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  • FSF response to the Python 2.1 license

    FSF response to the Python 2.1 license FSF response to the Python 2.1 license Today, I received the following email from Eben Moglen, the Free Software Foundation's attorney. (See also a postscript.) Subject: Re: Python 1.6.1 and GPL compatibility From: Eben Moglen <moglen@columbia.edu> To: Guido van Rossum <guido@digicool.com> Cc: "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn@gnu.org>, rms@gnu.org Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 07:44:11 -0400 (EDT) On Wednesday, 18 April 2001, Guido van Rossum w...

  • Bugs in Python 2.3.3

    Bugs in Python 2.3.3 <h3>Bugs in Python 2.3.3</h3> <ul> <li>IDLE now executes code in a separate process. To communicate between the main process and executing processes, IDLE opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE.</li> </ul> &...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 9-Feb-2004

    Python Software Foundation: Press Release 9-Feb-2004 February 9, 2004 Press Release SOURCE: Python Software Foundation PyCon 2004 - Second Annual Python Developers Conference Keynote Speech by Mitchell Kapor, founder of Lotus FREDERICKSBURG, Va., February 9, 2004 -- PyCon 2004, the second annual Python developers conference, will be held at George Washington University's Cafritz Conference Center in Washington DC on March 24-26, 2004. Mitchell Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Co...

  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.3.5

    Linux RPMs for Python 2.3.5 <h1>Linux RPMs for Python 2.3.5</h1> <p>Except where noted, these RPMs are made available by Sean Reifschneider (<a href="mailto:jafo-rpms@tummy.com">jafo-rpms@tummy.com</a>). <h3>Having Problems?</h3> If you are having problems, please see the <a href="#FAQ">RPM Frequently Asked Questions</a> section at the end of this document for possible solutions. <h3>RPMs For Other Platform...

  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.4.2

    Linux RPMs for Python 2.4.2 <h1>Linux RPMs for Python 2.4.2</h1> <p>Except where noted, these RPMs are made available by Sean Reifschneider (<a href="mailto:jafo-rpms@tummy.com">jafo-rpms@tummy.com</a>). <h3>Having Problems?</h3> If you are having problems, please see the <a href="#FAQ">RPM Frequently Asked Questions</a> section at the end of this document for possible solutions. <h3>RPMs For Other Platform...

  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.4.2

    Linux RPMs for Python 2.4.2 <h1>Linux RPMs for Python 2.4.2</h1> <p>Except where noted, these RPMs are made available by Sean Reifschneider (<a href="mailto:jafo-rpms@tummy.com">jafo-rpms@tummy.com</a>). <h3>Having Problems?</h3> If you are having problems, please see the <a href="#FAQ">RPM Frequently Asked Questions</a> section at the end of this document for possible solutions. <h3>RPMs For Other Platform...

  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.4.2

    Linux RPMs for Python 2.4.2 <h1>Linux RPMs for Python 2.4.2</h1> <p>Except where noted, these RPMs are made available by Sean Reifschneider (<a href="mailto:jafo-rpms@tummy.com">jafo-rpms@tummy.com</a>). <h3>Having Problems?</h3> If you are having problems, please see the <a href="#FAQ">RPM Frequently Asked Questions</a> section at the end of this document for possible solutions. <h3>RPMs For Other Platform...

  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.2.2

    Linux RPMs for Python 2.2.2 <h1>Linux RPMs for Python 2.2.2</h1> <p>Except where noted, these RPMs are made available by Sean Reifschneider (<a href="mailto:jafo-rpms@tummy.com">jafo-rpms@tummy.com</a>). <h3>Having Problems?</h3> If you are having problems, please see the <a href="#FAQ">RPM Frequently Asked Questions</a> section at the end of this document for possible solutions. <h3>RPMs For Other Platform...

  • Bugs in Python 2.3.1

    Bugs in Python 2.3.1 <h3>Bugs in Python 2.3.1</h3> <ul> <li>IDLE now executes code in a separate process. To communicate between the main process and executing processes, IDLE opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE.</li> <li>The...

  • Python Security

    ...releases and the PSF web infrastructure, please note that the Python Software Foundation does not run any bug bounty programs. We are a nonprofit organization, depending on donation and support from the community. Published advisories and mailing list Security advisories are published to multiple public locations. Advisories are sent via email to the security-announce@python.org mailing list. Subscribe to the mailing list if you'd like to be updated on newly published security advisories....

