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"Chris Angelico" <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:CAPTjJmr4nPA6euD-j2uNAN==h=iDs1o5BDHGJ0FnjKJO9WfLXg@mail.gmail.com...
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Frank Millman <frank@chagford.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, human nature being what it is, the possibility of this 
>> split
>> in the community continuing, to the detriment of Python itself, is all 
>> too
>> real.
>
> What split, exactly? There are always these talks of a split... but I
> don't see one happening.

It is worth watching this -
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skYBOXE02OQ

This is the intro -

Kenneth Reitz, Python evangelist at Heroku and author of the popular 
Requests library, discusses the state of Python today, the division in the 
community, and how we can forge ahead into a shiny future. Pythonistas 
unite!


Frank