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  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (October 8, 2002)

    ...allow the Chair and Secretary to spend up to a small amount without prior board approval, to give more flexibility in dealing with minor issues. A short discussion follows about whether it should be a small amount per occurance or a running total that needs to be ratified by the board, and how ratification or notification is handled. In the end, the board votes on the following motion: RESOLVED, that until further notice, the Officers of the Board can spend up to USD 500 pe...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (November 12, 2002)

    ...all them. 5. Conference status report We received a contract for the space. Adam Turoff is mostly out of the loop. We have until Nov 14 (this Thursday) to sign it. The total costs for the space are $12975; 10% of that is due with the contract. This does not include catering, and it doesn't include all A/V equipment -- those things are extra. The contract requires us to get insurance for a million dollars before we are allowed in the space. Guido plans to ta...

  • comp.lang.python.announce Posting Guidelines

    ...all" packages should have version numbers. Clarify the LICENSE that you release your package under. If you want to release something as free software, you might want to have a look at the "Open Source Definition", and pick one of the licenses mentioned there under "Example Licenses". You should INCLUDE YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS in the body text of your posting or in the trailing .signature block. Please do not sign your announcement with PGP; most people would not know your ...

  • 2012-07-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...all It has been decided this month that we will have the buffet lunch and the expo hall going together. The wall between Exhibit Hall A and B will be removed for lunch Friday-Sunday. 6.8.7   PyCon Financial Aid Nothing to Report for June 2012 6.8.8   Future Event Planning Nothing to Report for June 2012 6.8.9   PyCon Hotel/CC Management Nothing to Report for June 2012 6.8.10   PyCon Housing Management A contract has been...

  • 2009-11-09 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...ally from 16 June 2008, Section 6.2, Treasurer's Report: D. Goodger will follow up regarding the PyCon transaction analysis. Status: pending. [10] Originally from 16 June 2008, Section 6.8, Treasurer's Report: D. Goodger will follow up regarding unpaid PyCon registrations. Status: pending. [25] Originally from 11 August 2008, Section 6.2, PyCon UK Sponsorship:R. Hettinger will propose a blanket policy for sponsorships, instead of one-off requests. Status: pending. [17] Originally from 8 Septe...

  • Building the PSF: the Q2 2019 Fundraiser

    ...all proceeds going to the Python Software Foundation's general fund! Check out their offer here. It's easy to donate Click here to make a one-time or recurring donation. If you’re an existing PSF Supporting Member and would like to make your support recurring, log into your account and click “Auto-Renewal”. If you’re an existing Supporting Member and would like to support the PSF beyond your $99 annual fee, use this donation page to select an additional one-time or monthly donation. If yo...

  • Release – Python 3.2.6

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 12, 2014

    This is a security-fix source-only release. The last binary release was 3.2.5. With the 3.2.6 release, and five years after its first release, the Python 3.2 series is now officially retired. All official maintenance for Python 3.2, including security patches, has ended. For ongoing maintenance releases, please see …

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  • Release – Python 3.14.0a7

    Version: None

    Released: April 8, 2025

    Here comes the final alpha! This means we have just four weeks until the first beta to get those last features into 3.14 before the feature freeze on 2025-05-06! This is an early developer preview of Python 3.14 Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13 …

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  • Python For Beginners

    ...alling Installing Python is generally easy, and nowadays many Linux and UNIX distributions include a recent Python. Even some Windows computers (notably those from HP) now come with Python already installed. If you do need to install Python and aren't confident about the task you can find a few notes on the BeginnersGuide/Download wiki page, but installation is unremarkable on most platforms. Learning Before getting started, you may want to find out which IDEs and text editors are tailored to ...

  • Python for Mac OS X

    ...all newer versions alongside the system ones. The easiest way to do that is to install one of the binary installers for OS X from the Python Download page. Installers are available for the latest Python 3 and Python 2 releases that will work on all Macs that run Mac OS X 10.5 and later. Python releases include IDLE, Python's built-in interactive development environment. If you download and install Python from the release page, you may also need to download and install a newer version of Tcl/T...

  • Python 2.2.1

    ...allation. Windows users may also be interested in Mark Hammond's win32all, a collection of Windows-specific extensions including COM support and Pythonwin, an IDE built using Windows components. Update (2002/04/23): Windows users should download a new UNWISE.EXE from Wise that fixes a bug which could cause the uninstaller to disappear in some circumstances. Just drop it over the old uninstaller, which will be at C:\Python22\UNWISE.EXE unless you chose a different directory at install ...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 22-Oct-2002

    ...all Python and Zope users, offering increased stability and robustness. I am grateful to the Python and Zope community for contributing literally hundreds of bug fixes to Python 2.2.2," said Guido van Rossum, creator of Python, president of the Python Software Foundation, and Director of PythonLabs at Zope Corporation. "Python has been an integral part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. Dozens of Google engineers use Python, and we're looki...

  • Agenda of 2008 PSF Members' Meeting, 14 March 2008

    ...allot. A proxy designation is preferred; if any new business arises during the meeting your designated proxy may vote on your behalf, whereas an absentee ballot will result in an automatic abstention. Members who have agreed to act as proxy include: Brett Cannon Mark Hammond Richard Jones Anna Ravenscroft Barry Warsaw Agenda Attendance & proxies Election of Nominated Members Candidates: Titus Brown (nominated by Steve Holden) Mark Dickinson (Guido van Rossum) Amaury Forgeot d'Arc (Gu...

  • PSF Newsletter Signup

    ...all the ways you would like to hear from Python Software Foundation: Newsletter You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link in the footer of our emails. For information about our privacy practices, please visit our website. We use Mailchimp as our marketing platform. By clicking below to subscribe, you acknowledge that your information will be transferred to Mailchimp for processing. Learn more about Mailchimp's privacy practices her...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...allowed the software developer to start building the control software before the hardware design and assembly were complete. It also acts as a convenient way to debug and stress test the control software. ML500 simulator. A red disk represents a spindle with discs loaded. A green disk represents an empty spindle waiting to be loaded. A small blue vertical bar represents an air cylinder and a small red square represents a sensor used to detect position of the spindles. The black and green squar...

  • PSF Membership Types & FAQ

    ...all that this person does, [Nominated Person] is an example of what we aspire to be in the Python community. What does the PSF do? The majority of the PSF's work is focused on empowering and supporting people within the Python community. The PSF has active grant programs that support sprints, conferences, meetups, user groups, and Python development efforts all over the world. In addition, the PSF underwrites and runs PyCon US, the primary Python community conference. The PSF serves as a prim...

  • Release – Python 2.3.0

    Version: None

    Released: July 29, 2003

    This is a patch release which supersedes earlier releases of 2.3. Important: This release is vulnerable to the problem described in security advisory PSF-2006-001 "Buffer overrun in repr() of unicode strings in wide unicode builds (UCS-4)". This fix is included in Python 2.4.4 and Python 2.5 …

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  • Release – Python 2.6.0

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 2, 2008

    Python 2.6 (final) was released on October 1st, 2008. There are a huge number of new features, modules, improvements and bug fixes. For information on what's changed, see: Andrew Kuchling's guide to What's New in Python 2.6. NEWS file contains a listing of everything …

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  • Release – Python 3.0.0

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 3, 2008

    Python 3.0 final was released on December 3rd, 2008. Python 3.0 (a.k.a. "Python 3000" or "Py3k") is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially how built-in objects like dictionaries and …

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  • Release – Python 2.0.1

    Version: None

    Released: June 22, 2001

    We're releasing Python 2.0.1 - the final bugfix release for Python 2.0. Why would we come with a bugfix release now (June 2001), when Python 2.0 was released in October 2000 and Python 2.1 has been released for months (April 2001)? Two very good reasons! We've …

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