Releasing pip 20.3, featuring new dependency resolver
On behalf of the Python Packaging Authority and the pip team, I am pleased to announce that we have just released pip 20.3, a new version of pip. You can ins...
Answer these surveys to improve pip's usability
The pip team has been working on improving the usability of pip since the start of this year. We've been carrying this work out remotely - by interviewing pi...
Pip team midyear report
The grant-funded team working on improvements to pip in 2020 has now passed the halfway mark. Here's an update on where are so far and what's next. Funding a...
New pip resolver to roll out this year
The developers of pip are in the process of developing a new resolver for pip (as we announced on the PSF blog last year). We aim to roll it out later this y...
Mozilla and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to support pip
The Python Software Foundation is receiving $407,000 USD to support work on pip in 2020. Thank you to Mozilla (through its Mozilla Open Source Support Awards...
Brett Cannon wins Frank Willison Award
This morning at OSCON, O'Reilly Media gave Brett Cannon the Frank Willison Memorial Award. The award recognizes Cannon's contributions to CPython as a core d...
CubaConf, Day 1
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This is the second in a series of posts on my trip in April to Havana, Cuba to attend CubaConf, an International Conference on Free Software. Day one of Cuba...
Python-Cuba Workgroup
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Today I’d like to report on some of the progress that has been made as a result of last years' controversy over an April 1st joke post about a (fictional) Py...
BBC’s micro:bit project open-sourced today!
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As you may recall, there have been a couple of previous posts to this blog about the BBC’s micro:bit project (also see PSF newsblog). The micro:bit is a small...
Jessica McKellar receives 2015 Frank Willison Award
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Ask any Pythonista to name the best features of Python and they are sure to include its amazing community. For the past 15 years the PSF has recognized this ...
BBC Micro:bit successfully launched!
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July 7, 2015 BBC Microbit Last March, I wrote about a terrific educational project taking place in the UK, with which the PSF is proud to be involved (see PS...
PSF funds development: Armin Rigo's CFFI 1.0
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In looking back over the PSF newsblog posts, it appears that most of the PSF funded projects I’ve written about were conferences, workshops, and education/ou...
PSF/NumFOCUS joint Working Group on Scientific Python
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For the first time ever, the PSF has joined forces with another open source organization, NumFOCUS, to create a collaborative working group to make decisions...
PyLadies: announcing paid summer internships with CPython
The Python Software Foundation is proud to announce that it is sponsoring CPython internships for women this summer through the GNOME Outreach Program for Wo...
Python in Google Summer of Code 2014
Python project contributors and student enthusiasts, mark your calendars: Google Summer of Code applications open soon! Google Summer of Code is an annual, g...
GSoC Student Applications Accepted
The Python Software Foundation is pleased to announce that 36 applications from students wishing to participate in the Google Summer of Code program have bee...