As part of the 2015 Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry Instructor and Helper Retreat, we want to explore our change from teaching Python2 to teaching Python3. There are a number of aspects of this. We'll have a global broadcast session by Dave Jones at 10:00 UTC on "What to watch when transitioning from Python 2 to Python 3". But then we want instructors who are happy teaching Python 2 to think about what they need to know or change to teach Python3. The list shouldn't be very long!
In particular, we would like to find answers to questions like:
- What are the syntactic and structural changes I'm going to need to know about when changing from 2 to 3?
- Where do I go to find out the gory details / remind myself of the changes?
- What (if anything) should I expect to see change amongst a group of learners being taught python3 compared to python2. For example, are there new common errors, misunderstandings etc.?
- How do I install python3 (or rather, how do I add python3 alongside a python2 anaconda install. A new installation is covered in the instructions in the workshop template)?
- Can I also use what I learn to start to move some of my own work over to python3?
It would be nice if one of the outcomes of the retreat was a study guide to help instructors and helpers make the change even if they don't make it to the retreat. With this in mind, we hope to develop a short set of notes, covering the answers to questions like those above. These notes will live in this repository.