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EVE Online: The Move to Python 3 Begins! EVE Online has been one of the most interesting case studies in Python at scale for over twenty years now. They've been running on Stackless Python since their launch in 2003,…
I keep encountering this pattern which I have struggled to find a good solution. There is a global config with non-nullable fields Each item can override some per-item config fields Example: RSS Reader struct App {…
Release Notes for v42.10.1 Fixes Fixed webContents.print() honoring printBackground, duplexMode, and printer default duplex settings. #53158 (Also in 43, 44) Fixed a crash on macOS when a notification's icon could not…
Hey, I heard everyone was doing these things so I figured I’d join in. You can read my nomination statement here: Nominee for 2026 Python Packaging Council Election | Python.org Feel free to ask me anything and I’ll do…
Thanks to @encukou for explaining “mailing list mode” to me and encouraging me to give it a try and see if it’s more usable for me than the web UI. One thing I noticed is that by default mailing list mode only seems to…
turtle supports translation of its docstrings via turtle.write_docstringdict, however no catalogues have ever been widely distributed (from what I can tell), and the documentation still directs requests to a personal…
Release Notes Released on 2026-08-25. Python Update CPython to use OpenSSL 3.5.8 and libffi 3.4.8 #21295) Enhancements Report cache-cleaning space savings from filesystem block allocation and avoid double-counting hard…
This release contains security fixes for the following advisories: Critical: Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution on windows-hosted servers Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Image Optimization API when AVIF…
This release contains security fixes for the following advisories: Critical: Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution on windows-hosted servers Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Image Optimization API when AVIF…
Hi, i'm RelunSec from InsiteTech.jp to be clear that not fix the issue, sandboxing build.rs and proc macros do not work an attacker can use .cargo/config.toml basically [target.'cfg(all())'] runner = "echo 'PWNED'" or…
I'm currently working on migrating my open source projects from GitHub to a self-hosted Forgejo instance. As part of this effort I often end up looking through the Forgejo source code to figure out if there are hidden…