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  • Archive 2018: Executive Summary: The Python Software Foundation

    ...Python Software Foundation Written by Stephan Deibel, Chairman of the Board, Python Software Foundation. A version of this article was originally published in The Python Papers volume 2, issue 4. Last updated March 2008 Introduction “The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of the international community of Python programmers.” The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is the non-prof...

  • 2013-06-28 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors June 28, 2013 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Group Conference Call via phone and Internet Relay Chat beginning at 18:00 CEST/ 12:00 EDT, on June 28 2013. Van Lindberg presided over the meeting. Ewa Jodlowska prepared the minutes. All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor-Y‚opposed-N‚abstentions-A; e.g. "5-1-2&quo...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (Apr. 9, 2002)

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (Apr. 9, 2002) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors Apr. 9, 2002 A regular regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 17:00 UTC. 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 pre...

  • Comparing Python to Other Languages

    ...Python programs are typically 3-5 times shorter than equivalent Java programs. This difference can be attributed to Python's built-in high-level data types and its dynamic typing. For example, a Python programmer wastes no time declaring the types of arguments or variables, and Python's powerful polymorphic list and dictionary types, for which rich syntactic support is built straight into the language, find a use in almost every Python program. Because of the run-time typing, Python's ru...

  • Release – Python 3.8.2rc2

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    Released: Feb. 17, 2020

    This is the second release candidate of Python 3.8.2, the second maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.2rc2, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of …

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  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, December 13, 2005

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, December 13, 2005 The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors December 13, 2005 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 18:04 UTC, 13 December 2005. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. 1   Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were present at the ...

  • 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...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...of 660 FTE days, we produced a total of approximately 121K lines, of which 77K were written in Python. Even without considering that a line of Python is typically equivalent to 10 or more lines of C, we were extremely pleased with this result. The entire product, including third party open source modules, actually contains on the order of 1.2 million lines of code, of which 274K lines are Python. So why was using Python so productive, even when only 63% of the code we wrote was in Python? There ...

  • 2009-09-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors September 14, 2009 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 14 September 2009. 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 "5 in favor, 1 opposed, and 2 abst...

  • Support Python in 2023!

    ...Python Software Foundation's strategy to improve the vulnerability response processes of critical projects in the Python ecosystem. The Python Software Foundation CNA scope covers Python and pip, two projects which are fundamental to the rest of the Python ecosystem. Five New Fiscal Sponsorees - Welcome to Bandit , BaPya, Twisted, PyOhio, and North Bay Python as new Fiscal Sponsorees of the PSF! The PSF provides 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status to fiscal sponsorees and provides back office support s...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...of an object-oriented scripting language. During implementation, we found that all of the key features of hsc could be supported quite easily in Python: Automatically calculate image sizes? The Python Imaging Library does this with ease. Parse XML files? There are several XML parsers available in Python. Load and store XML to and from databases? The Python DB-API is standardized and modules exist for MySQL, Postgres, Interbase, Oracle, ODBC, Sybase, and others. Fetch XML from the web? Python...

  • Job - Senior Full-Stack Product Engineer

    Location: Amsterdam Netherlands

    Over 2 million food & beverage (F&B) businesses operate in the EU. 60% face failure within their first year 80% in five years. SOUS is here to change that. We’re building a platform that empowers independent F&B creators to thrive—unlocking new revenue streams, cutting costs, and scaling online growth with …

  • 2009-02-09 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors February 9, 2009 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 17:00 UTC, 9 February 2009. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1   Attendance 2   Minutes of Past Meetings 3   Votes Taken Between Meetings 3.1   PyC...

  • 2013-07-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors July 12, 2013 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Group Conference Call via phone and Internet Relay Chat beginning at 18:00 CEST/ 12:00 EDT, on July 12 2013. Van Lindberg presided over the meeting. Ewa Jodlowska prepared the minutes. All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor-Y‚opposed-N‚abstentions-A; e.g. "5-1-2&quo...

  • 2008-12-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...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 Taken Since the Last Meeting 3.1  &...

  • 2010-01-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors January 11, 2010 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 17:00 UTC, 11 January 2010. 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 "5 in favor, 1 opposed, and 2 abstenti...

  • Download Python for other platforms

    ...of IBM i in active (not extended) support. Python for iOS and iPadOS Briefcase (from the BeeWare project) and Buildozer (from the Kivy project) are two tools that can be used to deploy Python code as an iOS app. Python-Apple-support is a project that provides pre-compiled Python frameworks that can be embedded into an Xcode project. PythonKit can be used to provide Swift integration with Python. Pythonista is a complete development environment for writing Python scripts including third-party ...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...of the pictures, he was clicking on the pictures as if it mattered where he clicked. The image viewer didn't care: any click on the picture would show the next picture. But if Nat knew that the next picture was of a thing off to the left of the current picture, he would click on the left of the image. If he knew the next picture was through a door at the right of the picture, he would click on the door. He's played a number of kid's adventure games, such as Pajama Sam, and knew about this st...

  • Mailing Lists

    ...of the list is available: python.org archive of python-list comp.lang.python in non-English There are some non-English language versions of this newsgroup. The links provided here are to the Google Groups archive for each: de.comp.lang.python (German), it.comp.lang.python (Italian), pl.comp.lang.python (Polish), fr.comp.lang.python (French), and cz.comp.lang.python (Czech). comp.lang.python.announce newgroup and python-announce mailing list comp.lang.python.announce is a low-volume moderat...

  • 2011-02-28 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors February 28, 2011 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 28 February 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 "5 in favor, 1 opposed, and 2 ab...

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