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	3248	March 3, 2020
Making performance work easier in CPython Core Development	4	277	October 28, 2026
Updated triage guidelines and process for our AI policy Core Development	0	184	October 28, 2026
Review request for PR #153885: fix termios reference warnings Core Development review-request	0	64	October 27, 2026
Python 3.15.2, 3.14.10, 3.13.18, 3.12.16 and 3.11.18 are out Core Development release	7	1667	October 27, 2026
Combining the argument-conversion loops in _PyEval_Vector Core Development	4	395	October 27, 2026
Python 3.15.1, 3.14.9 and 3.13.17 are out Core Development release	4	2285	October 27, 2026
Review request for PR #138828: Add multiprocessing queue shutdown Core Development review-request	0	125	October 26, 2026
Python on Windows ARM64 Core Development	33	3612	October 25, 2026
We're out of type flags, let's add new API for new ones C API	8	835	October 25, 2026
Pull request limits for CPython repo Core Development github , workflow	7	766	October 24, 2026
PEP 837: Extensible JSON serialization Core Development pep	45	2553	October 23, 2026
Introducing snake_pit, ecosystem testing for CPython Core Development	0	252	October 23, 2026
Remove __author__, __credits__ and __copyright__ from stdlib modules Core Development	18	1339	October 23, 2026
Remove SIMD support for BLAKE2 Core Development	15	540	October 23, 2026
Python 3.16.0 alpha 1 is now available! Core Development release	13	919	October 22, 2026
Review request for PR #151479: clarify pathlib full_match docs Core Development review-request	3	294	October 17, 2026
Free-threaded GC improvements Core Development	1	408	October 17, 2026
PEP 845: Leading-Dot Value Patterns for match statement Core Development	16	1112	October 16, 2026
Rust for CPython Progress Update April 2026 Core Development	3	1935	October 15, 2026
Review request for #150326 Core Development review-request	5	479	October 13, 2026
Python 3.10.22, 3.11.17, 3.12.15, 3.13.16 and 3.14.8 are now available! Core Development release	14	1332	October 12, 2026
Python 3.15.0 (final) is here! Core Development release	4	3977	October 10, 2026
Generate `Modules/getbuildinfo.h` when building Python to get build information statically Core Development build	0	152	October 8, 2026
Python 3.15: following tradition, let's have a surprise rc3! Core Development release	3	2702	October 2, 2026
Enabling thread_inherit_context and context_aware_warnings by default on both builds Core Development	37	1566	October 7, 2026
Python 3.15.0 candidate 3 is here! Core Development release	2	801	October 5, 2026
Announcing the Python Language Summit 2026 blog posts Core Development language-summit	1	506	October 5, 2026
Getting exceptions & built-in types using `Py_GetConstant` C API	5	425	October 5, 2026
PEP 842 postmortem: how do we protect the standard library? Core Development	55	3164	October 4, 2026