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  • Frank Willison Memorial Award

    ...Pythonistas and the Python language in so many ways. Jessica McKellar (2015) Jessica McKellar has served in many distinguished roles within the Python community: Director, Python Software Foundation; PyCon Diversity Outreach Chair; core organizer of Boston Python, one of Python’s largest user groups; frequent keynote speaker and tutorial presenter; board member of OpenHatch; Boston Python Workshop organizer and evangelist; PSF Fellow; mentor for Outreachy program; core contributor to OpenHatch...

  • 2010 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes (informal)

    ...Python Software Foundation Minutes of the 2010 Members' Meeting February 19, 2010 The Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") held an informal annual members' meeting on February 19, 2010 during lunch at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, USA (PyCon 2010 Atlanta). Steve Holden presided over the meeting. Pat Campbell prepared these minutes. Contents 1   Attendance 2   Greetings & Announcements 3   2010 Election Delay ...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, December 13, 2005

    ...python.org/moin/WebsiteRedesignProposal). 5   Conference Committee A. Kuchling posted a status report to the PSF-board mailing list just prior to the meeting: PyCon status, Dec. 13 2005 The program is mostly complete: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyCon2006/Talks http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyCon2006/Tutorials http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyCon2006/Sprints The talks have been chosen and announced, but the actual schedule hasn't been posted by the Program Chair yet. I am not hap...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, January 10, 2006

    ...python.org. Committing changes to the SVN repository causes the beta.python.org site to be updated. Section 4, Python.org Redesign: S. Holden said that he would see if Tim Parkin is available for an IRC sprint. Status: done. D. Goodger reported that the IRC sprint happened, and work is ongoing. Section 4, Python.org Redesign: S. Holden said that he would be responsible for making sure that documentation is available for the new python.org system. Status: carried forward. S. Deibel reports t...

  • July 2012 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes

    ...Python. How can members help? They can talk to people and provide contacts. They can bring Python forward in professional settings. They can organize local user groups or meetings. They can participate in PSF projects. More information is available by visiting the PSF booth at EuroPython. You can also write an email to the board/members list) psf-board@python.org and psf-members@python.org. You can also visit the PSF website: http://python.org/psf/ or the wiki page: http://wiki.python.or...

  • Debugging Reference Count Problems

    Debugging Reference Count Problems Warning This page stays here for historical reasons and it may contain outdated or incorrect information. Debugging Reference Count Problems From: Guido van Rossum <guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> To: python-list@cwi.nl Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 11:09:40 -0400 Mike Fletcher wrote a number of posts about debugging C code that bombs, probably because of reference count problems. His approach to debugging this problem seems typical, but I thin...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Python are many. Python is quite easily learned by people from various programming backgrounds, such as Java, C or Visual Basic. After becoming familiar with Python, development proceeds very quickly -- perhaps faster than with any other language. At the same time, Python lends itself to the creation of highly readable, compact and well structured code. Python's particular mix of features also helps embedded developers be more effective when programming a PC. While these developers are well f...

  • Donation Drive

    ...Python Interview by Mike Driscoll, published by Packt (1) Copy of Two Scoops of Django 1.11, by Daniel Roy Greenfeld and Audrey Roy Greenfeld . What does the Python Software Foundation do? The PSF holds and protects the trademarks behind the Python programming language.  We awarded over 220 grants worldwide in 2017 thanks to the revenue generated through PyCon (40 more than in 2016) amounting to more than $257,000.  We support the python.org website and the Python Package Index...

  • Incompatibilities between Python 2.1[.x] and 2.2[.x]

    ...Python 2.1[.x] and 2.2[.x] <h3>Incompatibilities between Python 2.1[.x] and Python 2.2[.x]</h3> <p>The following visible differences between Python 2.2 and previous versions are intentional. <ul> <p><li>Not listed here are various deprecated modules and features that may issue warnings: the warnings shouldn't affect the correct execution of your program, and they can be disabled with a command line option or programmatically; see the documentation for the wa...

  • Python 1.6 License FAQ

    Python 1.6 License FAQ Python 1.6 License FAQ This FAQ addresses questions concerning the CNRI Open Source License and its impact on past and future Python releases. The text below has been approved for posting on the Python website and newsgroup by CNRI's president, Dr. Robert E. Kahn. The old Python license from CWI worked well for almost 10 years. Why a new license for Python 1.6? CNRI claims copyright in Python code and documentation from releases 1.3 through 1.6 inc...

