Victor Stinner
vstinner.bsky.social
Victor Stinner
@vstinner.bsky.social
Maintain Python upstream (http://python.org) and downstream (RHEL and Fedora) for Red Hat. Python core developer.
I wrote a new PEP with Donghee Na: "PEP 814: Add frozendict built-in type": discuss.python.org/t/104854 A new public immutable type frozendict is added to the builtins module. The insertion order is preserved and a frozendict can be hashed.
PEP 814: Add frozendict built-in type
You can read the PEP at: PEP 814 – Add frozendict built-in type. Abstract A new public immutable type frozendict is added to the builtins module. We expect frozendict to be safe by design, as it pre...
discuss.python.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Looking to make a CPython contribution? I'm going to start working on maintaining a "Good First Issue" board for argparse.

If you're interested, have a look and let me know on the GitHub issue if you have any questions. Happy to help 🤝🏻!

github.com/orgs/python/...
Argparse issues • python
Argparse issues
github.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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New blog post!

Decompression is up to 30% faster in CPython 3.15

This blog goes over a journey to find an optimization in some lower-level code in CPython that yields a speedup of 10-30% when decompressing more than 1MiB of data.

emmatyping.dev/decompressio...
Emma's Blog - Decompression is up to 30% faster in CPython 3.15
emmatyping.dev
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Wooo, unanimous acceptance of 810!

Python is getting lazy imports!

So excited about this!

discuss.python.org/t/pep-810-ex...
PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports
Dear PEP 810 authors. The Steering Council is happy to unanimously[1] accept “PEP 810, Explicit lazy imports”. Congratulations! We appreciate the way you were able to build on and improve the previ...
discuss.python.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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🎙️ Bored this weekend? Part 2 of the interviews from the CPython core sprint in Cambridge UK is out. Don’t worry, it's shorter than Part 1. Only 2 hours 18 minutes!

✨ Hear from Greg, Thomas, Paul, Pradyun, Carol, Guido, Brett, Erlend, Tal, Lys, Yury, and Diego.

creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
Episode 26.2: CPython Sprint Week in Cambridge UK, Part 2 by core.py
More interviews from the core sprint! This time we have: Greg P. Smith, Thomas Wouters, Paul Ganssle, Pradyun Gedam, Carol Willing, Guido van Rossum, Brett Cannon, Erlend Aasland, Tal Einat, Lysandros...
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October 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
In the Python C API, I dislike APIs modifying immutable objects like _PyBytes_Resize(). I designed a new PyBytesWriter API to replace this function. As usual in Python, it took multiple iterations and one year to design the API and to reach an agreement. vstinner.github.io/pep-782-pyby...
October 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The future Python 3.15 just got a new os.statx() function thanks to Jeffrey Bosboom! Documentation: docs.python.org/dev/library/... The syscall was added to Linux 4.11 (released in 2017) and glibc 2.28 (2018). For example, it gives access to birthtime, mount ID and subvolume ID.
os — Miscellaneous operating system interfaces
Source code: Lib/os.py This module provides a portable way of using operating system dependent functionality. If you just want to read or write a file see open(), if you want to manipulate paths, s...
docs.python.org
October 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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🚀 Python 3.14 is out and so is 3.15 alpha! I chatted with @hugovk.dev, @pablogsal.com, and @lukasz.langa.pl about which release was the least successful, why release notes always say “and now for something completely different”, how Python actually gets released and many more!
youtu.be/BHUWyM2cxwE
Behind the Python Release: Motivation, Fails & Rituals with Łukasz, Pablo & Hugo
YouTube video by Behind the Commit
youtu.be
October 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Forget* about Python 3.14, the cool kids are on 3.15.0a1! 🚀

🔬 Dedicated profiling package for Python profiling tools
💬 UTF-8 as default encoding
🌊 New C API to create bytes object
⚠️ Better error messages

discuss.python.org/t/python-3-1...

* Don't forget about 3.14

#Python #Python315 #release
Python 3.15 alpha 1
This is an early developer preview of Python 3.15 Major new features of the 3.15 series, compared to 3.14 Python 3.15 is still in development. This release, 3.15.0a1, is the first of seven planned ...
discuss.python.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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64-bit Raspberry Pi is now supported as a Tier 3 platform 🫡🎉
peps.python.org/pep-0011/
PEP 11 – CPython platform support | peps.python.org
This PEP documents how an operating system (platform) becomes supported in CPython, what platforms are currently supported, and documents past support.
peps.python.org
October 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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🐍 CPython Core Dev Sprint 2025 wrap:

~50 core devs (yes, Guido too) and invited guests hacking in Cambridge. JIT, free-threading, C-API, endless side discussions.

It's safe to say the best ideas start over coffee and a whiteboard with @python.org: community.arm.com/arm-communit...
October 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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🐍 Python 3.14 is here! 🎉

✨ Template strings (t-strings) for safer string interpolation
🚀 Free-threaded Python officially supported (bye GIL!)
🎨 Syntax highlighting in the REPL
📦 Zstandard compression in stdlib
🔍 Remote PDB debugging

Full release notes: docs.python.org/3.14/whatsne...
October 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Just released! 🚀

Please install and enjoy Python 3.14! 🥧

discuss.python.org/t/python-3-1...

