Wish I could make it! Plenty of interesting topics there, Dave. Hope to catch a subset of you in the pub afterwards. I'll tweet when I'm on my way over.
Ben On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 21:43:19 UTC+1, Safe wrote: > > > If you'd like to speak this month but you're not sure what about, then >> > maybe you'd like to explore what's new in Python 3.3 and tell the rest >> > of the group. Or maybe there's a "killer" library you find yourself >> > using in most projects. Any other suggestions? >> As a result of some spare time projects there's a few things I could >> whip up a 5-10 minute talk for. Anyone feel free to let me know if any >> sound vaguely interesting: >> >> * Python's optcomplete package (aka "the best thing since bash >> programmable completions"). Musings on optcomplete, why it rocks, and >> why it also needs some love (or "why you probably shouldn't look at the >> code"). >> >> * GTK vs Qt4 (or "Glade vs. Qt4 Designer" or "battle of the Python GUI >> frameworks" or "why I still prefer command lines"...) >> >> * Generating PDFs the old fashioned way (aka "how to generate LaTeX >> easily"). Shameless self-promotion of a little spin-off from my >> ElementTreeFactory stuff which does a similar thing for LaTeX >> >> * Experiences with making a code base compatible with both Python 2 & 3 >> (so far without using Six!) (or "a good reason to ditch compatibility >> with everything before Python 2.6") >> >> * Unit testing GUIs (well ... PyQt based GUIs anyway ... because that's >> all I've done ...) >> >> I could probably do something on graphing frameworks - mostly matplotlib >> but I've been playing with Qwt a bit recently after discovering it via >> Veusz. For that matter, I could do something on writing Veusz plugins, >> but it's a bit of a niche product (mostly for scientists). >> >> >> > An embarrassment of choice! I'd love to hear about what you feel most > passionate / excited about, though for the record, I'm quite interested in > Python 2/3 compatibility, PDF generation and optcomplete. You mentioned > Veusz last month and it looks like an interesting project. Perhaps we > could have a brief demo whatever you decide to talk about! > > I'll rummage around my most recent personal projects and see if I can > weigh in with a short talk to keep you company :) > > Looking forward to tomorrow... > > Safe > > >> Cheers, >> >> Dave. >> >> -- >> To post: [email protected] <javascript:> >> To unsubscribe: [email protected] <javascript:> >> Feeds: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west/feeds >> More options: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west >> > > -- To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] Feeds: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west/feeds More options: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west
