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Zac Hatfield-Dodds opened his presentation with a paraphrase of the economist Thomas Schelling: > No matter how rigorous her analysis or heroic his imagina...
"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...
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...
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 CPytho...
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...
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, sai...
Antonio Cuni presented HPy (pronounced "aitch pi"), an attempt at a replacement C API that is compatible and performant across several interpreter implementa...
The Python Language Summit is a small gathering of Python language implementers (both the core developers of CPython and alternative Pythons), as well third-...
"Documentation is the way we communicate with each other," said Willing. "Historically, we've done a great job with documentation." But the environment is ch...
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 his...
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 t...
We are happy to announce our newest PSF Fellow Members for Q1 2020! Q1 2020 Al Sweigart Website, Twitter, GitHub Alexandre Savio Twitter, Website Dar...
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 Py...
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 it out later this y...
Débora Azevedo co-founder of PyLadies Brazil and Django Girls Natal organizer, has been awarded the Python Software Foundation Q4 2019 Community Service Awar...
Originally announced at the end of 2018, a gift from Facebook Research is funding improvements for the security PyPI and its users. What's been done After la...
To increase the security of PyPI downloads, we have added two-factor authentication (2FA) as a login security option, and API tokens for uploading packages. ...
We are happy to announce our newest PSF Fellow Members for Q4! Q4 2019 Humphrey Butau Ngazetungue Muheue Twitter Pablo Galindo Salgado GitHub, Twitter Patr...
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 and security vulne...