Wired

How I Became a Python Programmer—and Fell Out of Love With the Machine

The German historian Oswald Spengler considered our age the age of abstraction. Nowhere is this more apparent than in programming, where abstraction isn’t just a conceptual convenience but an absolute ...

The Python Software Foundation has turned down a $1.5 million US government grant amid ethical concerns

$1.5 Million is no small amount of money to turn down, especially in the form of a US government grant. However, the Python ...
Nature

Python, the movie! The programming language’s origin story comes to the silver screen

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

Python plan to boost software security foiled by Trump admin’s anti-DEI rules

The Python Software Foundation has rejected a $1.5 million government grant because of anti-DEI requirements imposed by the ...
Opinion

Python rejects $1.5m US government grant to avoid compromising ethics with anti-DEI policies

The Python Software Foundation has rejected a $1.5 million government grant in order to maintain its values and commitments to integrity.

Python rejects $1.5M grant from U.S. govt. fearing ethical compromise

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has withdrawn its $1.5 million grant proposal to the U.S. National Science Foundation ...