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  • SIG for XML Processing in Python

    SIG for XML Processing in Python SIG for XML Processing in Python This list has been created to provide a forum for discussion and implementation of tools to make Python an excellent choice for XML processing. Mission Statement XML is the Extensible Markup Language, a standard defined by the World Wide Web Consortium. Originally developed as a standard to enable the interchange of structured data, XML has expanded to encompass databases, distributed computing, and so on. The XM...

  • Web SIG

    Web SIG The Python Web SIG is dedicated to improving Python's support for interacting with World Wide Web services and clients. Charter The first task should be to create a plan (in the form of a PEP) for bringing the Web support in the standard Python library up to modern standards. This would address capabilities such as (but not limited to) CSS parsing, XHTML parsing and generation support, client-side and server-side SSL support, simple server frameworks, multi-part/form-data POST suppor...

  • Python Internationalization-SIG

    Python Internationalization-SIG Internationalization-SIG ("i18n") This SIG provides a forum for discussing issues relating to the internationalization of Python. At the time of writing (March 2000), internationalization (henceforth spelled as "i18n" to save typing) features are being added to Python. This sig is the primary forum for discussing those features. Topics covered include but are not limited to: Unicode support and building a library of codecs Support for local...

  • 👋 Hey Community Members!

    👋 Hey Community Members! More than 20 ways to get involved & stay informed! Watch any of these talks given about the PSF (most recent one is about PyPI presented by Ee, our Director of Infrastructure!) Want to financially support the PSF? Donate! Read our blog Sign up to receive our quarterly newsletter Follow us on Twitter or Mastodon Become a Basic member If you are already a Basic member, consider becoming a Contributing, Managing, and/or Supporting member. If you want to be a PSF Boar...

  • Debugging Reference Count Problems

    Debugging Reference Count Problems Warning This page stays here for historical reasons and it may contain outdated or incorrect information. Debugging Reference Count Problems From: Guido van Rossum <guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> To: python-list@cwi.nl Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 11:09:40 -0400 Mike Fletcher wrote a number of posts about debugging C code that bombs, probably because of reference count problems. His approach to debugging this problem seems typical, but I thin...

  • Event Organizer Resource Library

    Event Organizer Resource Library Title and Author(s) or Organizer of Resource Topic and Type of Resource Short Description One Event at a Time: Funding Your Community the Realistic Way by Georgi Ker Fundraising - Written Guide A practical, experience-based playbook for community event organizers to build more sustainable funding through sponsorship strategies in light of the PSF’s grants pause. Organizing and Managing Open Source Events by the TODO Group Event organizing - Written gui...

  • Using Windows Installer

    Using Windows Installer Installer Features Python 2.4 is distributed as a Microsoft Installer (MSI) file on Windows. Typically, packages are installed by double-clicking them in the file explorer. However, with the msiexec.exe command line utility, additional features are available, like non-interactive installation and administrative installation. Non-interactive Installation With the command line msiexec /i python<version>.msi installation can be initiated programma...

  • Using Windows Installer

    Using Windows Installer Windows Installer Features Python 2.5 is distributed as a Microsoft Installer (MSI) file on Windows. Typically, packages are installed by double-clicking them in the file explorer. However, with the msiexec.exe command line utility, additional features are available, like non-interactive installation and administrative installation. Non-interactive Installation With the command line msiexec /i python<version>.msi installation can be initiated p...

  • Releases

    Releases Python releases are now listed on the downloads page. This page only provides links to older releases which are not listed in the release database. Python 1.6.1 (September 2000) Python 1.5.2 (April 1999) Older source releases (1.0.1 - 1.6) Ancient source releases (pre 1.0) Python 1.5 binaries Python 1.4 binaries Python 1.3 binaries Python 1.2 binaries Python 1.1 binaries

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (February 10, 2004)

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (February 10, 2004) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors Draft February 10, 2004 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 18:00 GMT. Martin von Löwis presided at the meeting. 1. Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were present at the meeting: Guido van Rossum, Martin von Löw...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (August 13, 2002)

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (August 13, 2002) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors August 13, 2002. A regular regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 1:05 pm EST. Guido van Rossum, president of the Foundation and chairman of the Board, presided at the meeting. 1. Attendance The following Board members were present: Tim...

