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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...

Mark Hammond (author of pywin32 and long-time supporter of Python on Windows) has written PEP 397, which describes a new launcher for Python on Windows. Vina...

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...

When a user reports that your program crashes or hangs, sometimes you can only help to try and collect more information and outline a scenario to reproduce t...

Jesse Noller recently announced the formation of the Python Core Mentorship program. The idea behind the program is to help programmers, including students a...

The Python Insider translation project is continuing to grow! Today we are launching Portuguese, German, Korean, and Traditional Chinese versions of the blog...

The Python Insider team is very excited to announce two new blogs today. Translators for Romanian and Simplified Chinese have joined the Translation Project,...

Jython has finally migrated from Subversion to Mercurial. This has been a long time coming: unfortunately we had a difficult Subversion repo that took some e...

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...

We think the content of this blog is useful for the whole Python community, so reaching as many people as we can is one of our priorities. To expand our reac...

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...

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...

If you read Python Insider through a feed reader, you may not have seen the new page design Marcin Wojtczuk created for us. It looks great while maintaining ...

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...

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...

Python exposes an abstract syntax tree (AST) representing the compiled form of Python source code in the AST module. The AST module allows user code to inspe...

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

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...