The Austin Python Meetup Monthly Meetup

We have a rich program lined up for our November meetup, the final "regular" meetup of the year! (Our December meetup will be folded into the Austin Web Holiday Bash.)

Jesse Davis of MongoDB will give two great talks. The first is on async in Python. "Asynchronous" or "non-blocking" frameworks like Tornado and Node.js are in fashion, but many programmers still don't have a rigorous understanding of what's meant by asynchronous, how these frameworks function, and when they're appropriate to use. Jesse will give us a tour of Tornado's event loop and see how it works, and under what circumstances it's superior to a traditional multithreaded web server. You'll learn how to write the most efficient servers for modern apps with very large numbers of concurrent connections.

After that, Jesse will do a brief talk on "How You Can Fix Python!" When you find a bug in Python, what’s next? This talk describes the rewarding, irritating process of submitting a patch and passing code review. For illustration, you’ll learn about a funky bug in threading.py, and how it was diagnosed and fixed. Learn to avoid the pitfalls in the submission process, and find the shortest route to becoming a Python contributor!"

Afterwards, we will have a more tutorial-style short presentation by Andrew Donoho, on generators and the CSV module, and hopefully introduce iterators/iteration as a general Python idiom.

-Peter & Travis