  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.3.2

    Linux RPMs for Python 2.3.2 <h1>Linux RPMs for Python 2.3.2</h1> <p>Except where noted, these RPMs are made available by Sean Reifschneider (<a href="mailto:jafo-rpms@tummy.com">jafo-rpms@tummy.com</a>). <h3>Having Problems?</h3> If you are having problems, please see the <a href="#FAQ">RPM Frequently Asked Questions</a> section at the end of this document for possible solutions. <h3>RPMs For Other Platform...

  • Notes

    ...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, leading to crashes and other problems. The thread_id is now initialized to 0 in a non-thread build. SF bug 770247. SF bug 762891: "del p[key]" on proxy object no longer raises SystemError. Extension modules weakref.proxy() can now handle "del obj[i]" for proxy objects defining __de...

  • Python 2.4.1 - Release Notes

    ...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, leading to crashes and other problems. The thread_id is now initialized to 0 in a non-thread build. SF bug 770247. SF bug 762891: "del p[key]" on proxy object no longer raises SystemError. Extension modules weakref.proxy() can now handle "del obj[i]" for proxy objects defining __de...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction TTTech, founded in 1998, focuses on developing a technology for safety-critical real-time systems. Our central technology is the Time-Triggered Protocol (TTP), a communication protocol used in embedded systems for distributed fault-tolerant applications, such as drive-by-wire and fly-by-wire vehicles. For TTP, we provide chip models for implementing the necessary hardware in silicon, services to customers using the technology, and a broad range of tools. ...

  • Python Documentation Index

    ...releases of Python. Parade of the PEPs To start off Developer's Day at the Python10 conference I gave a keynote ending in what I dubbed "the parade of the PEPs". It was a brief overview of all open PEPs, where I gave my highly personal and subjective opinion for each PEP. Later, I realized that this might have been of interest to other developers. I didn't take notes at the conference, so below is a different set of comments that I created from scratch during a single two-hour sitti...

  • Notes

    ...releases. It once again opens input files in binary mode by default. The -t and -b flags remain for compatibility with the 2.3 release, but -b is the default now. py-electric-colon now works when pending-delete/delete-selection mode is in effect py-help-at-point is no longer bound to the F1 key - it's still bound to C-c C-h Pynche was fixed to not crash when there is no ~/.pynche file and no -d option was given. Build Bug #978645: Modules/getpath.c now builds properly in --disable-framewor...

  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.3.4

    Linux RPMs for Python 2.3.4 <h1>Linux RPMs for Python 2.3.4</h1> <p>Except where noted, these RPMs are made available by Sean Reifschneider (<a href="mailto:jafo-rpms@tummy.com">jafo-rpms@tummy.com</a>). <h3>Having Problems?</h3> If you are having problems, please see the <a href="#FAQ">RPM Frequently Asked Questions</a> section at the end of this document for possible solutions. <h3>RPMs For Other Platform...

  • Frank Willison Memorial Award

    Frank Willison Memorial Award Contributions can encompass so much more than code. A successful software community requires time, dedication, communication, and education as well as elegant code. With the Frank Willison Memorial Award, we hoped to acknowledge all of those things. —Tim O'Reilly The Frank Willison Memorial Award for Contributions to the Python Community is given annually to a person judged to have made an outstanding contribution to the Python community. The award was ...

  • MacPython 2.2.1

    MacPython 2.2.1 <h1>MacPython 2.2.1</h1> <p>Made available by Jack Jansen. <p>All files are also available from Jack's <a href="http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html">MacPython page</a>, which you should visit anyway (even if you get the files from here). <p>You should probably read the <a href="../macnews.txt">Macintosh specific release notes</a> as well as the <a href="../NEWS.txt">general ones<a/&g...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 6-Mar-2001

    Python Software Foundation: Press Release 6-Mar-2001 Python Software Foundation Launched New Organization to Promote Open Source Programming Language LONG BEACH, CA March 6, 2001 - At the ninth Python Conference, Guido van Rossum announced the launch of the Python Software Foundation (PSF). Modeled after the successful Apache Software Foundation, the PSF's mandate is to provide educational, legal and financial resources to the Python community. Responsible for holding Python's inte...

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