Surely, (don't call me Shirley), one of the goals pf Python is to make the Programmer more productive. It is obvious that we can tolerate some bugs in programs, but, after reading the article, I thought that we might have a change to here from 'the other side'. I get the fealing that the proponents of flows such as Extreme Programming are decreasing the bug rate compared to their previous flows, where Praxis might be able to suggest Python methodology that would be an increase in bug-rate compared to their internal flow, but maybe be better than current workflows.
P.S. I like your suggestion about pycon, but I have no reply from anyone at Praxis after emailing them yesterday. - Cheers, Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list