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== Today's Topics ==
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== Specific Topics == Next episode: episode #15.
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Published 2-3 weeks before PyCon: how to enjoy/benefit from PyCon == Topics for #15 ==

2.7 is out

EuroPython -- Steve & Michael will be there

PyCon AU videos online http://pyconau.blip.tv/

Kiwi PyCon videos online http://kiwipycon.blip.tv/

mock beta release (1300 downloads)

unittest2 0.5.0 about to be released and will be integrated in django 1.3

new contextdecorator module (will be in standard library in 3.2)

Python's Innards: Yaniv Aknin's series of weblog posts on Python internals
http://tech.blog.aknin.name/tag/guidos-python/

Discussion of Mark Shuttleworth's cadence idea.

Difflib and SequenceMatcher: the return of Tim Peters.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/101510.html

NumPy and Scipy for .NET and NumPy and Scipy for Python 3.

New release of IronPython tools for Visual Studio.


== Specific topics ==

PSF: Funding for sprints

*More* new changes in unittest (addition of -c / -f command line options). New unittest2 release that contains these - 0.3.0. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2

Before the last podcast Steve raised the issue of how people become Python committers and how good (or otherwise) the core team are at handling bug reports and patches on the tracker. We could discuss that in the CPython segment.

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rev80724: py3k changes for Thread Sanitizer

Victor Stinner on fuzzing Python: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/110134

Forking and threading: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/110401

New Jython podcast: Jythonpodcast.com
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Status of the transition to Mercurial. PSF: new sponsor membership levels
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Let's talk about Distribute, setuptools, pip sometime.

Python's history: Skype interview with Andrew S. Tanenbaum of ABC?

== Regular Features ==

=== Python for newbies ===

Installing on Windows

Installing on MacOS

IDEs

Brett: writing a __del__ method
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Changes to python.org web site content?
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Welcome to a Little Bit of Python, episode X. Welcome to a Little Bit of Python, episode X, with <person 1>, <person 2>, and
myself, <person 3>.

Intro music (fade down after 8 sec, over 2sec duration).

Bumpers: slice of theme track (fade up over 7sec, full volume for 6sec, fade down over 4sec)

Participants introduce themselves: "I'm <so-and-so>." (Optional: "In <location>.")

Conclusions:

Thank you for listening. We'll be back with another episode soon.
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This has been a Little Bit of Python, episode X,featuring Steve Holden, etc. Music: fade up theme over 1/2 sec, play for 7sec, lower level beneath the outro text, return to normal level, play for 5 sec, then fade out over 8sec).

This has been a Little Bit of Python, episode X, with <person 1>, <person 2>, and
myself, <person 3>.

Please send your comments and suggestions to the e-mail address all@bitofpython.com.
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Send your comments and suggestions to the e-mail address all@bitofpython.com. == Contributors ==

(in alphabetical order by last name)

 * Brett Cannon
 * Michael Foord
 * Steve Holden
 * Andrew Kuchling
 * Jesse Noller
 
 

Today's Topics

Next episode: episode #15.

Topics for #15

2.7 is out

EuroPython -- Steve & Michael will be there

PyCon AU videos online http://pyconau.blip.tv/

Kiwi PyCon videos online http://kiwipycon.blip.tv/

mock beta release (1300 downloads)

unittest2 0.5.0 about to be released and will be integrated in django 1.3

new contextdecorator module (will be in standard library in 3.2)

Python's Innards: Yaniv Aknin's series of weblog posts on Python internals http://tech.blog.aknin.name/tag/guidos-python/

Discussion of Mark Shuttleworth's cadence idea.

Difflib and SequenceMatcher: the return of Tim Peters. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/101510.html

NumPy and Scipy for .NET and NumPy and Scipy for Python 3.

New release of IronPython tools for Visual Studio.

Specific topics

PSF: Funding for sprints

*More* new changes in unittest (addition of -c / -f command line options). New unittest2 release that contains these - 0.3.0. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2

Before the last podcast Steve raised the issue of how people become Python committers and how good (or otherwise) the core team are at handling bug reports and patches on the tracker. We could discuss that in the CPython segment.


rev80724: py3k changes for Thread Sanitizer

Victor Stinner on fuzzing Python: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/110134

Forking and threading: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/110401

New Jython podcast: Jythonpodcast.com

Interview Jeff Rush about the PSF's meetup funding.

PSF: new sponsor membership levels

Let's talk about Distribute, setuptools, pip sometime.

Python's history: Skype interview with Andrew S. Tanenbaum of ABC?

Regular Features

Python for newbies

Installing on Windows

Installing on MacOS

IDEs

Brett: writing a del method

General Topic Ideas

New checkins

Lengthy threads on python-dev, python-ideas or other SIGs

Interviews

PSF-related stuff

PyCon

Creation of "Python Secret Underground" (the 'Cabal')

User groups, events and community happenings (training sessions for example)

Shameless plugs for Holden Web events!

Python diversity

Major project news (Django, Twisted, TurboGears, Zope, etc)

New books, new projects, tracking the Planet Python blogs for interesting new stuff (we could even 'review' interesting Python related blogs)

Possible format: short news summary, interview, mad ramblings

Standard Format

Intro:

Welcome to a Little Bit of Python, episode X, with <person 1>, <person 2>, and myself, <person 3>.

Intro music (fade down after 8 sec, over 2sec duration).

Bumpers: slice of theme track (fade up over 7sec, full volume for 6sec, fade down over 4sec)

Participants introduce themselves: "I'm <so-and-so>." (Optional: "In <location>.")

Conclusions:

Thank you for listening. We'll be back with another episode soon.

Outro:

Music: fade up theme over 1/2 sec, play for 7sec, lower level beneath the outro text, return to normal level, play for 5 sec, then fade out over 8sec).

This has been a Little Bit of Python, episode X, with <person 1>, <person 2>, and myself, <person 3>.

Please send your comments and suggestions to the e-mail address all@bitofpython.com.

Our theme is track 11 from The Headroom Project's album Haifa, available on the Magnatune label.

Contributors

(in alphabetical order by last name)

  • Brett Cannon
  • Michael Foord
  • Steve Holden
  • Andrew Kuchling
  • Jesse Noller

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