  • Python 1.6 License FAQ

    Python 1.6 License FAQ Python 1.6 License FAQ This FAQ addresses questions concerning the CNRI Open Source License and its impact on past and future Python releases. The text below has been approved for posting on the Python website and newsgroup by CNRI's president, Dr. Robert E. Kahn. The old Python license from CWI worked well for almost 10 years. Why a new license for Python 1.6? CNRI claims copyright in Python code and documentation from releases 1.3 through 1.6 inc...

  • Incompatibilities between Python 2.1[.x] and 2.2[.x]

    ...Python 2.1[.x] and 2.2[.x] <h3>Incompatibilties between Python 2.2.2 and Python 2.2.3</h3> <p>The following visible differences between Python 2.2.2 and Python 2.2.3 are intentional. <ul> <p><li>It is no longer possible to use object.__setattr__ to circumvent the restrictions on setting attributes of type objects. <p><li>list.extend() works with any iterable. <p><li>In pdb, you can no longer enable breakpoints with negative numbers...

  • 2010-06-21 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Python 2010 9   PSF New Membership Class as Honorary Associate Member (HAM)- Resolution Only 10   Fund Project to Port pyOpenSSL to Python 3.x 11   Fiscal Sponsorship of Third-Party Projects 12   Fund Python Core Development Tasks 13   Reimburse Expenses for PSF Chairman to Attend EuroPython 14   Other Business 14.1   Move Monthly Board Meetings to Third Monday 15   Adjournme...

  • The Python 2.3 Method Resolution Order

    ...Python 2.3 Method Resolution Order By Michele Simionato. Abstract:This document is intended for Python programmers who want to understand the C3 Method Resolution Order used in Python 2.3. Although it is not intended for newbies, it is quite pedagogical with many worked out examples. I am not aware of other publicly available documents with the same scope, therefore it should be useful. Disclaimer: I donate this document to the Python Software Foundation, under the Python 2.3 license....

  • 2009 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes

    ...python.org/psf/records/members/2009-03-27/bylaws/. Approved, 53-0-4. 7   Give Up Control of the Python Logo? There was much discussion of this resolution, with many members (and an observer or two) clarifying their positions and how trademarks work. RESOLVED, that the PSF stops enforcing control over the Python logo as a trademark, and licenses it as a work of art to anybody without any restrictions. Defeated, 8-48-1. 8   Financial Report Kurt Kaiser, the PSF T...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, November 8, 2005

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, November 8, 2005 The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors November 8, 2005 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 18:08 UTC, 8 November 2005. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. 1   Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were present at the mee...

  • 2009-08-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors August 10, 2009 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 10 August 2009. Steve Holden presided at 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" means "5 in favor, 1 opposed, and 2 abstention...

  • PSF Fellow Membership

    ...Python community. Please also include an email address for the person you are nominating. Example nomination: I, Marcia Nominator, propose that Marvin Pythonista be recognized as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation, due to their significant contributions to the Python community as a co-founder of the PyCon Foobar regional conference, a lead organizer for the 2016 and 2017 editions of the Martian Python community's flagship Python conference, MarsPython and as a long-term contributor to i...

  • 2010-09-20 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors September 20, 2010 Draft A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 20 September 2010. Steve Holden presided at 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" means "5 in favor, 1 opposed, and 2...

  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.3.3

    ...python/2.3.3/rpms/fedora-1/python2.3-2.3.3-2pydotorg.i386.rpm">python2.3-2.3.3-2pydotorg.i386.rpm</a> (Fedora Core 1 base RPM, 6072688 bytes) <li /><a href="/ftp/python/2.3.3/rpms/fedora-1/python2.3-devel-2.3.3-2pydotorg.i386.rpm">python2.3-devel-2.3.3-2pydotorg.i386.rpm</a> (Fedora Core 1 development RPM, 676969 bytes) <li /><a href="/ftp/python/2.3.3/rpms/fedora-1/python2.3-docs-2.3.3-2pydotorg.i386.rpm">python2.3-docs-2.3.3-2pydo...

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