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  • Recurring Giving Campaign

    ...About the PSF The Python Software Foundation is a non-profit organization entirely supported by its sponsor members and the public. Our mission is to further the development of the Python language and its applications. Payments are processed by PayPal but may be made either through your existing PayPal account or your credit card. You will choose your payment method after you are transferred to the PayPal server.

  • Support Python in 2023!

    ...about Python and security on his blog. This critical role would not be possible without funding from the OpenSSF Alpha-Omega Project. PyPI Safety & Security Engineer - Mike Fiedler joined the PSF earlier this year as our first ever PyPI Safety & Security Engineer. Mike is already a dedicated member of the Python packaging community–he has been a Python user for some 15 years, maintains and contributes to open source projects, and became a PyPI Maintainer in 2022. You can see some of what he’s ...

  • Python Software Foundation Board Meeting Minutes 2006-08-14

    ...about the cost, being high relative to the other things the PSF has done. M. von Löwis: "I think we can get some of it cheaper from volunteers." S. Holden expressed doubts about this though, and D. Goodger agreed: "the problem with volunteers is someone needs to coordinate them," and certain parts get left undone. K. Kaiser asked if this position would result in offsetting revenue somehow. S. Deibel suggested that we commit to 6 months but allow either party to terminate w...

  • 2013-03-29 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...about logistics/general things. PyCon Website Management Nothing to Report for February & March. 5.2   Administrator Report Board Agenda / Minutes I continue to write up the Board Agenda and keep it up to date. I continue to write up the Board Meeting minutes. Grant and Award Notification I continue to notify respective parties of board resolutions. Email and Communication I am continuing to monitor all PSF Board/Members mailing lists also making sure...

  • Glue It All Together With Python

    ...about applications that started out as pure C++ code to which Python was added as an extension language, where in each new version the percentage of the application written in Python increased, while also increasing the overall performance, functionality and reliability of the application. (E.g. Case Study: Python in a Commercial Environment, by Greg Stein, Microsoft, in Proceedings of the 6th International Python Conference, and the Alice VR project at UvA and CMU.) Python has a stron...

  • Python News

    ...about the upcoming 2014 PyTennessee conference, to be held Feb 22-23, 2014, are available from the conference website,. Published: Wed, 4 September 2013, 06:30 -0600 [ RSS ]

  • Notes

    ...about importing the warnings module. In an executable generated by freeze or similar programs, earlier versions of 2.3 would fail if the warnings module could not be found on the file system. Fixes SF bug 771097. A warning about assignments to module attributes that shadow builtins, present in earlier releases of 2.3, has been removed. It is not possible to create subclasses of builtin types like str and tuple that define an itemsize. Earlier releases of Python 2.3 allowed this by mistake, le...

  • 2007 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes

    ...about 410 attendees in 2006, about 590 in 2007. We had a $19,000 profit from PyCon in 2006, and expect a profit for 2007 as well. There was a $6000 travel grant (financial aid) supplementary budget from the PSF in 2006, $7000 in 2007 but part of the PyCon budget. We got to a late start with sponsors for 2007, but many sponsors contacted us, and we have had excellent results. Ideas & comments that arose during the discussion: Thomas Wouters: Should we have a lower fee, and take a loss? Tr...

  • PSF Trademark Usage Policy

    ...about your intended use of the trademarks, please contact the PSF Trademarks Committee. Uses that Always Require Approval Any commercial use of the PSF trademarks in product or company names must be approved first by the PSF. Some uses, like calling a company "The Python Company," or a product "Python Language" or "Python IDE" will be refused. This is because they are overly broad, or confusing as to whether the Python programming language is open source or commer...

  • 2013-07-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...about 40 attendees. Not having to worry about finding lunch gave them a well-deserved chance to relax, and gave us time to run lightning talks showcasing real-world Python applications. Here's a blog post on the event: http://litablog.org/2013/07/introduction-to-python-at-ala-annual-or-awesome-true-ala2013py/ We also have a Storify capturing the day as it happened: http://storify.com/ThatAndromeda/introduction-to-python-at-ala/". We are in the middle of discussing the committee's membershi...

