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  • 2008-05-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...and website functionality. Naturally, we turned to the Open Source community for help running all of our development on inexpensive Dell laptops with RedHat Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP and Python software. Challenged to produce a system quickly and at a low cost we turned to Python to develop and test features and functionality for our website. Our programming team was already familiar with it and explained that Python had a reputation for being powerful while getting the job done quickly. They ...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...and limited developer resources. The most important concern to me in choosing the development tools was my productivity. Since this was "after-hours" work, my time and attention would be stretched thin, and I wanted to be able to focus on the user experience, not build environments, memory management, and the like. I looked for existing software, and found lots of interesting examples at pygame (www.pygame.org). Pygame provided all the functions I'd need for image manipulation and d...

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

    ...and Andrew being mildly ill. His goal is to complete the move before the August board meeting. 4.3   Public Support Committee S. Deibel reports that not much has happened, mostly due to being busy with other things. He expressed the desire to get the fund raising end of the PSF going better, with volunteers and people that have time and vision. 4.4   Conference Committee A. Kuchling posted a status report to the psf-board mailing list. Summary: A site decision...

  • 2010-05-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...and make the whole operation more predictable." This discussion was deferred to email. 18.2   Creating Marketing Material for Python The board also discussed the use of a Plone model to design a brochure and flyer as marketing material for Python as suggested by M.A. Lemburg. M.A. Lemburg: "MarcAndreLemburg has been in touch with a texter and a designer in Germany who have prepared a professional quality brochure and flyer for Plone. Should we put more energy and money...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...and Solaris. Our web-client uses WebWare and Apache and supports Mozilla, Lynx, and Internet Explorer, with Opera, Galeon and Konqueror support planned. There are also Python scripting front-ends, and an SMTP Mail client which permits users to communicate with the system using their favorite email reader. Our subsystems communicate securely, thanks to OpenSSL. We wrote our own python wrapper, called it PyOpenSSL and released it under the GNU Lesser General Public License. We also use an asynchro...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, January 10, 2006

    ...and director nominations and will follow up and keep the list of those nominated. All directors present confirmed their candidacy for director; the other two directors (Steve Holden and Jeremy Hylton) were to be confirmed. David Goodger and Brett Cannon had also been nominated for director. M. von Löwis asked about converting members into emeritus status, noting that we don't have to do this (since it was done last year, it isn't critical this year). S. Deibel replied that Jeremy Hylton took c...

  • Grants - Frequently Asked Questions

    ...and Control (OFAC) publishes lists of individuals and companies owned or controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of, targeted countries. The US government prohibits US citizens, US-based entities and US branches of foreign companies from doing business with countries or parties on these lists. The lists include individuals, groups, and entities, such as terrorists and narcotics traffickers designated under programs that are not country-specific. The Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list...

  • Release – Python 3.14.0rc2

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    Released: Aug. 14, 2025

    It's the final 🪄 penultimate 🪄 3.14 release candidate! Note: rc2 was originally planned for 2025-08-26, but we fixed a bug that required bumping the magic number stored in Python bytecode (.pyc) files. This means .pyc files created for rc1 cannot be used for rc2, and they'll be …

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  • Building the PSF: the Q2 2019 Fundraiser

    ...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 you'd like to join the PSF, click here to become a Supporting Member and optionally make a one-time donation. Donations are tax-deductible for individuals and organizations that pay taxes in the United States Thank y...

  • 2014-01-31 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...and make list of lorem ipsum pages. Laurens will get logs from Noah and analyze traffic and long tail, decide what is our 90% of top views. Noah (with the infrastructure team) will get in place the Load balancer, ElasticSearch, possibly obtain new SSL Cert, and communicate with Fastly about serving the pages with our certs. Ewa will reach out to redesign vendors and set up a meeting, order all lists made by Brian and Laurens and make sure that all of these lists are supplied. Here is a list of i...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 29-Jul-2003

    ...and multi-threading High-level dynamic data typing and very late binding Tight integration with C, C++, and Java modules May be compiled to Java byte code for use in any JVM String and regular expression processing Extensive XML and web services support HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, NNTP, telnet, and other IP protocols HTML, MIME, base64, binhex, uuencode, and other internet data handling GUI development and multimedia services Unit testing, profiling, and documentation generation Availa...

