Mailman 3 December 2020 - python-uk

London Dojo next Thursday
by Tom Viner March 15, 2024

March 15, 2024

Hi all, For February's London code dojo, we'll be at Sohonet <https://www.sohonet.com/>. We'll have pizza, drinks and some fun group coding. All abilities welcome! There'll also be the prize draw for a random O'Reilly Python book as usual. *6:30pm Thursday 1st Feb 2018* Get your tickets while they're hot: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-python-code-dojo-season-9-episode-6-t… If you need any more information, contact the team via Twitter: @ldnpydojo <https://twitter.com/ldnpydojo> or via e-mails to team(a)ldnpydojo.org.uk We're always looking for venues to host the Dojo and volunteers to be cat herders, i.e. writing an email like this and coordinating the voting etc. Look forward to seeing you next Thursday! Tom @tomviner <https://twitter.com/tomviner>

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Off-topic: TeX Office Hours (and Python)
by Jonathan Fine Dec. 10, 2020

Dec. 10, 2020

Hi The UK TeX Users Group is close to folding. This is sad. It is a closed (paid membership only) organisation. I think it's time for an open to all UK TeX grouping. To help set this up, I'm holding a TeX Office Hour every Thursday 6:30 to 7:30pm, until the end of March. https://jfine2358.github.io/post/2020/12/10/tex-office-hours/ To get back on topic, I'm also happy to discuss Python and other matters in the office hour, but TeX (and MathJax) has priority. I've a special interest in Python tools for TeX. I have a few such (not yet on PyPi). If you're interested in such tools (yours, mine, someone else's or yet to be developed), please do get in touch either on this list or by email. with best wishes Jonathan

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psycopg3: the project, the sponsorship
by Daniele Varrazzo Dec. 7, 2020

Dec. 7, 2020

Hello everyone, my name is Daniele, Italian developer living in London, and I have been the main psycopg2 maintainer for the past 10 years. I have recently started working on its successor: psycopg3. The project is based on the experience I have gathered in these years about the technical matters of the Python/Postgres interoperation, as well as about the use cases and pain points of the people using the library. Psycopg tries to address the problems that are not easy to solve in a codebase which has its root before 2000, and embraces the state of the art of a Python library in 2020, from static typing to asyncio support. I started dabbling with the idea back in March (https://www.varrazzo.com/blog/2020/03/06/thinking-psycopg3/), when I stopped working for the company I had been working for the previous 12 years, and I thought that the moment was mature to put my experience into a new library. I worked on the project only part-time for a few months, and recently I've decided to work on it full time. I am looking for sponsors to help me to make the project sustainable and allow me to finish its development in a short time. If you work for a company using Python and PostgreSQL and would like to contribute, and make use of, the most advanced Postgres driver for Python, please consider to give your support. More information about the project is available at <https://www.psycopg.org/psycopg3/>. For any information please don't hesitate to get in touch. Wishing you a good day -- Daniele

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