Report from the Python Language Summit

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The Python Language Summit is an annual event that is held in conjunction with the North American edition of PyCon. Its mission is to bring together core developers of various Python implementations to discuss topics of interest within that group. The 2015 meeting was held April 8 in Montréal, Canada. I was happy to be invited to attend the summit so that I could bring readers a report on the discussions there.

The summit was deemed the "Barry and Larry show" by some, since it was co-chaired by Barry Warsaw and Larry Hastings (seen at right in their stylish fezzes). Somewhere around 50 developers sat in on the talks, which focused on a number of interesting topics, including atomicity guarantees for Python operations, possible plans to make Python 3 more attractive to developers, infrastructure changes for development, better measurement for Python 3 adoption, the /usr/bin/python symbolic link, type hints, and more.





