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Python 3 Talk Recommendations

Python 2 to 3: How to Upgrade and What Features to Start Using

  • Slides
  • Short talk w/ high-level overview of new features, incompatibilities, and "gradual migration" strategy
  • Recommends future/futurize over six/modernize

Migrating Pinterest from Python2 to Python3

  • Slides
  • Followed a familiar "gradual" roadmap
  • Some interesting examples about bootstrapping the Python 3 testing environment
  • Lots of examples of "Good", "Bad", and "Ugly" fixes leveraging futurize

Pragmatic Unicode, or, How do I stop the pain?

  • Slides
  • Everybody recommends this talk from Ned Batchelder
  • Great overview of the necessity of Unicode and how to deal with it

Migrating Python Web Applications to Python 3

  • Slides
  • High-level overview with lots of examples of changes and gotchas
  • Recommends six, doesn't mention future

How Instagram Moved to Python 3

  • Slides
  • Summary
  • How Instagram deployed to production with no downtime via small commits to master behind feature flags
  • A few technical details, like pickle and memcache incompatibilities
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