Tech Talks: Switch to Python 3… Now… Immediately!

UPDATE:

Skills Matter are hosting this event and and require you to register your attendance - you can register on the door, but you can avoid the likely queues and register in advance at the following link:
http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/switch-to-python-3-now-immediately

TLPG presents: A Tech Talk with Russel Winder at Skills Matter.

With Python 3.2 and even more with Python 3.3, Python 3 became usable for release products. Indeed given the
things that are in Python 3 that are not being back-ported to Python 2 (*), using Python 3 should probably
be considered mandatory for all Python use. Certainly for new projects, and 2 → 3 ports for all extant
codes.

In this session we will investigate some of the issues, especially those relating to handling of concurrency
and parallelism, and in particular concurrent.futures. Some material on CSP (**) will almost certainly creep
into the session.

A challenge is issued for small codes that can run using Python 2 but not using Python 3.2 or 3.3. BYOCS!

(*) Well even some of these are as third-party packages but we will ignore this. :-)
(**) If you don't know this acronym you will by the end of this session.