Today's Topics

Next episode: episode #11.

Specific topics

Another suggested implementation of the GIL - and a legitimate reason for Brett to say F*ck during an episode: http://bugs.python.org/issue7946 * LWN article on Con Kolivas' linux-kernel scheduler that inspires this patch. http://lwn.net/Articles/350100/

*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

The futures api, PEP 3148: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3148/

Google summer of code approaching again. (Applicants and mentors needed I believe?)

New Python podcast just starting: http://www.unquietdesperation.com/2010/03/24/from-python-import-podcast/

The change from using .pyc files to the pycache directory is interesting and will happen in Python 3.2. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3147/

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.

In the IronPython world the signal module just got implemented, although it will probably be in 2.7 not the forthcoming 2.6.1 (which has a big Unicode compatibility improvement plus perf and startup time improvements).

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 PEP: 3147: PYC repository directories

New GIL work in Python 3.2.

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

General Topic Ideas

New checkins

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

Changes to python.org web site content?

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

Regular Features

Python for newbies

Installing on Windows

Installing on MacOS

IDEs

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)

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