Python: Spring Cleaning & iOS Evolution
A busy day of maintenance with 13 commits focused on cleaning house and modernizing Python's mobile future. Russell Keith-Magee leads the charge removing legacy iOS tooling, while the team implements PEP 803 for better ABI handling and tightens security across GitHub workflows.
Duration: PT4M33S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Python.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Python
- Published: 2026-04-02T10:01:56Z
- Audio duration: PT4M33S
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Hey there, Python developers! Welcome back to another episode of the Python podcast. I'm your host, and wow, what a productive April 2nd we had in the CPython world. Grab your favorite beverage because we've got some fascinating housekeeping and forward-thinking changes to dive into.
You know what I love about open source development? Sometimes the most impactful work happens behind the scenes - the kind of maintenance and modernization that makes everything else possible. Today was absolutely one of those days, with 13 commits that tell a story of Python evolving and getting stronger.
Let's start with the biggest narrative here - Python's mobile evolution. Russell Keith-Magee dropped a significant commit removing the entire legacy iOS folder. Now, before you panic about iOS support disappearing, this is actually fantastic news! We're talking about cleaning out old ARM64 toolchain files -…
Speaking of evolution, Petr Viktorin landed a really important piece of PEP 803 implementation. This adds support for a new ABI3T target and introduces the `.abi3t.so` extension suffix. If you're working with C extensions and free-threading builds, this is going to matter to you down the road.…
Now,…
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