  • 2013-12-06 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...and ad requirements. Budgeting: I am going to contact all outstanding balances from 2013 sponsors. Ongoing Projects Financial Aid planning 2016/2017 RFPs: Received word that Portland will not be submitting a proposal. At this point I will wait to receive the revised Austin proposal and then begin negotiations. I have also added Orlando to the mix. Budget: Updating PyCon 2014 budget ledger with invoices that need to be paid and new funding Tabled Activities None Issues / Blockages ...

  • 2010-06-21 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...and conference volunteers for their hard work. It was reported that PyCon 2010 made a 72K profit and that all of the bills generated from the conference have been paid. Also, board members and officers will be holding a budget planning meeting by telephone-conference in July 2010 to plan and review the 2011 PSF budget. 7   Fund PyCon India 2010 The board discussed funding of PyCon India 2010 and agreed to provide a USD 1,000 grant to conference organizers. RESOLVED, that the PS...

  • Debugging Reference Count Problems

    ...and short strings are cached and shared aggressively -- but that doesn't affect whether you own a reference to them.) Many routines that extract objects from other objects also give you the responsibility of owning a reference to the object, e.g. PyObject_GetAttr() and PyObject_GetItem(). On the other hand (and these are the most common examples, but not the only ones), PyList_GetItem(), PyTuple_GetItem(), PyDict_GetItem() and PyDict_GetItemString() all return to you an object withou...

  • PSF Grants Program

    ...and exciting work and events to enrich the Python community. We can’t wait to hear about your event, workshop, or regional community—so let’s jump right in! Guiding Principles The PSF Grants Program supports hundreds of Python-related conferences, workshops, and communities globally in line with our mission: The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and internationa...

  • Summary of "Extension Building" Session

    ...and so forth. Roles of setup.py The planned interface to and tasks for setup.py evolved rapidly throughout the session, mainly driven by the division of labour identified by Eric Raymond and clearly written down by Greg Stein, and the workflow diagram drawn by ??? and expanded upon by me (see below). It's clear that setup.py has to contain 1) metadata about the package, and 2) any custom code needed to configure the distribution for the current machine. It...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...and aggravating process that was inadequate to our needs, we now have an automated process that lets developers express themselves and have Cog do the hard work. Python's flexibility and power were put to work in two ways: to develop Cog itself, and sprinkled throughout our C++ source code to give our developers a powerful tool to turn static data into running code. Although our product is built in C++, we've used Python to increase our productivity and expressive power, ease maintenance work, a...

  • What's New In Python 3.0

    ...and co_filename to unicode. The path names are decoded with Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding and a new API method PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault(char*) was added. io.open() and _fileio.FileIO have grown a new argument closefd. A false value disables the closing of the file descriptor. Added a new option -b to issues warnings (-bb for errors) about certain operations between bytes/buffer and str like str(b'') and comparison. The standards streams sys.stdin, stdout and stderr may be None when the when the ...

  • Executive Summary: The Python Software Foundation

    ...and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of the international community of Python programmers.” The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is the non-profit legal entity that holds and protects the intellectual property rights behind Python, keeping it free and open for all to use. The PSF also contributes to the Python community by underwriting or sponsoring conferences, funding grants and special projects, and leading volunteer efforts. Everyone that prog...

  • 2013-06-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...and marking them in bug tracker. Going through all of the backlog from PyCon. Documentation Upkeep and Wiki created the charter for the Bylaw WG and also the interaction sheet for future charters. Other Conferences Please see the Event Coordinator Report for the detail. 5.3   Outreach and Education Report Awards $767.27 for an introduction to Python Workshop at the 2013 American Library Association annual conference, led by Andromeda Yelton. $300 for a women's ...

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