Wow, I'm really missing out. All sounds fascinating, Dave! Maybe you can give the Picroscopy talk at the next Jam?
Ben On 17 September 2013 00:25, Dave Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/<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. > > > -- > -- > To post: > python-north-west@**googlegroups.com<[email protected]> > To unsubscribe: > python-north-west-unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<[email protected]> > Feeds: > http://groups.google.com/**group/python-north-west/feeds<http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west/feeds> > More options: > http://groups.google.com/**group/python-north-west<http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west> > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Python North-West" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > python-north-west+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<python-north-west%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python North-West" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
