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  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (September 13, 2005)

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (September 13, 2005) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors September 13, 2005 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 17:00 UTC, September 13, 2005. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. 1   Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were present from the...

  • Notes

    ...4-bit machines in UCS-4 mode. Bug #938076: Consider output encoding in XMLGenerator. Bug #936637: Properly delegate startElementNS in saxutils.XMLFilterBase. Bug #944082: Empty passwords in urllib2 are now supported. Bug #926075: Fixed a bug that returns a wrong pattern object for a string or unicode object in sre.compile() when a different type pattern with the same value exists. Bug #924361: Properly support normalization of empty unicode strings. Fixed a caching bug in platform.platform...

  • Python 2.4.1 - Release Notes

    ...4-bit systems, a dictionary could contain duplicate long/int keys if the key value was larger than 2**32. See SF bug #689659. Fixed SF bug #663074. The codec system was using global static variables to store internal data. As a result, any attempts to use the unicode system with multiple active interpreters, or successive interpreter executions, would fail. "%c" % u"a" now returns a unicode string instead of raising a TypeError. u"%c" % 0xffffffff now raises a Over...

  • Python 1.6.1

    Python 1.6.1 Python 1.6.1 Note: See the download pages for more recent releases. What's new? Python 1.6 was the last of the versions developed at CNRI and the only version issued by CNRI with an open source license. Following the release of Python 1.6, and after Guido van Rossum left CNRI to work with commercial software developers, it became clear that the ability to use Python with software available under the GNU General Public License (GPL) was very desirable. CNRI and the Free Softwa...

  • 2009-06-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2009-06-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors June 8, 2009 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 8 June 2009. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. Pat Campbell and David Goodger prepared the minutes. All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor — opposed — abstentions; e.g. "5-1-2&...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, October 11, 2005 (Draft)

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, October 11, 2005 (Draft) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors (Draft) October 11, 2005 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 17:15 UTC, 11 October 2005. Martin von Löwis presided at the meeting. 1   Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors w...

  • 2008-12-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2008-12-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors December 8, 2008 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 17:00 UTC, 8 December 2008. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1   Attendance 2   Minutes of Past Meetings 3   Actions ...

  • 2011-05-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2011-05-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors May 16, 2011 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 16 May 2011. Steve Holden presided at 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" means &...

  • 2012-06-18 & 2012-06-25 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2012-06-18 & 2012-06-25 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors June 18, 2012 & June 25, 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, 18 June 2012 (Part 1) and resumed on 25 June 2012 (Part 2) & again was held over Group Video Calling via Skype and Internet Relay Cha...

  • 2012-04-30 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2012-04-30 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors April 30, 2012 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 30 April 2012. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. Pat Campbell prepared the minutes. All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor — opposed — abstentions; e.g. "...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories First published in Linux Journal, May 2000. Copyright 2000 Specialized Systems Consultants, Inc. All rights reserved. Introduction My first look at Python was an accident, and I didn't much like what I saw at the time. It was early 1997, and Mark Lutz's book Programming Python from O'Reilly & Associates had recently come out. O'Reilly books occasionally land on my doorstep, selected from among the new releases by some mysterious benefactor inside the organization u...

  • PSF Board Resolutions

    PSF Board Resolutions The Python Software Foundation Resolutions of the Board of Directors Vote counts are of the form "4-2-1" (4 in favor — 2 opposed — 1 abstention) RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation approve the minutes at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/psf-important@python.org/thread/CIEQOGB4SUW4DOJ7HCBFB5JJRPTCWUMK/ as representing a true and accurate record of the October 22, 2025 meeting. Approved; 11-0-0, 2025-11-12 RESOLVED, that the Python Software...

  • 2012-03-26 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2012-03-26 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors March 26, 2012 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 26 March 2012. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. Pat Campbell prepared the minutes. All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor — opposed — abstentions; e.g. "...

  • Computer Programming for Everybody

    Computer Programming for Everybody Computer Programming for Everybody This is the main text of a funding proposal that we sent to DARPA in January 1999. In August 1999, we submitted a revised version of the proposal. Please look at the EDU-SIG home page (Python in Education Special Interest Group). This is where the current project status is described and/or will be discussed, and where you'll find pointers to more resources. Note:I have made one change to the text of the propos...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2 Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2 Python Version: 2.2.1 (For a newer version of this tutorial, see Python 2.2.3) Guido van Rossum This paper is an incomplete draft. I am soliciting feedback. If you find any problems, please write me at guido@python.org. Table of Contents Change Log Introduction Subclassing built-in types Built-in types as factory functions Introspecting instances of built-in types Static metho...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2 Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2 Python Version: 2.2.2 (For a newer version of this tutorial, see Python 2.2.3) Guido van Rossum This paper is an incomplete draft. I am soliciting feedback. If you find any problems, please write me at guido@python.org. Table of Contents Change Log Introduction Subclassing built-in types Built-in types as factory functions Introspecting instances of built-in types Static metho...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2 Python Version: 2.2.3 Guido van Rossum This paper is an incomplete draft. I am soliciting feedback. If you find any problems, please write me at guido@python.org. Table of Contents Change Log Introduction Subclassing built-in types Built-in types as factory functions Introspecting instances of built-in types Static methods and class methods Properties: attributes defined by get/set methods Method resolution ord...

  • PSF Community Service Awards

    ...4-bit Armin Ronacher for his work on the Jinja2 templating library, the Flask web framework, the Logbook logging library, the Click command line application library (including making all of the preceding Python 2/3 compatible), the python-modernize Python 2/3 migration tool, contributions to the modernisation of the Web Server Gateway Interface for Python 3, as well as invaluable detailed feedback given to the core development team on some of the remaining operating system integration issues in ...

  • What's New In Python 3.0

    What's New In Python 3.0 (editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.) What's New in Python 3.0 final Release date: 03-Dec-2008 Core and Builtins Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!") instead of throwing a MemoryError. Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed ite...

  • Computer Programming for Everybody

    Computer Programming for Everybody Computer Programming for Everybody This is the text of a revised funding proposal that we sent to DARPA in August 1999. In March, we heard that at least an earlier version of the proposal was accepted by DARPA; the work has begun late 1999 and will hopefully last two years, although we've only received funding for the first year (through October 2000). We're keeping our fingers crossed for the rest. Unfortunately, the move of the Python developm...

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