Mailman 3 July 2015 - python-uk

Python talks in Glasgow - 11th August
by Dougal Matthews July 27, 2015

July 27, 2015

Hi all, I am excited to annouce the speakers for our Python talks next month. This month we are focusing on core Python, meaning that we are mostly going to be covering the Python standard library and some of it's really interesting areas. The full talk descriptions are included below. I think it is going to be a great one, so don't delay as the tickets went quickly last time. You can sign up for a ticket here: http://python-glasgow-2015-august-talks.eventbrite.co.uk/ SkyScanner are hosting us and will be provising food and drinks. Looking forward to seeing you all there! Dougal --- Talk 1: Lazy Python by Jeffrey Burrows (J P Morgan) How the sheer laziness of the itertools library can make your code faster, prettier and more memory efficient. Talk 2: Asynchronous Python with asyncio by Kevin McDermott (Heroku) Python 3.4 added asyncio, a mysterious library that can get more out of your Python runtimes, without adding the overhead of threading. Kevin will explain what it does, and how it works, and how you can get more out of modern Python applications with an event-driven approach.

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Next CamPUG meeting: Tue 4th Aug 2015
by Tony Ibbs July 26, 2015

July 26, 2015

From our google group: The next meeting will be Tuesday 4th August, 2015, 7.30pm at RealVNC (http://goo.gl/maps/ktqpS). We normally stop about 9.30pm, and go on to the pub. Meetings after that will be: • Tuesday 1st September • Tuesday 6th October • Tuesday 3rd November Remember that PyConUK 2015 is Friday 18th - Monday 21st September 2015, in Coventry (as usual). Details are at http://www.pyconuk.org/. Tibs

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Django Rest Book: a collaborative book about Django Rest Framework
by a.grandi＠gmail.com July 25, 2015

July 25, 2015

Hello! I would like to announce an idea I had in the past weeks (no, I'm not announcing a ready book, please keep reading :P ): a book about Django Rest Framework! Directly from the README: The idea of writing a book about Django Rest Framework comes from my (Andrea Grandi) daily usage of this fantastic library. The framework itself has a very good documentation but sometimes it can be not enough, expecially for people that have just started working with it. I don't define myself a Django Rest Framework expert despite having used it for the latest 2 years and very often I need to look at the documentation. This is why I would like to make this a collaborative work: I have surely the willing but not all the required experience. Surely at the end of this adventure I (and everyone who will contribute) will have a wider knowledge of the framework, but still the book will need the help of more people expecially in areas where an expert of internals is required or even just to review how it has been written (disclaimer: I'm not a native english speaker, so expect some errors in the text). Who would like to help me in this adventure :) ? The url of the project is here: https://github.com/djangorestbook/djangorestbook NOTE: I've no plans to make this a commercial product/book and all the material will be released with the Creative Common license. When the book will be ready, if we will be able to find a publisher maybe we will put a small price on the final book, just to cover the publishing/printing expenses, but for now publishing (as in paper or through an official channel) is not something that I'm planning to do. p.s: please be kind with your feedback about this idea, because what I want to do is just to create something that will help many people to have a better understanding of this fantastic library that is Django Rest Framework. -- Andrea Grandi - Software Engineer Website: http://www.andreagrandi.it Twitter: https://twitter.com/andreagrandi GitHub: https://github.com/andreagrandi PGP: 7238 74F6 886D 5994 323F 1781 8CFB 47AD C384 F0CC

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In Bilbao at the moment. Anyone else here?
by Luis Visintini July 18, 2015

July 18, 2015

I have already started my conference holiday here in Bilbao. I've had all afternoon to myself to walk about and take in all the sunshine I can get. Would be nice to share beers and pinchos with any other UK pythonistas in the area already. Anyone else? Cheers Luis

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Senior Python dev wanted, TrialReach, South Bank, London
by Jonathan Hartley July 17, 2015

July 17, 2015

TrialReach is looking for senior Python developers. I joined the company a few months ago, and have been loving the people, the work, and the atmosphere. We're solving an important problem in recruiting suitable volunteers for medical trials, which allows trials to proceed more quickly, getting vital drugs and treatments to market faster. This saves lives, and has substantial financial benefits. The successful applicant will join the 4 devs on the back-end team, who own a large "classic" vintage Django application, and a few newer services, which mostly use the lightweight framework 'Falcon'. We also have couple of experienced front-end guys, and a real user experience designer. He shares video highlights of real users in front of the software, which really brings home what works and what doesn't, and also how important the service we provide is to our users. There are about 15 staff in the London office, about 30 worldwide. The formal job ad is at: http://trialreach.com/about/jobs/#6 Best regards, Jonathan -- Jonathan Hartley tartley(a)tartley.com (+44|0) 7737 062 225

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London Python Project Nights S00 E02
by Alistair Broomhead July 15, 2015

