The Python Language
Summit is an annual event that is held in conjunction with the North
American edition of PyCon. Its
mission is to bring together core developers of various Python
implementations to discuss topics of interest within that group. The 2015
meeting was held April 8 in Montréal, Canada. I was happy to be invited to attend
the summit so that I could bring readers a report on the discussions there.
The summit was deemed the "Barry and Larry show" by some, since it was
co-chaired by Barry Warsaw and Larry Hastings (seen at right in their
stylish fezzes). Somewhere around 50
developers sat in on the talks, which focused on a number of interesting
topics, including atomicity guarantees for Python operations, possible
plans to make Python 3 more attractive to developers, infrastructure
changes for development, better measurement for Python 3 adoption, the
/usr/bin/python symbolic link, type hints, and more.
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