This month I invited to Q&A at PuPPy
[https://youtu.be/2XviXtxWKO8?list=PL4S0lvhXvdhIV2C28Ia_DeIeloBrsQBOW] (the
Puget Sound Python users group) that eventually led to me explaining why Python
3 came
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