This past week, we've had a passing of the reins for Python leadership.

Gino von Rasm, who created and has been shepherding the language for the last 30 years,

has stepped down from decision-making around the Python language.

Join Carol Willing and Brett Cannon, both longtime core developers and Python leaders,

along with my co-host at Python Bites, Brian Aachen,

as we discuss what the future holds for Python and how this change will affect how Python is created and how it evolves.

This is Talk Python to Me. Episode 170 recorded July 17th, 2018.

Thank you. Welcome to Talk Python to me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.

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Hey everyone, Michael here. Just want to add a quick editorial note before we get to the main content.

This episode was originally recorded under Python Bytes. My other podcast that I do with Brian Aukin, if you don't listen to Python Bytes, you should. It's pretty awesome. The format normally is cover a

bunch of really quick topics to talk about the news of the week. Well, this news item was so big,

we decided to dedicate a whole episode to it. And it's really a good fit for Talk Python. And I wanted

to make sure everybody got the whole story behind what's going on here, at least as best as the four of us

can present it. So what you're hearing today is the show that we recorded for Python

also played in Talk Python. If you haven't heard it over there, I think you'll really get a lot

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