Python Language Summit: Python Without the GIL

If you peruse the archives of language-summit blogs, you’ll find that one theme comes up again and again : the dream of Python without the... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 2 years ago

PSF Welcomes New Executive Director Deb Nicholson

The Python Software Foundation (PSF), the non-profit home of the Python programming language community, welcomes Deb Nicholson as its new Ex... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 2 years ago

Meta deepens its investment in the Python ecosystem

As the backbone to many Meta Services ranging from Instagram to its AI and data infrastructure, Python is very important to Meta. PyTorch i... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 2 years ago

We are hiring contract developers to build new features in PyPI

The Python Software Foundation has funding available for designing, developing and deploying organization accounts in PyPI. PyPI is the off... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 2 years ago

Python Software Foundation 2021 End of the year fundraiser

Summary: The PSF launched its end-of-the-year fundraiser. There are two ways to donate: 1. donate directly to the PSF or 2. purchase a disc... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 2 years ago

The Python Software Foundation is searching for its next Executive Director

Summary: After announcing earlier this summer that Ewa Jodlowska is leaving after ten years of service, the PSF has begun its search for th... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 2 years ago

Join the Python Developers Survey 2021: Share and learn about the community

This year we are conducting the fifth iteration of the official Python Developers Survey . The goal is to capture the current state of the l... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 2 years ago

Łukasz Langa Is the Inaugural CPython Developer-in-Residence

The PSF and the Python Steering Council are pleased to announce that the inaugural Developer-in-Residence role will be held by core develope... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 2 years ago

Progress on Running Multiple Python Interpreters in Parallel in the Same Process

Victor Stinner and Dong-hee Na gave a presentation at the 2021 Python Language Summit about running multiple Python interpreters in paral... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 2 years ago

Python Language Summit: PEP 654 – Exception Groups and Except

PEP 654 was authored by Irit Katriel, Yury Selivanov, and Guido van Rossum. This PEP is currently at the draft stage. The authors shared wh... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 3 years ago

PSF Hiring Python Packaging Project Manager

Thanks to a two-year grant commitment from Bloomberg, our second 2021 Visionary Sponsor and a long term committed supporter of the Python ec... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 3 years ago

Python Developers Survey 2020 Results

We are excited to share the results of the fourth official Python Developers Survey conducted by the Python Software Foundation with the hel... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 3 years ago

Welcoming Google as a Visionary Sponsor of the PSF

Our top sponsors—companies who step forward to make the biggest investment in Python and its community—not only use Python for their own int... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 3 years ago

Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver

On behalf of the Python Packaging Authority and the pip team, I am pleased to announce that we have just released pip 20.3 , a new versio... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 3 years ago

Join the Python developers survey 2020

 This year we are conducting the fourth iteration of the official Python Developers Survey. The goal is to capture the current state of the ... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 3 years ago

The Python Software Foundation Re-Opens Its Grants Program

The Python Software Foundation is excited to announce the re-opening of its Grants Program!   The pandemic negatively affected the PSF’s fin... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 3 years ago

Amber Brown: Batteries Included, but They're Leaking (2019)

Amber Brown of the Twisted project shared her criticisms of the Python standard library. This proved to be the day’s most controversial ta... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 3 years ago

Answer these surveys to improve pip's usability

The pip team has been working on improving the usability of pip since the start of this year. We've been carrying this work out remotely - ... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 3 years ago

Call for Volunteers Python GitHub Migration Work Group

Call for community volunteers! It is time to assemble a Python Work Group that will aid in Python’s migration to GitHub! PEP 581   was ac... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 3 years ago

Call for Volunteers Python GitHub Migration Work Group

Call for community volunteers! It is time to assemble a Python Work Group that will aid in Python’s migration to GitHub! PEP 581   was ac... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 3 years ago

The path forward for Python typing

"There are a lot of PEPs about typing!" said Guido van Rossum at the Language Summit. Since 2014 there have been ten PEPs approved for Pyth... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

Replacing CPython’s Parser – Python Language Summit 2020

Since its start, Python’s grammar has been LL(1) : it needs only a left-to-right parser that looks one token ahead to resolve ambiguities. ... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

Should All Strings Become f-strings?

The first language change proposed this year was the most radical: to make f-strings the default. Eric V. Smith, who wrote the PEP for f-... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

A New Sponsorship Program for Python Packaging

The   Packaging Working Group   of the   Python Software Foundation   is launching an all-new sponsorship program to sustain and improve Py... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

A New Sponsorship Program for Python Packaging

The   Packaging Working Group   of the   Python Software Foundation   is launching an all-new sponsorship program to sustain and improve Py... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

New pip resolver to roll out this year

The developers of pip are in the process of developing a new resolver for pip (as we announced on the PSF blog last year). We aim to roll i... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

New pip resolver to roll out this year

The developers of pip are in the process of developing a new resolver for pip (as we announced on the PSF blog last year). We aim to roll i... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

Python 2 series to be retired by April 2020

The CPython core development community is urging users to migrate to Python 3 as it will be the only version that will be updated for bugs a... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

Mozilla and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to Support Pip

The Python Software Foundation is receiving $407,000 USD to support work on pip in 2020. Thank you to Mozilla (through its Mozilla ... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

Seeking Developers for Paid Contract Improving Pip

The Python Software Foundation Packaging Working Group is receiving funding to work on the design, implementation, and rollout of pip's ne... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

Seeking Developers for Paid Contract Improving Pip

The Python Software Foundation Packaging Working Group is receiving funding to work on the design, implementation, and rollout of pip's ne... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

2019 Python Developer Survey

It is that time of year and we are excited to start the official  Python Developers Survey for 2019 ! In 2018, the Python Software Foundat... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

Python Software Foundation News: Grants Awarded for Python in Education

The Python Software Foundation has been asked about Python in education quite a bit recently. People have asked, “Is there an official curri... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

Python Now Has an Updated Code of Conduct

The Python community values members who are accepting, helpful, and respectful: for many years, the Python Software Foundation (PSF) has had... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

PyPI Now Supports Two-Factor Login via WebAuthn

To further increase the security of Python package downloads, we're adding a new beta feature to the Python Package Index: WebAuthn support ... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

Python Software Foundation News: Python Language Summit Lightning Talks, Part 1

The Summit began with six pre-selected lightning talks, with little time for discussion of each. Five of them are summarized here. An upcomi... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

Use 2FA auth to improve your PyPI account's security

To increase the security of Python package downloads, we're beginning to introduce two-factor authentication (2FA) as a login security optio... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

Python: Batteries Included, but They're Leaking

Amber Brown of the Twisted project shared her criticisms of the Python standard library. This proved to be the day’s most controversial ta... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

Amber Brown: Batteries Included, but They're Leaking (Python Language Summit)

Amber Brown of the Twisted project shared her criticisms of the Python standard library. This proved to be the day’s most controversial ta... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

Python developers survey 2018 results

In the fall of 2018, the Python Software Foundation together with JetBrains conducted the official annual Python Developers Survey for the s... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

Python Software Foundation News: Upcoming PyPI Improvements for 2019

The Python Package Index (PyPI) is far and away the largest and most visible service that the Python Software Foundation (PSF) supports f... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

The Ethical Maintainer

Glyph Lefkowitz was barely 20 years old when he promised himself, "I am never going to use a proprietary programming language again!" He ... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

Redesigning the Python package index

In April this year a new version of the Python Package Index (PyPI) was released, an effort made possible by a generous award from the Mozi... | Continue reading


@pyfound.blogspot.com | 5 years ago