Pricing has been set for PyWorks 2008.
All packages include both the php|works and PyWorks conferences and/or tutorial day, lunch and snacks, evening events, and a free one-year subscription to either php|architect or Python Magazine (Print + PDF). See the signup page for more details.
Also remember that the speaker package includes free access to the conference, a travel and housing allowance, and a stipend for each presentation. Refer to our call for papers page if you are interested in presenting a talk or teaching a tutorial.
We just had some new book shelves installed in the living room to replace the somewhat aging free-standing units we had before. Now we have empty shelves. I don’t expect that situation to last long.
As I’ve previously mentioned MTA, publishers of Python Magazine, has announced the PyWorks conference to be held in Atlanta, GA on November 12-14, 2008.
We’ve started a blog so anyone interested in the conference can keep up with announcements. If you think you might want to attend or present at the conference, check it out!
I am very excited to announce that Ernesto Rico Schmidt has begun a Spanish translation of my Python Module of the Week series. Ernesto is in Bolivia, and is starting this project as a way to contribute to the members of the Bolivian Free Software community who use Python.
So far, he has translated the prose and output messages in the articles covering the warnings and SimpleXMLRPCServer module. He will be translating new articles after they are posted to the main feed, and working through the previously published articles as well.
What’s new? Matthew McDonald contributed a patch to let svnbackup work on repositories with spaces in the name. I also added a –compress option so users can choose between gzip and bzip2 (the default is still bzip2).
The new release is available from the download page at the Google Code project site.
Thanks, Matthew!
The SimpleXMLRPCServer module contains classes for creating your own cross-platform, language-independent server using the XML-RPC protocol. Client libraries exist for many other languages, making XML-RPC an easy choice for building RPC-style services.
Read more at pymotw.com: SimpleXMLRPCServer
The June issue is available for download now.
Grig Gheorghiu’s cover story on Pybots talks about the fantastic automation system that has been put in place to make sure new releases of Python software are as robust and stable as possible.
In the second part of his PyGame series, Terry Hancock adds some interactivity to the simple game he started building in the May issue. This tutorial is shaping up to be a great introduction for new programmers.
MTA, publishers of Python Magazine, are pleased to announce the first PyWorks conference to be held in Atlanta, GA on November 12-14, 2008.
We are currently looking for speakers and tutorial instructors on a wide range of topics. The deadline for proposals is July 25, so check out the site for details about how to submit yours today!
The warnings module was introduced in PEP 230 as a way to warn programmers about changes in language or library features in anticipation of backwards incompatible changes coming with Python 3.0. Since warnings are not fatal, a program may encounter the same warn-able situation many times in the course of running. The warnings module suppresses repeated warnings from the same source to cut down on the annoyance factor of showing the same message over and over.