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  • Copy of PSF Bylaws Prior to March 2009 Members' Meeting

    ...close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held. A determination of members of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of members shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the Board of Directors may fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting. (b) For purposes of determining the members entitled to consent to ...

  • Release – Python 3.14.0rc2

    Version: None

    Released: Aug. 14, 2025

    It's the final 🪄 penultimate 🪄 3.14 release candidate! Note: rc2 was originally planned for 2025-08-26, but we fixed a bug that required bumping the magic number stored in Python bytecode (.pyc) files. This means .pyc files created for rc1 cannot be used for rc2, and they'll …

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  • Release – Python 3.14.0rc3

    Version: None

    Released: Sept. 18, 2025

    It's 🪄 finally 🪄 the final 3.14 release candidate! Note: It's another magic release. We fixed another bug that required bumping the magic number stored in Python bytecode (.pyc) files. This means file .pyc files created for rc2 cannot be used for rc3, and they'll be recompiled. …

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  • Release – Python 3.15.0rc3

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 2, 2026

    Following recent tradition, here's a surprise third release candidate for Python 3.15.0! We got some last-minute lazy-import release blockers, and it makes sense to include them in 3.15.0 final. It also makes sense to give a bit of time to test them properly, so this week's …

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  • Executive Summary: The Python Software Foundation

    ...close as would be done with some proprietary marks. We want the trademarks to be used as widely as possible. This includes also the unaltered logos, which are often used to indicate suitability for Python or implementation in Python. One important and useful idea that applies to trademarks in general is the notion of "nominative use" of the trademark. A trademark can always be used to name the trademarked entity itself so long as the use does not imply some special relationship with th...

  • Archive 2018: Executive Summary: The Python Software Foundation

    ...close as would be done with some proprietary marks. We want the trademarks to be used as widely as possible. This includes also the unaltered logos, which are often used to indicate suitability for Python or implementation in Python. One important and useful idea that applies to trademarks in general is the notion of "nominative use" of the trademark. A trademark can always be used to name the trademarked entity itself so long as the use does not imply some special relationship with th...

  • Python Software Foundation Members Meeting Minutes 2005-03-24

    ...closely with EuroPython Society right now to organize EuroPython. David Ascher asked whether we should do more to internationalize the python.org site. 5   Adjournment There being no further business, S. Deibel adjourned the meeting at 19:00 EST.

  • Python 2.4.1 - Release Notes

    ...close() method first closed the underlying file, then deleted the file. This usually worked fine. However, the spawn family of functions on Windows create (at a low C level) the same set of open files in the spawned process Q as were open in the spawning process P. If a temp file f was among them, then doing f.close() in P first closed P's C-level file handle on f, but Q's C-level file handle on f remained open, so the attempt in P to delete f blew up with a "Permission denied" error...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...close to our project deadline. Again Python enabled our team to implement the idea quickly and successfully. Queries to the Access database are done through an ODBC connection using the value from the database key array to determine what city information is associated with a given location. The ability to run queries on the database greatly extended the educational value of this tool by allowing for the dynamic creation of maps. Results At the completion of our semester we had created a tool t...

  • Python Patterns - An Optimization Anecdote

    ...close to 16 times as long, in fact. I didn't dare try a list of 64 times as long. There's a general technique to avoid quadratic behavior in algorithms like this. I coded it as follows for strings of exactly 256 items: def f5(list): string = "" for i in range(0, 256, 16): # 0, 16, 32, 48, 64, ... s = "" for character in map(chr, list[i:i+16]): s = s + character string = string + s return string ...

  • Python Software Foundation Board Meeting Minutes 2006-10-09

    ...closed source solution." B. Cannon will be posting details of the hosting offer to the infrastructure mailing list when he gets it. B. Cannon: "And I have to say I have been quite happy with the community mostly sticking up for the committee." 6   Adjournment S. Deibel adjourned the meeting at 17:35 UTC.

  • Python 2.0

    ...closed object, an exception is raised. The truncate method now accepts a position argument and readline accepts a size argument. There were many changes made to the linuxaudiodev module and its test suite; as a result, a short, unexpected audio sample should now play when the regression test is run. Note that this module is named poorly, because it should work correctly on any platform that supports the Open Sound System (OSS). The module now raises except...

  • 2012-04-30 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...closer to the end of the technical phase of the Honorary Associate Membership (HAM) Project. However, attention is now being geared more toward working on the HAM content cosmetics and beautification on the python.org website. Many technical hurdles have been jumped in order to setup the HAM program and we are now beginning to see the finish line." As far as the continued activities from last month are concerned, she reported: Please see the message from Kurt Kaiser’s March 2012 treasurer’...

  • Release – Python 3.10.21

    Version: None

    Released: Aug. 12, 2026

    This is a security release of Python 3.10 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.10.21, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.10 series. Python 3.14 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.14.x here. Security content …

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  • Python 1.6 License FAQ

    ...closed source") use of Python too? Yes, provided you abide by the terms of the CNRI license and also include the CWI Copyright Notice and Permissions Statement. I have some questions about those! First, about the "click to accept" business. What if I have a derivative work that has no GUI? As the text says, "COPYING, INSTALLING OR OTHERWISE USING THE SOFTWARE" also constitutes agreement to the terms of the license, so there is no requirement to use the click to accept butto...

  • Python 1.6 License FAQ

    ...closed source") use of Python too? Yes, provided you abide by the terms of the CNRI license and also include the CWI Copyright Notice and Permissions Statement. I have some questions about those! First, about the "click to accept" business. What if I have a derivative work that has no GUI? As the text says, "COPYING, INSTALLING OR OTHERWISE USING THE SOFTWARE" also constitutes agreement to the terms of the license, so there is no requirement to use the click to accept butto...

  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.2.2

    ...closely match the standard Python provided by Red Hat. <li /><a href="/ftp/python/2.2.2/rpms/redhat8.0/python-2.2.2-7.src.rpm">python-2.2.2-7.src.rpm</a> (Source RPM, 6952435 bytes) <li /><a href="/ftp/python/2.2.2/rpms/redhat8.0/python-2.2.2-7.i386.rpm">python-2.2.2-7.i386.rpm</a> (Red Hat 8.0 base RPM, 4221481 bytes) <li /><a href="/ftp/python/2.2.2/rpms/redhat8.0/python-devel-2.2.2-7.i386.rpm">python-devel-2.2.2-7....

  • 2007-02-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...closes on Friday February 16. Everything seems to be well in hand: T-shirts done, tote bags done, publications ready for printing, open space items being added. D. Goodger reported that PyCon is doing well financially: we're looking at a profit instead of a loss. D. Goodger also reported that there are two probable bids for 2008 (nothing formal yet): Chicago & San Francisco. 6   Advice on the "PyCamp" Name Jeff Rush sent the Board email asking for advice regardin...

  • 2013-05-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...close the books. PyCon Site Visits Worked on site visit for Diana to visit the Palais. Has to reschedule it for July since the Palais is not available until then. PyCon Sponsors Nothing to report for April PyCon Website Management Helped collect the data for the 2014 website RFP, which is now complete and being circulated. 5.2   Administrator Report Board Agenda / Minutes I continue to write up the Board Agenda and keep it up to date. I continue to write ...

  • EDU-SIG: Python in Education

    ...close to one hundred books that have been written about Python programming. Here, we will focus only on a subset that are of potential interest for educators who teach introductory courses in programming. More books can be found here and here, or by doing an internet search. For children, young and old: Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner by Michael Dawson was one of the first books written for this audience and remains one of the most popular. Hello World! Computer Programming for Ki...

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