Python 3 for Scientists

Lightning talk at SciPy 2016

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!
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!
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!