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Savannah Ostrowski @savannah.dev · 13/12/2025

I’m incredibly excited to serve on this coming term’s Steering Council! Working on CPython has been one of the most rewarding endeavours of my career. I’m so grateful to everyone who voted & honoured that so many placed their trust in me. peps.python.org/pep-8107/

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PEP 8107 – 2026 Term Steering Council election | peps.python.org

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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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Absolutely honored to serve another term with these fine folks. Thanks to the community for your trust and for Greg and Emily for a wonderful 2025 term.

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Cult.Repo @cultrepo.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Featuring: @mitsuhiko.at @pumpichank.bsky.social @snarky.ca Drew Houston, Guido van Rossum, Benjamin Peterson, Jessica McKellar, Ken Manheimer, Lambert Meertens, @mariatta.ca @pauleveritt.org ...

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I gotta say, ChatGPT and other LLMs are infinitely better at debugging esoteric computer problems than searching the web, forums, reddit, SO, etc. Case in point: Time Machine was erroring on a particular Dropbox file stored locally, and CGPT helped solve it. Plus it was actually kinda nice!

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Donghee Na @corona10.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

This announcement comes after several weeks of thoughtful discussion among the SC members. I’d also like to acknowledge and thank my fellow council members, @pumpichank.bsky.social, @gpshead.bsky.social, @pablogsal.com and @emilyemorehouse.bsky.social for their hard work throughout this process.

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

While it took much deliberation, it’s decisions like this, and the process leading to it, that make serving on the SC so rewarding. Once again I’m honored to serve with these five fine folks.

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Uncanny valley x2. I've talked to several plumbers recently whose voicemail goes straight to an AI. They don't tell you they're an AI tho, so after a few Qs & As, I suspect "Dane" and "Madison" of being Not Human. Now I'm trying to trick them without outright accusing.

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Tania Allard @ixek.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

This transition to a Public Benefit Corporation is a huge milestone for us ✨. I am so excited about the future and the impact we will continue to have on the open source ecosystem.

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Thomas Wouters @yhg1s.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Use #Python at all? I would like to do a silly thing, which I hope will bring amusement to others as well as me (if it works out). If you wouldn't mind, please fill out this form, and boost for reach: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Informal Pointless Python Survey

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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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Catching up on the PyCon talks I missed. Some are just bananas. @pablogsal.com @lukasz.langa.pl @1st1.dev GvR

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Hugo van Kemenade @hugovk.dev · 14/05/2025

WEPs, DEPs, BIPs, DEPs, SKIPs, NEPs, FEPs, SLEPs, AIPs, PEEPs, CEPs, SPECs, TIPs, JEPs, CFEPs, APEs, IPEPs... Many projects name proposals after PEPs rather than RFCs. Where did PEPs come from? Here's @pumpichank.bsky.social on the origin! hugovk.dev/blog/2025/pe... #Python #PEP #RFC #history

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PEPs & Co.

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Cult.Repo @cultrepo.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

The trailer for "Python, the Documentary" is here! 🔥🐍 From its humble beginnings in the Netherlands to powering AI at the world’s biggest companies - this is the story of Python. 🎥 The film premiers at @europython.eu in July and will follow on our YouTube channel. Subscribe to stay updated!

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Cult.Repo @cultrepo.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

The full film will feature: @mitsuhiko.at, @pumpichank.bsky.social, @snarky.ca, Drew Houston, Guido van Rossum, Benjamin Peterson, Jessica McKellar, Ken Manheimer, Lambert Meertens, @mariatta.ca, @pauleveritt.org...

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Seth Larson @sethmlarson.dev · 06/05/2025

@thepsf.bsky.social Developers-in-Residence Program now has a landing page! 💜 Today we cover the language runtime and security work, maybe there's a gap in the #Python ecosystem your organization wants to see improved? Let's chat! #security #opensource #oss www.python.org/psf/develope...

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PSF Developers in Residence

The official home of the Python Programming Language

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This news just came across the Python forums, where he has much love and support. I haven't seen him in a long while but he was a fellow Release Manager back in the day, and wonderful character and early contributor in the Python world. Send him the best wishes from his Python friends.

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Clearly I need to come up with *way* more terrible PEP ideas.

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I was asking it for the git magic to split a directory out into a separate repo. The only thing missing from its response was a "Yo, bro" prefix.

