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 * Kai Groner will lead a discussion on Behavior Driven Development using Lettuce for Python, with a walkthrough on writing test code, writing functional specs, and running automated tests in the browser with Selenium (through Lettuce hooks). This approach allows a project to write functional specifications using simple grammar and somewhat natural English statements, tests for which can be automated and run nightly or on-demand in the development cycle.  * Kai Groner will lead a discussion on Behavior Driven Development using [[http://lettuce.it/|Lettuce]] for Python, with a walkthrough on writing test code, writing functional specs, and running automated tests in the browser with [[http://seleniumhq.org/|Selenium]] (through Lettuce hooks). This approach allows a project to write functional specifications using simple grammar and somewhat natural English statements, tests for which can be automated and run nightly or on-demand in the development cycle.

Charlottesville Python User Group (PyCHO) now meets every third Wednesday of each month at OpenSpace in Charlottesville, VA, USA.


We're a small, but enthusiastic group. Below, we note the high-level details of each meeting. Monthly attendance floats between 4 and 9 people, with total membership at 15 people (and a few extras on the mailing list). Our group is always free.

Next Meeting

  • Wednesday, Aug 18, 2010
  • 6:00-8:00pm
  • OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)

  • Kai Groner will lead a discussion on Behavior Driven Development using Lettuce for Python, with a walkthrough on writing test code, writing functional specs, and running automated tests in the browser with Selenium (through Lettuce hooks). This approach allows a project to write functional specifications using simple grammar and somewhat natural English statements, tests for which can be automated and run nightly or on-demand in the development cycle.

  • Bring questions, ideas, and high fives.
  • Our meeting room at OpenSpace has many chairs around a table with 2 large friendly monitors. Up to 6 people can hook up laptops simultaneously (VGA plug), so bring a laptop if you'd like to explore code.

Discussion and Questions

  • PyCHO is currently organized by Ron DuPlain. Feel free to email him with questions or ideas about the local Python user group. For questions on Python (and you're local), use the mailing list.

  • mailing list: centralva@python.org

Past Meetings/Events/Notes


Wednesday, Jul 21, 2010

  • 6 attendees
  • OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)

  • Topic: Demo a module/package (or a few) which you have been using lately: http://xkcd.com/353/.

    • csv (Matt)
    • SimpleHTTPServer (Ron)
    • itertools, itertools.groupby (Kai)
    • flask (Ron)
    • lxml (Robert)
    • selenium (Robert)
    • ipython (Kai)
    • rlcompleter & readline (Ron)

    • bpython (Ron)
    • pysolr (Ron)

Wednesday, Jun 16, 2010

  • 7 attendees
  • OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)

  • Our session was Python 102. We provided a continued introduction to Python, then broke out into Q&A.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

  • 7 attendees
  • OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)

  • Our session was Python 101. We provided a brief introduction to Python, then paired up attendees who are old and new to Python.
  • We also gave away a freshly minted Learning Python (Lutz) book... you missed out!

Tuesday, Apr 20, 2010

  • 9 attendees
  • OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)

  • Dan Lepage (UVA) led a discussion on scientific computing, image manipulation, matlab-style graphing and plotting in Python, and high-performance extensions (C, CUDA) for Python. CUDA is NVIDIA's platform for highly parallel applications on graphics processors.

Tuesday, Mar 16, 2010

  • 26 attendees (20 AgileCville, 6 PyCHO)

  • OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)

  • Joined AgileCville for a series of talks/discussions on technical debt. Meeting details (including what technical debt is): here

Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010

  • 3 attendees
  • OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)

  • investigated Python in a Debian environment running on an Android G1 - Android and Debian running on the same device without interfering with each other (setup instructions here)

    • discussed experience with running Python on embedded devices - not as slow as some might think
    • Debian on Android gives a full Python installation with entire standard library
      • can connect to Android Scripting Environment (ASE) by RPC to access Android API from the Debian side

      • no laptop or additional computer needed to run full Python scripts on the ASE
    • virtualenv and extension modules work fine on debian+Android
    • installed supervisor on Android via Debian; can easily launch any linux-based background application on Android using supervisor!

Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010

  • 3 attendees
  • OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)

  • A look at pyjamas

  • discussed new hack night format

Tuesday, Dec 15, 2009

Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009

  • 5 attendees
  • OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)

  • Dove into Python on Android with the Android Scripting Environment (ASE).

  • We had 3 Android phones (incl. the new Droid), and played with sensors & httpd. We added a simple hack to allow connecting ASE over wifi, without USB cables. This will allow future attendees to run Python on an Android device from their laptops, without needing to bring their own Android device (esp. if they don't have one).

Tuesday, Oct 20, 2009

  • 4 attendees
  • OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)

  • explored werkzeug.contrib.atom and demo'd Atom in LodgeIt

Tuesday, Sep 15, 2009

  • 4 attendees
  • 520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903 (map)

  • hacked a simple proof of concept for RSS of pasties in LodgeIt

Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009

Tuesday, Jul 21, 2009

Tuesday, Jun 16, 2009

  • 4 attendees
  • 520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903 (map)

  • "hack night"
  • discussed potential projects to tackle as a group

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

  • 7 attendees
  • 520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903 (map)

  • theme: Dive into Python Web Frameworks
  • presentation: Diving into CGI, WSGI, and web.py, led by Ron DuPlain

  • presentation: Diving into Django, led by Matt Dawson

  • presentation: Diving into SQLAlchemy, led by Kai Groner

  • Served: soft drinks + cookies

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

  • 7 attendees
  • 520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903 (map)

  • presentation: What's in a Python Users Group?

  • demo: PyPI, pip, and virtualenv
    • Kai Groner
    • Ron DuPlain

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

  • Hello, World.


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