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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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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...

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