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  • 2012-05-21 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...ing Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors May 21, 2012 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Group Video Calling via Skype and Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 21 May 2012. Van Lindberg and Steve Holden presided at the meeting. Pat Campbell prepared the minutes. All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor — opposed — ab...

  • Computer Programming for Everybody

    ...ing environment, written in Python, suitable for teaching Python to computer users without previous programming experience. Design and implement a prototype library of Python modules connecting Python to an existing 3D game-playing engine for the purpose of teaching Python in an engaging environment. Write a tutorial that teaches general programming skills and good programming habits to students with no previous programming skills, using the above software. Create and maintain a w...

  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.3

    ...ing options were removed from the "rpm" command. Use the "rpmbuild" command instead ("rpmbuild --rebuild python2.3-2.3-1pydotorg.src.rpm"). <hr /> <li />Q) I'm getting the "-ba: unknown option" when trying to build RPMs System Message: ERROR/3 (<string>, line 99) Unexpected indentation. using distutils "python setup.py bdist_rpm". System Message: WARNING/2 (<string>, line 100) Block quote ends without a blank line; un...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...intainable. Extensive and easy to use introspection facilities make Python easy to learn interactively by discovering its capabilities, including documentation, from the command prompt. Python is readily extensible in C or C++, so it is easy to incorporate non-Python modules into an application. Python has played an important role in the success of LivingLogic AG, and will continue to be the basis for most of our software development efforts. About the Authors Before receiving his Ph.D. in 2...

  • 2012-07-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...ing Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors July 16, 2012 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Group Video Calling via Skype and Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, on 16 July 2012. Van Lindberg presided over 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&...

  • 2012-02-27 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...ind people interested in the brochure, please feel free to direct them to the website or via email to brochure at getpython.info. Meanwhile, we're still getting new success stories - which is good, since we are actively collecting them in our tracker with the aim of putting them online after the first edition has been released and plan on using them for the second edition. If you know possible sponsors or are interested in sponsoring the brochure yourself, please check the available sponsorship ...

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

    ...ing Sponsor member payment deadline PSF Member applications received 1) Last minutes Marc-Andre notes the minutes to ASF meetings carry timestamps in them. Jeremy points out a few comments and omissions he feels are out of place in official meeting minutes. The comments are taken into advisement for the next minutes, and Guido will adjust the last minutes to suit and post them for approval to the mailing list. Several points of order were raised, on the procedure to ac...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (September 13, 2005)

    ...python.org is now being served from dinsdale. The PyCon 2006 submission system is running on ximinez. Only www.python.org (the big one!) remains to be done. A. Kuchling is targeting the move within the next month, possibly within the next two weeks. He believes dinsdale.python.org contains all the useful content of www; but would like someone with root access on both machines to check it. Once that's done, perhaps we can turn off creosote (if it's not doing anything any more). Max Khesin has as...

  • Parade of the PEPs

    ...inion.) [on incorporation into the Python core] Well it's still our goal and we are working towards that end (we are even beginning to look at converting the documentation to the Python standard). There is a draft manual available. I imagine it may be a year before there is a significant switch- over of the community to start using it (assuming we are succesful in getting them to do so). On the other hand, I don't think that timescale should necessarily be the driver for when (o...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, October 11, 2005 (Draft)

    ...in a couple of weeks. Section 7, Infrastructure Committee Status Report: A. Kuchling is targeting the move [of www.python.org to a new server] within the next month, possibly within the next two weeks. A. Kuchling reported that the move didn't happen yet. He will try to change the www.python.org DNS in the next day or two. Kuchling will be working on [setting up a PyCon 2005 audio repository]. A. Kuchling reported that this is done. It ended up as a wiki page: http://wiki.python.org/moin/Au...

  • 2012-12-19 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...interested in sponsoring the brochure yourself, please check the available sponsorship plans we have available: http://brochure.getpython.info/sponsorship If you have questions, please ping me directly or write to brochure at getpython.info. 14.3   Issues Since we'll be continuing to work on the brochure project and also continue to collect success stories, we're always interested in getting in contact with people behind interesting projects and companies using Python to do gr...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    ...instance, subclasses should override 'init' instead of __init__ - the __init__ method is called each time the constructor is called. For example: >>> class MySingleton(Singleton): ... def init(self): ... print "calling init" ... def __init__(self): ... print "calling __init__" ... >>> x = MySingleton() calling init calling __init__ >>> assert x.__class__ is MySingleton >>> y = MySingleton() calling __init...

  • Release – Python 3.11.0b5

    Version: None

    Released: July 26, 2022

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.11 Python 3.11 is still in development. 3.11.0b5 is the last of the five planned beta release previews. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their projects to …

  • Release – Python 3.12.0b2

    Version: None

    Released: June 6, 2023

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.12 Python 3.12 is still in development. This release, 3.12.0b2 is the second of four beta release previews of 3.12. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their …

  • Release – Python 3.9.0b4

    Version: None

    Released: July 3, 2020

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.9 Python 3.9 is still in development. This release, 3.9.0b4, is the fourth of five planned beta release previews. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their projects …

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  • 2011-08-15 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...ing on the layout, we'll enter that next phase in the coming weeks." M.A.Lemburg also reported on issues with the project, he said: "As always, additional help in finding such interesting projects would be greatly appreciated. Please consider signing up as contact scout: http://brochure.getpython.info/signup/contact-scout-signup and, if you're interested in the project, please consider signing up to our newsletter: http://brochure.getpython.info/ Thanks !" As far as future plans...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    ...instance, subclasses should override 'init' instead of __init__ - the __init__ method is called each time the constructor is called. For example: >>> class MySingleton(Singleton): ... def init(self): ... print "calling init" ... def __init__(self): ... print "calling __init__" ... >>> x = MySingleton() calling init calling __init__ >>> assert x.__class__ is MySingleton >>> y = MySingleton() calling __init...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    ...ingleton(Singleton): ... def init(self): ... print "calling init" ... def __init__(self): ... print "calling __init__" ... >>> x = MySingleton() calling init calling __init__ >>> assert x.__class__ is MySingleton >>> y = MySingleton() calling __init__ >>> assert x is y >>> Metaclasses In the past, the subject of metaclasses in Python has caused hairs to raise and even brains to explode (see, for example Metaclasses in Python 1.5). Fortunately, i...

  • Release – Python 3.8.7

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 21, 2020

    This is the seventh maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.7, 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 3.11.x here. macOS 11 Big Sur …

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  • Release – Python 3.10.0b1

    Version: None

    Released: May 3, 2021

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.10 Python 3.10 is still in development. 3.10.0b1 is the first of four planned beta release previews. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their projects to support …

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