am i correct that the biggest hurdle to a python 3 driver has been the lack of python 3 support in Google's protocol buffer library? If so then, it seems that the 1.13 release which removes the protobuf dependency, will substantially accelerate development of the python3 driver
That's right! In fact, there is a pull request to make the driver Python 3 compatible that's being reviewed right now (plus some additional testing changes, etc.) We should be able to get Python 3 support in pretty soon.
