() with no arguments or None uses time.time() as a default seed. Modified to match Py2.2 behavior and use fractional seconds so that successive runs are more likely to produce different sequences. random.Random has a new method, getrandbits(k), which returns an int with k random bits. This method is now an optional part of the API for user defined generators. Any generator that defines genrandbits() can now use randrange() for ranges with a length >= 2**53. Formerly, randrange w...

  • Python 2.4.1 - Release Notes

    ...andom.seed() with no arguments or None uses time.time() as a default seed. Modified to match Py2.2 behavior and use fractional seconds so that successive runs are more likely to produce different sequences. random.Random has a new method, getrandbits(k), which returns an int with k random bits. This method is now an optional part of the API for user defined generators. Any generator that defines genrandbits() can now use randrange() for ranges with a length >= 2**53. Formerly, randrange w...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...dates back to 1979, and its first CG production was the 1982 Genesis sequence from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. In the early days, ILM was involved with the creation of custom computer graphics hardware and software for scanning, modeling, rendering, and compositing (the process of joining rendered and scanned images together). Some of these systems made significant advances in areas such as morphing and simulating muscles and hair. Naturally, as time went by many of the early innovations at...

  • 2013-08-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...and Brett Cannon. Also in attendance were Ewa Jodlowska (Secretary/Administrator) and Kurt Kaiser (Treasurer). 2   Minutes of Past Meetings The 26 July 2013 Board meeting minutes were voted on and approved. RESOLVED: that the PSF approve the minutes at http://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-board/2013-July/022765.html as representing a true and accurate record of the July 26, 2013 meeting. Approved, 8-0-0. 3   Votes Taken Between Meetings There were no vote...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...and easy to read, and basic data structures are built in. It is amazing how much less typing goes into Python code, since braces and type declarations are not used. Second, the standard library and third-party modules available for Python are breathtaking in their coverage. Almost every time a problem was encountered, a Python library that helped speed the solution process was found. These libraries, both standard and third-party, were high-quality and tended to have helpful communities of users...

  • Python Internationalization-SIG

    ...and building a library of codecs Support for locale information, date, number and time formatting Frameworks for translating and localizing GUI and Web applications Deliverables The immediate deliverables relate to Unicode and encoding support; the other topics above are too general and application-specific. Test the new Unicode features and supplied single-byte codecs as soon as the Unicode patch moves into public CVS (Q2 2000) Assist with documentation of the new feature...

  • Release – Python 3.5.0a2

    Version: None

    Released: March 9, 2015

    Python 3.5.0a2 Python 3.5 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.5.10, the final release of the 3.5 series, is available here. Python 3.5.0a2 was released on March 9th, 2015. Major new features of the 3.5 series, compared to 3.4 Python 3.5 is still in development, and 3.5.0a1 is the second alpha release. …

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  • Release – Python 3.5.0a3

    Version: None

    Released: March 30, 2015

    Python 3.5.0a3 Python 3.5 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.5.10, the final release of the 3.5 series, is available here. Python 3.5.0a3 was released on March 30th, 2015. Major new features of the 3.5 series, compared to 3.4 Python 3.5 is still in development, and 3.5.0a1 is the second alpha release. …

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  • Release – Python 3.6.0rc1

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 6, 2016

    Python 3.6.0rc1 Python 3.6.0rc1 was released on 2016-12-06. 3.6.0rc1 is the first release candidate for the 3.6.0 release. Code for 3.6.0 is now frozen. Assuming no release critical problems are found prior to the 3.6.0 final release date, currently 2016-12-16, the 3.6.0 final release will be the same code base …

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  • Release – Python 3.6.0rc2

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 16, 2016

    Python 3.6.0rc2 Python 3.6.0rc2 was released on 2016-12-16. 3.6.0rc2 is the second release candidate for the 3.6.0 release. Code for 3.6.0 is now frozen. Assuming no release critical problems are found prior to the 3.6.0 final release date, currently 2016-12-23, the 3.6.0 final release will be the same code base …

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  • Release – Python 3.7.0rc1

    Version: None

    Released: June 11, 2018

    This is the release candidate of Python 3.7.0 This release, 3.7.0rc1, is the final planned release preview. Assuming no critical problems are found prior to 2018-06-27, the scheduled release date for 3.7.0, no code changes are planned between this release candidate and the final release. Among the major …

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  • FSF response to the Python 2.1 license

    ...and the Python 1.6.1 license (but see below). The other issue over which we spent much time in negotiation with CNRI is the applicable law provision in paragraph 7. The GPL doesn't use an applicable law provision. We are concerned about a number of problems that can arise. You see the simplest of them already in your license stack: one license applying the law of California and another the law of Virginia. That could happen many times over with free software projects, with each modul...

  • Member meeting at OSCON

    ...and AB Strakt <li> Progress report of 501(c)(3) application. <li> Statistics/progress regarding (sponsor) membership applications <li> Income and how to spend it <li> Future Python conferences </ul> <h3>Proxies</h3> <p>If you cannot attend the meeting, you can <a href="proxy-july-2002.html"> vote by proxy</A>. <p>The following members will attend the meeting, and are thus able to serve as proxies. Other members who plan...

  • Power Python:

    ...and tells us you value Python and the work we do. Python and the PSF are built on the amazing generosity and energy of all our amazing community members out there who step up and give back.We appreciate you and we’re so excited to see where we can go together in the year to come. The Python Software Foundation is the US 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization behind the Python language. You can see our public documents here, read our latest updates on our blog, and check out our latest Annual Im...

  • Release – Python 3.5.0b1

    Version: None

    Released: May 24, 2015

    Python 3.5.0b1 Python 3.5 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.5.10, the final release of the 3.5 series, is available here. Python 3.5.0b1 was released on May 24th, 2015. Major new features of the 3.5 series, compared to 3.4 Among the new major new features and changes in the 3.5 release series …

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  • Release – Python 3.5.0b2

    Version: None

    Released: June 1, 2015

    Python 3.5.0b2 Python 3.5 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.5.10, the final release of the 3.5 series, is available here. Python 3.5.0b2 was released on May 31st, 2015. Major new features of the 3.5 series, compared to 3.4 Among the new major new features and changes in the 3.5 release series …

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  • Release – Python 3.5.0b3

    Version: None

    Released: July 5, 2015

    Python 3.5.0b3 Python 3.5 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.5.10, the final release of the 3.5 series, is available here. Python 3.5.0b3 was released on July 5th, 2015. Major new features of the 3.5 series, compared to 3.4 Among the new major new features and changes in the 3.5 release series …

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  • Release – Python 3.5.0b4

    Version: None

    Released: July 26, 2015

    Python 3.5.0b4 Python 3.5 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.5.10, the final release of the 3.5 series, is available here. Python 3.5.0b4 was released on July 26th, 2015. Major new features of the 3.5 series, compared to 3.4 Among the new major new features and changes in the 3.5 release series …

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  • Appointment of Proxy for February 24, 2006 member meeting in Dallas, TX

    ...andl yes no abstain Paul Everitt yes no abstain Jim Hugunin yes no abstain Travis Oliphant yes no abstain Anna Martelli Ravenscroft yes no abstain George Paci yes no abstain [ circle one for each ] Board Elections The following current board members have nominated themselves for a new term: David Ascher Stephan Deibel Steve Holden Andrew Kuchling Martin von Loewis Tim Peters In addition, the follow...

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