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  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    ...Python ever, and yet it can be done with very few backwards incompatibilities. The changes are described in minute detail in a series of PEPs (Python Enhancement Proposals). PEPs are not designed to be tutorials, and the PEPs describing the type/class unification are sometimes hard to read. They also aren't finished yet. That's where this paper comes in: it introduces the key elements of the type/class unification for the average Python programmer. A bit of terminology: "classic Pyt...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    ...Python ever, and yet it can be done with very few backwards incompatibilities. The changes are described in minute detail in a series of PEPs (Python Enhancement Proposals). PEPs are not designed to be tutorials, and the PEPs describing the type/class unification are sometimes hard to read. They also aren't finished yet. That's where this paper comes in: it introduces the key elements of the type/class unification for the average Python programmer. A bit of terminology: "classic Pyt...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    ...Python ever, and yet it can be done with very few backwards incompatibilities. The changes are described in minute detail in a series of PEPs (Python Enhancement Proposals). PEPs are not designed to be tutorials, and the PEPs describing the type/class unification are sometimes hard to read. They also aren't finished yet. That's where this paper comes in: it introduces the key elements of the type/class unification for the average Python programmer. A bit of terminology: "classic Pyt...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    ...Python ever, and yet it can be done with very few backwards incompatibilities. The changes are described in minute detail in a series of PEPs (Python Enhancement Proposals). PEPs are not designed to be tutorials, and the PEPs describing the type/class unification are sometimes hard to read. They also aren't finished yet. That's where this paper comes in: it introduces the key elements of the type/class unification for the average Python programmer. A bit of terminology: "classic Pyt...

  • 2006-10-15 Grants Committee Status Report

    ...Python $27,000 to Gregory Wilson, for creating a course "Python for Engineers" $10,000 to Brian Zimmer, for moving Jython forward. With several delays both on our side, and the recipient's side, the first two projects were completed. PySNMP does now support SNMPv3, and can be obtained from http://pysnmp.sourceforge.net/ Greg's course is also available online (as all intermediate versions had been), at http://www.swc.scipy.org/ Brian Zimmer found, in the middle of the project, that h...

  • Community Stories

    ...Python itself and its C-API, I am very excited about the things to come and what awaits for the Python Language and its community :) Pablo Galindo Salgado, Python Core Developer Community trainings A huge turning point in my career was a Python workshop. I programmed a bit as a kid, and took a single CS class in college, and tried to poke along doing some self-study so I could get better. And then I attended a Boston Python Workshop for Women And Their Friends http://bostonpythonworkshop.com/...

  • Release – Python 3.12.14

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    Released: Aug. 12, 2026

    This is a security release of Python 3.12 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.12.14, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.12 series. Python 3.14 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.14.x here. Security content …

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  • Release – Python 3.11.16

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    Released: Aug. 12, 2026

    This is a security release of Python 3.11 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.11.16, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.11 series. Python 3.14 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.14.x here. Security content …

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  • Support Python in 2023!

    ...Python Developer in Residence - Our CPython Developer in Residence, Łukasz Langa, continued to provide trusted support and advancement of the Python language, including oversight for the releases of Python 3.8 and 3.9, adoption of Sigstore, and stewardship of PEP 703 (to name a few of many!). Łukasz also engaged with the community by orchestrating the Python Language Summit and participating in events such as PyCon US 2023, EuroPython, and PyCon Colombia.This critical role would not be possible ...

  • Mailing lists

    ...python.org archive of python-list comp.lang.python in non-English There are some non-English language versions of this newsgroup. The links provided here are to the Google Groups archive for each: de.comp.lang.python (German), it.comp.lang.python (Italian), pl.comp.lang.python (Polish), fr.comp.lang.python (French), and cz.comp.lang.python (Czech). comp.lang.python.announce newgroup and python-announce mailing list comp.lang.python.announce is a low-volume moderated forum for Python-related...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (July 12, 2005)

    ...python.org, www.python.org, mail.python.org, cheeseshop.python.org, and wiki.python.org. They cost $49/year per certificate (wildcard certificates cost $449/year, which is not economical with fewer than 10 domain names). The difference between purchased and self-signed certificates was discussed; it was agreed that purchased certificates were worth the expense. It was then RESOLVED: To allocate up to $260 to compensate Barry Warsaw for purchasing 5 SSL certificates for python.org hosts. ($2...

  • 2011-06-27 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Python we have again put up a special and found a few contact scouts willing to help get in touch with the around 600 attendees: http://brochure.getpython.info/meet-us-at-europython This time around, our whole team will be present as well, so we can have a more direct introduction. On the sponsorship side, things are looking bright: we are close to signing up our first ad sponsor RackSpace and have had inquiries by Enthought and Resolver Systems - even though we haven't even started looking for...

  • 2014-01-31 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Python Events Calendar I'm continuing discussions with national and local groups, encourage people to make use of the Python events calendars: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEventsCalendar and help maintain it, along with a team of volunteers. The team now uses a mailing list instead of the email alias list. It's public and anyone can subscribe to it: https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEventsCalendar#Mailing_List Submissions sent to events at python.org are forwarded to this mailing list. I r...

  • 2011-07-18 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Python log branded clothing, per Pat Campbell's clever calendar tickler. No response received, but if he gets back, we can extend the authorization. - Radomir Dopieralski wished to use the overly generic name "Python Software House" which we expressed concern about. As a result, they renamed the company "STX Next - Python Experts." They also developed an attractive logo based on the new name, using the Flux Regular font to retain the connection with Python logos (but ...

  • 2011-01-24 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...python.org/devguide/). As of this moment the pages related to getting someone set up to becoming a core developer are now done." As far as plans for next month's activities, Brett goes on to say: "The guides on how to make changes to the stdlib and the language will be done. There is also some doc cleanup in terms of moving things out of various PEPs and the Misc directory in Python's repo and over to the devguide. After that I will start the Python 2->3 porting guide." 5.3&n...

  • PSF Community Service Awards

    ...Python community, including co-chairing PyLadiesCon, co-founding PyLadies en Español, coordinating Python en Español events, contributing to Python Docs ES, and volunteering at EuroPython and PyCon US. Q2 2026 Community Service Award was given to Paul Everitt for decades of Python community contributions spanning his founding role on the PSF Board of Directors, long-running developer advocacy of Python at JetBrains, and most recently co-authoring PEP 750 to introduce t-strings in Python 3.14. ...

  • PSF Board Resolutions

    ...Python Software Foundation Board of Directors grant $7500 USD to the 1st PythonHo Regional Python Community Conference taking place in Ho, Ghana, on October 25-26, 2024. Approved; 12-0-0, 2024-08-15 RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Board of Directors grant $7500 USD to the 1st PythonHo Regional Python Community Conference taking place in Ho, Ghana, on October 25-26, 2024. Approved; 12-0-0, 2024-08-15 RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation charter a Board Committee to review...

  • 2012-12-19 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Python related events, I've setup a team of volunteers to manage two new event calendars. One for larger events and another one for smaller events: Python events calendar Python user group events calendar The calendars are displayed on the http://pycon.org/ site and in the sidebar of http://python.org/. Details about the calendars are available on the wiki page we have for them: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEventsCalendar 15.3   Issues The budget the board approved fo...

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