On 6 Jan 2014, at 10:35, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > 2013/12/4 Michael Foord <mich...@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/ > Free link if you are not subscribed: > http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/578532/8002e0bc4289a23d/ > > 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 -- http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give. -- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers