• TucsonPythonUserGroup

TuPLE meets monthly in Tucson, AZ.

Please see our Google Group for the freshest info!

Sometimes this wiki is not as up-to-date as our Google Group.

Next Meeting

• When: Monday, January 11, 2010. 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm (but we can stay later if we want)
• Where:

  • Sorry, this method of getting formatted text is kind of ugly, but tables were uglier yet:

           1702 E. Speedway Blvd 
           Tucson AZ 85719       
           (520) 325-1702‎        

    http://1702az.com/

    http://maps.google.com/places/us/tucson/e-speedway-blvd/1702/-1702-pizza-&-beer

    PLEASE SEE TuPLE Google Group FOR LATEST INFO.

• What: Lightning talks! 5 minute talk + 5 minute Q&A.

Resources

• Website : TuPLEgroup on Appspot

• Mailing list: TuPLEgroup

Future Topics for 2009

• In process, available in group

Some Past Meetings

January 20th 2010

• Lightning talks: extended dance mix
  • (We let people run longer than 5 minutes if they wanted.)

  • ReportLab Toolkit aka ReportLab PDF Library - Chris Niswander

    • generating PDFs in Python
  • S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System - Chris Merle
    • slideshows in a web browser
  • "The Case Against ORMs" - Scott Schanel
    • SQL is good; ORMs, a mixed blessing.
  • How to Generate RSS Feeds from Django - Lucas Taylor
    • Django syndication
  • iftd and raVen - Jude Nelson (?)
    • flexible, automatically adapting file transfer for the Internet of the future

December 14th 2009

• profiling in Python, using

  • cProfile (http://docs.python.org/library/profile.html)

  • timeit (http://docs.python.org/library/timeit.html)

  • kcachegrind (http://kcachegrind.sourceforge.net/html/Home.html)

• a simple client library for accessing Collecta (http://www.collecta.com/) feeds. Shows a basic strategy for implementing a client web library using Twisted web APIs.

• discussion of possible Hack Day project ideas.

November 9th 2009

• Dictionaries in Python 3.0
• Optimizing pysqlite databases and queries, Part II

October 12th 2009

• "Optimizing pysqlite databases and queries"
• "The Django Model class as an example of metaclass programming"

September 14th 2009

• Buildout -- a Python project management tool

• Complex Software Systems in Legacy and Modern Environments -- A Case Study of the PicklingTools

August 17th 2009: CANCELED

July 20th 2009

• IronPython

June 15th 2009

• SQLAlchemy
• Combinatorial calculations in C vs Python

May 18th 2009

• Rich Saunders brought his massive library of Python books and gave a good overview of what was available. Good discussion from attendees over the books.

• Andrew Lenards gave us a great overview of Sphinx Python Documentation Generator and a demonstration of how it worked.

April 20th 2009

• Pycon recap - Rich Saunders & Chris Merle

• General discussion
• doctest
• use of the _ char in the interactive interpreter and as a throw-away var when unpacking a sequence

March 24th 2009

• Django intro - Ben Reynwar
• Twisted intro - Lucas Taylor

  • Intro to Twisted: the Reactor, Deferreds, Protocols & Factories

• Flash and Python (pyAMF, amfast) - Dave Thompson

  • Slides available on Dave's Blog

February 23rd 2009

• Chris Merle gave us an overview of Plone and two products that help to inspect and interrogate the underlying python structures: DocFinderTab and Clouseau

• Held at the Woods Memorial Library

January 19th 2009

• Initial meeting, what do we want to do, when, etc.