Planet Python

Presentation by Pia Waugh, OLPC pia@olpcfriends.orgTo clarify: - project is not the KR thing - not paid by OLPC, voluntary talkGreat FOSS projectOpportunity to create a regional approach - connecte...

Your code sucks and I hate youFirst time patch submitted to OS project: - nerve-wracking experience, judgement - having people look at your code, give feedback etc is very powerful and important, b...

Yesterday, I was unwell so I didn't keep up with my presentation blogging. Here is my presentation on Natural language generation in weather forecasting.

Brendan Scott, OS lawyer based in Sydney. (opensourcelaw.biz)[n.b. this is particular to Australian law]* Some analogy about driving to a location with a bit of suboptimal route planning. Many deci...

A few months ago Bryan Cole added the start of a Cairo based backend for Kiva. I’ve been fighting with Agg for several SVG related features and thought Cairo might be a good subsitute for rendering...

Presentation by Anthony Baxter* 2.5.2 changes came from App Engine* The Big News - 3.0 is done - .X releases are backward-compatible - 2.6.1 almost out - tinyurl.com/python3IronPython continues on ...

As I am sure most of you have heard Python 3.0 (final) has been released. For me, this means some nights getting some continuing development projects updated for the language changes and freezing s...

I lost about half an hour just moments ago debugging this and pulling out a fair amount of hair. I had some code that looked like this:
result = []
for key, value in data.items():
if isinstance(...

You want to use Impress, but can't find any good templates? Put your creative skills to use and create your own? But how? I'll explain here (since the OOo docs don't really explain it in one cohere...

Some interesting posts over in Planet Perl:
Perl 5 is Dying
So What (are you going to do about it)?
Perl 5 Programmers are Dying
While I'm a raging Python fanatic (or at least a serious Python use...