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	0	3229	March 3, 2020
PEP 845: Leading-Dot Value Patterns for match statement Core Development	0	5	October 8, 2026
Generate `Modules/getbuildinfo.h` when building Python to get build information statically Core Development build	0	73	October 8, 2026
Python 3.10.22, 3.11.17, 3.12.15, 3.13.16 and 3.14.8 are now available! Core Development release	12	831	October 7, 2026
Python 3.15: following tradition, let's have a surprise rc3! Core Development release	3	2499	October 2, 2026
Enabling thread_inherit_context and context_aware_warnings by default on both builds Core Development	37	1471	October 7, 2026
Python 3.15.0 candidate 3 is here! Core Development release	2	672	October 5, 2026
Announcing the Python Language Summit 2026 blog posts Core Development language-summit	1	464	October 5, 2026
Getting exceptions & built-in types using `Py_GetConstant` C API	5	408	October 5, 2026
PEP 842 postmortem: how do we protect the standard library? Core Development	55	3037	October 4, 2026
Review request for #157590 Core Development review-request	5	307	October 3, 2026
Review request for PR #158315 Core Development review-request	0	164	October 3, 2026
Review request for #150326 Core Development review-request	2	311	October 2, 2026
Remove __author__, __credits__ and __copyright__ from stdlib modules Core Development	10	903	September 30, 2026
C API: Migrate embedded Python to PyConfig and PyInitConfig APIs C API	0	161	September 24, 2026
Compiling CPython fails without wide-char NCurses Core Development help	2	218	September 24, 2026
Add `!R` conversion to f-string and `str.format()` to format error messages Core Development	10	444	September 23, 2026
What to do with re.LOCALE? Core Development	11	1746	September 21, 2026
Deprecate the iterator interface of async generator `asend`/`athrow` objects Core Development asyncio	4	320	September 19, 2026
Review request for PR #151425: document co_linetable Core Development review-request	2	207	September 19, 2026
Build provenance of openssl-bin-3.5.7 for CPython 3.14.6 on Windows Core Development	1	152	September 18, 2026
Why keep mimalloc 2.12? Core Development	2	491	September 15, 2026
Semaphores for use with both threads and asyncio? Core Development asyncio , free-threading	4	340	September 15, 2026
Supporting Destructors in the TSS API Core Development	4	416	September 14, 2026
Review request for PR #151828 Core Development review-request	0	180	September 11, 2026
A benchmark de-noising skill for AI agent to optimize cpython Core Development	0	272	September 11, 2026
New contributor looking for guidance on my first CPython contribution Core Development	3	338	September 9, 2026
Review request for Issue #92810 Core Development review-request	0	165	September 9, 2026
[Experimental] Tracing GC (by Codex) Core Development	0	303	September 9, 2026
Review request for PR #152984 Core Development review-request	0	193	September 7, 2026