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urllib Security Vulnerability Fixed

Brian Curtin · April 14, 2011

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

Brian Curtin · April 11, 2011

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.

Formalizing the AST Change Control Policy

Paul Moore · April 6, 2011

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

Brian Curtin · April 1, 2011

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

Brian Curtin · March 30, 2011

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.

Deprecations between Python 2.7 and 3.x

Paul Moore · March 28, 2011

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

Brian Curtin · March 24, 2011

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

Antoine P. · March 24, 2011

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...

Welcome to Python Insider!

Doug Hellmann · March 23, 2011

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...

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