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  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (May 14, 2002)

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (May 14, 2002) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors May 14, 2002. Present: David Ascher Marc-Andre Lemburg Martin v. Löwis Jeremy Hylton Tim Peters Guido van Rossum Thomas Wouters was absent; the Board had quorum. The meeting starts at 17:00 UTC. Agenda: 1. Minutes from two previous IRC board meetings still need to be approved. 2. Reports. 3. How are we doing on new ...

  • 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...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (Feb. 7, 2002)

    ...lists open for discussion to non-PSF members: one to discuss the future of the conference, one to discuss the contribution forms. The discussion period on contribution forms will end on April 15, when we will seek legal review of the forms. Van Rossum will ask Barry Warsaw to create the lists. 4. Officers Guido van Rossum was appointed chairman of the board. Jeremy Hylton was appointed secretary and treasurer. Both appointments were by unanimous vote. 5. New members Van Rossum will conta...

  • Python For Beginners

    Python For Beginners Welcome! Are you completely new to programming? If not then we presume you will be looking for information about why and how to get started with Python. Fortunately an experienced programmer in any programming language (whatever it may be) can pick up Python very quickly. It's also easy for beginners to use and learn, so jump in! Installing Installing Python is generally easy, and nowadays many Linux and UNIX distributions include a recent Python. Even some Windows comput...

  • Bugs in Python 2.4

    Bugs in Python 2.4 The Windows installer package required VBScripts. On systems which do not have VBScript available, installer will report an error 2738. On systems which have VBScript available, but in an insufficiently old version, installer will report an error 2262 (and log a DEBUG error 2896). In either case, please install Microsoft Windows Script from http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/list/webdev.asp The format of the IDLE configuration files has changed between Python 2.3 and 2.4....

  • Member meeting at OSCON

    Member meeting at OSCON <p>There will be an extra PSF Member Meeting at the <a href="http://www.python.org/workshops/oscon2002"> O'Reilly Open Source Convention</A>, July 22-26 in San Diego. <p>We've reserved a room for the meeting: <br>Location: Marina II <br>Date: Wednesday, July 24 <br>Time: 8:00 - 10:00 pm <P>It is likely that only 8-10 PSF members will show up. This is not sufficient to make quoru...

  • 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...

  • What's new in Python 1.5 and beyond

    ...lists no longer causes a core dump. A raise statement without arguments re-raises the last exception raised in the current function. The import statement is now serialized between different threads. The finalization order is much more sensible. On Mac and Windows, the case of module file names must match the case as used in the import statement. (On Unix, this was always true, of course.) When you specify the -t option, the tokenizer warns about inconsistent mixing of spaces and tabs. Two -t o...

  • 2007-04-09 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...lists [Mailman]), member databases) Nonprofits are concerned about: cost ability to maintain/administer applications finding people to work on their applications Reasons for not using open source include: Commercial software makes it very easy to get a nonprofit price. Suspicion of free software (perception of untrustworthiness). Fear that the software or its community will vanish. Companies are thought to be more stable. Lack of knowledge about the open source alternatives. Documentation n...

  • 2019 PSF Annual Report

    2019 PSF Annual Report #wrapper { overflow: hidden; position: relative; } .resize-active * { transition: none; } h1, .h1 { line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 27px; } h2, .h2 { color: #3776ab; line-height: 26px; display: block; } p, blockquote, time, em { line-height: 28px; } time { font-style: italic; } p { margin-bottom: 24px; text-align: justify; } a { transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; text-decoration: none; } .section-head...

  • SIG for Standard Library Development

    SIG for Standard Library Development The Stdlib-SIG is for development, improvement, and maintenance of the Python standard library. Work is being done to break out the standard library and test suite as a separate package, available to developers of alternate Python implementations such as Jython and IronPython. Discussion takes place on the stdlib-sig mailing list.

  • Release – Python 3.10.0rc2

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    Released: Sept. 7, 2021

    This is the first release candidate of Python 3.10 This release, 3.10.0rc2, is the last preview before the final release of Python 3.10.0 on 2021-10-04. Entering the release candidate phase, only reviewed code changes which are clear bug fixes are allowed between release candidates and the final release. There …

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  • EDU-SIG: Python in Education

    ...lists Free books Textbooks Learning environments Learning resources Videos Specialized packages Academic papers Game time! Miscellaneous SIG administrivia Mailing lists, etc. As mentioned above, the Edu-Sig community has its own mailing list. Two other mailing lists are of potential interest to educators: the python tutor and the general python-list. All three are available in a searchable archive on the ActiveState site which is also hosting the famous Python Cookbook. The python tutor mail...

  • Legal Statements

    Legal Statements Trademarks Python and PyCon are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Python Software Foundation. All other trademarks mentioned on this website are the property of their respective owners. Copyright Except where otherwise specified, the contents of this website are copyright © 1990-2014, Python Software Foundation, 9450 SW Gemini Dr., ECM# 90772, Beaverton, OR 97008, USA. All rights reserved. Licenses Python, its standard libraries, and Jython, are distributed under the...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (October 12, 2004)

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (October 12, 2004) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors October 12, 2004 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: Jeremy Hylton, Guido van Rossum, Stephan D...

  • Foreword for "Programming Python" (2nd ed.)

    ...lists (using Mailman, a very popular Python application!), discussion forums, bug and patch managers, and a download area, all made available to any open source project for the asking. We currently have a development group with SourceForge checkin privileges of 30 volunteers, and a development mailing list comprising twice as many folks. The privileged volunteers have all sworn their allegiance to the BDFL (Benevolent Dictator For Life -- that's me :-). Introduction of major new featu...

  • Python Tabular Databases SIG: Status

    ...lists modules that comply with it. With the 2.0 revision of the spec completed, possible future directions and discussions may focus on refinements of the specification and implementations for new databases. Object-oriented databases (OODBs) are also a possible subject of discussion.

  • PSF Advocacy Initiative

    PSF Advocacy Initiative In 2006 and 2007, the PSF funded an Advocacy Coordinator to build an advocacy initiative for the Python community. See the advocacy coordinator wiki page for details. Documents found here: Initial proposal (first six months) Updated task list (second six months) Renewal contract (second six months)

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Feb. 2002 Member Meeting

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Feb. 2002 Member Meeting <center> <H3>The Python Software Foundation Minutes of the Feb. 2002 Member Meeting </H3> </center> <p>The members of the Python Software Foundation (the "Corporation") held its second annual meeting on Feb. 6, 2002 at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center in Alexandria, Virginia. Jeremy Hylton, secretary and treasurer, presided over the meeting. <p>The following members attended the meet...

  • 2011-01-24 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2011-01-24 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors January 24, 2011 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 24 January 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" mea...

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