The US government organization CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) released new recommendations regarding memory-safety of programming languages. Python was among the recommended memory-safe programming languages which matches our belief that Python is appropriate for usage is security-critical applications.

There's still plenty of work to do to migrate the ecosystem of Python packages using memory-unsafe languages. We hope that the US government and other organizations take inspiration from the Python Software Foundation's response to the Request For Information on security of open source projects.

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