Seth Michael Larson

Security and integrity of the Python packaging ecosystem is critical, and the smallest unit of a packaging ecosystem is a "package". Python packages use exis...

The Python Software Foundation Security Developer-in-Residence, Seth Larson, published a new white paper with Alpha-Omega about the work to solve the "Phanto...

Tobias Wrigstad, Matthew Parkinson, and Fridtjof Stoldt attended their first Python Language Summit to talk about some new concurrency concepts with core dev...

Eric Snow opened his presentation about the Python Steering Council with an appreciation of current and former Steering Council members and all their hard wo...

In memoriam: Michael Foord Larry Hastings led a moment of silence to remember former core developer Michael Foord, who passed away earlier this year. Michael...

Russell Keith-Magee and Malcolm Smith were at the Language Summit this year to announce the status of mobile support for Python: “After many years, this year...

“Does it make sense to move to the next phase of PEP 703?”, core developer Matt Page opened his presentation to the Language Summit. Free-Threaded Python has...

PEP 772 proposes a Packaging Governance Process through a new Python Packaging Council of 5 members (similar to the Python Steering Council). The entire proj...

An Uncontentious Talk about Contention Mark Shannon presented to the Language Summit a talk about contention, noting that the talk had been upgraded from a l...

Core developer and Python Docs Editorial Board member Mariatta presented an update on the Python Docs Editorial Board to the Language Summit. Mariatta credit...

The Python Language Summit 2025 occurred on May 14th in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Core developers and special guests from around the world gathered in one ro...

What do Python core developers want from future Rust support? “This talk is very timely, Rust turns 10 years old tomorrow”. David Hewitt is the maintainer of...

The first talk of the Python Language Summit was delivered by Itamar Oren. Itamar has plenty of experience at Meta deploying massive amounts of Python code t...

The final talk presented at the Language Summit was given by Hood Chatham, who maintains the Pyodide project and is trying to make fetch() happen for Python ...

Last year the Python Software Foundation was announced as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) to manage and assign CVE IDs for CPython and pip. Becoming a CVE Nu...

We are excited to announce the continuation of Seth Larson’s work in the Security Developer-in-Residence role through the end of 2024 thanks to continued sup...

Tian Gao came to the Language Summit 2024 to talk about improving pdb, short for "Python debugger", a module and command line tool for debugging Python. <tab...

Malcolm Smith from BeeWare presented on the status and direction of Python on mobile platforms like iOS and Android. BeeWare has been working on bringing Pyt...

The final talk of the main schedule of the Python Language Summit was delivered by Jason R. Coombs on using annotations for transforms. The presentation was ...

The Python Language Summit 2024 closed off with six lightning talks which were all submitted during the Language Summit. The talks were delivered by Petr Vik...

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Back in October 2023, PEP 731 proposed a new C API working group charged with overseeing and coordinating the development and maintenance of the Python C API...

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The Python Language Summit occurs every year just before PyCon US begins, this year occurring on May 15th, 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The summit is at...

Zac Hatfield-Dodds came to the Language Summit to present on a fundamental incompatibility between the popular async programming paradigm "structured concurr...

Hugo van Kemenade, the newly announced Release Manager for Python 3.14 and 3.15, started the Language Summit with a proposal to change Python's versioning sc...

Following years of excitement around the removal of the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL), Python without the GIL is coming soon. Python 3.13 pre-releases already...

Earlier this week the White House published a report recommending the use of memory-safe programming languages to eliminate an entire class of vulnerability...

Our Security Developer-in-Residence, Seth Larson, has been working to improve the management of vulnerabilities for Python users. Seth has championed progress...

It’s been three months since I was first hired as the inaugural Security Developer-in-Residence. I’m quite proud of what I’ve accomplished so far and think i...

When a vulnerability is disclosed in software you're depending on, the last thing you want is for the remediation process to be confusing or ad-hoc. Towards ...