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Python 3 for Scientists

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July 13, 2016
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Python 3 for Scientists

Lightning talk at SciPy 2016

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July 13, 2016
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Transcript

  1. Python 3 for Scientists Tom Robitaille @astrofrog on behalf of

    Stephanie Douglas, Adrian Price-Whelan, Stuart Mumford, Nathan Goldbaum, Tom Robitaille, and Erik Tollerud

  2. Developers are moving on!

  3. None

  4. https://python3statement.github.io

  5. What about users?

  6. “… Legacy Python …” “Python 2 won’t be supported anymore

    …” “Minimize pain and switch now …” “… only a few years left now!

  7. “… Legacy Python …” “Python 2 won’t be supported anymore

    …” “Minimize pain and switch now …” “… only a few years left now!
  8. None
  9. None

  10. Provide compelling features that will be useful to scientists for

    day-to-day work (not asyncio, yield from, etc.) Provide resources to help transition for typical users (maintaining a 2/3 code base is not typical use case) Carefully separate things that will be most useful to users versus developers

  11. http://python-3-for-scientists.readthedocs.io

  12. http://python-3-for-scientists.readthedocs.io http://bit.ly/py34sci Contributions/feedback encouraged!