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...make the PSF more sustainable. In 2020, our staff and board of directors realized there is no better time than now to create new revenue streams for the PSF and become less reliant on PyCon US. We are currently working on ways to introduce paid features for the Python Package Index and researching other options. Financial impacts aside, the PSF community did continue to grow in 2020! The PSF launched two new Work Groups! The first was the Funding Work Gro...
...makes the alternate suggestion of setting up "irc.python.org" to hold the information that was hosted on pound-python, which seems reasonable to me as well. Sean also reported on the new activities for the month. H said: There are discussions about alternatives for professional management of the python.org servers and other resources. These are ongoing and should be moving forward in the coming months. The activities planned for next month included: Put pound-python to bed and ...
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Released: Dec. 11, 2018
Python 3.7.2rc1 is the release candidate preview of the second maintenance release of Python 3.7. The Python 3.7 series is the newest major release of the Python language and contains many new features and optimizations. Among the major new features in Python 3.7 are: PEP 539, new C API …
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Released: March 12, 2019
Python 3.7.3rc1 is the release candidate preview of the third maintenance release of Python 3.7. The Python 3.7 series is the newest major release of the Python language and contains many new features and optimizations. Among the major new features in Python 3.7 are: PEP 539, new C API …
Released: Dec. 10, 2019
This is the release candidate of Python 3.8.1, the first maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.1rc1, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x …
Released: Dec. 18, 2019
This is Python 3.8.1, the first maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.1, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. Major new …
Released: July 13, 2020
This is the fourth maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.4, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. Major new features of …
Released: Sept. 8, 2020
This is the release candidate of the sixth maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.6rc1, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. …
Released: Dec. 7, 2020
This is the release candidate of the seventh maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.7rc1, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. …
Released: Dec. 21, 2020
This is the seventh maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.7, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. macOS 11 Big Sur …
Released: Feb. 16, 2021
This is the release candidate of the eight maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.8rc1, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. …
Released: April 2, 2021
This is the ninth maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.9, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. 3.8.9 is an expedited …
Released: Aug. 2, 2021
This is the first release candidate of Python 3.10 This release, 3.10.0rc1, 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 …
Released: July 26, 2022
This is a beta preview of Python 3.11 Python 3.11 is still in development. 3.11.0b5 is the last of the five planned beta release previews. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their projects to …
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...make all volunteers members of the PSC and propose myself as chairman. Work on the URS filing can start the week following the IRC meeting. Lemburg reported that Barry has kindly setup a mailing list for the PSC to use: psc@python.org. The PSC will probably also need a bit of web-space on python.org, preferably under python.org/psf/psc. 5. PSF Contributions Documents discussion report Lemburg reported on the discussion process for the PSF contribution documents: The discussion about the PSF...
...makes macfs.FSSpec.SetDates() work again. There is a new module pimp, the package install manager for Python, and accompanying applet PackageManager. These allow you to easily download and install pretested extension packages either in source or binary form. Only in MacPython-OSX. Applets are now built with bundlebuilder in MacPython-OSX, which should make them more robust and also provides a path towards BuildApplication. The downside of this change is that applets can no longer be run from the...
Python Success Stories Introduction The Blind Audio Tactile Mapping System (BATS) seeks to provide access to maps for the blind and visually impaired. Our goal is to devise ways to present traditionally visual information to the user's other senses. The need for this project became clear when Jason Morris came to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to study Classics. Morris works at the Ancient World Mapping Center (AWMC), a foundation to advance the field of ancient studies with ...
...make them aware of the possibilities regarding their membership. S. Holden reported that he wrote to ILM, but there was no response. He will proceed with a resolution for the members' meeting. Status: done. Section 9, Python Certification Scheme: S. Holden will report the results of the certification discussion back to Van Lindberg. Van Lindberg and S. Holden are working on a proposal for the Board to support a certification scheme. Status: done. 4 GHOP Contest Winners S. ...
...make many Microsoft Windows APIs available from Python. Incompatibility warning: Norton Antivirus 2000 can cause blue screen crashes on Windows 98 when a function in the os.popen*() family is invoked. To prevent this problem, disable Norton Antivirus when using Python. (Confirmed on Windows 98 Second Edition with Norton Antivirus version 6.10.20. The same Norton Antivirus version doesn't have this problem on Windows 2000. Norton Antivirus version 5 on Windows 98SE doesn't have this...
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