This PEP defines the formal governance process for Python, and records how this has changed over time. Currently, governance is based around a steering council. The council has broad authority, which they seek to exercise as rarely as possible.| Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)
The distutils module 1 has for a long time recommended using the setuptools package 2 instead. Setuptools has recently integrated a complete copy of distutils and is no longer dependent on the standard library 3. Pip has been silently replacing distutil...| Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)
Unless documented otherwise, Python’s C API is covered by the Backwards Compatibility Policy, PEP 387. Most changes to it are source-compatible (typically by only adding new API). Changing existing...| Python documentation