Brian Curtin

We're happy to announce the new way to file a contributor agreement: on the web at http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/contrib-form/. Through the use of Adobe'...

The following post was created on behalf of CPython contributor Christian Heimes using a subset of details found here. Christian Heimes announces the release...

Thanks to the Python Software Foundation, a PandaBoard arrived on Trent Nelson’s desk just in time for the holidays! Santa dropped off the present for python...

If you have joined the community of developers contributing to CPython since January 2010, I hope you can find a few spare minutes to participate in a survey...

If you haven't already noticed, several months ago we updated the Sphinx theme for documentation of versions Python 3.2 and beyond on docs.python.org. It's a...

Release manager Georg Brandl announced on August 12 that the second beta of CPython 3.3 was released, complete with installers for both Mac and Windows. This...

Long-time friends of the Python community, Atlassian (makers of Bitbucket) recently made available a mirror of http://hg.python.org, synchronized hourly, for...

Yesterday, May 31, brought the fourth alpha release in the Python 3.3 development schedule. It's an exciting release as it introduces a number of long awaite...

The Windows build of Python 3.3 has recently seen changes that could use a look from the community throughout our alpha and beta cycle. The first change is t...

This year's Language Summit took place on Wednesday March 7 in Santa Clara, CA before the start of PyCon 2012. As with previous years, in attendance were mem...

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This post is part of the "Meet the Team" series of posts, which is meant to give a brief introduction to the Python core development team. <table frame="void...

On behalf of the python-dev team, release manager Georg Brandl has announced the final release of CPython 3.2.1. Windows installers and tarballs are availabl...

Following up a big month of releases in June, the second release candidate of the 3.2.1 line is now ready. Since the first release candidate on May 15, over ...

June is a big month for Python releases, with an update coming out of all active branches. 2.6.7 A new source-only release of Python 2.6.7 is available, prov...

Every so often there comes a time to prune the list of supported operating systems to match the usage landscape. On top of that, the pool of contributing dev...

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This post is part of the "Meet the Team" series of posts, which is meant to give a brief introduction to the Python core development team. <table frame="void...

Guido van Rossum recently pushed a fix for CVE-2011-1521, a security issue in Python's URL libraries. While security issues are rare, it's a good opportunity...

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The Python development community owes a big thanks to long-time ctypes maintainer Thomas Heller. Earlier this month, Thomas announced his departure from the ...

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This year's Language Summit took place on Thursday March 10 in Atlanta, the day before the conference portion of PyCon began. In attendance were members of t...