On 16/09/13 15:19, Safe Hammad wrote:
Hi Everyone,
It'll soon be the third Thursday of the month and time for another
meeting of Python Northwest at MadLab from 7pm.
After a well attended, lively and varied coding meetup last month,
this month we're on for a talks meeting. Suggestions, ideas and
comments always welcome!
Next day is the first day of PyCon UK 2013 http://pyconuk.net/. For
those of you who are planning to attend, I look forward to seeing you
there! Sadly, I won't be travelling from Manchester so I won't get to
see you on Thursday :(
Last month, a couple of familiar faces made suggestions as to what we
could talk about this month. Feel free to post to the list :)
A few suggestions for stuff I could do a talk on this month - post your
preferences soon as I'll have to put aside some time to actually prepare
one or two of these! :)
* Recent adventures in Python 3 - specifically why python 3.3 is great
but nobody's using it (short answer: Ubuntu LTS and Debian/Raspian are
stuck on 3.2 for reasons of policy...). Will also cover a bit on python
3 compatibility of major packages (tl;dr:
https://python3wos.appspot.com/). Could be a 10-15 minute talk.
* PuDB or how-to-develop-super-awesome-debugging-powers or
why-the-hell-didn't-i-know-about-this-3-years-ago. Probably no more than
5 minutes - it's just that simple!
* Picroscopy: my latest adventures in writing a single-user webapp for
microscopy on the Raspberry Pi - it's not 100% done, but it's shaping up
to be an interesting project and should be good from a teaching
perspective (being single user keeps it ludicrously simple - I might
even come up with a live coding demo a la the Weather Demo for this one
at some point - not sure I could do it in time for Thursday but might be
worth a shot). Could do anything from 5-30 minutes on this.
Other stuff I've been playing with recently, or have left over from
previous postings, and could probably whip up a 5-minute talk regarding:
* argparse v optparse (short answer: argparse wins but it depends if you
need to support Python <2.7, and there's even an argcomplete to compete
with optcomplete but it's not packaged for Ubuntu et al yet)
* protecting against XSS - how to do it badly (regexes) and how to do it
well (bleach)
* translating C headers for use by Python via ctypes (this ties into
recent moves in Picroscopy to control the RPi's camera natively from
Python by hooking libmmal)
Anyway - as mentioned, let me know any preferences sooner rather than later!
Cheers,
Dave.
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