State of CPython and Python Ecosystem

By Senthil Kumaran

Overview: High level talk about CPython and other implementation

Note

Missed chunks of this so not all of it got in my notes

Python Launcher for Windows (PEP 397)

• proposal by Mark Hammond and implemented by Vinay Sajip
• System to associate python files with a particular Python version
• Will be distributed with Windows installers
• Question: What is the status?
• Question: Which version of windows?
• Question: How can we accelerate development?

Jython

• Seamless integration
• Uses a lot of Java models instead of CPython’s stdlib.