For the Steering Council Keynote at PyCon US 2026 (May 17th), we want to solicit questions from the Python community, for a Steering Council Q&A.; We don't know how many questions we'll get to, but we'd like them to be interesting, engaging and/or funny, and we'll be selecting questions on those criteria. Don't hold back! (Ask as many questions as you'd like, but we're closing the form on Saturday, May 16th.)

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

A jumble and missing letters game from Lex Friedman.

We Contain Multitudes is your injection of joy! Join host Sandra Wong for bright-hearted conversations with famous guests about the geek-outs, hobbies, and interests they aren’t necessarily famous for.

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It’s obviously a minor release today that shouldn’t draw much attention away from the new hotness, but Python 3.13.8 is also here… This is the eighth maintenance release of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is the newest previous major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations compared to Python 3.12. 3.13.8 is the eighth maintenance release of 3.13, containing around 200 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.13.7. Major ne...

👋 Hi everyone, We are very exited to share with you PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports: We’re proposing an opt-in lazy import syntax that defers module loading until first use, aiming for faster startup, lower memory, and clear semantics with zero overhead when not used. We worked hard to balance user value, an elegant implementation, and predictable behavior, and we’ve included alternative implementation paths where trade-offs are worth discussing. Not only do we believe this is import...