This year we are conducting the eighth 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 with everyone the hottest trends in the Python...

   Join Tania Allard, PSF Board Member, and ukasz Langa, CPython Developer in Residence, for Python . and the Latest Trends: A Developer’s Guide to ’, a live stream event hosted by Paul Everitt from JetBrains. Thank to JetBrains for partnering with us on the Python Developers Survey and...

   Do you know someone in the Python community who inspires you and whose contributions to the Python community are outstanding Other than saying thank you definitely do this too, you can also nominate them to receive recognition given by the PSF. In this blog post, we will explain what each of...

   Last year the Python Software Foundation was announced as a CVE Numbering Authority CNA to manage and assign CVE IDs for CPython and pip. Becoming a CVE Numbering Authority allows the PSF to provide expertise about Python in the CVE ecosystem, ensuring that users have accurate and up to date...

   We are excited to share the results of the seventh official annual Python Developers Survey. This survey is done yearly as a collaborative effort between the Python Software Foundation and JetBrains. Responses were collected from November through February . This year, we kept the response...

   Greetings, Pythonistas thank you so much for supporting the work of the Python Software Foundation PSF and the Python community The current PSF Board has decided to invest more in connecting and serving the global Python community by establishing a forum to have regular conversations. The board...

   The PSF is pleased to announce its first batch of PSF Fellows for Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q The following people continue to do amazing things for the Python community:Adam JohnsonWebsite, Mastodon, GithubPaolo Melchiorre Website, Mastodon, GitHub, Stack Overflow,...

   We are excited to announce the continuation of Seth Larson’s work in the Security Developer in Residence role through the end of thanks to continued support from Alpha Omega. This six month extension is intended to align the renewal period for this role with the calendar year going forward ...

   There has been a lot of attention directed at our Bylaws over the last few weeks, and as a result of that conversation, the Board was alerted to a defect in our Bylaws that exposes the Foundation to an unbounded financial liability.Specifically, Bylaws Article XIII as originally written compels the...

   Python is as popular as it is today because we have gone above and beyond to make this a welcoming community. Being a friendly and supportive community is part of how we are perceived by the wider world and is integral to the wide popularity of Python. We won a Wonderfully Welcoming Award last...

   In December we received an open letter from a coalition of organizers from the pan African Python community asking the PSF to address concerns and frustrations around our Grants Program. The letter writers agreed to meet with us in December and January to go into more detail and share more...

   The election for the PSF Board and proposed Bylaws changes created an opportunity for conversations about the PSF’s work to serve the global Python community. We appreciate community members’ perspectives, passion, and engagement in the election process this year.We want to send a big thanks...

   We are thrilled to announce that our first ever search for a dedicated PyPI Support Specialist has concluded with the hire of Maria Ashna, the newest member of the Python Software Foundation PSF staff. Reporting to Ee Durbin, Director of Infrastructure, Maria joins us from a background in...

   We are excited to announce that Jacob Coffee has joined the Python Software Foundation staff as an Infrastructure Engineer bringing his experience as an Open Source maintainer, dedicated homelab maintainer, and professional systems administrator to the team. Jacob will be the second member of our...

   It’s time to cast your vote Voting is open starting today Tuesday, July nd, through Tuesday, July th, : pm UTC. Check the Elections page to see how much time you have left to vote. How to VoteIf you are a voting member of the PSF that affirmed your intention to participate in this year...

   What an exciting list Please take a look at who is running for the PSF Board this year on the PSF Board Election Nominees page. This year there are seats open on the PSF board. You can see who is currently on the board on the PSF Officers amp; Directors page. Débora Azevedo, Kwon Han Bae,...

   As part of the PSF Board Election, there are three proposed changes to the PSF Bylaws which will be on the upcoming ballot. We have received a significant amount of feedback relating to proposed change allowing for the removal of Fellows by a majority vote of the Board of Directors . We have...

   Lysandros showing the mistake we’ve all made, no longer a problem in the new REPL Photo credit: Hugo van Kemenade One of the headline features of Python . is the new interactive interpreter, sometimes known as a REPL Read Evaluate Print Loop which was contributed by Pablo Galindo Salgado, ...

   The Python Language Summit occurs every year just before PyCon US begins, this year occurring on May th, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The summit is attended by core developers, triagers, and Python implementation maintainers for a full day of talks and discussions on the future direction of...

   The Python Language Summit closed off with six lightning talks which were all submitted during the Language Summit. The talks were delivered by Petr Viktorin, David Hewitt, Emily Morehouse, ukasz Langa, Pablo Galindo Salgado, and Yury Selivanov.Petr Viktorin: Unsupported build warningDo you...

   The final talk of the main schedule of the Python Language Summit was delivered by Jason R. Coombs on using annotations for transforms. The presentation was accompanied by a GitHub repository and Jupyter notebook illustrating the problem and proposed solution.Jason is interested in a method for...

   Zac Hatfield Dodds came to the Language Summit to present on a fundamental incompatability between the popular async programming paradigm structured concurrency and asynchronous generators, specifically when it came to exception handling when the two were mixed together.Structured Concurrency...

   Tian Gao came to the Language Summit to talk about improving pdb, short for Python debugger , a module and command line tool for debugging Python.Tian Gao presenting on how to improve pdbThere are not many command line debugger alternatives to pdb for Python. Tian mentioned a few, including...

   Malcolm Smith from BeeWare presented on the status and direction of Python on mobile platforms like iOS and Android. BeeWare has been working on bringing Python to mobile for a few years now. Previously Russell Keith Magee gave a talk at the Language Summit in on BeeWare to announce plans for...

   Following years of excitement around the removal of the Global Interpreter Lock GIL , Python without the GIL is coming soon. Python . pre releases already have support for being built without the GIL using a new disable gil compile time option: Downloadwget https: www.python.org ftp python...