I have been asked to submit an outline for a three day course on Python, for ~20 scientists who already know basic Python. On fairly short notice, I came up with the following; what am I missing? (I plan to make the course materials publicly available, of course.)
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Of all the fever-induced hallucinatory things I said at PyCon '07, I'm proudest of this: "I don't do test-driven development; I do stupidity-driven testing. When I do something stupid, I write a test to make sure I don't do it again."
So true.
For readers that don't get it, my …
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Last year, Grig and I flew down to Dallas together to attend PyCon. I don't recall the exact problem, but for some reason the plane didn't go and we ended up flying through Houston and missing our original flight to Dallas. (We did have some unreasonably yummy BBQ in Houston …
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PyCon07 (the biggest PyCon ever!) is just around the corner, and I'm really looking forward to (pardon the term) geeking out for a few days! Python is my hobby, although it leaks over into my work pretty regularly, and I expect to have a great time forgetting about work and …
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Yesterday for our SoCal Piggies meeting I whipped up something I'd been thinking about doing for a while: sectioning in figleaf recording. (figleaf is my package for Python code-coverage analysis.)
It's easier to show than to explain, but briefly, I added two new functions to figleaf:
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First, let me mention that I've recruited Duncan McGreggor to the panel to talk about twisted.web and Nevow. That makes it a real party! In random order, we now have:
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- Zope: Jim Fulton
- Pylons: Ben Bangert
- Django: Adrian Holovaty
- CherryPy: Robert Brewer
- TurboGears: Kevin Dangoor
- pyjamas: James Tauber
- twisted …
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