Retired SIGS
These are SIGs that existed in the past but are no longer active. Their archives and home pages are retained. A retired SIG can be revived, using the same criteria as for creating a new SIG.
| Name | Coordinator | Description | Info | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| catalog-sig | A.M. Kuchling | The Python software catalog | archive | March 2013 |
| compiler-sig | Jeremy Hylton | Compiling and parsing Python Type checking, code generation | archive | May 2001 |
| do-sig | David Arnold | Distributed Object Technologies | archive | August 2002 |
| getopt-sig | Greg Ward | Argument parsing SIG | archive | February 2003 |
| parser-sig | A.M. Kuchling | Parsing | archive | February 2003 |
| persistence-sig | Jeremy Hylton | Persistence Framework for Python | archive | September 2003 |
| plot-sig | David Ascher | Plotting and Graphing | archive | May 2001 |
| thread-sig | Greg Stein | Process Threading | archive | May 2001 |
| types-sig | Paul Prescod | Static Typing Design | archive | August 2002 |
| string-sig | Robin Friedrich | String Processing | archive | March 2001 |
| matrix-sig | Paul Dubois | Numerical Python | archive | January 2000 |
| gui-sig | Jim Fulton | Graphical User Interface | archive | January 1999 |
| objc-sig | Jeff Sickel | Objective-C viz Python | archive | January 1999 |
| locator-sig | Paul Everitt | Python Resource Tracking (Software, docs, projects...). See the catalog-sig for a successor. | archive | January 1998 |
| pattern-sig | Dinu Gherman | Idioms, Patterns, and Frameworks | archive | January 1998 |
| progenv-sig | Ken Manheimer | Programming Environment | archive | January 1998 |
| pythonwin-sig | Mark Hammond | Win95/NT GUI version of Python | archive | June 1997 |
| uls-sig | Duncan McGreggor | Ultra Large-Scale systems and how such systems relate to Python. | no archive available | ... |