On the contrary, I think it's great that they're sponsoring PyCon! I'd love to see more companies get involved, including the one I work for. I was merely pointing out the hypocrisy (for lack of a better term) of them sponsoring PyCon and then nuking their Python SDK.

There's no reason why Facebook, with their size and engineering talent, shouldn't be able to allocate the resources to maintain their Python SDK. Making it the 20% project of a single engineer would be enough, I should think, with a few extra hours thrown in when major API changes come through. Even if they let the community drive the bulk of development, they really can't spare a few hours a week to look over bug reports and pull requests?

It's easy to write a check, but I'd like to see them take some real action and make Python a first-class citizen for Facebook app development.