Introducing Python to others

[Marco Mariani]

Paddy O'Loughlin wrote:

> All of the audience will be experienced (4+ years) programmers, almost
> all of them are PHP developers (2 others, plus myself, work in C, know
> C#, perl, java, etc.).

Show them the same classical design patterns in Java and Python. Explain 
how it's much more flexible.

> Any other suggestions for a possible "wow" reaction from an audience like that?

SQLAlchemy / SQLSoup, and XML handling with lxml.