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 touch...
Virtual Python Core Developer Sprint 2020
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Overview From October 19th to 23rd, 47 participants gathered for the first-ever virtual 2020 Python Core Developer Sprint. This included 41 Python core devel...
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 ti...
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 Scienti...
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...
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. > R...
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 expan...
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 arou...
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 ins...
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 r...
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 Softwar...
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 Up...
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 Azeved...
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 e...
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 canc...
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 pi...
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...
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! ...
Abigail Dogbe Awarded the PSF Community Service Award for Q1 2020
Abigail Dogbe, lead organizer PyLadies Ghana and co-organizer of Pycon Africa 2019, has been awarded the Python Software Foundation Q1 2020 Community Service...
Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q2 2020
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 P...
Pip team midyear report
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 a...
Announcing the PSF Project Funding Working Group
For the past 3 years, the PSF has been working on grant funded projects to improve our internal systems and platforms. This work has been done with the Packa...
2020 Python Software Foundation Board of Directors Election Retrospective and Next Steps
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 narro...
2020 Python Software Foundation Board of Directors Election Results
The 2020 Python Software Foundation Board of Directors election has concluded. Of 1,151 eligible voting members, 462 ballots were cast. This surpasses the ne...
Lightning Talks Part 2 - Python Language Summit 2020
Zac Hatfield-Dodds Teaching Python with Errors When a new coder begins learning Python, the first Python feature they usually see is . In Zac Hatfie...
Capital One - Lessons From Adopting Python as a Team
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 engine...
6 Ways Salesforce Gets Things Done with Python
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 de...
Call for Volunteers! Python GitHub Migration Work Group
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 n...
CPython on Mobile platforms - Python Language Summit 2020
"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 Androi...
Core Workflow updates - Python Language Summit 2020
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 rev...
Python Developers Survey 2019 Results
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. Mo...
Python’s migration to GitHub - Request for Project Manager Resumes
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...
Property-Based Testing for Python builtins and the standard library - Python Language Summit 2020
Zac Hatfield-Dodds opened his presentation with a paraphrase of the economist Thomas Schelling: > No matter how rigorous her analysis or heroic his imagina...
The path forward for typing - Python Language Summit 2020
"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...
A formal specification for the (C)Python virtual machine - Python Language Summit 2020
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...
Replacing CPython’s parser - Python Language Summit 2020
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...
Lightning Talks Part 1 - Python Language Summit 2020
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...
Should All Strings Become f-strings? - Python Language Summit 2020
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...
HPy: a future-proof way of extending Python? - Python Language Summit 2020
Antonio Cuni presented HPy (pronounced "aitch pi"), an attempt at a replacement C API that is compatible and performant across several interpreter implementa...
The 2020 Python Language Summit
The Python Language Summit is a small gathering of Python language implementers (both the core developers of CPython and alternative Pythons), as well third-...
CPython Documentation: The Next 5 Years - Python Language Summit 2020
"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...
Building a Python community in Colombia: John Roa, 2018 Q4 CSA Recipient
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...
Thank you to donors & sponsors
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...
Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q1 2020
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...
PSF's Projected 2020 Financial Outcome
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...
New pip resolver to roll out this year
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 Awarded the PSF Community Service Award for Q4 2019
Débora Azevedo co-founder of PyLadies Brazil and Django Girls Natal organizer, has been awarded the Python Software Foundation Q4 2019 Community Service Awar...
An Update on PyPI Funded Work
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...
Start using 2FA and API tokens on PyPI
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. ...
Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q4 2019
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...