Talk to any developer that inherits some large, old code base that has developed
semantics as time has gone on and they will always have something they wished
they could change about the
If there is one persnickety thing people ask of python-dev it is for the GIL
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Interpreter_Lock] to go away. People view
it as this great bugaboo
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/
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
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
