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	2728	October 4, 2023
_datetime should be a static module Core Development	13	654	July 17, 2025
Shall we play a game? Core Development	2	725	July 16, 2025
Consider deprecating and eventually removing `-b` CLI flag Core Development	7	521	July 15, 2025
Python 3.14.0 beta 4 is here! Core Development release	2	630	July 15, 2025
PEP 768 and embedding Python C API	1	208	July 14, 2025
Decision-Making Process Improvements (or My Frustrations With How PEP 734 Has Played Out) Core Development	21	2145	July 13, 2025
Process for helping researchers contact our core devs Core Development	1	302	July 10, 2025
Request for review "gh-107545: Fix misleading setsockopt error message" Core Development	0	95	July 7, 2025
"interpreters" vs. "concurrent.interpreters" Core Development	22	2525	July 7, 2025
Gauging interest in arbitrary object immortalization and shared object proxies Core Development	7	497	July 4, 2025
Proposal: Add Text to the Language Reference About Runtime Components Core Development	2	330	June 29, 2025
Stable ABI/Limited API for free-threaded builds C API	46	1376	June 27, 2025
Generator expressions behavior with non-iterable objects Core Development	4	438	June 26, 2025
🚀 Introducing CPython Memory Tracker Core Development	5	1152	June 26, 2025
Reverting changes with NEWS entries Core Development	3	249	June 23, 2025
Immortalize/defer reference count all functions in `__builtins__` Core Development	10	412	June 23, 2025
Concerned about Virality of T-Strings (PEP 750) Core Development	30	1805	June 23, 2025
Deprecate then remove the `tp_is_gc` slot Core Development	2	355	June 22, 2025
What do people want to see to make supporting WASI easier? Core Development	15	851	June 18, 2025
Community Stewardship of Faster CPython Core Development	12	3581	June 18, 2025
Python 3.14.0 beta 3 is here! Core Development release	3	443	June 17, 2025
Notice: hg.python.org retires to "cold archive" status Core Development	2	515	June 16, 2025
About type-conversion special methods Core Development	6	509	June 15, 2025
Any interest in better Makefile dependencies? Core Development	2	250	June 14, 2025
Python 3.13.4, 3.12.11, 3.11.13, 3.10.18 and 3.9.23 are now available! Core Development release	10	1843	June 13, 2025
Announcing the Python Language Summit 2025 blog posts Core Development	0	873	June 12, 2025
Please be careful with backports Core Development	2	757	June 12, 2025
Python 3.13.5 is now available (yes, really.) Core Development release	1	1018	June 11, 2025
Building the JIT with pre-built stencils Core Development build	9	1053	June 10, 2025