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Talk Details:

  • Speaker: Christopher Neugebauer
  • Skill Level: Any, Python knowledge desirable but not necessary

In October 2008, two new releases of Python will be unleashed on a mostly-suspecting public: Python 2.6, a continuation of the current Python series, and 3.0 (also known as Python3000), the release in which the Python Developers break your code, confuse your development processes, cause global chaos, destruction, and other exaggerated, not-generally-nice things.

In this talk, I’ll quickly cover some advanced Python techniques in the hope of making the rest of the talk more bearable; I’ll then discuss new additions to Python appearing in 2.6 and 3.0, the backwards-incompatible changes introduced in 3.0, and overview of the process of porting code from Python 2.6 to 3.x. The talk will be aimed at people who don’t necessarily have experience in Python, with a focus on learning Python in a world with parallel releases.