n this session, we will explore how to use Python to enhance your AI projects with:

Pablo Galindo Salgado describing the xz-utils backdoor (Photo credit: Hugo van Kemenade)  The backdoor of the popular compression project xz-utils was discovered on Friday, March 29th 2024, by Andres Freund. Andres is an engineer at Microsoft who noticed performance issues with SSH while contributing to the Postgres project. Andres wasn't looking for...

The Python Language Summit occurs every year just before PyCon US begins, this year occurring on May 15th, 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The summit is attended by core developers, triagers, and Python implementation maintainers for a full day of talks and discussions on the future direction of Python.This years summit included talks on the C API,...

Lysandros showing the mistake we've all made, no longer a problem in the new REPL (Photo credit: Hugo van Kemenade) One of the headline features of Python 3.13 is the new interactive interpreter, sometimes known as a "REPL" (Read-Evaluate-Print-Loop) which was contributed by Pablo Galindo Salgado, Łukasz Langa, and Lysandros Nikolaou and based on the...

The Python Language Summit 2024 closed off with six lightning talks which were all submitted during the Language Summit. The talks were delivered by Petr Viktorin, David Hewitt, Emily Morehouse, Łukasz Langa, Pablo Galindo Salgado, and Yury Selivanov.Petr Viktorin: Unsupported build warningDo you know what happens when you build Python on an unsupported...

The final talk of the main schedule of the Python Language Summit was delivered by Jason R. Coombs on using annotations for transforms. The presentation was accompanied by a GitHub repository and Jupyter notebook illustrating the problem and proposed solution.Jason is interested in a method for users to "transform their parameters in a reusable way"....