This document describes the schedule and other details of the 2025 election for the Python steering council, as specified in PEP 13. This is the steering council election for the 2026 term (i.e. Pytho...

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This is an informal, unscientific survey of (sort of) Python questions, with which I'd like to try to make something amusing, maybe something involving families feuding somehow. (I may have been inspi...

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Since Python 3.13, CPython has been able to be configured and built with an experimental just-in-time (JIT) compiler via the --enable-experimental-jit flag on Linux and Mac and --experimental-jit on W...

This PEP proposes adding a zero-overhead debugging interface to CPython that allows debuggers and profilers to safely attach to running Python processes. The interface provides safe execution points f...

Another big release day! Python 3.13.1 and 3.12.8 were regularly scheduled releases, but they do contain a few security fixes. That makes it a nice time to release the security-fix-only versions too, ...

Astral is taking stewardship of python-build-standalone, Gregory Szorc's foundational project for installing portable Python distributions.

This document describes the schedule and other details of the 2024 election for the Python steering council, as specified in PEP 13. This is the steering council election for the 2025 term (i.e. Pytho...