The first talk of the Python Language Summit was delivered by Itamar Oren. Itamar has plenty of experience at Meta deploying massive amounts of Python code to production. Itamar’s presentation focused on how Python core developers might make upgrades to Python versions smoother for users in the face of breaking changes to the language and standard library. Itamar shared that “not all breaking changes are equal” and suggested adopting a taxonomy of breaking changes and how much and when ...
