[portland] TODAY! What's New in 2.6 and 3.0 10/14 7pm

[kirby urner]

Hi Jason --

I have a an 8-10 minute lightning talk planned, sponsored by Fine
Grind Productions, re PY3K, includes:

(a) an ad from our sponsor
(b) a short rant / intro to Kirby
(c) a short story
(d) a dance proposal ("The Writhe")
(e) a demo.

The demo is about
(i) unicode and
(ii) next and print and their backward incompatibility with
prehistoric Pythons (yay).

Hope there's time (8-10 minutes including some setup).

Bringing slides on Ubuntu Dell laptop.

Kirby Urner
4dsolutions.net

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:58 AM, jason kirtland <jek at discorporate.us> wrote:
> Today's the day: we're meeting tonight at 7pm at CubeSpace.
>
> Also, I'll have my laptop open with 2.6 and 3.0 interactive interpreters up
> and running.  Anyone's welcome to plug it in to the projector to show
> something.
>
> I also ran off a copy of the What's New 2.6 docs but if anyone else can it'd
> be great to have more copies circulating.  My printer's nearly out of toner
> and this copy is hard to read.  Tip: the whatsnew.pdf from the PDF docs
> download prints best.
>
> See you tonight!
>
> -j
>
>
> jason kirtland wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Python 2.6 has been released and 3.0 will be shortly.  We'll be
>> celebrating their releases this Tuesday with a D.I.Y. What's New party!
>>
>> The format is simple: pick a change or two from the What's New in Python
>> documentation from 2.6 or 3.0 and tell us about it!  You can use the
>> projector if you want, but < 5 minutes.  That's easy because most changes
>> are small.
>>
>> Here's an example from 3.0:
>>
>>  "Removed <> (use != instead)."
>>
>> So easy!  Find some and bring 'em to us.  If you get inspired and want to
>> share one of the few larger changes (< 10 min), check the wiki and put your
>> name down.
>>
>> I'll be bringing *two growlers* of rare and wonderful beer from Bailey's
>> Taproom to get the party started.  Bring hardcopy of one or both What's New
>> if you can.  And party hats.
>>
>>  http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.6.html
>>  http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html
>>
>>  wiki: http://pdxpython.org/
>>  maps, rsvp, etc.: http://python.meetup.com/183/
>>
>> Tuesday 10/14 7pm at CubeSpace.  See you there!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jason
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