OpenAI to acquire Astral, bringing Python tools like uv, Ruff, and ty into Codex as it moves from code generation to executing full developer workflows.

OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to acquire Astral Software Inc., a startup with a set of widely used Python development tools.  The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Astral’s development ...

Astral tools and expertise will be leveraged in OpenAI Codex agentic coding app to expand AI capabilities across the software ...

Half a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers of open source projects to cope with AI slop bug reports. “As the security ...

Google has open sourced CEL-expr-python, a Python implementation of the Common Expression Language (CEL), a non-Turing complete embedded policy and expression language designed for simplicity, speed, ...

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JetBrains, the company behind the popular PyCharm IDE, offers a free introductory Python course. This is a pretty neat option if you like learning by doing, especially within a professional coding ...

An individual claiming to be Mark Pilgrim, the original creator of the library, opened an issue in the project's GitHub repo ...

Python faces new challenges from old rivals, but is it a blip or something more? In other news, we have goodies like easy-install instances of PostgreSQL, a peek at the state of the art in visual ...

Coursiv sponsors Python Software Foundation, supporting the open-source language powering 80% of AI tools used by professionals worldwide. LAS VEGAS, NV, UNITED ...