Thanks for this; I've often looked around for resources like this that articulate the core Python team's thoughts and near-term goals. This is the best synopsis I've seen.

Unrelatedly, whatever "mobile" Blogger theme that gets served to iPhones on this site makes it really hard to use -- while scrolling down, it's very easy to have a slightly off-center scroll misinterpreted as a left/right swipe gesture (which sends me to the next or previous article and loses my place).