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I love it when I ask ChatGPT to give me some commands to do a thing, and it responds with "Let me know if you want a script that can do that. I can hook you up".

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Python Software Foundation @python.org · 01/04/2025

BREAKING! Guido van Rossum, the legendary creator of #Python, has officially reinstated himself as Benevolent Dictator for Life (BDFL). Feat. Guido van Rossum, @pumpichank.bsky.social, @snarky.ca and @mariatta.ca‬ Stay tuned for the documentary coming this summer! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgxB...

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BREAKING: Guido van Rossum Returns as Python's BDFL

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I doubt Southwest Airlines is here, but I *used* to be a loyal customer. With the announced bag fees and previously announced assigned seat changes, as of today, I'm done. If you want to act like just another airline, that's how I'll treat you.

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Okay, before I freak out and delete Firefox everywhere, what's the deal with the new Mozilla terms of service, giving them blanket rights to use that information? Sure seems pretty broad, or at least extremely careless language, for a privacy focused organization.

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Are you using git connection (pull) for Pages or wrangler to push to CF? Or something else?

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Do you plan to deploy it as part of ruff or as a separate tool?

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Charlie Marsh @crmarsh.com · 29/01/2025

We’re building a new static type checker for Python, from scratch, in Rust. From a technical perspective, it’s probably our most ambitious project yet. We’re about 800 PRs deep!

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Incredibly sad news. RIP Michael.

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Hugo van Kemenade @hugovk.dev · 24/01/2025

#Windows #Python users, watch Steve Dower's video for an improved installation manager: youtu.be/Kl4XeDp51d8?si=Nob0e9c591W… Try the demo yourself and give feedback on PEP 773: discuss.python.org/t/pep-773-a-pyth… #PEP773 #PEP

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PyManager (PEP 773) demo 2

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Hugo van Kemenade @hugovk.dev · 24/01/2025

🐍📦📜 All the pieces (I use) are now in place for PEP 639 ("Improving License Clarity with Better Package Metadata"). Thanks to contributors and maintainers of at least 6 projects and of course Karolina Surma for the PEP! discuss.python.org/t/pep-639-ro... #Python #PEP639 #PyPI #SPDX #licensing

PyPI metadata showing "License Expression: BSD-3-Clause" with links to more info about SPDX and about License Expressions.

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I wonder what managers we were worried about? Thank goodness we changed it though because look where Python is now! 😁

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Mini-PITA: on a macOS 15 laptop with a notch, app menubar icons just get lost under the notch if you have too many of them. You have to quit apps or move notifications to the Control Center. Doesn't this bug some Apple employee enough to Just Fix?! Scrollbar or popup with the full list would do.

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Originally, and for a long time, it was called The Cheeseshop from the Monty Python skit. The funny thing was while the MP cheeseshop had no cheese, The Cheeseshop had lots of "cheese". During some past humor purging era, we went all corporate and changed the name. I still call it The Cheeseshop.

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I presume that the books will still be available, and while somewhat different, are every bit as entertaining and exciting as the show.

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

At one point, it was a badge of honor to have the most rejected PEPs 😜

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The irony is that PEPs were intended to be lightweight. 😬

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Almost! The chart leaves out gigs! 🤘

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Let’s try that again, autospell! It’s 2025. Is Keybase still the easiest way to do end to end git repos?

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Let’s try that again, autospell! It’s 2025. Is Keybase still the easiest way to do end to end git repos?

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Its 2025. Is Keybase still the easiest way to do end to end encrypted got repos?

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

It's that time of the decade where I modernize my .emacs file and remove tons of crap I no longer use or need.

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Veit Schiele @veit-schiele.de · 07/01/2025

Python has won the title of ‘TIOBE’s Programming Language of the Year 2024’. This award is given to the programming language with the highest increase in ratings in one year. Python gained a whopping 9.3% in 2024: www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/... #Python #TIOBE

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Forget about the fact that you can add to an iCloud list on iOS but not macOS. At least now I think they’ve fixed the macOS bug where you had to quit contacts and restart to drag the name to an iCloud list.

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Barry Warsaw @pumpichank.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I’ve been using Ubuntu Mono fonts ever since Canonical open sourced them.

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Deb Nicholson @eximious.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The number of proposals submitted by the community yesterday was 336, bringing our closing total to 932. Great job procrastinators!! #PyConUS #Python

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