Python Software Foundation: The 2021 Python Language Summit

Every year, a small group of core developers from Python implementations such as CPython, PyPy, Jython, and more come together to share information, discuss problems, and seek consensus in order to help Python continue to flourish.

The Python Language Summit features short presentations followed by group discussions. The topics can relate to the language itself, the standard library, the development process, documentation, packaging, and more! In 2021, the summit was held over two days by videoconference and was led by Mariatta Wijaya and Łukasz Langa.

If you weren't able to attend the summit, then you can still stay up to date with what's happening in the world of Python by reading blog posts about all of the talks that were given. Over the next few weeks, you'll be able to dive into all of the news from the summit so you can join in on the big conversations that are happening in the Python community.

Day 1

 

Welcome, Introductions, Guidelines 

Łukasz Langa

 

PEP 654: Exception Groups and except* 

Irit Katriel, Yury Selivanov, and Guido van Rossum

 

Progress on Running Multiple Python Interpreters in Parallel in the Same Process 

Victor Stinner and Dong-hee Na

 

CPython Improvements at Instagram 

Dino Viehland

 

Making CPython Faster 

Guido van Rossum

 

HPy: Present and Future 

Antonio Cuni

 

Lightning Talks, Round 1 

Petr Viktorin, Lorena Mesa, Scott Shawcroft, and Jeff Allen

 

Day 2

 

Welcome Back and Introductions 

Łukasz Langa 

 

Challenges Packaging Python for a Linux Distro 

Matthias Klose

 

The Python Documentation Work Group 

Mariatta Wijaya and Carol Willing

 

What Is the stdlib? 

Brett Cannon

 

What Should I Work on as a Core Dev? 

Eric Snow

 

Fuzzing and Testing Python With Properties 

Zac Hatfield-Dodds

 

Lightning Talks, Round 2 

Ronny Pfannschmidt, Pablo Galindo, Batuhan Taskaya, Luciano Ramalho, Jason R. Coombs, Mark Shannon, and Tobias Kohn

 

We hope you enjoy diving into what went on at the summit, and we're looking forward to seeing how the Python community continues these discussions.

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