It's been an amazing year for Python.

We've seen its meteoric growth continue to become the most popular major programming

language.

We've seen significant grants and funding come in for open source.

And this just might be the year that the Python 2 or Python 3 question was finally settled.

Join Brian Aachen, my co-host from our Python Bytes podcast, and me as we look back at many of the major milestones for Python in 2017.

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