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  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (July 16, 2002)

    ...open source conference -- on July 24, 2002 in San Diego, CA. The agenda consists of reports and a vote on new member nominations. 8. Adjournment There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned.

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (December 9, 2003)

    ...open an account with Verisign. 7. Reports in board minutes The board discussed several issues related to the minutes. It agreed on several conventions for writing minutes: Action items should be clearly marked in the minutes. Reports from officers and committees should be included in the minutes; personal information in the treasurer's report may need to be expunged. A link to the minutes should be sent to the psf-members list after the minutes are posted. 9. Adjournment There being no f...

  • Become a Member of the PSF

    ...open source software available to the public at no charge, organizing Python events, participating in one of the PSF's working groups, etc. 3. Fellows Fellows are members who have been nominated for their extraordinary efforts and impact upon Python, the community, and the broader Python ecosystem. Visit this page to nominate a Fellow or learn more about the process. Basic Membership Sign up as a Basic Member here! Signing up as a Basic Member is free, and simply declares that you are part of th...

  • Release – Python 3.9.0a4

    Version: None

    Released: Feb. 26, 2020

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.9 Python 3.9 is still in development. This release, 3.9.0a4 is the fourth 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 …

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  • Job - Software Engineer, AI Coding Tasks

    Location: Remote, None Global

    We're looking for experienced software engineers to build AI coding tasks from a codebase they know well. US$1,000 per task, and you can do as many tasks as you want. You turn a real change from a repository you know into a task that today's best AI coding models …

  • Bugs in Python 2.3

    ...opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE. IDLE fails to start on Windows if installed to a directory with a space (e.g. C:\Program Files). Fix the problem by installing Python in a different directory. See SF bugs 780451 and 784183. The test for the ossaudiodev modul...

  • Bugs in Python 2.5.2c1

    ...opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE. The test for the ossaudiodev module hangs on some Red Hat systems. (This test is only run when regrtest.py is invoked with -u audio as argument.) It has been reported that untarring the source tarball using Solaris tar can fa...

  • Bugs in Python 2.5.3c1

    ...opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE. The test for the ossaudiodev module hangs on some Red Hat systems. (This test is only run when regrtest.py is invoked with -u audio as argument.) It has been reported that untarring the source tarball using Solaris tar can fa...

  • Bugs in Python 2.5.3c1

    ...opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE. The test for the ossaudiodev module hangs on some Red Hat systems. (This test is only run when regrtest.py is invoked with -u audio as argument.) It has been reported that untarring the source tarball using Solaris tar can fa...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (June 11, 2002)

    ...Open Source conference, from 7 to 11 PM on July 24th. Announcements can go out as soon as the room number is available. Initial projections of the attendance indicate a quorum will not be present unless sufficient proxy forms are sent in. Jeremy will provide proxy form templates on the meeting notice. Several suggestions were made for the membership meeting agenda, asside from the membership approval for STScI and AB Strakt: Progress report of 501(c)(3) application....

  • Release – Python 3.9.17

    Version: None

    Released: June 6, 2023

    This is a security release of Python 3.9 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.9.17, 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 …

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  • Release – Python 3.16.0a1

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 13, 2026

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.16 What’s new in Python 3.16? There’s plenty still to come in Python 3.16, but its first alpha is ready to try! Python 3.16.0a1 is the first of seven planned alpha releases. During the alpha phase, features may be …

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  • Job - ML Engineer

    Location: Remote, Worlwide Worldwide

    We are looking for highly skilled Machine Learning Experts to contribute to an AI training project involving model development, training and inference systems, numerical computing, performance optimization, and Python. The work involves creating, solving, reviewing, and validating challenging machine-learning engineering tasks. A representative task may require implementing or modifying …

  • Python 2.1.1

    ...open source. The new license makes it possible to combine Python 2.1.1 with other software that is released under the GPL; the old (2.1) licence didn't. What's New? We've been very careful to fix only bugs and not add new features. Thanks to Thomas Wouters for taking care of the thankless chore of poring over the CVS logs and SourceForge bug reports and re-applying selected patches! For the full scoop, see the release notes. Download the release Windows users shou...

  • Bugs in Python 2.5

    ...opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE. The test for the ossaudiodev module hangs on some Red Hat systems. (This test is only run when regrtest.py is invoked with -u audio as argument.) It has been reported that untarring the source tarball using Solaris tar can fa...

  • Bugs in Python 2.5.1

    ...opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE. The test for the ossaudiodev module hangs on some Red Hat systems. (This test is only run when regrtest.py is invoked with -u audio as argument.) It has been reported that untarring the source tarball using Solaris tar can fa...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (November 9, 2004)

    ...open issue was the list of initial licenses, for which the patent licensing was of primary concern. If we would require a patent grant from the contributors, a number of common licenses would be ruled out. Tim proposed that we only offer contributors such licenses, and wait for somebody to complain. Stephan was in favor of requiring a patent license for patents the contributor holds, but opposed to requiring contributors to claim that there are no patents on their contribution. Martin explained...

  • About the Python Software Foundation

    ...open source Python programming language. We are devoted to creating the conditions for Python and the Python community to grow and thrive. We fulfill our mission through these core activities: Infrastructure STRUCTURE AND STABILITY SO THE PYTHON LANGUAGE, ITS CONTRIBUTORS, AND USERS CAN THRIVE. We distribute Python, free of charge and available to all, for ever. We are the stewards of Python intellectual property—We establish PSF licenses, hold intellectual property rights to most Python releas...

  • Software Bill-of-Materials Information

    ...Open Source Vulnerability database (OSV), typically done automatically using vulnerability scanning tools. For a complete list of historical vulnerabilities affecting CPython you can query the web frontend of the OSV database. New vulnerability advisories are published to these databases in addition to the security-announce@python.org mailing list.

  • Software Bill-of-Materials Information

    ...Open Source Vulnerability database (OSV), typically done automatically using vulnerability scanning tools. For a complete list of historical vulnerabilities affecting CPython you can query the web frontend of the OSV database. New vulnerability advisories are published to these databases in addition to the security-announce@python.org mailing list.

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