Despite the fact that Devon is a native Coloradan, he currently codes in the Big Apple where he's a Software Architect. A mountain climber with no mountains (Skyscrapers aren't quite the same...and are off-limits, turns out. Long story.), Devon soothes himself with extra hours at Knewton Inc, an educational software start-up, hacking with his homies over at NYC Resistor, talking to anyone who will listen about the sense and sensibility of using open source licenses for more than just software, and doing his part for digital freedom.
Last week saw the release of a major revision to the Python language in the form of Python 3. The 3.0 release comes with a slew of updates to the standard library, changes in syntax and other requested improvements. If one thing can be said about the 3.0 release, it’s that…