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Python 2.7 and Python 3: A Sacred Love Story

Python 2.7 and Python 3: A Sacred Love Story

Kenneth Reitz

May 20, 2014
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  1. Other Interests... • Street Photography & Photojournalism • Synthesizers &

    Music Production • World Travel (~140,000 miles last year) • Public Speaker (29 events last year)
  2. Communication: One-to-One. At first, language was mostly used for a

    single person to communicate to another single person, or a small group of people. ! This is no longer the case.
  3. Communication: One-to-Many. • After the printing press, a single privileged

    entity could communicate to the masses. • Newspapers, Books, Television, Radio, etc. • This formed the narrative of "the public". • Very polarizing — unifying and destructive.
  4. Communication: Many-to-Many. • If you have access to the internet,

    you have access to a universe of information and ideas. • Anyone can publish anything to any number of people, large or small. A level playing field. • The implications of this are huge.
  5. Self Other Time Space Culture Self-Expression Self-Identity H istory Social

    Media Research & Information Creation & Publishing Consumption & Discovery
  6. Experiential Oddities >>> b'hello'[0]! 104! ! >>> str(b'hi')! "b'hi'"! !

    >>> bytes(8)! b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'! !
  7. The Cheesehop (PyPi) • The canonically accepted source of all

    Python package downloads and installation. • The perfect way to measure language runtime usage distribution. • Sample range: 2014-01-02—2014-01-15.
  8. The Current Duality • Library maintainers have to double their

    efforts to support both Python 2 & Python 3. • Core Maintainers will continue working in a vacuum, furthering separateness & division. • New users will keep coming to Python 3 & Python 2 will slowly attrit into nothing.