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  • Release – Python 3.14.0a3

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 17, 2024

    O Alpha 3, O Alpha 3, how lovely are your branches! https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140a3/ This is an early developer preview of Python 3.14 Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0a3, is the third of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases …

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  • Python 1.6

    ...ing objects is now safe even for deeply nested data structures. Long/int unifications: long integers can be used in seek() calls, as slice indexes. String formatting (s % args) has a new formatting option, '%r', which acts like '%s' but inserts repr(arg) instead of str(arg). (Not yet in alpha 1.) Greg Ward's "distutils" package is included: this will make installing, building and distributing third party packages much simpler. There's now special syntax that you can use instead ...

  • ...ing, a proxy. Be sure that your designated proxy will be attending the meeting and is willing to act as your proxy. PSF members who have indicated their willingness to act as proxy are listed in the meeting agenda. Designation of Proxy As a member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF), I hereby appoint ______________________________________________________________ [Print the name of the person you are appointing as your proxy.] as my proxy with full power to vote in accordance with the d...

  • EDU-SIG: Python in Education

    ...ing with python". Learning environments Since Python is an interpreted language, all one needs to start programming is a terminal window. However, for your students, this would not be the friendliest environment; instead, we recommend that you use something like IDLE (which stands for Integrated DeveLopment Environment), which is included in the installation Python files on any platform that supports Tcl, including Windows. As for yourself, if you prefer programming directly from a termi...

  • What's New In Python 3.0

    ...print the corresponding list of objects considered by the garbage collector. Issue #1573: Improper use of the keyword-only syntax makes the parser crash. Issue #1564: The set implementation should special-case PyUnicode instead of PyString. Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its original source encoding. inspect.getsource() includes the decorators again. Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint. Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which...

  • Proxy Form - 2009-03-27 PSF Members' Meeting

    ...ing, a proxy. Be sure that your designated proxy will be attending the meeting and is willing to act as your proxy. PSF members who have indicated their willingness to act as proxy are listed in the meeting agenda. The text source of this form can be found here (suitable for emailing). As a member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF), I hereby appoint ____________________________________________________________________ [Print the name of the person you are appointing as your proxy.] as...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...introspection extremely accessible to the programmer and, remarkably, introspective code remains readable and maintainable. This can be very useful in redirecting I/O to classes of your own design, writing a tracer that determines code coverage, packing up data to store on disk or send over the network, developing glue code, writing table-driven algorithms, extracting documentation from code at runtime, applying design-by-contract development methods, and in building various types of meta-classe...

  • PSF Trademark Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

    ...ince this is nominative use. If you intend to alter the logo or put it into a different setting, please send in a mockup for approval. What about on stickers? As long as you keep the logo shape unaltered and don't sell the stickers, you are free to go, since this is nominative use. If you intend to alter the logo or put it into a different setting, please send in a mockup for approval. May I sell merchandise including the Python logo? For sold merchandise using our logos, we ask for a donati...

  • Python 1.6.1

    ...ing objects is now safe even for deeply nested data structures. Long/int unifications: long integers can be used in seek() calls, as slice indexes. String formatting (s % args) has a new formatting option, '%r', which acts like '%s' but inserts repr(arg) instead of str(arg). (Not yet in alpha 1.) Greg Ward's "distutils" package is included: this will make installing, building and distributing third party packages much simpler. There's now special syntax that you can use instead of the ...

  • 2012-07-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...ing Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors July 16, 2012 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Group Video Calling via Skype and Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, on 16 July 2012. Van Lindberg presided over the meeting. Pat Campbell prepared the minutes. All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor — opposed — abstentions; e.g. "5-1-2&...

  • 2012-02-27 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...in case you want to take some along to show to companies who might be interested in booking an ad or listing. Here's the link to the PDF of the teaser: LINK REDACTED Please don't pass the PDF around, since we haven't yet finalized the PDF redistribution rights on the content with the story contributors. Passing around the printed copies is fine, of course :-) Unfortunately, no one from our team will attend PyCon US, so I hope that you'll all enjoy the conference. If you find people interested in...

