Python Language Summit 2026

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.

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