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  • Fiscal Sponsorees

    ...Python Association (BAPyA) BAPyA is a group of Python community organizers in the San Francisco Bay Area dedicated to supporting local gatherings to learn and discuss Python. Please consider supporting the BAPyA community with a contribution. Boston Python Boston Python is one of the world's largest local Python user groups. We have a presentation night and a project night almost every month, and run weekend workshops to introduce beginners to Python. Your donation helps keep the Python commu...

  • Release – Python 3.8.0a2

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    Released: Feb. 25, 2019

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.8 Major new features of the 3.8 series, compared to 3.7 Python 3.8 is still in development. This release, 3.8.0a2 is the second of four planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of …

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  • Matching Donations

    ...Python programmers. Your employer may receive a tax deduction for contributions to the Python Software Foundation (PSF) (EIN 04-3594598) , which is a public charity classified as exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. How to donate and have your company match In a few simple steps, you can see if your company offers a matching gift program. Make a contribution to the PSF here. Check with your company's Human Resources or Accounting department about matching...

  • Catalog Requirements

    ...Python modules. Related requirement: the Distutils sdist and bdist_* commands should have a --sign switch to sign the generated .tgz, .rpm, or whatever file. Requirements from #4 None Requirements from #5 Not covered by this page. This includes checking for updated versions, tracking dependencies between Python packages, and between Python packages and system libraries. These seem to be difficult problems that require a database of Python packages installed on a system...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (June 11, 2002)

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (June 11, 2002) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors Jun. 11, 2002 A regular regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 1:09 pm EST. Guido van Rossum, president of the Foundation and chairman of the Board, presided at the meeting. 1. Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors wer...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (December 10, 2002)

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (December 10, 2002) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors December 10, 2002. A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 13:02 PM PCT. Guido van Rossum, president of the Foundation and chairman of the Board, presided at the meeting. 1. Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were pr...

  • 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...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (November 9, 2004)

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (November 9, 2004) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors November 9, 2004 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 18:00 GMT. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. 1. Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were present at the meeting: Jeremy Hylton, Stephan Deibel, David Ascher...

  • PSF Fundraiser for Q2 2021

    ...Python Software Foundation is celebrating our 20th anniversary this year. With the love and support of our Python family, we’ve achieved the following milestones over the past two decades: Hosted 18 PyCon US conferences Served more than 8,687 gallons of coffee for our highly-caffeinated PyCon attendees Funded more than 39 sprints worldwide Gave 651 PyCon scholarships and travel grants to under-represented Pythonistas Awarded $2,804,281 in grants for Python projects worldwide Provided...

  • Software Bill-of-Materials Information

    ...Python-3.12.2.tgz the SBOM document will be named Python-3.12.2.tgz.spdx.json. SBOM documents can be downloaded from the Python release page or can be downloaded using an HTTP client. Below is an example of downloading the SBOM document using curl: $ curl --remote-name https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.12.2/Python-3.12.2.tgz.spdx.json After downloading the SBOM document there should be a file named Python-3.12.2.tgz.spdx.json in your working directory. What's included in CPython's Software Bi...

  • Software Bill-of-Materials Information

    ...Python-3.12.2.tgz the SBOM document will be named Python-3.12.2.tgz.spdx.json. SBOM documents can be downloaded from the Python release page or can be downloaded using an HTTP client. Below is an example of downloading the SBOM document using curl: $ curl --remote-name https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.12.2/Python-3.12.2.tgz.spdx.json After downloading the SBOM document there should be a file named Python-3.12.2.tgz.spdx.json in your working directory. What's included in CPython's Software Bi...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (Mar. 12, 2002)

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (Mar. 12, 2002) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors March 12th, 2002. Board meeting in session at: 18:07 GMT Present: Guido van Rossum (presiding) David Ascher Jeremy Hylton Marc-Andre Lemburg Martin von Loewis Tim Peters Thomas Wouters (minutes) No board members were absent. A quorum was present. Agenda: Meeting minutes of February 12th 2002 Progress reports: 50...

  • A Journey to Python

    ...PythonUK, EuroPython, PyCon, OSCON, and many Italian open-source ones. It's also through Python that I got back in touch with a woman, Anna, whom I had known years before but had lost contact with. She was studying Python and recognizing my name mailed me to ask me for some help. She's now my wife, and became the first woman member of the PSF. We did the second edition of the Python Cookbook together, and although she's not officially an author of the second edition of Python in a Nutshell, s...

  • 2014-01-31 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Python Events Calendar I'm continuing discussions with national and local groups, encourage people to make use of the Python events calendars: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEventsCalendar and help maintain it, along with a team of volunteers. The team now uses a mailing list instead of the email alias list. It's public and anyone can subscribe to it: https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEventsCalendar#Mailing_List Submissions sent to events at python.org are forwarded to this mailing list. I r...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (June 14, 2005)

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (June 14, 2005) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors June 14, 2005 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 17:00 GMT. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. 1. Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were present at the meeting: David Ascher, Stephan Deibel, Jeremy Hylton, Kur...

  • Recurring Giving Campaign

    ...Python conferences, impacting over 3,000 people globally $20,000 = ~25 hands-on workshops impacting over 700 people $10,000 = user group meetup fees for 150 groups around the world for 6 months $5,000 = hosting for 3-4 PSF community web services for a year(e.g. Mail.python.org, uspycon.org, wiki.python.org) $2,000 = support for 2 regional conferences, impacting over 500 people $99 = 6 months of Python meetup subscriptions $60 a month ($2.00 a day) = one workshop, impacting over 250 people I...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Python I had used Python for small scripting projects before, and liked its quick-off-the-blocks feel. It would provide me with a malleable environment in which to experiment with features, to see what Nat would find interesting. Although this was an at-home project to be used only by my son, it shared issues with larger, supposedly more serious projects: unclear requirements, unpredictable customers, and limited developer resources. The most important concern to me in choosing the developmen...

  • Python For Beginners

    ...Python's many libraries and the language reference for a complete (though somewhat dry) explanation of Python's syntax. If you are looking for common Python recipes and patterns, you can browse the ActiveState Python Cookbook Looking for Something Specific? If you want to know whether a particular application, or a library with particular functionality, is available in Python there are a number of possible sources of information. The Python web site provides a Python Package Index (also known ...

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

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (April 12, 2005) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors April 12, 2005 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 17:00 GMT. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. 1. Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were present at the meeting: David Ascher, Stephan Deibel, Tim Peters, Andr...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (Feb. 12, 2002)

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (Feb. 12, 2002) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors Feb. 12, 2002 A regular regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 1:00 pm EST. Guido van Rossum, president of the Foundation and chairman of the Board, presided at the meeting. 1. Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were pr...

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