2026-07-02 Python Steering Council meeting summary

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We met with DiR Petr on our regular sync.

  • We discussed whether SC members must also be on PSRT, and decided that isn’t required.
  • We discussed the Debian multiarch patch. Petr is +1
    • There should be no measurable impact on startup because importlib only scans the directory once.
    • Decision: search for the arch specific one first, then the bare so.
  • We also discussed baking IEEE floating point into the the ABI, which would make building on non-IEEE floating point platforms impossible.
    • We do not currently have any supported platforms that are non-IEEE floating point, but there may be others out there we don’t know about.
    • The C API WG is fine with that.
    • Decision: Keep the function failable even if no platform currently fails (doc change only).
  • We continue to discuss the JIT; the PEP 836 authors have scheduled SC Office Hours.
  • There will be an SC Panel at EuroPython. All SC members except Barry will be there.
  • We discussed travel grant requests for EuroPython.

Agenda for next meeting:

  • No meetings until after EuroPython.
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