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If you peruse the archives of language-summit blogs, you’ll find that one theme comes up again and again: the dream of Python without the GIL. Continuing this venerable tradition, Sam Gross kicked off the 2022 Language Summit by giving the attendees an update on nogil, a project that took the Python community by storm when it was first announced in October 2021. The GIL, or “Global Interpreter Loc

Our top sponsors—companies who step forward to make the biggest investment in Python and its community—not only use Python for their own internal development, but also offer Python as a crucial part of the products they offer to their own customers. That is certainly true of Google, the Python Software Foundation’s first Visionary Sponsor. Google's donations and sponsorship funds will be used to s

The CPython core development community is urging users to migrate to Python 3 as it will be the only version that will be updated for bugs and security vulnerabilities. After nearly 20 years of development on the Python 2 series, the last major version 2.7 will be released in April 2020, and then all development will cease for Python 2. Users are urged to migrate to Python 3 to benefit from its ma

Amber Brown: Batteries Included, But They're Leaking Amber Brown of the Twisted project shared her criticisms of the Python standard library. This proved to be the day’s most controversial talk; Guido van Rossum stormed from the room during Q & A. Read more 2019 Python Language Summit coverage. Applications Need More Than The Standard Library Python claims to ship with batteries included, but acco

Context Migrating New PyPI Features Deprecations Future Plans Security Please test! Workflows IRC/Twitter livechat hours Contact us The all new Python Package Index is now in beta at pypi.org. We predict the full switch will happen in April 2018 (roadmap), so here's a heads-up about why we're switching, what's changed, and what to expect. To get an email when the new site replaces the old one, ple

If you're using an older Python without the most secure TLS implementation, this is the year to get serious about upgrading. Otherwise next June you may not be able to "pip install" packages from PyPI. PyPI's maintainer Donald Stufft recently announced that python.org and related sites will begin disabling the old TLS versions 1.0 and 1.1. This change was imposed on us by our content delivery netw

Python trademark at risk in Europe: We need your help! For a French translation of this post, click here. For anyone who works in a company that has an office in a EU Community member state, we need your help. There is a company in the UK that is trying to trademark the use of the term "Python" for all software, services, servers... pretty much anything having to do with a computer. Specifically,

Jesse Noller recently announced the formation of the Python Core Mentorship program. The idea behind the program is to help programmers, including students and developers from other projects, connect with experienced contributors who serve as mentors to ease them into Python Core development. Contributors Wanted The mentors will help people regardless of experience level by bringing them up to spe