On Mar 13, 2006, at 7:22 PM, A.M. Kuchling wrote: ...
Design Patterns in Python (3) Anything Alex Martelli wants to talk about. (3) ... Language howtos (I really enjoyed Alex Martelli's talk last year on itertools) (1)
Wow, I'm blushing;-). I promise and swear I'll do the utmost to attend Pycon 2007 -- this year, what between work-related issues AND the 2nd edition of the Nutshell, it was, alas, really unfeasible:-(. The *ONE* thing I dislike about working in the US is vacations -- I get about half of what I would expect in Europe, and that's with my employer being reasonably generous... in practice, given I NEED some time to go visit family and friends back in Italy, this means I can't really take vacations to do conferences, but rather I must convince my boss that conference X is worth my time (basically, this means that by attending I can hope to help *HIRE* somebody -- otherwise, I'm fighting uphill!-).
In the first entry, "new/advanced features" = a fuzzy set containing generators, iterators, metaclasses, __slots__, and decorators. When 2.5 is released, this set will probably grow to include the 'with' statement's context managers and coroutines. Some of the other entries in the above list overlap with the first entry.
Wow, I'm RARIN' for a go at that -- I did the former more than once, and 'with' and coroutines sound right up my alley -- if I get any chance to practice them, I might even be able to present related *patterns*...;-)
In particular: if you're going to attend PyCon 2007, EuroPython, or some other conference (even a non-Python one), please consider submitting a talk proposal covering one of the above topics. Such presentations would find a receptive audience, I think.
A-yup. Most presentations cover specific project, which is fine, but there's an unsatisfied demand for talks on how best to use certain language features, and design patterns around them -- I suspect that's a big reason why I was singled out by name (that kind of thing is generally what I address in my talks). Alex