The Portland Portland Python User Group meets every second Tuesday at [http://cubespacepdx.com CubeSpace] in SE Portland, Oregon.

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Next Meeting

• When: Tuesday, December 11th 2007 at 7pm

• Where: [http://cubespacepdx.com CubeSpace], SE Grand

• What: December Coders Social! Huge multi-user-group bash with pizza, beverages, fun and games!

Other Meetings

The [http://code.arlim.org/wiki/ Portland Code Sprints] have been going strong and by some fluke most of the projects have been in Python. The sprints are great hands-on fun for folks at any level. If you're a beginner with little or no Python experience, come and get paired up with an expert; if you're an expert come and expand your knowledge or share your experience.

Resources

• Mailing list: [http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland portland@python.org]

• IRC: #pdxpython on Freenode

• We have a [http://python.meetup.com/183/ Meetup] group with a local calendar, feeds and automated event reminders.

• Python advocacy mailing list: [http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy advocacy@python.org]

Future Topics

• Web frameworks: Django, Pylons, and more
• Using and extending Trac
• Pygments

• IronPython

• Unit testing, Doctest, web testing
• Standard library module roulette!
• subprocess
• Reportlab / RML
• doctools / LaTeX output and rendering
• Python on Windows / Windows system admin with Python
• unit testing, unittest nose
• More robots!
• Add anything you want to talk about!

Past Topics

November 13th 2007:

• Brett: Converting HTML forms to PDF forms with ReportLab

• Kirby: Open Source and Health Care / BarCamp Alpha

• Jeff: Simplicity

• Chris: Django NewForms

• Pizza provided by Kavi! Thank you Kavi!

October 9th, 2007:

• Small group discussions-

• Beginning Python, [http://www.reportlab.org ReportLab], Mercurial, web frameworks and unit testing.

September 11th, 2007:

• Kevin defects to the Ruby Coding Dojo!

• Jason: [http://divmod.org/trac/wiki/DivmodPyflakes PyFlakes]

• Kirby: [http://www.python.org/cp4e/ P4E] (Programming for Everyone)

• Kirby: [http://www.tuxisalive.com/ Programming the Tux Droid]

• Mark: [http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ PIL Projects]

August 14th, 2007:

• Extending Python with D via [http://www.dsource.org/projects/pyd pyd]

• OSCON wrap-up: [http://www.python.org/doc/essays/ppt/pycon2007/Py3k2007PyCon.ppt Python 3000] (.ppt) and [http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/ Code Like a Pythonista]

July 10th, 2007:

• Intro to debugging with PDB
• Web automation with mechanize
• A Python frontend for a microcontroller

• SQLAlchemy in 5 (ok, 20) minutes [http://discorporate.us/jek/python/ slides, video]

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