[python-committers] PyCon Language Summit: Wednesday 9th April

[Michael Foord]

On 6 Jan 2014, at 10:35, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 2013/12/4 Michael Foord <michael at voidspace.org.uk>:
>> As with previous years we will be having a Language Summit at PyCon North America, in Montreal. The summit will be on Wednesday 9th April and running from approximately 10am to 4pm.
> 
> My talk "Track memory leaks in Python" was accepted, I will be present
> at Montreal for Pycon US \o/
> 
> For the summit, I think that we must discuss the adoption of Python 3
> and try to fix remaining issues to ease porting applications from
> Python 2 to Python 3. Mercurial and Twisted are not ported yet, and
> some developers consider Python 3 as a mistake. You must try to
> understand why and fix remaining issues.
> 
> One concrete point is the "support .format for bytes" which was
> requested by Mercurial ("for Mercurial this is the single biggest
> impediment to even getting our testrunner working, much less starting
> the porting process.") and Twisted ("Honestly, what Twisted is mostly
> after is a way to write code that works both with Python 2 and Python
> 3.")
> http://bugs.python.org/issue3982
> 
> A PEP was requested for this issue, I'm interested to help to write it
> and implement it in Python 3.5.
> 
> A Python 2.8 version was also proposed to reduce differences between
> Python 2 and 3, and so ease porting applications to Python 3. Related
> discussion:
> 
> "About Python 3"
> http://alexgaynor.net/2013/dec/30/about-python-3/
> 
> "Debating a "transitional" Python 2.8"
> http://lwn.net/Articles/578532/
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> 
> This mailing list is not the right place to discuss all these points,
> I propose to discuss them during the Language Summit. If you would
> like to discuss these points right now, please open a discussion in
> python-dev or python-ideas.
> 


Thanks for letting me know Victor. I've added you to the list of attendees and added your items to the agenda.

Michael

> Victor


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