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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-...
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...
Notes Python 2.1.3 Release Notes Release date: 08-April-2002 What's new in Python 2.1.3 (final)? Core Fixed two bugs reported as SF #535905: under certain conditions, deallocating a deeply nested structure could cause a segfault in the garbage collector, due to interaction with the "trashcan" code; access to the current frame during destruction of a local variable could access a pointer to freed memory. SF #457466: popenx() argument mangling hangs python (win9x only). Under certa...
PSF Bylaws Bylaws of the Python Software Foundation, Version 2 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 Delaware and the name of the initia...
...combines relative paths with a base path before checking os.path.isfile(). The whichdb module can now be run from the command line. Bug #1045381: time.strptime() can now infer the date using %U or %W (week of the year) when the day of the week and year are also specified. Bug #1048816: fix bug in Ctrl-K at start of line in curses.textpad.Textbox Bug #1017553: fix bug in tarfile.filemode() Patch #737473: fix bug that old source code is shown in tracebacks even if the source code is updated and re...
...combinerefs.py helps analyze new PYTHONDUMPREFS output. See the module docstring for details. Build Fix problem building on OSF1 because the compiler only accepted preprocessor directives that start in column 1. (SF bug #691793.) C API Added PyGC_Collect(), equivalent to calling gc.collect(). PyThreadState_GetDict() was changed not to raise an exception or issue a fatal error when no current thread state is available. This makes it possible to print dictionaries when no thread is acti...
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