  • Sunsetting Python 2

    Sunsetting Python 2 sunset python2 eol endoflife sunsetting We are volunteers who make and take care of the Python programming language. We have decided that January 1, 2020, was the day that we sunset Python 2. That means that we will not improve it anymore after that day, even if someone finds a security problem in it. You should upgrade to Python 3 as soon as you can. Why are you doing this? We needed to sunset Python 2 so we can help Python users by improving Python faster. We released Pyth...

  • The Python 2.3 Method Resolution Order

    The Python 2.3 Method Resolution Order By Michele Simionato. Abstract:This document is intended for Python programmers who want to understand the C3 Method Resolution Order used in Python 2.3. Although it is not intended for newbies, it is quite pedagogical with many worked out examples. I am not aware of other publicly available documents with the same scope, therefore it should be useful. Disclaimer: I donate this document to the Python Software Foundation, under the Python 2.3 lice...

  • About the Python Web Site

    About the Python Web Site Use the Python logo on your own pages. Reporting Problems To report a bug or to suggest an enhancement, please use the pythondotorg issue tracker. If you're reporting a problem (a broken link, typo, formatting glitch, etc), please include the URL of the affected page. Note that this address is only for problems with the main python.org website. For problems with PyPI please use the PyPI bug tracker. Joining the python.org Team This website is maintained by voluntee...

  • How To Submit to the Python Job Board

    How To Submit to the Python Job Board The Python Job Board is a free resource to help members of the Python community find paid work. It is for real jobs only (that is, only for paid openings that currently exist and are actively being hired for) where the successful candidate will spend the majority of their time writing Python. If this isn't the case, the submission will most likely be rejected. Unpaid volunteer positions will not be posted on the jobs page. If you have some Python-related v...

  • Incompatibilities between Python 2.1[.x] and 2.2[.x]

    Incompatibilities between Python 2.1[.x] and 2.2[.x] <h3>Incompatibilities between Python 2.1[.x] and Python 2.2[.x]</h3> <p>The following visible differences between Python 2.2 and previous versions are intentional. <ul> <p><li>Not listed here are various deprecated modules and features that may issue warnings: the warnings shouldn't affect the correct execution of your program, and they can be disabled with a command line option or programmatically; see th...

  • Known bugs in Python 2.2

    Known bugs in Python 2.2 <h2>Known bugs in Python 2.2</h2> <h3>Real bugs</h3> <p>These are actual bugs, and we will make fixes available as soon as we have them. (There may be other bugs that aren't generally worth knowing about; search the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=5470">SourceForge bug tracker</a>; you can also use that to report new bugs you find, of course.) <ul> <p><li>The ftplib module's FTP class...

  • Grants - Frequently Asked Questions

    Grants - Frequently Asked Questions python, grants, psf Considering submitting a grant request to the PSF? Please read this FAQ first. Q. Will the PSF fund swag? A. The PSF does not fund swag production or disbursement. Q. Is there anything I need to know about fund disbursements? A. The PSF offers various payment methods. If your grant request is approved, specific information will be requested in the email notification. Please see our Payment Options page (https://www.python.org/psf/paymento...

  • Diversity

    Diversity Diversity Statement The Python Software Foundation and the global Python community welcome and encourage participation by everyone. Our community is based on mutual respect, tolerance, and encouragement, and we are working to help each other live up to these principles. We want our community to be more diverse: whoever you are, and whatever your background, we welcome you. Diversity Appendix We have created this diversity statement because we believe that a diverse Python communit...

  • Python Distutils-SIG: Introduction

    Python Distutils-SIG: Introduction Python Distutils-SIG: Introduction Charter The Distutils-SIG exists to discuss the design, implementation, and maintenance of a suite of module distribution utilities for Python. These utilities are grouped in the 'distutils' package in Python. The goal of distutils is to make building, packaging, distributing, and installing Python modules, extensions, and applications painless and standardized. There ...

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