PyCon 2011 occurred on March 9th thought 17th in Atlanta, Georgia, and covered many interesting topics. The nice thing about PyCon is that all the lectures are available in this channel. There were some really nice lectures that I’d like to highlight. The first one is about Python IDEs and the...
This is another great presentation given by Doug Hellmann, from the blog series PyMOTW (Python Module Of The Week). This presentation is a quick overview from the blog series, which is a tour of the Python standard library through short examples. Modules covered in this presentation:
After a long hiatus, I recapture to this series of posts that I was enjoying to write. To this return more exciting I’ve chosen one of the most incredible and difficult presentations from PyCon 2011 Atlanta: How To Write Obfuscated Python. This lecture was given by Johnny Healey Obfuscated code is...
I was wondering how to describe this great presentation, by Richard T. Saunders. Just found this sentence: This is one of those lectures that open your mind. One of the most mysterious thing in Python is the pickle module. He is able to serialize almost any object in Python and, symmetrically,...
I’ll start this article the same way that Alex Gaynor (the speaker) began. "Who here remembers their CS data structure class?". Then he adds: "Who cares?". For those who learned to program in high level languages, data structures isn’t anything to worry. But for older people like me who started...
In continuation to the series of articles PyCon2011 Highlights, today I won’t just suggest but insist with you to watch this great talk by Maciej Fijałkowski and Alex Gaynor, about the Python’s Virtual Machine called PyPy. I always wondered how PyPy (which is written in Python) can be faster than...
This is another Atlanta PyCon2011 lecture that I’d like to highlight. This one was given by Luke Gotszling and talks about Python and CouchDB, a NoSQL database document oriented. Now some additional information…
