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  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Background The Molecular Modeling Toolkit (MMTK) is a open source Python library for molecular modeling and simulation with a focus on biomolecular systems, written in a mixture of Python and C. It provides standard techniques such as Molecular Dynamics or normal mode calculations in a ready-to-use form, but also provides a basis of low-level operations on top of which new techniques can easily be implemented. I started developing MMTK in 1996. I had some experience wit...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories The University of St Andrews, founded in 1411, is Scotland's oldest university Zoom in Introduction The IT Services department at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, develops and maintains software systems used in a variety of capacities throughout the university. I had several years of experience working with Perl when I took my first serious look at Python back in 1999. Our team's projects were becoming bigger and more complex, and it was obvious that we needed t...

  • PSF participation in the 2007 Google Summer of Code

    PSF participation in the 2007 Google Summer of Code James Tauber, PSF Administrator for the 2007 Google Summer of Code 2007-12-12 SUMMARY 2007 was another successful year for the PSF's participation in the Google Summer of Code. We received 67 valid applications and were allocated 34 slots by Google. 51 people signed up to be mentors and 30 of those ended up mentoring a student. We approved 32 applications of which 25 were successful. At least a third of the students continue to have some i...

  • Executive Summary: The Python Software Foundation

    Executive Summary: The 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 Foundatio...

  • Archive 2018: Executive Summary: The Python Software Foundation

    Archive 2018: Executive Summary: The 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 Soft...

  • 2013-08-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2013-08-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors August 16, 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 August 16 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‚...

  • Retired SIGS

    Retired SIGS These are SIGs that existed in the past but are no longer active. Their archives and home pages are retained. A retired SIG can be revived, using the same criteria as for creating a new SIG. Name Coordinator Description Info   catalog-sig A.M. Kuchling The Python software catalog archive March 2013 compiler-sig Jeremy Hylton Compiling and parsing Python Type checking, code generation archive May 2001 do-sig David Arnold Distributed Object Technologies archive A...

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

    Foreword for "Programming Python" (2nd ed.) Foreword for "Programming Python" (2nd ed.) This is the foreword I wrote for Mark Lutz' book "Programming Python" (2nd ed.), published by O'Reilly in 2001. Less than five years ago, I wrote the foreword for the 1st edition of Programming Python. Since then, the book has changed about as much as the language and the Python community! I no longer feel the need to defend Python: the statistics and developments listed in Mark's ...

  • Bugs in Python 2.3.2

    ...activate Unix95-and-earlier features) </pre> and then run 'autoconf' to rebuild the configure file. This bug is fixed in OS X 10.3, and will hopefully be fixed in a future release of FreeBSD. If you don't have autoconf installed, a <a href="freebsd-curses.patch">patch</a> is available. <li>A bug in SGI's header files means that socketmodule.c might fail to compile with an error about INET_ADDRSTRLEN. A <a href="sgi-socketmodule.patch">patch</a...

  • 2013-09-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2013-09-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors September 13, 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 September 13 2013. Van Lindberg presided over the meeting. Ewa Jodlowska prepared the minutes. All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in fa...

  • Release – Python 3.9.1

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    Released: Dec. 7, 2020

    This is the first maintenance release of Python 3.9 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.9.1, a 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. We've made …

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  • Release – Python 3.13.1

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    Released: Dec. 3, 2024

    This is the first maintenance release of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations compared to Python 3.12. 3.13.1 is the latest maintenance release, containing almost 400 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since …

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  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction AFNIC is the registry of the French .fr top-level internet domain. For many years, registration rules in .fr were very strict. On May 11th, 2004, the rules changed to a more liberal model, allowing many registrations that were not possible before. As a consequence of this change, the registry was faced with receiving a potentially unmanageable burst of requests. This is a problem known as a "landrush" faced by every DNS registry which changes its ...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...activated at scheduled times, when specified events occur or when special conditions are detected). The Application Framework creates a distributed environment where all nodes, from a programming and operative point of view, are seen as an unique system exposing a single API. Operations can be performed on any child node from any parent node, transparently. IceBridge Graphical Console The IceBridge console is a multi-platform application written in Python (using the QT/PyQT toolkit/wrapper for...

  • 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...

  • PSF PyCon Trademark Usage Policy

    PSF PyCon Trademark Usage Policy PyCon, trademark, policy Version 1.0 "PyCon" Trademark Policy In order to protect the term "PyCon" against unwanted or misleading use by third parties, the PSF claims the term “PyCon” as a trademark worldwide for conference activities. The PSF is additionally pursuing registration of the mark in various jurisdictions. It is the policy of the Python Software Foundation to allow the use of "PyCon" for conferences that focus on Pytho...

  • 2007 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes

    2007 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of the 2007 Members' Meeting February 23, 2007 The Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") held its annual members' meeting on February 23, 2007 at 19:00 CST (01:00 UTC) in the Marriott Quorum Hotel in Dallas/Addison, Texas, USA (PyCon TX 2007). The agenda is available here. Stephan Deibel presided over the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1   Attendance 2 &...

  • 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 Become a Supporting Member 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 en...

  • 2007-02-25 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    2007-02-25 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Special Meeting of the Board of Directors February 25, 2007 A special meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held at PyCon 2007 in Dallas at 12:30 CST (18:30 UTC), 25 February 2007. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1   Attendance 2   Election of Officers 3   Motion ...

  • A Journey to Python

    A Journey to Python by Alex Martelli, 2006 recipient of the Frank Willison Award After a quarter century of experience in programming (once as a sideline of my main job as a hardware designer, at Texas Instruments and IBM Research, but as my main job for over half that time, at IBM Research and Cad.Lab/think3), I finally stumbled upon Python in 1999. This was thanks to the kind nagging of a friend and colleague whose judgment I respected and to whom I still feel grateful for his insistence (A...

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