The company I’ve worked for since July of last year – Nasuni Corporation (a startup in Massachusetts) has gone live! This is the culmination of a lot of hard, but exceedingly fun and exciting work over the past months.
The Nasuni team is an excellent one – and one I am very, very proud to [...]
We all know (well – unless you’ve under a rock) about Unladen-Swallow, the semi-Google-Sponsored optimization-focused branch of Python 2.x. Collin, Jeffrey and many others have been working tirelessly on porting the CPython interpreter over to LLVM, applying optimization patches, writing tests, etc all aimed at speeding up real-world operations and code since before last year’s [...]
I’m building (and will eventually post someplace) a collection of the cooler Python snippets I dredge up. I’m looking for snippets which are:
Short
New-to-Python accessible
Showcase the best ideas of python – clean, simple, powerful.
The goal is to build up a small pile of code snippets that programming newbies, or programmers from other languages [...]
So, following the lead of several other PyCon/Python people – I thought I’d share the talks I’m pretty jazzed about, as well as some other bits of PyCon-related news.
First up – early bird registration is open – early bird reg nets you a decent discount on registration fees for PyCon, and will run until January [...]
Since the news of PEP 3003 being released crossed the ‘web – I’ve seen more than a handful of assertions and statements made that seemed to grossly miss the point.
I figured I’d expound on my last post to further explain the why of the moratorium and some of the other personal reasons I stepped forward [...]
There is a Poll running on the front of the PyPI page – you have to log in to see it/vote. This poll is asking a question about the new feature(s) of allowing users to comment/5-star-rate a given package in the index.
Some of the Pros/Cons have already been added to the python wiki here, as [...]
PEP 3003: “Python Language Moratorium” has been accepted. After several weeks of discussion, Guido switched the bit this morning.
This PEP effectively freezes the syntax and following items:
New built-ins
General language semantics
New __future__ imports
This does not apply to the standard library; adding methods to builtins, or bug fixes to existing things.
I know there’s opinions on both sides, [...]
The official talk list for PyCon 2010, happening in February in Atlanta Georgia is now live:
http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/talks/
My thanks go out to every author, and person involved in getting us this far. With out the hard work of a lot of people, this would not have been possible.
Earlier this week – Joe Amenta shot an email to the Python-Dev mailing list announcing the completion of the Google Summer of Code project he had be working on – a Python 3 to Python 2 translation tool.
This is something which, when discussed at the Python Language Summit at PyCon 2009 was met with [...]
PyCon is coming back around – although it seems as if we just finished PyCon 2009! This next PyCon (PyCon 2010) will be held in Atlanta, Georgia February 17 through 25th at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. PyCon 2010 is now accepting talk proposals – the Call for Papers went out yesterday!
This year is a bit [...]
