Today in Montreal Canada, there was a Language Summit to discuss the future of Python. Some highlights:
PyPy is only three bug fixes away from shipping support for Python 3.2! Guido confirms that easing the transition from 2.x to 3.x code is a major priority. Version 2.7 is alive and in good health and not ready to be retired yet, but he's still against releasing a version 2.8. Both IronPython and Jython hope to support Python 3 soon, Jython is being held back by a lack of contributors. Packaging is hard. Very hard. There is a lot of work going on to try to improve packaging. After five years experience in managing the transition between 2 and 3, the official recommendation is now the opposite of what it was five years ago: write a single code-base aimed at both 2 and 3, rather than trying to automate translation via 2to3 or other tools. There is a lot of interest for optional type checking. More in this email thread here: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-April/133873.html -- Steven D'Aprano http://import-that.dreamwidth.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
