More Python Everywhere, All at Once: Looking Forward to 2023
The PSF works hard throughout the year to put on PyCon US, support smaller Python events around the world through our Grants program and of course to provide...
Introducing a New Sliding Scale Membership
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has made a sliding scale option available for Supporting Membership, because we want to make membership more accessible ...
Where is the PSF?
Where to Find the PSF Online One of the main ways we reach people for news and information about the PSF and Python is Twitter. There’s been a lot of uncer...
It's time for our annual year-end PSF fundraiser and membership drive 🎉
Support Python in 2022! For the fourth year in a row, the PSF is partnering with JetBrains on our end-of-year fundraiser. Over that time, the partnershi...
Thank You for Making PyCon US amazing, Jackie!
Jackie Augustine is moving on from her role of Director of Events at the PSF. Please join me in thanking Jackie for all of her amazing work with our voluntee...
Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q3 2022! 🎉
The PSF is pleased to announce its third batch of PSF Fellows for 2022! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q3! The following people continue to do amazin...
Join the Python Developers Survey 2022: Share and learn about the community
This year we are conducting the sixth iteration of the official Python Developers Survey. The goal is to capture the current state of the language and the ec...
Distinguished Service Award Granted to Naomi Ceder
Naomi Ceder, a longtime Python activist and organizer has been recognized with the PSF’s Distinguished Service Award. Naomi served on the PSF Board from 2015...
Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q2 2022! 🎉
The PSF is pleased to announce its second batch of PSF Fellows for 2022! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q2! The following people continue to do amazi...
Board Election Results for 2022!
Congratulations to everyone who won a seat on the PSF Board! We’re so excited to work with you. New and returning Board Directors will start their three year...
The PSF Board Election is Open!
It’s time to cast your vote! Voting takes place from Monday, June 20 AoE, through Thursday, June 30, 2022 AoE. Check here to see how much time you have left ...
The PSF's 2021 Annual Report
2021 was a challenging and exciting year for the PSF. We’ve done our best to capture some of the key numbers, details, and context in our latest annual repor...
PyCon US: Successful Return to In-Person in 2022
We held our first in-person event since 2019 in Salt Lake City last month and it was well-attended, celebratory, and safe. We had 1,753 in-person attendees a...
Welcome Chloe Gerhardson to the PSF staff!
With great anticipation and excitement we are happy to announce that Chloe Gerhardson (she/her) has joined the Python Software Foundation (PSF) as of Monday ...
Python Developers Survey 2021: Python is everywhere
We are excited to announce the results of the fifth official annual Python Developers Survey. This work is done each year as a collaborative effort between t...
PSF Board Election Dates for 2022
Board elections are a chance for the community to help us find the next batch of folks to help us steer the PSF. This year there are 4 seats open on the PSF ...
PyCon JP Association Awarded the PSF Community Service Award for Q4 2021
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The 2022 Python Language Summit
Every year, just before the start of PyCon US, around 30 core developers, triagers, and special guests gather for the Python Language Summit: an all-day even...
The 2022 Python Language Summit: Python in the browser
Python can be run on many platforms: Linux, Windows, Apple Macs, microcomputers, and even Android devices. But it’s a widely known fact that, if you want cod...
The 2022 Python Language Summit: Upstreaming optimisations from Cinder
In May 2021, the team at Instagram made waves in the world of Python by open-sourcing Cinder, a performance-oriented fork of CPython. Cinder is a version of ...
The 2022 Python Language Summit: Dealing with CPython's issue and PR backlog
> “Any noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys an oyster most.” > > – Tongue twister, author unknown As the Python programming language continues t...
The 2022 Python Language Summit: Python without the GIL
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 thi...
The 2022 Python Language Summit: F-Strings in the grammar
Formatted string literals, known as “f-strings” for short, were first introduced in Python 3.6 via PEP 498. Since then, they’ve swiftly become one of the mos...
The 2022 Python Language Summit: Performance Improvements by the Faster CPython team
Python 3.11, if you haven’t heard, is fast. Over the past year, Microsoft has funded a team – led by core developers Mark Shannon and Guido van Rossum – to w...
The 2022 Python Language Summit: Lightning talks
These were a series of short talks, each lasting around five minutes. Read the rest of the 2022 Python Language Summit coverage here. Lazy imports, ...
The 2022 Python Language Summit: Achieving immortality
What does it mean to achieve immortality? At the 2022 Python Language Summit, Eddie Elizondo, an engineer at Instagram, and Eric Snow, CPython core developer...
The 2022 Python Language Summit: A per-interpreter GIL
“Hopefully,” the speaker began, “This is the last time I give a talk on this subject.” “My name is Eric Snow, I’ve been a core developer since 2012, and I’ve...
No Starch Press has released an all-Python Humble Bundle!
No Starch Press, an indie tech-book publisher and Community sponsor of the PSF, just announced a partnership with Humble Bundle that lets you pay what you wa...
Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q1 2022! 🎉
The PSF is pleased to announce its first batch of PSF Fellows for 2022! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q1! The following people continue to do amazin...
PSF Welcomes New Executive Director Deb Nicholson
The Python Software Foundation (PSF), the non-profit home of the Python programming language community, welcomes Deb Nicholson as its new Executive Director....
Meta deepens its investment in the Python ecosystem
As the backbone to many Meta Services ranging from Instagram to its AI and data infrastructure, Python is very important to Meta. PyTorch is built on Python,...
The Pi-thon 2022 PSF Spring Fundraiser!
Happy Pi Day, 𝛑thonistas! 2022 has been a year with some special dates, and we wanted to honor one more. We are feeling celebratory and excited here at the ...
We are hiring to expand our Infrastructure staff!
On behalf of the Python Software Foundation, and with much excitement as the hiring manager, I am elated to announce that we are hiring for a full-time posit...
We are hiring contract developers to build new features in PyPI
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The Python Software Foundation has funding available for designing, developing and deploying organization accounts in PyPI. PyPI is the official repository...
Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q4 2021! 🎉
The PSF is pleased to announce its fourth batch of PSF Fellows for 2021! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q4! The following people continue to do amazi...