[Py Blog] Python Language Summit 2026

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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 the Python programming language, including free-threading, Rust, garbage collectors,
type annotations, and namespacing.



Photo by EuroPython (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

This marked the first time the Python Language
Summit had been hosted in Europe since 2011, when the event was
held in Florence on June 19th, 2011.
Going forward, the Python Language Summit will alternate between
PyCon US and EuroPython on a yearly basis.

The summit was organized by Emily Morehouse, Hugo van Kemenade, Lysandros Nikolaou,
and Łukasz Langa, and blog posts were written by Seth Larson.

Below are summaries of the 10 full-length
talks and 5 lightning talks that were presented at the 2026 Python Language Summit.
I hope you enjoy them, and thank you for your patience.

• “One namespace to namespace them all” by Pablo Galindo Salgado
  
  
• “macOS and Python” by Ned Deily
  
  
• “Garbage Collection: Generational? Incremental? Both!” by Mark Shannon
  
  
• “Memory Buffer Protocol” by Nathan Goldbaum
  
  
• “Memory Snapshots for CPython” by Hood Chatham
  
  
• “Rust for CPython” by David Hewitt
  
  
• “Spicycrab” by Kushal Das
  
  
• “Developer-in-Residence Update & Future” by Petr Viktorin
  
  
• “Free-Threaded Python Post-Era” by Donghee Na, Tobias Wrigstad, and Fridtjof Stoldt
  
  
• “PEP 827: Type Manipulation” by Michael J. Sullivan
  
  
• “Lightning Talks”
  • “One-time ABI breakage” by Mark Shannon
    
    
  • “Safer and Generic Interruptions” by Daniele Parmeggiani
    
    
  • “EktuPy, Scratch but Python” by Kushal Das
    
    
  • “
    Code:

    AGENTS.md
    for CPython” by Gregory P. Smith and Łukasz Langa
    
    
  • “Please read PEP 836 (JIT go brrr)” by Ken Jin