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  • PSF Sponsorship

    PSF Sponsorship The PSF is the primary source of funds and resources for furthering the development and adoption of Python. Interested in becoming a sponsor? Check out our sponsor application. Participation in the PSF Sponsorship Plan provides a way for corporations and individuals to contribute substantially to the ongoing support of the Foundation. (As distinct from one-time donations.) In return, the PSF will officially acknowledge your donation via various methods appropriate to your spons...

  • Giving Tuesday Fundraiser

    Giving Tuesday Fundraiser #donate-cta { background: orange; border-radius: .5rem; padding: 1rem 1.5rem; color: white; margin-top: 1rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.5rem; display: block; } Help us raise $10,000 USD on Giving Tuesday, December 3, 2019! Something new this year - Giving Tuesday! For the first time, the PSF is participating in Giving Tuesday! Giving Tuesday is held annually the Tuesday after Thanksgiving - this year...

  • 2013-02-06 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2013-02-06 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors February 6, 2012 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 18:04 CEST/ 12:04 EDT, on February 6 2012. Van Lindberg presided over the meeting. Ewa Jodlowska prepared the minutes. All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor-...

  • Notes

    ...locals argument to eval(), execfile(), and exec now accept any mapping type. marshal now shares interned strings. This change introduces a new .pyc magic. Bug #966623. classes created with type() in an exec(, {}) don't have a __module__, but code in typeobject assumed it would always be there. Python no longer relies on the LC_NUMERIC locale setting to be the "C" locale; as a result, it no longer tries to prevent changing the LC_NUMERIC category. Bug #952807: Unpickling pickled instan...

  • Bugs in Python 2.3.5

    Bugs in Python 2.3.5 IDLE now executes code in a separate process. To communicate between the main process and executing processes, IDLE opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE. Build bugs Some platforms require some tinkering to get a clean build of Python. So...

  • Bugs in Python 2.3.6

    Bugs in Python 2.3.6 IDLE now executes code in a separate process. To communicate between the main process and executing processes, IDLE opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE. Build bugs Some platforms require some tinkering to get a clean build of Python. So...

  • Bugs in Python 2.3.7

    Bugs in Python 2.3.7 IDLE now executes code in a separate process. To communicate between the main process and executing processes, IDLE opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE. Build bugs Some platforms require some tinkering to get a clean build of Python. So...

  • Python 2.4.1 - Bugs

    Python 2.4.1 - Bugs 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 Windows installer will not add correct IDLE and PyDoc entries when the Python...

  • Bugs in Python 2.4.2

    Bugs in Python 2.4.2 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 Windows installer will not add correct IDLE and PyDoc entries when the Pytho...

  • 2011-02-28 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2011-02-28 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The 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&quo...

  • Release – Python 3.6.9

    Version: None

    Released: July 2, 2019

    Note: The release you are looking at is Python 3.6.9, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.6 series which has now reached end-of-life and is no longer supported. See the downloads page for currently supported versions of Python. The final source-only security fix release for 3.6 was 3.6.15 …

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  • Bugs in Python 2.3.4

    Bugs in Python 2.3.4 IDLE now executes code in a separate process. To communicate between the main process and executing processes, IDLE opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE. Build bugs Some platforms require some tinkering to get a clean build of Python. So...

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

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (November 12, 2002) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors November 12, 2002. A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 10:09 pm PST. 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...

  • Release – Python 2.5.5

    Version: None

    Released: Jan. 31, 2010

    This is a source-only release that only includes security fixes. The last full bug-fix release of Python 2.5 was Python 2.5.4. User are encouraged to upgrade to the latest release of Python 2.7 (which is 2.7.2 at this point). This releases fixes issues with the logging, tarfile …

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  • Release – Python 3.6.10rc1

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 11, 2019

    Note Python 3.8 is now released and is the latest feature release of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.8.x here. Python 3.6.10rc1 is the release candidate preview of the next security fix release of Python 3.6. Python 3.6.8 was the final bugfix release for …

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  • Release – Python 3.11.1

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 6, 2022

    This is the first maintenance release of Python 3.11 Python 3.11.1 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. Major new features of the 3.11 series, compared to 3.10 Some of the new major new features …

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  • Release – Python 3.11.2

    Version: None

    Released: Feb. 8, 2023

    This is the second maintenance release of Python 3.11 Python 3.11.2 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. Major new features of the 3.11 series, compared to 3.10 Some of the new major new features …

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  • 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....

  • July 2012 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes

    July 2012 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of the July 2012 Members' Meeting July 3, 2012 The Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") held a member's meeting on July 3, 2012 18:00 CEST at EuroPython, Florence, Italy. Marc-Andre Lemburg presided over the meeting. Contents 1   Attendance 2   Greetings & Announcements 2.1   PSF Chairman Update 3   Board Report 3.1  &nb...

  • Notes

    Notes (editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.) What's New in Python 2.3.5? Release date: 08-FEB-2005 Core and builtins Partially revert the fix for #1074011; don't try to fflush stdin anymore. Library Applied a security fix to SimpleXMLRPCserver (PSF-2005-001). This disables recursive traversal through instance attributes, which can be exploited in various ways. Bug #1114776. Applied a fix to the copy.py fix in 2.3.5rc1 to deal with types that don't hav...

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