This month we have a variety of topics.
Dave Brondsema will give his annual PyCon Round-Up. He'll talk about his favorite sessions and a few of the things he learned while rubbing elbows with the Python Elite.
We'll also have an open discussion about how you first learned Python. What was easy? What was hard? What resources were helpful and which were a waste of time?
If we have additional time, we'll go through some code examples of common Python mistakes that even veterans make.
After the meeting, we usually walk a block for dinner and drinks at HopCat.
May 19
Here's my links & notes of some interesting things from PyCon. Check out all PyCon videos at http://pyvideo.org/
John Perry Barlow keynote - EFF founder, Grateful Dead writer, cattle rancher
memcached, do multiple ops at once if you can
Birth & Death of JS - Gary Bernhardt
Porting to Python 3
http://python3porting.com/ free book
do each library first, starting with one with no deps, then work up to your app
write tests, then port
memory leaks
tracemalloc: py3 stdlib or backport (compile or use ubuntu pkg)
python packaging - very good info-packed talk
http://packaging.python.org/en/latest/
https://warehouse.python.org/ -> new pypi site
pypi mirroring https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bandersnatch
pypi local internal http://doc.devpi.net/latest/
pip understands -alpha and -beta prereleases
python setup.py upload -> Twine
we should upload sdists & wheels
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Notes from How to Learn Python
User groups - start your own for what you need to learn
Python Conference Videos - http://pyvideo.org/
Books ? Learn Python the Hard Way, Thinking like a Computer Scientist, python-guide.org
StackOverflow
Quick References
Reddit Communities
IRC Channels
Turn on PEP8, pylint, pyflakes
Contribute to friendly open source projects
Code reviews, pair programming
Use the Python REPL, iPython Notebook
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(rest of my notes. Meetup has a max comment size)
Guido keynote
PSF membership open to all, not invitation only
Technical onboarding
https://github.com/heddle317/onboarding
Testing
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ddt data-driven tests (pairwise?)
http://needle.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ selenium-powered automated tests for CSS
rendering. assert against known good screenshots
https://github.com/edx/diff-cover - find diff lines that need coverage
See docs run. Run docs run
sphinx, read the docs, lots of tools! http://aosabook.org/en/index.html