  • Job - Senior Software Engineer

    Location: San Francisco, California United States

    Your Mission This role will follow a hybrid schedule, requiring in-office presence at our San Francisco office from Monday to Thursday, with an occasional additional day on-site as needed. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience integrating payment providers to own, maintain, and continuously modernize our payments and …

  • Absentee Ballot - 2008-03-14 PSF Members' Meeting

    ...ing to be held at PyCon 2008 at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare hotel on March 14, 2008, from 12:40 pm. Election of Nominated Members The following people have been nominated for membership in the PSF. To be elected, a nominee must receive more "Yes" votes than "No" votes. Please vote to accept as a new nominated member (check one of "Yes", "No", or "Abstain" for each nominee): Nominee Yes No Abstain Titus Brown       ...

  • 2012-12-19 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...interested in sponsoring the brochure yourself, please check the available sponsorship plans we have available: http://brochure.getpython.info/sponsorship If you have questions, please ping me directly or write to brochure at getpython.info. 14.3   Issues Since we'll be continuing to work on the brochure project and also continue to collect success stories, we're always interested in getting in contact with people behind interesting projects and companies using Python to do gr...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...in large-scale data collection & analysis, and consumer internet software, having worked with such companies as MCI, Datalytics, and Battelle. He holds a degree in Computer and Information Science from The Ohio State University. He has been in the technology industry for over 13 years, and is founder of Intellovations, LLC, a technology consulting company focused on building software for discovery -- challenging projects that bring new information and knowledge into businesses for competitiv...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...ings, and people. We bought a digital camera so we could take as many pictures of as many ordinary things as we wanted, without having to worry about the cost and bother of film and development. Nat's tastes are difficult to predict, so we might take pictures of a subject certain to please him, only to find that he has no interest in them at all. We wanted to be able to cast a wide net while taking pictures, to be certain to capture the images that would interest him. Once we had the camera, ...

  • 2010-05-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...ined meeting at 16:12], Jesse Noller, Tim Peters, Jeff Rush, Greg Stein, Martin v. Löwis, Gloria Willadsen. Also in attendance were Kurt Kaiser (Treasurer), and Pat Campbell (Secretary & Administrator). 2   Minutes of Past Meetings The 12 April 2010 Board meeting minutes were approved during this month's meeting session. Approved, 9-0-0 3   Votes Taken Between Meetings There were no votes taken since the last Board meeting on 12 April 2010. 4  &n...

  • 2012-05-21 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...including $905 received during PyCon registrations this year Grants/Sprints: Linux AU $1,593 Kiwi PyCon 843 SciKit/Learn Sprint 4,816 Our expense for the SciKit/Learn Sprint will be covered by a $5000 donation to the PSF by Google. Expense: Outside Services: Wendroff / QBOL 1,477 The treasurer goes on to say: Most of my time was spent on paying PyCon vendor invoices, processing sponsor payments and working on completing the PyCon accounting detail in Q...

  • Computer Programming for Everybody

    ...ing environment, written in Python, suitable for teaching Python to computer users without previous programming experience. Design and implement a prototype library of Python modules connecting Python to an existing 3D game-playing engine for the purpose of teaching Python in an engaging environment. Write a tutorial that teaches general programming skills and good programming habits to students with no previous programming skills, using the above software. Create and maintain a w...

  • 2011-12-19 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...ing to be able to meet our set deadline of shipping the first edition of the brochure in time for PyCon US 2012 without putting the financials, success and quality of content at risk. Instead of shipping the final brochure, we're planing on sending a teaser or flyer for inclusion in the PyCon US conference bag. We hope to ramp up the number of subscription sponsors that way (*). As of now, we are working on compressing and finalizing the brochure text, getting texts translated, proof read and fo...

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