Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q3 2026! 🎉

The PSF is pleased to announce its third batch of PSF Fellows for 2026. Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q3! The following people continue to do amazing things for the Python community:

Aldo Caneo

LinkedIn, GitHub

Donghee Na

LinkedIn, GitHub

Paul Moore

GitHub, Mastodon

Takayuki Shimizukawa

Website

Thank you for your continued contributions. We have added you to our Fellows Roster.

The above members help support the Python ecosystem by being phenomenal leaders, sustaining the growth of the Python scientific community, maintaining virtual Python communities, maintaining Python libraries, creating educational material, organizing Python events and conferences, starting Python communities in local regions, and overall being great mentors in our community. Each of them continues to help make Python more accessible around the world. To learn more about the new Fellow members, check out their links above.

Let's continue recognizing Pythonistas all over the world for their impact on our community. The criteria for Fellow members is available on our PSF Fellow Membership page. If you would like to nominate someone to be a PSF Fellow, please send a description of their Python accomplishments and their email address to psf-fellow at python.org. We are accepting nominations for Quarter 4 of 2026 through November 20th, 2026.

Are you a PSF Fellow and want to help the Work Group review nominations? Contact us at psf-fellow at python.org.

Python Language Summit 2026 blog posts are now available

On July 14th, 2026, 47 Python core developers and special guests sat down at the Python Language Summit, this year held in Kraków, Poland at EuroPython 2026, to discuss many topics about the future of the Python programming language, including free-threading, Rust, garbage collectors, type annotations, and namespacing.

This marked the first time the Python Language Summit had been hosted in Europe in 15 years, when the event was held in Florence on June 19th, 2011. Going forward, the Python Language Summit will alternate between PyCon US and EuroPython on a yearly basis.

The summit was organized by Emily Morehouse, Hugo van Kemenade, Lysandros Nikolaou, and Łukasz Langa, and blog posts were written by Seth Larson.

Below are summaries of the 10 full-length talks and 5 lightning talks that were presented at the 2026 Python Language Summit. I hope you enjoy them, and thank you for your patience.

• “One namespace to namespace them all” by Pablo Galindo Salgado
• “macOS and Python” by Ned Deily
• “Garbage Collection: Generational? Incremental? Both!” by Mark Shannon
• “Memory Buffer Protocol” by Nathan Goldbaum
• “Memory Snapshots for CPython” by Hood Chatham
• “Rust for CPython” by David Hewitt
• “Spicycrab” by Kushal Das
• “Developer-in-Residence Update & Future” by Petr Viktorin
• “Free-Threaded Python Post-Era” by Donghee Na, Tobias Wrigstad, and Fridtjof Stoldt
• “PEP 827: Type Manipulation” by Michael J. Sullivan
• “Lightning Talks”
  • “One-time ABI breakage” by Mark Shannon
  • “Safer and Generic Interruptions” by Daniele Parmeggiani
  • “EktuPy, Scratch but Python” by Kushal Das
  • “AGENTS.md for CPython” by Gregory P. Smith and Łukasz Langa
  • “Please read PEP 836 (JIT go brrr)” by Ken Jin