We all got a bit of a shock to the system when Gidavon Rasm decided to step down as the leader

and top decider of the Python language and C-Python runtime.

This happened due to many factors but was precipitated by the so-called Walrus operator debate.

That's over at PEP 572.

It's been about nine months since then, and the Python community has responded,

and things are back on track. I'm excited to welcome Brett Cannon to this episode to give us

an update on where we are and how we got here. He's a frequent guest and Python core contributor,

so he has an inside view of what happened. This is Talk Python to Me, episode 209 recorded April 18th, 2019. Welcome to Talk Python to Me,

a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.

This is your host, Michael Kennedy. Follow me on Twitter where I'm at M. Kennedy. Keep up with a show and listen to past episodes at TalkPython.fm. And follow the show on Twitter via At Talk Python.

Brett, welcome back to Talk Python.

Thank you, Michael.

Glad to be back.

It's great to have you back.

I love all of your appearances here and all the stuff that you're doing for the Python space.

And this is kind of a double one.

You're a core developer and participating in this new government's model at like a higher level.

So you sort of help create it and then

got put into position. So that's going to be so much fun to talk about. And I feel like, I don't know,

how you feel just kind of kick this off. But I feel like the python space is in a brighter, nicer place than

it was eight months ago, six months ago, whatever that whole time was? Yeah, I'd like to think so. I mean,

when Guido dropped his big surprise bomb on everyone on July 12th, 2018, a day I will never forget.

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