core.py PyCon US 2025 Recap
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Jun 13, 2025 Discover the excitement from PyCon, where a focus on free-threading sparked engaging discussions. Keynote highlights include thought-provoking talks from Cory Doctorow and Lynn Root. Humor abounds with anecdotes from quirky moments preparing a talk on AsyncIO. Learn about the potential of Python 3.14's JIT improvements and the innovative use of PyScript for 3D graphics. Plus, a peek into audio visualization techniques and the challenges faced at the conference, showcasing the vibrant spirit of the Python community.
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Steering Council's Impossible Role
- Steering Council members balancing transparency face impossible expectations and emotional challenges.
- Their role is to improve the community, even though they can't please everyone.
Community Adoption of Free-Threading
- Free-threaded Python adoption in mature community packages is progressing well.
- Early focus was on build systems and core libraries before moving to larger packages like NumPy and Pandas.
Use Binding Generators for Thread Safety
- Use binding generators like Cython or PyO3 to ease writing thread-safe extensions.
- Avoid hand-writing C extensions to reduce bugs and complexity in free-threaded Python.