  • Release – Python 2.7.3

    Version: None

    Released: April 9, 2012

    Note: A newer bugfix release, 2.7.4, is currently available. Its use is recommended over previous versions of 2.7. Python 2.7.3 was released on April 9, 2012. 2.7.3 includes fixes for several reported security issues in 2.7.2: issue 13703 (oCERT-2011-003, hash collision denial of service), issue 14234 (CVE-2012-0876, hash table …

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  • Release – Python 3.2.4

    Version: None

    Released: April 6, 2013

    Note: A newer security-fix release, 3.2.6, is currently available. Its use is recommended. Python 3.2.4 was released on April 7th, 2013. This is the final 3.2 series bugfix release. New features of the 3.2 series, compared to 3.1 Python 3.2 is a continuation of the efforts to improve and …

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  • Python 2.7.3 Release

    ...about IDLE, Tkinter, and Tcl/Tk on Mac OS X here. Also, on Mac OS X 10.6, if you need to build C extension modules with the 32-bit-only Python installed, you will need Apple Xcode 3, not 4. The 64-bit/32-bit Python can use either Xcode 3 or Xcode 4.

  • 2012-10-17 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...about furthering Sam's programming education. It has been decided that PyCon will sponsor his trip to the US to take part in the Young Coders tutorial and conference. 9.3   PyCon India Funds David Mertz took care of this over email. 10   Adjournment Van Lindberg adjourned the meeting at 19:00 CEST/ 13:00 EDT.

  • 2011-05-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...about new PyCon website software. Paulo Nuin is working on a post about the PyPI mirroring project. 5.2   Honorary Associate Membership WebPages/Links P. Campbell, Honorary Associate Membership (HAM) WebPages Start-up Project, reported on the current issues or blockages the project may be faced with by saying: "We have been in the technical phase of the Honorary Associate Membership (HAM) Project for the past few months which means that the actual HAM membership recruitme...

  • Python 2.0

    ...about Python 2.0 you can discuss it there. Bugs and Patches To report a bug, always use the SourceForge Bug Tracker. If you have a patch, please use the SourceForge Patch Manager. Download The final version of Python 2.0 is available for download now. Windows installer. To install Python, Windows users need only download the Windows installer and run it. Source code (.tar.gz, 3.9MB) or (.tar.bz2, 3.3MB) Linux RPMs Package Source (gzi...

  • Release – Python 2.5.3

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 19, 2008

    Python 2.5.3 was released on December 19th, 2008. This is the last bugfix release of Python 2.5. Python 2.5 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. According to the release notes, about 80 bugs and patches have been addressed since Python 2.5.2, many …

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  • Release – Python 3.3.0

    Version: None

    Released: Sept. 29, 2012

    Python 3.3 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, as well as easier porting between 2.x and 3.x. Major new features in the 3.3 release series are: PEP 380, syntax for delegating to a subgenerator (yield from) PEP 393, flexible string representation (doing away …

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  • Release – Python 3.2.5

    Version: None

    Released: May 15, 2013

    Note: A newer security-fix release, 3.2.6, is currently available. Its use is recommended. Python 3.2.5 was released on May 15th, 2013. This release fixes a few regressions found in Python 3.2.4, and is planned to be the final 3.2 series bugfix release. New features of the 3.2 series, compared …

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  • Release – Python 3.2.1

    Version: None

    Released: July 9, 2011

    Note: A newer security-fix release, 3.2.6, is currently available. Its use is recommended. Python 3.2.1 was released on July 10th, 2011. Python 3.2 is a continuation of the efforts to improve and stabilize the Python 3.x line. Since the final release of Python 2.7, the 2.x line will only …

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