Release 2022-02 follow-up #1072

Release Date: july 2022

Wanted:

• Infrastructure:
  • Cpython-3.10.5
  • PyPy-3.8 as PyPy-3.9 still not declared stable
  • a pyscript.net / pyodide panel semi-internalised experience (in docs/pyscript)
  • a 500 Mo BLAS variant: removing Torch , mkl (will be OpenBLAS instead) , and a few corner things
  • a jupyterlite internalised experience

Focus:

• Numba-0.55.2 0.56 to upgrade to numpy-1.22
• numpy-1.22 push to Data-API to get problematic packages (Numba, Torch, Tensorflow) sooner
• no big progress: get Qt stack working better on PyPy: PyQtgraph, Qtconsole, Pyzo, ... Spyder
• Drop some alternatives in BLAS variant to go down in size to 499 Mo: blis, streamlit, spacy, osgeo, pandoc ?

Hopes/Wishes for 2022:

• Python speed contest: cPython-3.11 (x1.2), PyPy-3.10 (x4), Nogil-3.9 (x20), GraalPython-3.8 (x4), Pyjion (x1.5), Pyodide (x0.3)
• conventions (or Pep) helps writing Python Code that JIT & multi-thread can speed up "x10"
• Spyder can run on PySide6
• WASM initiatives on Python (pyscript.net/pyodide/jupyterlite) opens the web and maybe the doors for Python in Excel
• Pyodide became "awesome" with Pyodide-0.19.0 in january 2022 with this particular patch