I got a couple of offers from James and Mike so far. The more the merrier imho.
I'll give you my schedule and some starter topics: I'm currently in Chicago and get back to Seattle on Monday July 13th. I'll be in a right state of mind Tuesday morning. I'm in Seattle until the following Sunday, then head to OSCON for a week. I live on Capitol Hill and I think Online Coffee on Pine and 14th is a great place to work. I'm not employed at the moment so lots of free time slots. As far as what I want to accomplish, I'm interested in the following, although not limited to these topics: 0) Primarily want a code review of what I have on http://github.com/ingydotnet/testml-py/ 1) Runtime introspection - there is all kinds of things I'm having trouble finding at runtime. Like maybe I want to know what the file path is of the current python module that py.test is executing for me. 1b) Stack trace introspection. 2) Popular idioms. I get the feeling that try/except usage is much more common than in Perl. 3) Accessing global variables across modules. I spent 2 hours yesterday on this, and still feel clueless. 4) How the popular python test frameworks work. 5) Module installation and distribution best practices. See you next week! Ingy On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Ingy dot Net<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > This is Ingy. I used to be on this list and also an occasional seapig > > meeting attendee. I need some local help getting my Python dialed in. > > > > I am a long time Perl hacker and one of the inventors of YAML. I am > > finishing up a The Perl Foundation grant to port PyYaml to Perl. I also > > bound Python's libyaml to Perl. So I know a little Python... > > > > Recently I started a project called TestML. http://testml.org/. I wrote > an > > implementation in Perl and ported it to Python (with the help of my > friend, > > Chris Dent). The code is all on github and linked to from testml.org. > > > > While the code is working, I realized that there is a lot I need to learn > > about Python... from people who breathe Python. If you breathe Python and > > are in Seattle next week and would like to spend an afternoon or evening > in > > a cafe talking about Python with me, well, I'd like that. > > Hey Ingy, I'll be around. I can meet after 6:30pm or on the weekends. > > -- > Mike Orr <[email protected]> >
