This is a rough transcript, with links, of a 3-minute lightning talk I gave at LCA. It’s obviously not a complete argument; just a 180-second pitch for why the drama about Py3k is all smoke and no fire.

I’m excited about porting my code to Python 3, and you should be, too.

I’m sure all the Python users here are aware of the recent release of Python 3.0. Python 3.0 is the first Python release in something like a decade that is fundamentally incompatible with the previous release. There’s been a lot doom & gloom & naysaying about this. Some have suggested that Python 3 marks the moment where Python jumped the shark.