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Python 3 for Scientists

Python 3 for Scientists

Lightning talk at SciPy 2016

Thomas Robitaille

July 13, 2016
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  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. “… Legacy Python …” “Python 2 won’t be supported anymore

    …” “Minimize pain and switch now …” “… only a few years left now!
  3. “… Legacy Python …” “Python 2 won’t be supported anymore

    …” “Minimize pain and switch now …” “… only a few years left now!
  4. 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