July 15, 2015

Hi Everybody! I'f like to invite everyone to the third meeting of London Python Project Nights - there will be a break after this before we come back for Season 01. Tickets can be found at https://london-python-project-nights.eventwax.com/london-python-project-nig… . At the last couple we've had some interesting work done on Pygame Zero <https://pygame-zero.readthedocs.org/en/latest/> and romaine <https://github.com/london-python-project-nights/romaine> - we've also had some people working on their own, writing code or blogs, and making use of the relaxed collaborative environment to share and explore their ideas. As said previously this is an informal event. The format is likely to be much the same as the last - people turn up between 18:30 and 19:00, feel free to bring your own food, or order some in when you get there - if you're working on something at the moment bring it along, work on it, and share ideas and problems with others - if you're not working on anything, just bring yourself and maybe a laptop, and get stuck in on someone else's project. See here for a map of nearby transport links and food <https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zs4gRFoXWtck.k9vlsDLKufdg&usp=sharing> , I hope to see some of you there! Al

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Follow-up on posters
by Naomi Ceder July 15, 2015

July 15, 2015

Er, I'm reminded that I foolishly forgot to point people to the PyCon UK poster session page at http://www.pyconuk.org/posters/ for a bit more information. Also, to give you the flavour of how posters can work at a PyCon, visit PyVideo to see the posters at PyCon US in 2012 and 2013... http://pyvideo.org/search?models=videos.video&q=poster Finally, I would also recommend Katie Cunningham's appreciation of PyCon poster sessions at http://therealkatie.net/blog/2012/mar/13/pycon-2012-thoughts-poster-session/ (Three! "Our *three* weapons are...") Cheers, Naomi -- Naomi Ceder https://plus.google.com/u/0/111396744045017339164/about

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PyCon Ireland 2015 Call for Proposals
by Vicky Twomey-Lee - Python Ireland July 15, 2015

July 15, 2015

Hi All, I am happy to announce that PyCon Ireland will be back in Dublin on* Sat Oct 24 to Sun Oct 25* this year. If you are interested in speaking at the 2-day conference, please submit your proposal via http://python.ie/pycon-2015/call-proposals/. Deadline for talk proposals is *Fri July 31 23:59 (BST)*. If you are interested in running/helping in a workshop or have any enquiries, please email us via contact(a)python.ie. Thanks, /// Vicky Twomey-Lee (PyLadies Dublin <https://twitter.com/pyladiesdub> Founder) Python Ireland <http://python.ie/> Member PSF member <http://pyfound.blogspot.ie/2012/08/welcome-new-psf-members.html> | EuroPython Society <https://ep2012.europython.eu/blog/2012/07/08/change-board-europython-society> Board Member Coding Grace <http://codinggrace.com/> co-Founder | GameCraft It <http://gamecraft.it/> co-Founder | WITS <http://witsireland.com/governance/> Board Member

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Posters wanted!
by Naomi Ceder July 15, 2015

July 15, 2015

Hi all, In case you've forgotten, this year we are launching a poster session at PyCon UK. Poster sessions are great in a number of ways - they are a good opportunity to contribute for people who aren't up for giving a talk, they are a much more interactive way to communicate on a topic, and they are well suited for exposing ideas that are either too niche or too new and experimental for the main talk tracks. While those virtues are formidable, there is still one thing lacking from making the poster session a key part of PyCon UK - posters! We have a few excellent posters submitted, but we could easily accommodate a dozen more, and a strong showing this year would assure the poster session of return engagement next year. So please consider submitting a poster - if you have a new wrinkle on teaching Python, have written an interesting little library to organize widgets, have unlocked the secrets of Unicode, taught your RPi to babysit the cat, or literally anything else Pythonic, it could make a good poster. To propose a poster, please visit http://www.pyconuk.org/programme/ and fill out the form (the only type of proposal is now "poster") and join us! And please direct any questions to me at naomi.ceder(a)gmail.com. Thanks, and happy postering! Naomi -- Naomi Ceder https://plus.google.com/u/0/111396744045017339164/about

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Issue with unit tests in IntelliJ IDEA
by David Szervanszky July 15, 2015

July 15, 2015

Hi, I’ve been working on contributing to an open source project and have gotten to the stage where I’m writing my tests but I’ve run into a bit of an issue around a unit test I’ve written. Namely that the unit test won’t run and I receive the following error: utrunner.py: error: unrecognized arguments: /Users/me/dev/IdeaProjects/dynamic-dynamodb/dynamic_dynamodb/test_scaling_metrics.py true I’ve had a look on Google and StackOverflow but I couldn’t find the answer anywhere. My test contains imports for the modules I need, a class containing all of my tests in methods, and the standard entry point: if __name__ == '__main__': unittest.main() If anyone has any ideas as to what’s going on please let me know and if any further information is required I’d be happy to answer. Regards, David Szervanszky Developer T +44 (0)20 8600 0580 E dszervanszky(a)omnifone.com<mailto:dszervanszky@omnifone.com> W www.omnifone.com<http://www.omnifone.com> Omnifone | The Old School | 50 Brook Green | London | W6 7BJ DISCLAIMER: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. Finally, the recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________

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