#Python #Python314 #release
October 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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A campaign targeted GitHub Actions to steal PyPI tokens—PyPI wasn’t compromised and no PyPI packages were published by the attackers. Stay safe: review your tokens, rotate any exposed ones, and use short-lived, scoped GitHub Actions tokens. Details:
Token Exfiltration Campaign via GitHub Actions Workflows - The Python Package Index Blog
Incident report of a recent attack campaign targeting GitHub Actions workflows to exfiltrate PyPI tokens, our response, and steps to protect your projects.
blog.pypi.org
September 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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🐍🏃‍➡️ We kicked off the first day of the #Python #CoreSprint at Arm in Cambridge with lots of talks and lots of discussion about talks!

Talks about the JIT, WASI, Pyodide PPI, cross-platform wheel builds, demo of new C API, precompiled binaries from python.org, PEP 793 and abi3/abi3t/abi4 discussion
September 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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🐍🏃‍➡️🏃‍➡️🏃‍➡️🏃‍➡️ #Python #CoreSprint day 4!

Finally, 3.14.0rc3: next RM @savannah.dev joined in to watch the process and ask questions 🥧

Then a quick core․py recording with @pablogsal.com and @lukasz.langa.pl before heading up to Manchester for #PyConUK! 🐝

Thanks again to @diegor.it and Arm for hosting! 🦾
September 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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🐍🏃‍➡️🏃‍➡️ #Python #CoreSprint day 3!

Lightning talks from Guido van Rossum, Ee Durbin, Steve Dower, Larry Hastings, Adam Turner & Greg Smith

Carol Willing, Adam, Thomas Wouters, Petr Viktorin and I discussed a number of docs topics

I released the Python Sphinx Docs Theme with more translations

SC Q&A
September 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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🐍🏃‍➡️🏃‍➡️ #Python #CoreSprint day 2!

@ixek.bsky.social gave a mentorship talk

@gpshead.bsky.social gave a Claude demo

Tania, @jezdez.dev, @willingc.bsky.social and I discussed the User Success WG

We ended with punting on the Cam and dinner at Jesus College!

@yhg1s.bsky.social ran Feuding Pythonistas.
September 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Design an API can take time. This article describes the design of the C API to import and export Python integers. It takes place between August 2023 and December 2024. In total, the discussions got more than 448 messages!
vstinner.github.io/pep-757-c-ap...
September 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Our Python doc is officially out in the wild! 🐍

Thanks to everyone who joined the premiere 🙌 such a good vibe.

Here’s the link so you can watch it on repeat youtu.be/GfH4QL4VqJ0
Python: The Documentary | An origin story
YouTube video by CultRepo (formerly Honeypot)
youtu.be
August 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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The Python documentary by @cultrepo.bsky.social is going to be debuting live on YouTube on Thursday the 28th at 7pm CET/10am PT! www.youtube.com/@cultrepo

I'll share a link the day before to the doc that will have a countdown to the debut. I'm planning to be in the live chat during the debut.
CultRepo (formerly Honeypot)
🧠 Formerly Honeypot, now independently owned and led by the original team behind the viral tech documentaries 📽️ Documentaries and shorts about the human stories of open source and technology 🌟 Our mi...
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August 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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The PSF has adopted pypistats.org, ensuring long-term stability while staying open source and community driven 🎉 Thank you to Christopher Flynn, for operating this awesome community service for 6+ years- and for continuing to maintain the project 💪🐍 pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/08/pypi...
August 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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#GitHubActions is dropping #Intel #macOS.

#CPython has dropped it to tier 2. What does this mean? Not too much; we still support it, produce installers, CI failures block releases.

We test with buildbots, and failures must be fixed within 24h, not immediately.

discuss.python.org/t/dropping-i...
Dropping Intel Mac to Tier 2
Hello, As @webknjaz reported, GitHub will be dropping their last Intel Mac image. Brownouts will begin September 1, so we need to make the job non-blocking by then. Cirrus and Circle CI already drop...
discuss.python.org
August 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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I'm *so* excited to share that I am now officially a CPython Core Developer! 🥳

I wrote my first Python in 2012, and immediately fell in love with the language. I'm honored that I am a part of, and can give back to, such an amazing, welcoming community!

discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-pr...
Vote to promote Emma Smith
As her mentor, I am very happy to propose promoting Emma Smith (@emmatyping on DPO and GitHub) to core developer. Emma has been a long time contributor to Python in many areas over the years, from myp...
discuss.python.org
August 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Thanks to everyone for taking part in the #CPython sprint at #EuroPython2025!

Across all CPython repos this weekend:

* 122 PRs created (69 the previous weekend)
* 79 PRs merged (65)
* countless invaluable in-person discussions (a few?)

#EuroPython #Python #sprint #Prague
July 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM