Python
2020 in Review
The beginning of 2020 was paving a new way for the PSF to support its community. The PSF Board Directors strategically planned to devote funding to Python's core and to hiring staff. We expected a healthy revenue from PyCon US 2020 and had big plans fo...
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12
Jan
2021
PEP 649: Deferred Evaluation Of Annotations Using Descriptors
Author: Larry Hastings
Python
11
Jan
2021
Python 3.10.0a4 is now available for testing
Happy new year to all of you. I hope you all have a great start of the year! And how to best celebrate that we have left 2020 behind that with a new Python alpha release? :) Go get it here:https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python...
Python
4
Jan
2021
PEP 648: Extensible customizations of the interpreter at startup
Author: Mario Corchero
Python
30
Dec
2020
Election Reform Community Update
This past June, the PSF Board of Directors opened a discussion to solicit feedback on the topic of election reform.
The discussion was a lively one and touched on the following topics:
PSF Director term limits
PSF Board geographic makeup
PSF ...
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The discussion was a lively one and touched on the following topics:
PSF Director term limits
PSF Board geographic makeup
PSF ...
28
Dec
2020
Python 3.8.7 is now available
Python 3.8.7 is the seventh maintenance release of Python 3.8. Go get it here:https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-387/Note: this is a bugfix release for the 3.8 series which was superseded by Python 3.9, currently the latest feature release...
Python
21
Dec
2020
Virtual Python Core Developer Sprint 2020
Overview From October 19th to 23rd, 47 participants gathered for the first-ever virtual 2020 Python Core Developer Sprint. This included 41 Python core developers, 3 triagers, and 3 core dev mentees. The core dev sprint is an annual week-long meet...
Python
18
Dec
2020
Rebuilding the PSF Fundraiser 2020 – Your support means so much 🤗!
The Python Software Foundation launched its end-of-the-year fundraiser on December 1st and the response has been overwhelming 💙💛. Even in this difficult time, our community has come together to help the PSF in its efforts to support Python development ...
Python
17
Dec
2020
PSF Scientific Working Group announces call for grant requests
The Scientific Working Group of the Python Software Foundation is excited to announce a next call for funding proposals in 2020/2021. The goal of the Scientific Working Group is to advance the scope, breadth, and utility of Python for scientific work. ...
Python
15
Dec
2020
PSF is hiring: Director of Resource Development
The PSF is seeking to hire a Director of Resource Development to spearhead fundraising and sponsorship efforts! We are accepting resumes through January 14th, 2021. See the job description section below for more information.After 5 years, our sponsorsh...
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14
Dec
2020
Elaine Wong Awarded the PSF Community Service Award for Q3 2020
Elaine Wong organizer PyCon Canada, PyLadies Toronto and CSV Conference, has been awarded the Python Software Foundation 2020 Q3 Community Service Award. RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation award the 2020 Q3 Community Service...
Python
11
Dec
2020
Announcing the PSF Diversity and Inclusion Work Group
Python has become one of the most popular programming languages in the world, meaning that along with this growth the Python community has continued to expand, in every continent around the globe. While this growth has been exciting, it has also brough...
Python
9
Dec
2020
Python 3.9.1 is now available, together with 3.10.0a3 and 3.8.7rc1
It’s starting to get very cold (at least on the Northern hemisphere) so we have been carefully packaging a total of three new Python releases to keep you warm these days!Python 3.9.1Python 3.9.1 is the first maintenance release of Python 3.9, and also ...
Python
8
Dec
2020
Help the PSF raise $60,000 USD by December 31st!
Help us raise $60,000 USD by December 31st!Python continues to be a popular and accessible language in the education sector. More and more institutions around the world are introducing students to the opportunities that Python presents. Your support ca...
Python
1
Dec
2020
Releasing pip 20.3, featuring new dependency 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 version of pip. You can install it by running python -m pip install --upgrade pip.
This is an important and disruptive r...
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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 version of pip. You can install it by running python -m pip install --upgrade pip.
This is an important and disruptive r...
30
Nov
2020
Releasing pip 20.3, featuring new dependency 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 version of pip. You can install it by running python -m pip install --upgrade pip.
This is an important and disruptive r...
Python
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 version of pip. You can install it by running python -m pip install --upgrade pip.
This is an important and disruptive r...
30
Nov
2020
PyPI receives AWS credits for open source projects
The support provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to the Python Software Foundation has been a core part of operating The Python Package Index since it was relaunched on an all new codebase in March 2018.AWS has provided PyPI a sta...
Python
20
Nov
2020
Rami Chowdhury Awarded the PSF Community Service Award for Q3 2020
Rami Chowdhury Entrepreneur, Software Engineer, DC Python User group co-organizer, and volunteer coordinator of PyCon US, has been awarded the Python Software Foundation 2020 Q3 Community Service Award.RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation awar...
