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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.