This year we are conducting the eighth iteration of the official Python Developers Survey. The goal is to capture the current state of the language and the ecosystem around it. By comparing the results with last year’s, we can identify and share with everyone the hottest trends in the Python community and the key insights into it. We encourage you to contribute to our community’s knowledge by sharing your experience and perspective. Your participation is valued! The survey should only take you about 10-15 minutes to complete. Contribute to the Python Developers Survey 2024! This year we aim ..read more

Join Tania Allard, PSF Board Member, and Łukasz Langa, CPython Developer-in-Residence, for ‘Python 3.13 and the Latest Trends: A Developer’s Guide to 2025’, a live stream event hosted by Paul Everitt from JetBrains. Thank to JetBrains for partnering with us on the Python Developers Survey and this event to highlight the current state of Python! The session will take place tomorrow, October 3, at 5:00 pm CEST (11:00 am EDT). Tania and Łukasz will be discussing the exciting new features in Python 3.13, plans for Python 3.15 and current Python trends gathered from the 2023 Annual Developers Surve ..read more

Do you know someone in the Python community who inspires you and whose contributions to the Python community are outstanding? Other than saying thank you (definitely do this too!), you can also nominate them to receive recognition given by the PSF. In this blog post, we will explain what each of the awards are and how they differ. We hope this will encourage you to nominate your favorite inspirational community member to receive an award! PSF Community Service Awards The most straightforward way to acknowledge someone’s volunteer effort serving the Python community is to nominate them for the ..read more

Last year the Python Software Foundation was announced as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) to manage and assign CVE IDs for CPython and pip. Becoming a CVE Numbering Authority allows the PSF to provide expertise about Python in the CVE ecosystem, ensuring that users have accurate and up-to-date information about vulnerabilities affecting key projects. Today, the PSF is expanding our CNA scope to also include Pallets projects, such as Flask, Jinja, Click, and Quart. For a complete list, see the Pallets organization on GitHub. Please report any security vulnerabilities for these projects followi ..read more

We are excited to share the results of the seventh official annual Python Developers Survey. This survey is done yearly as a collaborative effort between the Python Software Foundation and JetBrains. Responses were collected from November 2023 through February 2024. This year, we kept the response period open longer to facilitate as much global representation as possible. More than 25,000 Python developers and enthusiasts from almost 200 countries and regions participated in the survey to reveal the current state of the language and the ecosystem around it. Check out the survey results! The su ..read more

Greetings, Pythonistas- thank you so much for supporting the work of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) and the Python community! The current PSF Board has decided to invest more in connecting and serving the global Python community by establishing a forum to have regular conversations. The board members of the PSF with the support of PSF staff are excited to introduce monthly PSF Board Office Hours on the PSF Discord. The Office Hours will be sessions where you can share with us how we can help your community, express your perspectives, and provide feedback for the PSF. What are the PSF Bo ..read more

The PSF is pleased to announce its first batch of PSF Fellows for 2024! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q1! The following people continue to do amazing things for the Python community: Adam Johnson Website, Mastodon, Github Paolo Melchiorre  Website, Mastodon, GitHub, Stack Overflow, YouTube, LinkedIn, X Thank you for your continued contributions. We have added you to our Fellow roster. The above members help support the Python ecosystem by being phenomenal leaders, sustaining the growth of the Python scientific community, maintaining virtual Python communities, maintaining Python ..read more

We are excited to announce the continuation of Seth Larson’s work in the Security Developer-in-Residence role through the end of 2024 thanks to continued support from Alpha-Omega. (This six month extension is intended to align the renewal period for this role with the calendar year going forward). The first year of the Security Developer-in-Residence initiative has been a success, seeing multiple improvements to the Python ecosystem's security posture. These improvements include authorizing the PSF as a CVE Numbering Authority, migrating the CPython release process to an isolated hosted build ..read more

There has been a lot of attention directed at our Bylaws over the last few weeks, and as a result of that conversation, the Board was alerted to a defect in our Bylaws that exposes the Foundation to an unbounded financial liability. Specifically, Bylaws Article XIII as originally written compels the Python Software Foundation to extend indemnity coverage to individual Members (including our thousands of “Basic Members”) in certain cases, and to advance legal defense expenses to individual Members with surprisingly few restrictions. Further, the Bylaws compel the Foundation to take out insura ..read more

Python is as popular as it is today because we have gone above and beyond to make this a welcoming community. Being a friendly and supportive community is part of how we are perceived by the wider world and is integral to the wide popularity of Python. We won a “Wonderfully Welcoming Award” last year at GitHub Universe. Over and over again, the tech press refers to Python as a supportive community. We aren’t the fastest, the newest or the best-funded programming language, but we are the most welcoming and supportive. Our philosophy is a big part of why Python is a fantastic choice for not only ..read more