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Announcing defusedxml, Fixes for XML Security Issues

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

PandaBoard, Raspberry Pi coming to Buildbot fleet

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...

New Contributor Experience in Python and other FOSS Communities - A Survey

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...

Python Bug Day this Saturday

This Saturday, you have the opportunity of participating to the Python Bug Day. How would you like to be one of the contributors of Python? If you have ideas...

Updates to docs.python.org

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...

Python 3.3 Beta 2 Released

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...

Mercurial Mirrors Provided by Atlassian

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

Python 3.3 Alpha 4 Released

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...

Recent Windows Changes in Python 3.3

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...

2012 Language Summit Report

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...

Meet the Team: Brett Cannon

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.

A Python Launcher For Windows

Paul Moore · July 11, 2011

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

Brian Curtin · July 6, 2011

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

Brian Curtin · June 14, 2011

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

haypo · May 26, 2011

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

Mike Driscoll · May 23, 2011

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

Michael Markert · May 19, 2011

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

Doug Hellmann · May 9, 2011

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

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