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  • Audio/Video Instructional Materials for Python

    ...ing for software engineers using Python. Python Community News A look at the news around and impacting the Python Community. Podcast.__init__ A podcast about Python and the people who make it great. Radio Free Python A podcast of Python news and interviews by Larry Hastings. From Python import podcast From Python Import Podcast is a bimonthly podcast dedicated to sharing thoughts, opinions, rants, and intelligent discussion about all things Python. A Little Bit of Python An occasional podcast on...

  • Python 2.4.5 Release

    ...ing crashes of the interpreter in certain boundary cases. Python 2.5 is the latest release of Python. This release of the older 2.4 code is to provide bug fixes for people who are still using Python 2.4. This is the last planned release in the Python 2.4 series - future maintenance releases of Python will be in the 2.5 series, starting of course with 2.5.1. We have decided not to include binaries for Windows or OS X in this release, nor to update any online documentation, as the overhead for doi...

  • Release – Python 2.4.5

    Version: None

    Released: March 11, 2008

    Python 2.4 is now in security-fix-only mode. No new features are being added, and bugs are not fixed anymore unless they affect the stability and security of the interpreter, or of Python …

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  • 2009-01-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...ing action items were added since the last Board meeting on December 8. [35] Added 2009-01-12: S. Holden will write a PSF blog entry thanking 2008 donors. Status: carried forward. 5   Action Items in the Meeting Minutes The purpose of the Action Items page in the PSF private wiki was clarified: the wiki is to be used to update action items on an ongoing basis in lieu of a time-consuming in-meeting review, but the current status is to be recorded in the regular meeting minute...

  • 2007 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes

    ...interested in advocacy. Perhaps pay for a PyCon coordinator and/or a user group coordinator instead? Brad Allen: Emphasize infrastructure & user group support? Send the coordinator to user groups? That may be a better use of their time. Michael Hudson: EuroPython could use help too. In his report Jeff Rush admits to spending an increasingly larger portion of his efforts on PyCon instead of on pure Python advocacy. As PyCon co-Chair, the temptation was too great. However, the consensus w...

  • Release – Python 3.13.0b3

    Version: None

    Released: June 27, 2024

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is still in development. This release, 3.13.0b3, is the third of four beta release previews of 3.13. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their …

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  • Bugs in Python 2.3.3

    ...inning of a line in the /etc/group or /etc/passwd file to indicate NIS/YP or LDAP consultation. The bugs may also be related to duplicate id in these files. See SourceForge bug reports number <a href="http://python.org/sf/775964">775964</a> and <a href="http://python.org/sf/779218">779218</a>.</li> System Message: WARNING/2 (<string>, line 46); backlink Inline emphasis start-string without end-string. <li>There have been some repor...

  • Release – Python 3.7.0b1

    Version: None

    Released: Jan. 31, 2018

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.7 Python 3.7 is still in development. This release, 3.7.0b1, is the first of four planned beta release previews. Among the major new features in Python 3.7 are: PEP 538, Coercing the legacy C locale to a UTF-8 based locale PEP 539 …

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  • Release – Python 3.7.0b2

    Version: None

    Released: Feb. 28, 2018

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.7 Python 3.7 is still in development. This release, 3.7.0b2, is the second of four planned beta release previews. Among the major new features in Python 3.7 are: PEP 538, Coercing the legacy C locale to a UTF-8 based locale PEP 539 …

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  • Release – Python 3.9.0b2

    Version: None

    Released: June 9, 2020

    WARNING: this release has a known regression See BPO-40924 for details. Use Python 3.9.0b3 or newer instead, please. This is a beta preview of Python 3.9 Python 3.9 is still in development. This release, 3.9.0b2, is the second of four planned beta release previews. Beta release previews are intended to …

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  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.3.2

    ...Python? System Message: WARNING/2 (<string>, line 125) Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. <li />A) The RPMs that start with "python2.3" are built to not interfere with the system Python. They install as "/usr/bin/python2.3" and will not conflict with the system Python unless you are running on a system that ships the a version of Python which has the same major/minor number. <p /> To invoke the interpreter with these packages, you...

  • Notes

    ...in the namespaces where the lambda is defined. In some unusual cases, this change will break code. In all previous version of Python, names were resolved in exactly three namespaces -- the local namespace, the global namespace, and the builtin namespace. According to this old definition, if a function A is defined within a function B, the names bound in B are not visible in A. The new rules make names bound in B visible in A, unless A contains a name binding that hides the binding in B. Secti...

  • Release – Python 3.8.2rc2

    Version: None

    Released: Feb. 17, 2020

    This is the second release candidate of Python 3.8.2, the second maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.2rc2, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of …

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  • 2009-12-21 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...ing Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors December 21, 2009 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 17:15 UTC, 21 December 2009 (continued from the meeting of December 14, 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; ...

  • Release – Python 3.13.0b2

    Version: None

    Released: June 5, 2024

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is still in development. This release, 3.13.0b2, is the second of four beta release previews of 3.13. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their …

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  • Release – Python 3.13.0b4

    Version: None

    Released: July 17, 2024

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is still in development. This release, 3.13.0b4, is the final beta release preview of 3.13. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their projects to …

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  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction This story is about applying Python in the automated CD/DVD disc packaging industry. In the wholesale market, CD/DVD discs are sold in units of 10, 20 or 50 in one shrink-wrapped bulk package. Counting out stacks of discs for these packages is labor-intensive and requires several steps to accomplish: picking up an estimated number of discs from a large stack, verifying the correctness of the number of discs using a disc counter, adding or removing discs t...

  • 2012-06-18 & 2012-06-25 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...python meeting happening in October in Chapel Hill, NC Working on attending EuroPython. Ewa also reported on other event activities for the month. Please see the following report: PyCon AV Management Nothing to Report for May 2012 PyCon Budgeting Worked with Van on how to properly enter invoice items into the budget. This was an exercise mainly for those invoices that apply to more than one category in the budget. I have entered all F&B costs into the Catering tab of the 2012 budget....

  • Release – Python 3.7.0b5

    Version: None

    Released: May 30, 2018

    This is a beta preview of Python 3.7 Python 3.7 is still in development. This release, 3.7.0b5, is now the final planned beta release preview. Originally, 3.7.0b4 was intended to be the final beta but, due to some unexpected compatibility issues discovered during beta testing of third-party packages, we …

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  • Notes

    ...Python script using the window manager (including Tkinter or wxPython scripts). Most of Mac/Lib has moved to Lib/plat-mac, which is again used both in MacPython-OSX and MacPython-OS9. The only modules remaining in Mac/Lib are specifically for MacPython-OS9 (CFM support, preference resources, etc). A new utility PythonLauncher will start a Python interpreter when a .py or .pyw script is double-clicked in the Finder. By default .py scripts are run with a normal Python interpreter in a Terminal win...

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