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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...
2012-06-18 & 2012-06-25 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors June 18, 2012 & June 25, 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, 18 June 2012 (Part 1) and resumed on 25 June 2012 (Part 2) & again was held over Group Video Calling via Skype and Internet Relay Cha...
2012-07-16 PSF Board Meeting 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 — abste...
Parade of the PEPs Parade of the PEPs To start off Developer's Day at the Python10 conference I gave a keynote ending in what I dubbed "the parade of the PEPs". It was a brief overview of all open PEPs, where I gave my highly personal and subjective opinion for each PEP. Later, I realized that this might have been of interest to other developers. I didn't take notes at the conference, so below is a different set of comments that I created from scratch during a single two-hour sitt...
...%default" in an option's help string is expanded to str() of that option's default value, or "none" if no default value. Bug #955889: option default values that happen to be strings are now processed in the same way as values from the command line; this allows generation of nicer help when using custom types. Can be disabled with parser.set_process_default_values(False). Bug #960515: don't crash when generating help for callback options that specify 'type', but not 'dest' or 'met...
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...
Python Software Foundation: Minutes of the 1st Meeting of Board of Directors The Python Software Foundation Minutes of the 1st Meeting of Board of Directors The Board of Directors of the Python Software Foundation (the "Corporation") held its first meeting on March 5, 2001 at the Hilton Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif. The directors attending were: Paul Everitt Greg Stein No directors were absent. On motion and by unanimous vote, Greg Stein was elected temporary Chairperson ...
PSF Bylaws Version 1 This version of the PSF bylaws was used from 2001 - Feb 2014. ARTICLE I Business Offices The corporation shall have such offices either within or outside the State of Delaware and within or outside the United States, as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine or as the business of the corporation may require. ARTICLE II Registered Offices and Registered Agents Section 2.1. Delaware. The address of the initial registered office in the State of Delawar...
Proposed PSF Bylaws Prior for March 2009 Members' Meeting Attention! This is a copy of the proposed new PSF bylaws, for approval at the 2009-03-27 PSF Members' Meeting. Also see: Text source of the proposed new bylaws Copy of old bylaws (as they existed prior to the proposed changes) & text source Description of differences between old & new bylaws (unified diff & context diff) Current bylaws Bylaws of the Python Software Foundation ARTICLE I Business Offices The corpor...
Copy of PSF Bylaws Prior to March 2009 Members' Meeting Attention! This is a copy of the PSF bylaws as they existed prior to the 2009-03-27 PSF Members' Meeting. Also see: Text source of the old bylaws Proposed new bylaws & text source Description of differences between old & new bylaws (unified diff & context diff) Current bylaws Bylaws of the Python Software Foundation ARTICLE I Business Offices The corporation shall have such offices either within or outside the Stat...
Python Humor Here is a spurious collection of semi to totally unserious stuff, mostly postings found wafting gently in the comp.lang.python newsgroup (a.k.a. the python-list mailing list). See also Andrew Kuchling's collection of Python quotations, containing in a condensed form some sterling examples of the wit and wisdom encountered in the Python world. Contents The Zen of Python Fundamental... Cute Wabbit Shooting Yourself in the Foot Legal Issues Python vs Tcl vs Perl5 Python Object Orie...
PSF Board Resolutions The Python Software Foundation Resolutions of the Board of Directors Vote counts are of the form "4-2-1" (4 in favor — 2 opposed — 1 abstention) RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation approve the minutes at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/psf-important@python.org/thread/WURXJ7SFDWVQHNOTGDH2RYPUF3TRSV4D/ as representing a true and accurate record of the November 12, 2025 meeting. Approved; 7-0-1, 2025-12-10 RESOLVED, that the Python Software...
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