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  • Absentee Ballot - 2009-03-27 PSF Members' Meeting

    Absentee Ballot - 2009-03-27 PSF Members' Meeting This form was finalized on March 17, 2009. We recommend that you designate a proxy to vote on your behalf at the meeting PSF members who have indicated their willingness to act as proxy are listed in the meeting agenda. The text source of this form can be found here (suitable for emailing). As a member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF), I hereby cast this absentee ballot for elections and resolutions under consideration at the PSF ...

  • Donation Drive

    Donation Drive ThePSF, Python Software Foundation, Python, PSF Invest in our Foundation and better the Python community! Thanks to everyone who helped us exceed our goal of $20,000.00 USD by May 12th! .crm-contribute-widget { font-size:12px; font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans; padding:6px; -moz-border-radius: 4px; -webkit-border-radius: 4px; -khtml-border-radius: 4px; border-radius: 4px; bor...

  • Release – Python 3.7.8rc1

    Version: None

    Released: June 17, 2020

    Note Note: The release you are looking at is a bugfix release preview for the legacy 3.7 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 3.7 was 3.7.17. Note …

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  • Catalog Requirements

    ...HTTP mirroring script. Requirements from #3 3.1) Users can check a signature on the downloaded package, using an external tool such as GnuPG. 3.2) Checking the signature is optional, and can be skipped if the external tool isn't available. (We could implement our own signature scheme with Python code, but that's a bad idea; security is hard, and few people will bother to generate keys that are only useful only for distributing Python modules. Related requirement: the ...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (December 10, 2002)

    ...http://www.shareit.com/) for this. Von Loewis questioned the use of a shareware reseller for the PSF's purposes. Lemburg explained that ShareIT is offering good services for reasonably low costs (compared to other online payment providers). Hylton asked whether the PSC had already asked ShareIT for permission to use their service in the way intended by the PSC (sending out "Thank You" PDF files as product in return for the donation). Lemburg replied that the question has been forwarded to Share...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Background MayaVi is an open source scientific data visualization tool written entirely in Python. I started work on MayaVi in 2000. At that time, a few colleagues of mine needed to visualize their computational fluid dynamics (CFD) data but the only suitable tools available were commercial, closed source programs that were prohibitively expensive. We looked at some open source tools as alternatives. OpenDX had just been released to the public and at that time was har...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Summary XIST is a XML transformation engine written completely in Python at LivingLogic AG, a software development company specializing in web technology. XIST was designed to facilitate the task of creating and maintaining large web sites. Background Soon after we began creating web pages in 1994, it became clear that typing HTML files by hand is tedious and cumbersome, and we began to search for tools to simplify the repetitive task of HTML generation. Early on, we ...

  • 2013-05-31 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...http://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-board/2013-May/022102.html as representing a true and accurate record of the May 10, 2013 meeting Approved, 6-0-3. 3   Votes Taken Between Meetings There were no votes taken between meetings. 4   Votes Taken Over Email The board voted on adding Red Hat as a potential PSF sponsor. RESOLVED, that the board recommends Red Hat as a pending sponsor member Approved, 11-0-0. 5   Reports Reports are delivered ...

  • 2009-12-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...http://www.bitdance.com/projects/email6/psfproposal.html), and assist with further fundraising of $10,000 by offering $2,000 to be matched at a ratio of 4:1. Approved, 5-0-0. [111] S. Holden will inform David R. Murray of the Board's decision to offer a seed funding grant of $4,000 & assist with raising a further $10,000. 9   Appointment of Wendroff as PSF Accountants The Board discussed and reached a consensus on the appointment of Wendroff & Associates, LLC. RESOLVED,...

  • Release – Python 3.7.9

    Version: None

    Released: Aug. 17, 2020

    Note: The release you are looking at is Python 3.7.9, the final bugfix/security release with binary installers for the legacy 3.7 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 …

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  • 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...

  • Software Bill-of-Materials Information

    ...HTTP client. Below is an example of downloading the SBOM document using curl: $ curl --remote-name https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.12.2/Python-3.12.2.tgz.spdx.json After downloading the SBOM document there should be a file named Python-3.12.2.tgz.spdx.json in your working directory. What's included in CPython's Software Bill-of-Materials? SBOM documents include a description of the contained software, including all of its dependencies. Some examples of information about the software are: N...

  • Software Bill-of-Materials Information

    ...HTTP client. Below is an example of downloading the SBOM document using curl: $ curl --remote-name https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.12.2/Python-3.12.2.tgz.spdx.json After downloading the SBOM document there should be a file named Python-3.12.2.tgz.spdx.json in your working directory. What's included in CPython's Software Bill-of-Materials? SBOM documents include a description of the contained software, including all of its dependencies. Some examples of information about the software are: N...

  • Python 2.4.1 - Release Notes

    ...http://www.python.org/pypi as the default repository. (See PEP 301.) the platform dependent path related variables sep, altsep, extsep, pathsep, curdir, pardir and defpath are now defined in the platform dependent path modules (e.g. ntpath.py) rather than os.py, so these variables are now available via os.path. They continue to be available from the os module. (see <http://www.python.org/sf/680789>). array.array was added to the types repr.py knows about (see <http://www.python.org/sf...

  • Highlights: Python 2.4

    ...HTTP cookies. urllib2 gained a new class HTTPCookieProcessor that uses this new module. The CJKCodecs collection of East Asian codecs, maintained by Hye-Shik Chang, was integrated into 2.4. The email package's Parser was completely rewritten to better handle malformed email messages. It should now never fail to parse a message and will annotate the parsed message to indicate what problems were found during the parsing. There is also a new FeedParser that allows messages to be fed into the par...

  • Support the PSF with a Donation or by becoming a Supporting Member!

    Support the PSF with a Donation or by becoming a Supporting Member! Donate What does the Python Software Foundation do? The Python Software Foundation: Awards grants and provides resources for furthering the development and adoption of Python. Organizes and hosts the annual PyCon US conference. 2019 brought together 3,393 attendees from 55 countries, a new record for PyCon US! Our sponsors’ support enabled us to award $137,200 USD to ...

  • Absentee Ballot - 2008-03-14 PSF Members' Meeting

    Absentee Ballot - 2008-03-14 PSF Members' Meeting This form was finalized on February 15, 2008. We recommend that you designate a proxy to vote on your behalf at the meeting PSF members who have indicated their willingness to act as proxy are listed in the meeting agenda. The text source of this form can be found here (suitable for emailing). As a member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF), I hereby cast this absentee ballot for elections and resolutions under consideration at the P...

  • 2009-06-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/. Defeated, 4-5-1. After further discussion the initial vote was defeated and the Board agreed to consult with V. Lindberg on licensing. His advice was forthcoming by email during the meeting and a further vote was taken on an amended motion. RESOLVED, that the Trademark Policy be published under the Creative Commons CC0 license (http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0). Approved, 9-0-1. [73] S. Holden will inform the original inquirer of the trademar...

  • Release – Python 3.9.16

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 6, 2022

    This is a security release of Python 3.9 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.9.16, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.9 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. Security content in this …

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  • Highlights: Python 2.5

    Highlights: Python 2.5 Highlights: Python 2.5 Here are some of the (subjective) highlights of Python 2.5. More detail on almost all of the new features can be found in the document What's New In Python 2.5 More Reliable Python now uses the Buildbot tool for continuous testing on a wide range of platforms. This allows us to spot problems faster during development, and resulted in a much more robust release. Andrew Kuchling determined that there were over 350 patches and over 450 bugs fixed ...

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