This year’s Board Election Nomination period is opening tomorrow. Current board members want to share what being on the board is like and are making themselves available to answer all your questions about responsibilities, activities and time commitmen…
Joannah Nanjekye came to the Python Language Summit 2023 to discuss innovations by Scalene, a sampling-based Python profiler that can distinguish between native code and Python code in its reports. After its initial release in late 2019, Scalene has b…
Guido van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language, spoke at the 2023 Python Language Summit on the subject of open-source burnout, strategies for tackling it, and how to avoid it.The first known case of burnout in the field of open-sou…
The Global Interpreter Lock (“GIL”), is one of the most fundamental parts of how Python works today. It’s also one of the most controversial parts, as it prevents true concurrency between threads – another way of saying that it’s difficult to run two …
The Python Language Summit 2023 began with an extended discussion of Python’s C API – the interface through which it is possible to communicate between code written in Python and code written in low-level languages, like C. The fullness of this interfa…
At the Python Language Summit 2023, Russell Keith-Magee presented on the ongoing efforts of BeeWare, a project that aims to make it easier to run Python on mobile platforms such as Android and iOS.The BeeWare logoRussell Keith-Magee is one busy beeImp…
Every year, just before the start of PyCon US, core developers, triagers, and special guests gather for the Python Language Summit: an all-day event of talks where the future direction of Python is discussed. The Language Summit 2023 included three ba…
The Python Language Summit 2023 closed off with a trio of lightning talks from Dong-hee Na, Carl Meyer and Amethyst Reese.Dong-hee Na: Let’s support LLVM-BOLT as an official featureCPython Core Developer Dong-hee Na gave a short presentation on the LL…
Brett Cannon came to the Python Language Summit this year with a fundamental question for the assembled core developers: What is the standard library for?According to a quick python -c “import sys; print(len(sys.stdlib_module_names))” c…