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Python 3 support on PyPI

Jun 12, 2015 7 min read project management

At (and since) PyCon 2015 [https://us.pycon.org/2015/], there has been interest in trying to get quantified numbers in relation to Python 3 adoption (see PyPI download numbers [https://caremad.io/

Looking at Python 3 usage in the astronomy community

May 15, 2015 5 min read Python

Thomas Robitaille ran a survey on Python usage in the astronomy community and wrote up a great blog post on the results [http://astrofrog.github.io/blog/2015/05/09/2015-survey-results/] (a big

Porting to Python 3 is like "eating your vegetables"

Apr 23, 2015 5 min read project management

While at PyCon this year, someone pointed out that the hope/goal/expectation when Python 3 was released was to have over 50% of new projects using Python 3 within five years, and

Commentary on getting your code to run on Python 2/3

Dec 5, 2014 4 min read project management

Today I committed a heavily updated version of the Python 2/3 porting HOWTO [https://docs.python.org/3.5/howto/pyporting.html]. Basically the doc has shifted from suggesting you use 2to3

The long-term view of Python 2.7

Nov 28, 2014 2 min read project management

When Python 2.7.9rc1 was released, I shared the news [https://plus.google.com/+Python/posts/hCqdZbrTZw8] through the +Python [https://plus.google.com/+Python/] Google+ account. Comments on the post ranged