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Why Python 3 exists

16 Dec 2015 5 min read Python

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

If I were designing Python's import from scratch

03 Dec 2015 5 min read Python

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

Try to not use the Python C API directly

12 Aug 2015 3 min read Python

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

Python 3 support on PyPI

12 Jun 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

15 May 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