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Today, Python 3.3 was released. During the 4.5 years I've been a CPython core developer, 6 major Python releases (2.6, 2.7, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3) have past by me. In this post, I will explain why 3.3 is the most exciting Python release to me. I will...

The Architecture of Open Source Applications volume 2 has been published. It includes my chapter on PyPy. You can buy the dead tree version for $35 on Lulu where all the proceeds go to Amnesty International.

I just returned from PyCon 2012, my first PyCon since 2009. It was great to meet everyone in person. I realized that everyone is much nicer in person than they appear on the mailing lists.
I met Dave Malcolm, the man behind the gcc Python plugin support. It looks like his project to automatically detect reference counting bugs in C extensions is going well. In the process of that, he has created Python bindings to gcc, which could be used...

py.test 2.1 was just released. py.test, which uses the Python assert statement to check test conditions, has long had support for displaying intermediate values in subexpressions of a failing assert statement. This feature is called assertion introspection...