Meet the Team: Brett Cannon
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Meet the Team: Michael Foord
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CPython 3.2.1 Released
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...
A Python Launcher For Windows
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...
3.2.1 Release Candidate 2 Released
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 Releases - 2.6.7, 2.7.2, 3.1.4
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...
New faulthandler module in Python 3.3 helps debugging
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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...
The Python Core Mentorship Program
Jesse Noller recently announced the formation of the Python Core Mentorship program. The idea behind the program is to help programmers, including students a...
Portuguese, German, Korean, and Traditional Chinese Translations
The Python Insider translation project is continuing to grow! Today we are launching Portuguese, German, Korean, and Traditional Chinese versions of the blog...
Romanian and Simplified Chinese Translations
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 Migrates to Mercurial
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...
Python 3.3 to Drop Support for OS/2, Windows 2000, and VMS
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...
Python Insider Translation Project
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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...
Meet the Team: Brian Curtin
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Meet the Team: Nick Coghlan
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New Blog Design
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 ...
urllib Security Vulnerability Fixed
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...
Meet the Team: Tarek Ziadé
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Formalizing the AST Change Control Policy
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...
Thomas Heller Steps Down as ctypes Maintainer
The Python development community owes a big thanks to long-time ctypes maintainer Thomas Heller. Earlier this month, Thomas announced his departure from the ...
Meet the Team: Benjamin Peterson
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Deprecations between Python 2.7 and 3.x
Recent discussion on python-dev highlighted an issue with Python's current deprecation policy facing developers moving from Python 2.7 to current versions of...
2011 Language Summit Report
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...
Of polling, futures and parallel execution
One of the big concerns in modern computing is saving power. It matters a lot in portable devices (laptops, tablets, handhelds). Your modern CPU is able to e...
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Python Insider is the official blog of the Python core development team. It will provide a way for people who don't follow the mailing list to get an overvie...