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  • Release – Python 3.12.0a2

    Version: None

    Released: Nov. 15, 2022

    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, 3.12.0a2 is the second of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state …

  • A Journey to Python

    ...sorts of conference, such as PythonUK, EuroPython, PyCon, OSCON, and many Italian open-source ones. It's also through Python that I got back in touch with a woman, Anna, whom I had known years before but had lost contact with. She was studying Python and recognizing my name mailed me to ask me for some help. She's now my wife, and became the first woman member of the PSF. We did the second edition of the Python Cookbook together, and although she's not officially an author of the second editi...

  • 2010 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes (informal)

    ...sort of report that might help with fund raising, because it gives a prospective donor some idea of what their donation would do. Regular progress reports make it easier for people to get involved in activities and provides a clear warning sign when something is going wrong. We need some accountability. One goal that had broad support from the members was making Python development easier. Guido had some specific suggestions about infrastructure that generated a few long threads with Martin fo...

  • Notes

    ...sorted() builtin function that returns a new sorted list from any iterable. CObjects are now mutable (on the C level) through PyCObject_SetVoidPtr. list.sort() now supports three keyword arguments: cmp, key, and reverse. The key argument can be a function of one argument that extracts a comparison key from the original record: mylist.sort(key=str.lower). The reverse argument is a boolean value and if True will change the sort order as if the comparison arguments were reversed. In addition, th...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...sort of reliability has made them famous amongst waterway authorities, sailors and the coast guards of various countries. The technology born of the harsh marine environment has proven useful in many other areas, and today Carmanah is the world leader in solar-powered LED lighting. The company manufactures a whole line of such lights for a variety of different uses, including transit, roadway, railway, industrial markers and airfield illumination as well as the original marine application. The l...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...sort order. We figure that you know more about your project than we do, so we give you a set of very flexible tools to mold our software around your project, instead of vice-versa. Background Christian Simms, Botonomy co-founder, and I had worked together for several years, and we used Python for utility-type tasks in larger J2EE projects. We had talked informally a couple of times about building some kind of software product or service. I had just wrapped up a project where the client had no ...

  • Python Software Foundation Board Meeting Minutes 2006-07-10

    ...sort of activity." D. Goodger: "I think we have to get set up for it. It's part of our core mission." D. Goodger will develop the 2006 Budget & Action Plan further and take it to the PSF membership for feedback. In the plan, D. Goodger proposed adding a concise statement to the PSF mission statement. T. Peters reported that the mission statement was intentionally elaborate, for the purposes of incorporation as a 501(c)(3) public charity. D. Goodger: "When I visit a sit...

  • 2007-08-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...sort of place on the home page." von Löwis suggested the "topic guides" also. 8   Adjournment S. Deibel adjourned the meeting at 17:47 UTC.

  • Summary of "Extension Building" Session

    ...sort -- perhaps .tar.gz under Unix, .zip under Windows, etc. The name of the archive file would be derived from the name and version of the module distribution: mydist-1.2.3.tar.gz, for instance. If he wishes, the developer can stop there and upload his source release to an archive. Or, he can create built distributions for all the architectures to which he has access. (Note that I'm explicitly avoiding use of the more familiar term binary distribution. Th...

  • 2007-12-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...sorted out. I'm going to do a lot of scanning over the holidays, [and] will hopefully have a definitive answer then. 5   PyCon Update D. Goodger reported: We received 142 conference talk proposals, 64 accepted by the program committee as of this past weekend. Accept/decline messages should be going out shortly (if they haven't already). Scheduling has yet to take place, but that's a small-group job rather than a committee thing. We received 44 tutorial proposals. We (= G...

  • 2013-11-15 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...sorted out sunfire racking, tuned logrotate settings on wiki VM to avoid running out of disk, picking back up on PyPI failover work Bylaws: 2 pull requests have been made regarding changes, edits. pydotorg Redesign: no change since September Tabled Activities None Issues / Blockages None 5.3   Sprint Workgroup Report Issues / Blockages None Continued Activities from Last Month None New Activities Sponsored a Django sprint in Berlin, lead by Jannis L...

  • 2012-03-26 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...sorts would likely be the best way to move this forward, but I currently don't have more cycles to spare (the brochure project has turned out to be very work intense), so can't lead such an effort at the moment." In terms of having any issues surrounding his project, M. A. Lemburg reported no issues except one: he said, he just does not have enough time to devote to his Moving PyPI to Amazon CloudFront project. Lemburg also reported on the future plans for this project: "Check to ...

  • Python 2.4.1 - Release Notes

    ...sorted() builtin function that returns a new sorted list from any iterable. CObjects are now mutable (on the C level) through PyCObject_SetVoidPtr. list.sort() now supports three keyword arguments: cmp, key, and reverse. The key argument can be a function of one argument that extracts a comparison key from the original record: mylist.sort(key=str.lower). The reverse argument is a boolean value and if True will change the sort order as if the comparison arguments were reversed. In addition, th...

  • What's new in Python 2.3

    ...sort() implementation - this one is a "stable sort" (equal inputs appear in the same order in the output) and faster than before. Tim Peters also changed long int multiplication to use the Karatsuba algorithm, based on a patch by Christopher A. Craig. This speeds up multiplication of very long ints.

  • 2009-02-09 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...sort of emailed reminders from a script someone wrote." K. Kaiser: "That script should run on [the PSF Board's server]." D. Goodger reported that Anthony Baxter runs that script. Further discussion was deferred. [43] S. Holden will frame a motion regarding the management of the PSF's Internet domains. 10   Membership Nominations Criteria for new member nominations was discussed. R. Hettinger thought that the mix of members has become skewed, with too many non-c...

  • 2009-12-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...sort of thing." RESOLVED, that the PSF offer matching funds to the Blender Foundation, providing 10 Euros for each 100 Euros raised from other sources, to a maximum of $1,500 Euros.` Approved, 5-0-0 [109] J. Rush will inform the Blender Foundation organizers of the PSF's decision to offer matching funds of 10 Euros for each 100 Euros raised, not to exceed $1,500 Euros, and will request an invoice. He will also provide fundraising ideas and copy S. Holden on the correspondence. 7 &nb...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    ...sort'] >>> >>> dir([]) ['append', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove', 'reverse', 'sort'] Under the new proposal, the __methods__ attribute no longer exists: Python 2.2c1 (#803, Dec 13 2001, 23:06:05) [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> [].__methods__ Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? ...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    ...sort'] >>> >>> dir([]) ['append', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove', 'reverse', 'sort'] Under the new proposal, the __methods__ attribute no longer exists: Python 2.2c1 (#803, Dec 13 2001, 23:06:05) [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> [].__methods__ Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? ...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    ...sort'] >>> >>> dir([]) ['append', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove', 'reverse', 'sort'] Under the new proposal, the __methods__ attribute no longer exists: Python 2.2c1 (#803, Dec 13 2001, 23:06:05) [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> [].__methods__ Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? ...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    ...sort'] >>> >>> dir([]) ['append', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove', 'reverse', 'sort'] Under the new proposal, the __methods__ attribute no longer exists: Python 2.2c1 (#803, Dec 13 2001, 23:06:05) [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> [].__methods__ Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? AttributeError: 'list' object has no attrib...

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