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  • Quotes about Python

    Quotes about Python Python is used successfully in thousands of real-world business applications around the world, including many large and mission critical systems. Here are some quotes from happy Python users: YouTube.com "Python is fast enough for our site and allows us to produce maintainable features in record times, with a minimum of developers," said Cuong Do, Software Architect, YouTube.com. Industrial Light & Magic "Python plays a key role in our production pip...

  • 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

    A Journey to Python by Alex Martelli, 2006 recipient of the Frank Willison Award After a quarter century of experience in programming (once as a sideline of my main job as a hardware designer, at Texas Instruments and IBM Research, but as my main job for over half that time, at IBM Research and Cad.Lab/think3), I finally stumbled upon Python in 1999. This was thanks to the kind nagging of a friend and colleague whose judgment I respected and to whom I still feel grateful for his insistence (A...

  • 2010 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes (informal)

    2010 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes (informal) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of the 2010 Members' Meeting February 19, 2010 The Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") held an informal annual members' meeting on February 19, 2010 during lunch at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, USA (PyCon 2010 Atlanta). Steve Holden presided over the meeting. Pat Campbell prepared these minutes. Contents 1   Attendance 2   Greetings &a...

  • 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

    Python Success Stories Introduction This is a story about how Python's elegant design can make the language useful in an unexpected way. Carmanah Technologies Inc. (http://www.carmanah.com/) was conceived in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The founder, David Green, was sailing his boat from Fiji, bound for Victoria, British Columbia. He was running low on battery power for his navigation lights, and had an insight. The eventual result of that mid-ocean idea was the world's first self-conta...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction ProjectPipe is a hosted project management solution developed by Botonomy LLC. It provides everything that you need to manage the full lifecycle of a midsized project. Although it is a hosted browser-based application, ProjectPipe seamlessly integrates with MS Project, Excel, and Word, allowing users to leverage the benefits of ProjectPipe without abandoning the desktop tools that they (and their peers) use and understand. We believe that dependency managem...

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

    Python Software Foundation Board Meeting Minutes 2006-07-10 The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors July 10, 2006 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 17:00 UTC, 10 July 2006. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1   Attendance 2   Minutes of Past Meetings 3 &nb...

  • 2007-08-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2007-08-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors August 13, 2007 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 17:00 UTC, 13 August 2007. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1   Attendance 2   Minutes of Past Meetings 3   Status o...

  • 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...

  • 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

    2012-03-26 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors March 26, 2012 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 26 March 2012. 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. "...

  • 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

    What's new in Python 2.3 What's new in Python 2.3 Here are the (subjective) highlights of what's new in Python 2.3. Faster According to a couple of simple benchmark, Python 2.3 is about 20-30% faster than Python 2.2.3. Some of this speed-up was obtained by removing the SET_LINENO opcodes, which means that the difference is less impressive when comparing "python -O"; the rest was various careful tune-ups. New Tools A brand new version of IDLE (from the IDLEfork project at S...

  • 2009-02-09 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2009-02-09 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors February 9, 2009 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 17:00 UTC, 9 February 2009. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1   Attendance 2   Minutes of Past Meetings 3   Votes Ta...

  • 2009-12-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2009-12-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors December 14, 2009 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 17:00 UTC, 9 November 2009. 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...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2 Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2 Python Version: 2.2 (For a newer version of this tutorial, see Python 2.2.3) Guido van Rossum This paper is an incomplete draft. I am soliciting feedback. If you find any problems, please write me at guido@python.org. Table of Contents Introduction Subclassing built-in types Built-in types as factory functions Introspecting instances of built-in types Static methods and class met...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2 Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2 Python Version: 2.2.1 (For a newer version of this tutorial, see Python 2.2.3) Guido van Rossum This paper is an incomplete draft. I am soliciting feedback. If you find any problems, please write me at guido@python.org. Table of Contents Change Log Introduction Subclassing built-in types Built-in types as factory functions Introspecting instances of built-in types Static metho...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2 Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2 Python Version: 2.2.2 (For a newer version of this tutorial, see Python 2.2.3) Guido van Rossum This paper is an incomplete draft. I am soliciting feedback. If you find any problems, please write me at guido@python.org. Table of Contents Change Log Introduction Subclassing built-in types Built-in types as factory functions Introspecting instances of built-in types Static metho...

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