Python
11
Nov
2020
Python 3.10.0a2 is now available for testing
The engines of the secret release manager machine have finished producing a new pre-release. Go get it here:https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3100a2/ This is an early developer preview of Python 3.10Major new features of the 3.10 ser...
Python
4
Nov
2020
PEP 8102: 2021 Term steering council election
Author: Ewa Jodlowska , Ernest W. Durbin III , Joe Carey
Python
29
Oct
2020
Key generation and signing ceremony for PyPI
On Friday October 30th at 11:15 AM EDT the Python Software Foundation will be live streaming a remote key generation and signing ceremony to bootstrap The Update Framework for The Python Package Index. You can click here to see...
Python
28
Oct
2020
Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q3 2020
It's that time of year! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q3! The following people continue to do amazing things for the Python community:Débora AzevedoTwitter, WebsiteInes MontaniTwitter, GitHub, WebsiteJohn RoaKarolina LadinoWebsite, TwitterKati...
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27
Oct
2020
Python 3.9.0 is now available, and you can already test 3.10.0a1!
On behalf of the Python development community and the Python 3.9 release team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of Python 3.9.0.
Python 3.9.0 is the newest feature release of the Python language,
and it contains many new features and optimizat...
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Python 3.9.0 is the newest feature release of the Python language,
and it contains many new features and optimizat...
5
Oct
2020
Python 3.5 is no longer supported
Python 3.5 is no longer supported. There will be no more bug fixes or security patches for the 3.5 series, and Python 3.5.10 is the last release. The Python core development community recommends that all remaining Python 3.5 users...
Python
2
Oct
2020
Join the Python Developers Survey 2020: Share and learn about the community
This year we are conducting the fourth iteration of the official Python Developers Survey. The goal is to capture the current state of the language and the ecosystem around it. By comparing the results with last year’s, we can identify and share ...
Python
2
Oct
2020
PEP 642: Constraint Pattern Syntax for Structural Pattern Matching
Author: Nick Coghlan
Python
26
Sep
2020
PEP 642: Constraint Pattern Syntax for Structural Pattern Matching
Author: Nick Coghlan
Python
26
Sep
2020
Python 3.8.6 is now available
Python 3.8.6 is the sixth maintenance release of Python 3.8. Go get it here:https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-386/ Maintenance releases for the 3.8 series will continue at regular bi-monthly intervals, with 3.8.7 planned for mid-Nove...
Python
24
Sep
2020
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 finances with the cancellation of PyCon 2020’s in-person conference and lower donations. Thanks to PyCon 2020 On...
Python
22
Sep
2020
Python 3.9.0rc2 is now available for testing
Python 3.9.0 is almost ready. This release, 3.9.0rc2, is the last planned preview before the final release of Python 3.9.0 on 2020-10-05. Get it here:https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390rc2/In the mean time, we ...
Python
17
Sep
2020
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 - by interviewing pip users, by sending short surveys, and doing usability tests of new pip functions.
We want to t...
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We want to t...
15
Sep
2020
PEP 635: Structural Pattern Matching: Motivation and Rationale
Author: Tobias Kohn ,
Python
12
Sep
2020
PEP 635: Structural Pattern Matching: Motivation and Rationale
Author: Tobias Kohn ,
Python
12
Sep
2020
Noah Alorwu Awarded the PSF Community Service Award for Q2 2020
Noah Alorwu, software developer and co-organizer of PyCon Africa, has been awarded the Python Software Foundation 2020 Q2 Community Service Award.Noah is the CTO of Cradx and has been involved with the Python community since 2017.RESOLVED, that t...
Python
11
Sep
2020
Python 3.5.10 is now available
Python 3.5.10 is now available. You can get it here.
Python
5
Sep
2020
Python Software Foundation End-of-the-Year Fundraiser
We’re excited to announce that plans are underway for our end-of-the-year 2020 fundraising campaign launching on November 23rd and ending on December 31st!In the past, we’ve worked successfully with organizations such as JetBrains who donated 100% of t...
Python
2
Sep
2020
PEP 637: Support for indexing with keyword arguments
Author: Stefano Borini, Jonathan Fine
Python
24
Aug
2020
Python 3.5.10rc1 is now available
Python 3.5.10rc1 is now available.You can download it here.
Python
22
Aug
2020
PEP 631: Dependency specification in pyproject.toml based on PEP 508
Author: Ofek Lev
Python
20
Aug
2020
PEP 631: Dependency specification in pyproject.toml based on PEP 508
Author: Ofek Lev
Python
20
Aug
2020
Python 3.7.9 and 3.6.12 security updates now available
Python 3.7.9 and 3.6.12, the lastest security fix rollups for Python 3.7 and Python 3.6, are now available. You can find the release files including updated binary installers for 3.7.9, links to the changelogs, ...
Python
17
Aug
2020
Python 3.9.0rc1 is now available
Python 3.9.0 is almost ready. This release, 3.9.0rc1, is the penultimate release preview. You can get it here:https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390rc1/Entering the release candidate phase, only reviewed code changes which a...
Python
11
Aug
2020