Python Steering Council
summary
A five‑person elected committee accepts and rejects PEPs, meets weekly for 90 minutes, and uses office hours and PEP delegates to reach consensus; it manages PSF money to fund developers in residence and core‑developer sprints and oversees elections for new committers. Recent specifics: Python 314 beta1 is out; stdlib gains Zstandard; PEP 750 adds template strings; PEP 768 provides a safe external debugger with remote pdb -P; free‑threading performance moves from ~40% slower to ~2–5% slower in single‑threaded runs.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Python Steering Council intro
- 1:52Core responsibilities
- 3:40Weekly meetings & office hours
- 5:27Funding developers & sprints
- 9:41Working groups shaping Python
- 11:50Python 3.14 features
- 21:52Free threading progress
- 28:48Test Python 3.14 beta
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