A personal recap of the first two days at PyCon 2010, covering the Language Summit and key Python community discussions.
Compares the committer models and development processes of three Python projects: Unladen Swallow, PyPy, and Django.
Explores the Aikon project, a robotic artist using Python, SciPy, and the Enthought Tool Suite to create sketches, blending art and technology.
Announcing EuroScipy 2010, a European conference on Python for scientific computing, featuring tutorials and keynote speakers in Paris.
Explores solving the running median problem in Python, comparing clever, educational, and research approaches, and presents an indexable skiplist solution.
A developer details their migration from a dynamic Django site to the static site generator Hyde, explaining the technical motivations and process.
A review of 'Dive into Python 3', a book for programmers learning Python, covering its content, style, and availability.
Announcing django-wsgi, a package to bridge Django and the WSGI world, allowing Django views/URLConfs to be exposed as WSGI apps and vice versa.
Developer integrates Python's pycairo with XCB bindings to create XCB surfaces directly, bypassing Xlib dependency.
A developer shares the challenges of starting a new project with Cython and Python 3, detailing a frustrating bug hunt and attempt to get it fixed.
Explains how to use a Python metaclass to solve recursive class definition issues when modeling a C++ API, similar to Django's approach.
A final review of the 'Python Essential Reference' book, highlighting its in-depth coverage of concurrency and network programming.
Explains how to use the PLY parser generator with a custom, hand-written lexer instead of PLY's built-in lexer.
A 2009 benchmark comparing CPython, Unladen Swallow, and PyPy performance on a Mandelbulb application, analyzing JIT patch results.
A developer details two performance optimizations for Unladen Swallow, a Python implementation, focusing on argument parsing and JIT compilation.
A positive review of the Python Essential Reference book, highlighting its coverage of syntax, libraries, and debugging tools.
Analyzing Django's error messages by replicating common typos from a Rails tutorial comparison to see how helpful they are for debugging.
Explains an Unladen Swallow optimization for CPython, replacing METH_O/NOARGS with METH_FIXED to speed up calls to built-in functions with fixed arguments.
A developer explains their Python workflow using pip, virtualenv, and virtualenvwrapper to manage project dependencies and isolated environments.
A PyCon program committee member reflects on the talk selection process, reviewer biases, and shares excitement for upcoming conference talks.
