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Updates from Python SVN, Part 9

June 17, 2007 at 1:54 am · tags:

The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS connections). The OpenerDirector.open() method does too.

sha, md5, mimify, MimeWriter, cfmfile and buildtools modules now raise a DeprecationWarning upon import.

The platform module now supports TurboLinux, Windows Vista and Windows 2008 Server.

The support for AtheOS has stopped and it will cause a build error in configure for the platform.

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PyCon Uno

June 13, 2007 at 1:33 am · tags:

The first Italian Python Conference ever has been a great success. We (the organization board) had about 200 attendees and considering PyCon US had 600 this year I can bet the Python community is great.

Some random notes:

  • 21 talks not including the two keynotes and the lightning ones
  • The first keynote was about Technical management in software development and the open source lesson by Alex Martelli who flew from California just for us. Thanks a lot Alex!
  • The final keynote was about OLPC and it was held by Marco Pesenti Gritti. Thanks Marco!
  • We had a lot of fun in Florence (I think fun it’s essential in the Python world)
  • We had a couple of recruiters from Google hanging around :-)
  • The talks were divided in two tracks: discovering python and spreading python
  • We had talks about: Python in hybrid environments, Python in the pharmaceutical world, SqlAlchemy, a distributed CMS, a RAD framework with roots in both desktop and web environments, an application of docutils, unit testing of GUI applications, Python at NASA, SciPy on WSGI, psycopg (directly from its author), design patterns, business applications, Python and Unicode, PyPy (directly from Antonio Cuni), Python and Nintendo DS, Python 3000 (Giovanni Bajo anyone?), Django, Python in the high school and even a Webpanel with experts in Django, Nevow, Zope/Plone and Ruby On Rails.
  • About 10/12 attendees were female
  • I had the chance to meet a lot of smart people, to put faces upon names I read daily on newsgroups and mailing lists and to discover that there’s some kind of connection between former C++ers and Pythonistas
  • We recorded the talks so pretty soon we’re gonna have videos too.
  • Most of the people there had Apple laptops :-D

The people loved it, we spent a lot of time organizing the conference and we are pleased that it went all well.

I’m looking forward to PyCon Due :-)

I surely forgot to mention something 8-)

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