There were lots of problems with PyCon this year. For example, the
free, hi-speed wifi made you log in each day. And it was in
Montreal, so one of my foreign students couldn't come because he
didn't get a visa in time. The company booths were not centrally
located. And …
There's been a lot of discussion about PyCon talks that we do want
to see. Here's a brief list of those I don't want to see, for those
of you considering a submission -- in no particular order.
1001 Mocking Frameworks - a comparison and overview
I desperately need something to run and test things at the command
line, both for course documentation (think "doctest" but with shell
prompts) and for script testing (as part of scientific pipelines). At
the 2011 testing-in-python BoF, Augie showed us cram, which is the mercurial project's
internal test code ripped …