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Python Software Foundation: Python Language Summit 2026 blog posts are now available

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/09/python-language-summit-2026.html

On July 14th, 2026, 47 Python core developers and special guests sat down
at the Python Language Summit, this year
held in Kraków, Poland at EuroPython 2026, to discuss many topics about the future
of
Python Insider: One namespace to namespace them all (Python Language Summit 2026)

Link: https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-namespaces/

Pablo Galindo Salgado proposes a top-level `std` namespace for the Python standard library to prevent module shadowing and free up module names.
Python Insider: Garbage Collection: Generational? Incremental? Both! (Python Language Summit 2026)

Link: https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-garbage-collection-generational-incremental-both/

Mark Shannon proposes a future garbage collection strategy for Python following the revert of the incremental garbage collector in Python 3.14
Python Insider: Memory Buffer Protocol (Python Language Summit 2026)

Link: https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-memory-buffer-protocol/

Nathan Goldbaum proposes safe concurrent access through buffer leases and custom data types for the Python Buffer Protocol.
Python Insider: Rust for CPython (Python Language Summit 2026)

Link: https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-rust-for-cpython/

David Hewitt shares a status update, first module, and potential acceptance criteria for the Rust for CPython project
Python Insider: Spicycrab (Python Language Summit 2026)

Link: https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-spicycrab/

Kushal Das shows off Spicycrab, a Python-to-Rust transpiler for Python users who need performance without learning Rust or leaving Python
Python Insider: Free-Threaded Python Post-Era (Python Language Summit 2026)

Link: https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-free-threading-post-era/

Tobias Wrigstad, Fridtjof Stoldt, and Donghee Na propose a safe and performant, high-level concurrency model for free-threaded Python
Python Insider: Python Language Summit 2026

Link: https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026/

The 2026 Python Language Summit was hosted in Kraków, Poland as part of EuroPython 2026. There were 15 talks covering free-threading, Rust, garbage collection, type annotations, and more.
Graham Dumpleton: Getting to know Tachyon

Link: https://grahamdumpleton.me/posts/2026/10/getting-to-know-tachyon/

Python 3.15 ships with a new profiler. It is called Tachyon, it lives in the standard library as the profiling.sampling module, and unlike cProfile it is a sampling profiler rather than a tracing one.
Python Insider: Python 3.10.22, 3.11.17, 3.12.15, 3.13.16 and 3.14.8 are now available!

Link: https://blog.python.org/2026/10/python-31022-31117/

Security updates across Python 3.10–3.14, the final maintenance release of 3.13, and a farewell to Python 3.10.
Django Weblog: Nominate Someone for the 2026 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/oct/01/nominate-someone-for-the-2026-malcolm-prize/

Hello Everyone 👋
It is that time of year again when we recognize someone from our community in memory of our friend Malcolm.
Malcolm was an early core contributor to Django and had a huge influence o
"Michiel's Blog": Monitoring my Samsung smart washing machine without a cloud

Link: https://tildeweb.nl/~michiel/samsung-monitoring-my-washer-without-a-cloud.html

Two weeks ago I gave a talk at
Python Leiden on how I
monitor my Samsung Smart washer without using Samsung SmartThings.
As Samsung announced
using their SmartThings API will start costing USD 5 per m
EuroPython: Humans of EuroPython: Diego Russo

Link: https://blog.europython.eu/humans-of-ep-diego/

This week we’d love to spotlight Diego Russo, a member of the Programme Team, and his contributions to EuroPython 2026.In addition to helping ensure an interesting and varied conference programme, Die
Talk Python to Me: #565: Tachyon, Python 3.15's Built-in Sampling Profiler

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/565/tachyon-python-3.15s-built-in-sampling-profiler

Do you know what's actually slow in your Python app? Or are you guessing? Until now, profiling Python meant a tracing profiler that made your code 2 to 3 times slower. Or a third-party tool that broke