The Python Software Foundation (PSF), a community-driven organization responsible for overseeing the development and maintenance of the Python programming language, has released its 2024 Annual Impact Report. This report highlights the organization’s progress in fostering innovation, enhancing security, and expanding its infrastructure to support the growing Python ecosystem. The report outlines achievements such to the addition of three CPython developers-in-residence, marking a first for the foundation in its history. Together, these developers, Lukasz Langa, Petr Viktorin, and Serhiy Storchaka, contributed over 750 pull requests to the core Python codebase, with another 1,500 pull requests reviewed and merged by other contributors.
Lukasz Langa and Pablo Galindo Salgado co-implemented the colorful shell in Python 3.13, introducing a more interactive and visually engaging experience for developers. Petr Viktorin’s contributions centered around improving the ctypes module, which facilitates interaction between Python and C code, significantly expanding the language’s interoperability capabilities. Serhiy Storchaka’s work included refining error messages for string, byte, and bytearray operations, reworking the