On behalf of the Python Packaging Authority, I am pleased to announce that we have just released pip 20.2, a new version of pip. You can install it by running python -m pip install --upgrade pip.

The highlights for this release are:

- The beta of the...

Abigail Dogbe, lead organizer PyLadies Ghana and co-organizer of Pycon Africa 2019, has been awarded the Python Software Foundation Q1 2020 Community Service Award.



Abigail holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the ...

Let's give a round of applause to our newest PSF Fellow Members for Q2 2020!

Berker Peksag

Twitter, GitHub
David Lord
Twitter, GitHub, Website

Julien Palard
GitHub, Twitter, Mastodon: @mdk@mamot.fr, Website

Kristian GlassTwitter, Website
...

This is a combined release of Python 3.8.5 and 3.9.0b5. Both are significant but for different reasons. Let’s dig ...

The grant-funded team working on improvements to pip in 2020 has now passed the halfway mark. Here's an update on where are so far and what's next.


Funding and Timeline Status


The plan that we proposed last year said that, by now, we would h...

Python 3.8.4 is the fourth maintenance release of Python 3.8. Go get it here:

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-384/

Maintenance releases for the 3.8 series will continue at regular bi-monthly intervals, with 3.8.5 planned for mid-Sept...

On behalf of the entire Python development community, and the currently
serving Python release team in particular, I’m pleased to announce the
release of Python 3.9.0b4. Get it here:

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390b4/


This is ...

Python 3.8.4rc1 is the release candidate of the fourth maintenance release of Python 3.8. Go get it here:
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-384rc1/

Assuming no critical problems are found prior to 2020-07-13, the scheduled release date ...

Python 3.7.8, the next bugfix release of Python 3.7, is now available. You can find the release files, a link to the changelog, and more information here:

    https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-378/

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With the 2020 Board of Directors Election Results announced, a new class of directors will officially be joining June 30th!

In light of the results and narrow margins, the Python Software Foundation (PSF) staff, incoming directors, existing...

The 2020 Python Software Foundation Board of Directors election has concluded.

Of 1,151 eligible voting members, 462 ballots were cast. This surpasses the necessary 1/3 quorum.

The four top votegetters via approval voting are:

Nina Zakharenko
Dusti...

Python 3.7.8rc1 and 3.6.11rc1 are now available. 3.7.8rc1 is the release preview of the next bugfix release of Python 3.7;  3.6.11rc1 is the release preview of the next security-fix release of&nbsp...

On behalf of the entire Python development community, and the currently
serving Python release team in particular, I’m pleased to announce the
release of Python 3.9.0b3. Get it here:


https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390b3/



Wait, ...

On behalf of the entire Python development community, and the currently
serving Python release team in particular, I’m pleased to announce the
release of Python 3.9.0b1. Get it here:

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390b1/



This is ...

Zac Hatfield-DoddsTeaching Python with Errors


When a new coder begins learning Python, the first Python feature they usually see is SyntaxError. In Zac Hatfield-Dodds's experience, novices meet these errors practically as soon as they start typing, ...

On behalf of the entire Python development community, and the currently serving Python release team in particular, I’m pleased to announce the release of Python 3.8.3, the third maintenance release of Python 3.8. You can find it here:



https://www.py...

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 accepted and Python is now starting to plan for the actual migration (per PEP 588)!

We are looking for vol...

By Akshay Prabhu, Software Engineering Manager, Capital One


Rewriting Legacy ETL Jobs in Python When You’re Not Python Devs






So how does a team of six engineers - heavily experienced in web development in languages like ReactJS, NodeJs, and Java...

Salesforce Engineering puts Python to work across many areas of their business. 
Read on to see how they use python in machine learning, security, internal devops teams and more.

The Python programming language has strong ties to both engineerin...

"We've got very big news on Android," Russell Keith-Magee told the Language Summit. "We're close to having a full set of BeeWare tools that can run on Android."

The BeeWare project aims to let programmers write apps in Python for Android, iOS, and ot...

The PyCon 2015 sprint was the first time this blogger contributed to Python—or rather, I tried to. The three patches I submitted that year are awaiting a review to this day. In recent years, however, the core team has made bold changes to their devel...

We are excited to share the results of the third official Python Developers Survey conducted by the Python Software Foundation with the help of JetBrains.

More than 24,000 Python users from over 150 countries took part in the survey this past Novembe...

The Python Software Foundation is looking for a Project Manager to assist with CPython’s migration from bugs.python.org to GitHub for issue tracking. CPython's development partially moved to GitHub in February 2017. All other projects within the PSF's...

Zac Hatfield-Dodds opened his presentation with a paraphrase of the economist Thomas Schelling:

No matter how rigorous her analysis or heroic his imagination, no person can write a test case that would never occur to them.
Hatfield-Dodds told the L...

Sumana Harihareswara

What do you need from pip, PyPI, and packaging?

Python packaging has seen relatively quick development in recent years as a result of increased funding; most famously the new PyPI.org website was launched in 2018. The current ...

The Python Language Summit is a small gathering of Python language implementers (both the core developers of CPython and alternative Pythons), as well third-party library authors and other Python community members. The Summit features short present...

"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 Python's type-checking features. Two of them have been approved already this year: the relatively "esoteric" PEP 613:...

"Documentation is the way we communicate with each other," said Willing. "Historically, we've done a great job with documentation." But the environment is changing: Python's BDFL has retired, and Python's user base is expanding, becoming more global, ...

Antonio Cuni presented HPy (pronounced "aitch pi"), an attempt at a replacement C API that is compatible and performant across several interpreter implementations. The idea was born at EuroPython last year from a discussion among CPython, PyPy, and Cy...

Mark Shannon began his presentation saying, "This should actually be titled A Semi-Formal Specification. I don't think we'll ever get to the stage of ML," a language described with mathematical rigor. However, a more formal definition of Python would ...

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-strings in 2015, said they are the killer feature of Python 3.6, and they are the motivation for many of his cli...

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. The standard CPython parser is produced by a simple custom parser generator. There are some costs to this simplic...

On behalf of the PyPA, I am pleased to announce that a new version of pip, pip 20.1, has been released.

To install pip 20.1, you can run:

python -m pip install --upgrade pip
The highlights for this release are:

Significant speedups when building loc...

On behalf of the entire Python development community, and the currently serving Python release team in particular, I’m pleased to announce the release of Python 3.9.0a6. Get it here:

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390a6/


 ...

PyCons take place throughout many parts of the world. Each PyCon is different in its own way;  drawing from its own geographical location as well as local history and culture. In 2017 another beautiful country opened its doors to a new PyCon...

The CPython core developers are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Python 2.7.18.

Python 2.7.18 is the last Python 2.7 release and therefore the last Python 2 release. It's time for the CPython community to say a fond but firm farewell ...

PyCon 2020 in Pittsburgh, PA was cancelled due to COVID-19 and that impacted the PSF's finances. Our blog from March 31st estimated that the PSF would need to use $627,000 of its financial reserve to get through 2020. 

Since the time we cancelle...

We are happy to announce our newest PSF Fellow Members for Q1 2020!


Q1 2020



Al Sweigart
Website, Twitter, GitHub

Alexandre Savio
Twitter, Website

Darya Chyzhyk
Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Kenneth Love

Kevin O'Brien
Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Ser...

A first release candidate for Python 2.7.18 is now available for download. Python 2.7.18 will be the last release of the Python 2.7 series, and thus Python 2.

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the Python community and programming language, as well as running PyCon US. Since PyCon US 2020 was cancelled, the community has asked how the PSF’...

On behalf of the entire Python development community, and the currently serving Python release team in particular, I’m pleased to announce the release of Python 3.9.0a5. Get it here:

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390a5/




This is a...

Débora Azevedo co-founder of PyLadies Brazil and Django Girls Natal organizer, has been awarded the Python Software Foundation Q4 2019 Community Service Award. 



Débora's outstanding contributions to the growth and support of the Pytho...

Python 3.7.7, the next bugfix release of Python 3.7, is now available. You can find the release files, a link to the changelog, and more information here:

    https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-377/

&nb...