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...lists also making sure emails are being answered/followed up on. I am continuing to read through all of the email threads that occur on the board/members mailing lists. Contributor Agreements: I continue to collect agreements coming through EchoSign and marking them in bug tracker. PSF Infrastructure (notes combined from weekly meetings): Noah - Mailing list wrangling. Investigated corrupt log data coming from Fastly. Coming from corrupted HTTP requests from z3c.pypimirror because it doesn't ...
Python Getopt SIG Python Getopt SIG The purpose of this SIG was to come up with a new and improved library for command-line parsing in Python 2.3. Everybody seems to agree that the venerable getopt module just doesn't do enough. The trick is to find something that is sufficiently powerful and flexible without being too complex to use, especially for novice programmers. The SIG was kicked off shortly after David Goodger and Greg Ward (your humble narrator and champion of this SI...
...lists and fiscal sponsorees Significant contributors to Python infrastructure and services Those that have been given an @python.org email address agree to follow these rules: All communication via the email address should be in accordance with our code of conduct and ethical behavior. There is no service level agreement between the user and the Python Software Foundation. The service is provided on a best-effort basis, the PSF does not make any specific availability or delivery guarantees...
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Released: Jan. 31, 2010
This is a source-only release that only includes security fixes. The last full bug-fix release of Python 2.5 was Python 2.5.4. User are encouraged to upgrade to the latest release of Python 2.7 (which is 2.7.2 …
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Released: April 28, 2020
This is an early developer preview of Python 3.9 Python 3.9 is still in development. This release, 3.9.0a6 is the last out of six planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of new features and bug fixes and to test the …
Released: Jan. 14, 2022
This is the second maintenance release of Python 3.10 Python 3.10.2 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. This is a special bugfix release ahead of schedule to address a memory leak that was happening on certain function calls …
Released: April 5, 2023
This is the eleventh maintenance release of Python 3.10 Python 3.10.10 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. Major new features of the 3.10 series, compared to 3.9 Among the new major new features and changes so far: PEP …
Python 2.2.1 Python 2.2.1 Note: See Python 2.2.3 for a patch release which supersedes 2.2.1. Important: This release is vulnerable to the problem described in security advisory PSF-2006-001 "Buffer overrun in repr() of unicode strings in wide unicode builds (UCS-4)". This fix is included in Python 2.4.4 and Python 2.5. If you need to remain with Python 2.2, there's a patch available from the security advisory page. We are pleased to announce the release o...
...lists for communicating with members and the public. It also needs a Web site. Action Item: Greg Stein will create mailing lists. Action Item: Greg Stein will set up Web pages. 5. Sponsor discussion The Board directed Hardt to continue seeking out sponsor members. There was a discussion of what freedom he should have to perform branding activities. The Board allowed him to develop the brand, but warned against over-promotion or dilution. The Board further directed Hardt to s...
...lists for either case. David will ask Heather for a letter of engagement, to be sent to Jeremy. 4. New Python License Tim asked for comments on the proposed version 2 of the PSF license, in the Wiki. There has been little feedback so far. David will ask the AS lawyer for comments. 5. Insurance Per email, Neal indicated that insurance cost have increased, so his budget for that needs to be increased. Stephan moves that it is RESOLVED, that the treasurer is authorized to pay up to $750 p...
...lists should be used to disseminate information among members. That lead discussion to the future of round-up. Thomas Wouters reported that XS4ALL will sponsor three machines for Python in the near future: the web server, the mail server, and a third one, which could run services like roundup. Andrew Kuchling asked what happened to the web committee. Jeremy reported that not much has happened. Barry Warsaw commented that the pydotorg list solves only a part of the problem. Andrew asked why Tim P...
July 2012 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of the July 2012 Members' Meeting July 3, 2012 The Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") held a member's meeting on July 3, 2012 18:00 CEST at EuroPython, Florence, Italy. Marc-Andre Lemburg presided over the meeting. Contents 1 Attendance 2 Greetings & Announcements 2.1 PSF Chairman Update 3 Board Report 3.1 &nb...
...lists [but] the opportunity to hire someone with vision. D. Goodger will send the PSF employee job description (work in progress) to the Board list for further discussion. 15 Renewal of the PSF Board Server Domain K. Kaiser reported that this is being done. DNS is renewed, and the domain transfer is in progress. The domain is owned by "Kurt Kaiser for the PSF". 16 PyCon Singapore Support The PSF was contacted by Dr. Liew Beng Keat of the Republic...
2008-12-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors December 8, 2008 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 17:00 UTC, 8 December 2008. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1 Attendance 2 Minutes of Past Meetings 3 Actions ...
...lists can no longer be invoked with more than one argument. This used to append a single tuple made out of all arguments, but was undocumented. To append a tuple, use e.g. l.append((a, b, c)). The connect(), connect_ex() and bind() methods for sockets require exactly one argument. Previously, you could call s.connect(host, port), but this was undocumented. You must now write s.connect((host, port)). The str() and repr() functions are now different more often. For l...
2007-11-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors November 12, 2007 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 18:04 UTC, 12 November 2007. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1 Attendance 2 Minutes of Past Meetings 3 Stat...
Released: Oct. 11, 2022
This is a security release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.15, a security 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 3.11.x here. Security content in this …
This is a security release of Python 3.9 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.9.15, a security 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. Security content in this …
Released: July 29, 2003
This is a patch release which supersedes earlier releases of 2.3. Important: This release is vulnerable to the problem described in security advisory PSF-2006-001 "Buffer overrun in repr() of unicode strings in wide unicode builds (UCS-4)". This fix is included in Python 2.4.4 and Python 2.5. If you need …
Released: May 30, 2003
We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.2.3 (final), on May 30, 2003. This is a bug-fix release for Python 2.2 and supersedes the previous bugfix release, Python 2.2.2. Note: there's a security fix for SimpleXMLRPCServer.py. Download the release Windows users should download the Windows installer, …
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