Core Development

C API This sub-category is for discussions specifically about the Python C API. Covers both the development of as well as the development with (usage of) the C API. Steering Council Nominations Nominations for the Python Steering Council election.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Core Development category Core Development	1	2130	October 4, 2023
Pre-PEP discussion: revival of PEP 543 Core Development pep	43	1929	May 3, 2024
Reliable way to detect whether the C version of `decimal` is installed Core Development	8	167	May 2, 2024
PEP 594 has been implemented: Python 3.13 removes 20 stdlib modules Core Development	13	11209	April 30, 2024
Python 3.14/3.15 Release Manager Core Development	3	1143	April 25, 2024
Trying to understand security backport policy Core Development security	7	506	April 25, 2024
Update strategy for pip in ensurepip (for security maintenance releases) Core Development	13	674	April 25, 2024
Should `bool(NotImplemented)` become an error? Core Development	2	413	April 24, 2024
C API for asynchronous functions C API c-api	8	1005	April 22, 2024
Need someone to review pull request 13738 Core Development	1	251	April 21, 2024
How to make a modules built-in, instead dynamic loading C API help	3	263	April 18, 2024
Py_AtExit change in 3.12 C API	2	201	April 17, 2024
Pathway to requiring OpenSSL 3 or newer in CPython? Core Development security	10	921	April 17, 2024
Development on `http.cookies` Core Development	1	319	April 17, 2024
`None` as index Core Development	7	466	April 15, 2024
Revisiting a C API for asynchronous functions C API	1	318	April 15, 2024
CPython, PyPI, and many Python packages are not affected by the backdoor of xz Core Development security	6	2780	April 11, 2024
Python 3.12.3 and 3.13.0a6 released Core Development release	3	1033	April 11, 2024
Signatures, a call to action Core Development	37	4855	April 9, 2024
Python 3.11.9 is available Core Development release	0	684	April 8, 2024
Treating symlinks consistently in `pathlib.Path.glob()` Core Development	11	845	April 1, 2024
Deprecating importlib.resources legacy API Core Development	47	6390	April 5, 2024
Make some PyMutex APIs public C API	4	385	April 4, 2024
compiling python3.13 alpha release on openbsd Core Development	3	287	April 4, 2024
Consider downgrading Windows 32-bit from Tier-1 to Tier-2 or Tier-3? (in Python 3.13?) Core Development	52	4448	April 2, 2024
Type Signatures for extension modules (PEP draft) Core Development pep , review-request	22	1586	March 27, 2024
Datadog CI Visibility tool for CPython's GitHub Actions Core Development github , workflow , ci	1	266	March 27, 2024
Software Bill of Materials for next Python release Core Development release , documentation	19	3597	March 22, 2024
What does this line means - "ac_fn_c_check_header_compile "$LINENO" "ncurses.h" "ac_cv_header_ncurses_h" "$ac_includes_default"" Core Development	1	267	March 22, 2024
PEP 703 (Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython) acceptance Core Development	35	27655	March 22, 2024