The Mouse Vs. The Python

Recently, Andrea Gavana, developer of the agw library in the wxPython code base, released his newest widget: XLSGrid. It’s purpose is to faithfully reproduce the appearance of a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (one worksheet per every instance of XLSGrid). This widget is based on wx.grid.PyGridTableBase and wx.grid.PyGridCellRenderer and requires xlrd. Andrea also recommends using Mark Hammond’s PyWin32 module or the widget’s formatting abilities will be very limited. If you’d like to read the full announcement, just go here.

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TurboGears is one of several web frameworks for Python that are available. The most popular by far is Django. Where I work, we chose TurboGears because of its integration with SQLAlchemy which supports composite keys. At that time, Django did not support that feature and I am not sure if it does yet. Anyway, I develop almost exclusively on a Windows box and have found the TurboGears’ documentation on the subject a little confusing. So here’s how I do it.

Note: We’ll be using TurboGears 2.1 in this tutorial (more…)

PyCon 2012′s website just went live today. They already have a bunch of sponsors and information about the conference on the website. Of course, they haven’t done a call for speakers yet, so don’t expect to find a list of talks or tutorials for several months. However, the website itself looks pretty slick. You can read the full press release on the official PyCon blog. They are really hyping their diversity statement and code of conduct. I think those are pretty self-explanatory, so I’m not going to discuss them here. You can check them out yourself.

Now is the time to start thinking about whether or not you’d like to give a talk or tutorial at PyCon and start putting together your proposal(s). I’m sure this year will be pretty big, so there will probably be lots of submissions. What that means is that you need to go the extra mile to make yourself stand out from the crowd. Grab your thinking caps and start mulling!

You might even start talking PyCon up to your boss in hopes of getting them to send you there and sponsor the event. I’m sure that PyCon can always use another sponsor.

FYI: I am a PyCon fan, not a marketer. I have enjoyed going there the past few years and always hope that they do well.