Feedback from PyCon 2007

Answers to the question "What tutorial topics would you like to see in the future?" on the PyCon 2007 tutorial feedback forms (duplicates removed, edited):

• Advanced Python: language features, techniques
• Advanced XML
• Audio and Python
• cTypes (http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/)
• CPython (Intro to Python core development for those who wish to start contributing; Python Internals: how to modify Python; walk through Python source code)
• Django: more hands-on. How to do a non-trivial app, rather than internals.
• Eggs (Creating setuptools installs)
• Embedded Python
• Faster Python Programs
• Flash/flex widgets in Python
• Future of Python
• GUI
• IronPython
• Jython - the complete guide
• Kamaelia (http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/Home)
• LDAP integration
• Language tips/tricks by a language lawyer
• Mac and Python
• Metaprogramming (Metaclasses & descriptors)
• Newforms: tips & tricks, real-world examples, etc.
• NumPy
• Object-oriented approach for procedural programmers
• Plone
• Profiling tools (i.e. finding the actual bottlenecks)
• PyPy
• Pyrex or other C wrappers
• Pyro
• Python for sysadmins (idioms, not syntax)
• Python tutorial part III in B2B
• Pythonic patterns
• ReStructuredText + Docutils
• SQLAlchemy (http://www.sqlalchemy.org/)
• SWIG & Python tutorial
• Scientific visualization topics: specifically SciPy, matplotlib
• Signal Processing
• Standard Library tour
• Styles of Programming
• Testing (How to use Python tools to test non-Python code; TDD [test-driven development])
• Tools that make up packages like Django and Turbogears, e.g. CherryPy, templates, Kid, etc.
• TurboGears
• Twisted (& nevow)
• Web appl database access with a simple application
• Win32 Python (COM, MSOffice, ActiveDir interaction, etc.)
• wxPython
• Zope, Zope 3/Five

Also see the general tutorial feedback info.

Other Ideas

These ideas are from other sources, not from the feedback forms:

• Creating Command Line Tools in Python
• Using Cheese Shop to Share Modules
• Python 3000 Idioms (not migrating to P3K, how should our thinking change). This may be more suited to a presentation than a tutorial.
• Intermediate Python (Iterators, Decorators, other various topics).
• YAML