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  1. pycon day #3 has started. Antonio Cangiano is charming our public.
  2. C8E is sleeping in the "Diffondere Python" room, currently empty since the keynote is being broadcasted elsewhere.
  3. GvR is on his second keynote. This time is Google App Engine turn.
  4. pycon day #2 has started, not without some technical issues so far.
  5. la mappa non è il territorio.
  6. Remember: all abstractions leak.
  7. Alex Martelli on the stage. Children are crying, women are tearing at their hair. Zen & Abstraction maintenance!
  8. Dialtone, aka The Huge President, is on the stage and tells the public about the german SciPy conference.
  9. Q&A session is over. Guido complains about the five camels on his badge. David whistles.
  10. A: Google is got a very large Python codebase and it won't be a quick path to Python 3.
  11. Q: will Google be an early adoper of Python 3 or will it wait a lot?
  12. A: that sections might be improved if we're able to gather the community around a single implementation.
  13. Q: are you satisfied with the current packaging and "virtualizing" systems status?
  14. A: python is not an exclusively OO language, and BTW adding too many methods to builtin types might make them messy.
  15. Q: why abs() still exists along the math module, and such functions were not transferred to float/int methods?
  16. A: it's getting common and it has no known drawbacks.
  17. Q: please give us some use cases for type annotations.
  18. A (continued): the best choice is probably to use 2.x and try to write code which is as much as forward-compatible as possible.
  19. Q: what's the best python version to do Mac programming right now? A: Python 3 is better overall, but not everything has been ported :-/
  20. Guido just gave his keynote. He's now answering some questions.