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Congratulations to everyone who won a seat on the PSF Board! We’re so excited to work with you. New and returning Board Directors will start their three year...

It’s time to cast your vote! Voting takes place from Monday, June 20 AoE, through Thursday, June 30, 2022 AoE. Check here to see how much time you have left ...

2021 was a challenging and exciting year for the PSF. We’ve done our best to capture some of the key numbers, details, and context in our latest annual repor...

We held our first in-person event since 2019 in Salt Lake City last month and it was well-attended, celebratory, and safe. We had 1,753 in-person attendees a...

With great anticipation and excitement we are happy to announce that Chloe Gerhardson (she/her) has joined the Python Software Foundation (PSF) as of Monday ...

We are excited to announce the results of the fifth official annual Python Developers Survey. This work is done each year as a collaborative effort between t...

Board elections are a chance for the community to help us find the next batch of folks to help us steer the PSF. This year there are 4 seats open on the PSF ...

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Every year, just before the start of PyCon US, around 30 core developers, triagers, and special guests gather for the Python Language Summit: an all-day even...

Python can be run on many platforms: Linux, Windows, Apple Macs, microcomputers, and even Android devices. But it’s a widely known fact that, if you want cod...

In May 2021, the team at Instagram made waves in the world of Python by open-sourcing Cinder, a performance-oriented fork of CPython. Cinder is a version of ...

> “Any noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys an oyster most.” > > – Tongue twister, author unknown As the Python programming language continues t...

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 GIL. Continuing thi...

Formatted string literals, known as “f-strings” for short, were first introduced in Python 3.6 via PEP 498. Since then, they’ve swiftly become one of the mos...

Python 3.11, if you haven’t heard, is fast. Over the past year, Microsoft has funded a team – led by core developers Mark Shannon and Guido van Rossum – to w...

These were a series of short talks, each lasting around five minutes. Read the rest of the 2022 Python Language Summit coverage here. Lazy imports, ...

What does it mean to achieve immortality? At the 2022 Python Language Summit, Eddie Elizondo, an engineer at Instagram, and Eric Snow, CPython core developer...

“Hopefully,” the speaker began, “This is the last time I give a talk on this subject.” “My name is Eric Snow, I’ve been a core developer since 2012, and I’ve...

No Starch Press, an indie tech-book publisher and Community sponsor of the PSF, just announced a partnership with Humble Bundle that lets you pay what you wa...

The PSF is pleased to announce its first batch of PSF Fellows for 2022! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q1! The following people continue to do amazin...