Core Development

Steering Council Nominations Nominations for the Python Steering Council election. 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.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Core Development category Core Development	1	2090	October 4, 2023
How to make a modules built-in, instead dynamic loading C API help	3	88	April 18, 2024
Pre-PEP discussion: revival of PEP 543 Core Development pep	6	234	April 18, 2024
Py_AtExit change in 3.12 C API	2	109	April 17, 2024
Pathway to requiring OpenSSL 3 or newer in CPython? Core Development security	10	813	April 17, 2024
Trying to understand security backport policy Core Development security	6	308	April 17, 2024
Development on `http.cookies` Core Development	1	231	April 17, 2024
`None` as index Core Development	7	416	April 15, 2024
Revisiting a C API for asynchronous functions C API	1	231	April 15, 2024
Update strategy for pip in ensurepip (for security maintenance releases) Core Development	12	505	April 12, 2024
CPython, PyPI, and many Python packages are not affected by the backdoor of xz Core Development security	6	2613	April 11, 2024
Python 3.12.3 and 3.13.0a6 released Core Development release	3	772	April 11, 2024
Signatures, a call to action Core Development	37	4685	April 9, 2024
Python 3.11.9 is available Core Development release	0	570	April 8, 2024
Treating symlinks consistently in `pathlib.Path.glob()` Core Development	11	780	April 1, 2024
Deprecating importlib.resources legacy API Core Development	47	6229	April 5, 2024
Make some PyMutex APIs public C API	4	330	April 4, 2024
compiling python3.13 alpha release on openbsd Core Development	3	243	April 4, 2024
Consider downgrading Windows 32-bit from Tier-1 to Tier-2 or Tier-3? (in Python 3.13?) Core Development	52	4273	April 2, 2024
Type Signatures for extension modules (PEP draft) Core Development pep , review-request	22	1503	March 27, 2024
Datadog CI Visibility tool for CPython's GitHub Actions Core Development github , workflow , ci	1	251	March 27, 2024
Software Bill of Materials for next Python release Core Development release , documentation	19	3525	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	252	March 22, 2024
PEP 703 (Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython) acceptance Core Development	35	27233	March 22, 2024
Will sqlite3 be updated in the standard library to address fixed CVSS vulnerabilities? Core Development stdlib	8	551	March 22, 2024
Status of `PyLong_FromPid()` and `PyLong_AsPid()` C API	6	308	March 20, 2024
PEP 11: Proposal to promote AArch64 plaftorms to Tier-1 Core Development pep	23	1427	March 20, 2024
Should I expect all 3.8-3.10 tests to pass on M1 Mac? Core Development	7	337	March 20, 2024
Backport Thread Sanitizer infrastructure? Core Development	13	516	March 18, 2024
Use the limited C API for some of our stdlib C extensions Core Development	54	5424	March 17, 2024