The Mouse Vs. The Python

Another week is over and we have a new set of articles for you to check out this weekend. You can learn new things, try modules, and be productive. Or you can go party. Don’t forget about all the different PyCons going on this year around the world. There are local ones and International conferences.

• Multiple reviews for the Python Testing Cookbook” target=”_blank”>Python Testing Cookbook are out now. See Jacob Perkins or Doug Hellman’s reviews
• Learn why SqlAlchemy rocks and how it’s different from Django’s ORM in Armin Ronacher’s article
• Speaking of Django, this article is an introduction to sessions in Django
• Python Application in the Cloud
• Re-load modules or import them without import with Exocet
• A Python 4 Kids Tkinter tutorial
• PyOhio

is next weekend!

• Read-Ahead and Python Generators
• How to convert Python UTC datetime to UNIX timestamp

That’s all for this week. Let me know if you find anything cool that you think I should highlight next time.

I’ve been kind of lazy about putting these out lately, but I have decided to try to do this more regularly. This week covers a lot of different topics including a controversial article from Steve Holden! You can also learn about an exotic location for a Python Conference, Sage and Meta-programming. If you’re new to Python, then you will be amazed at the diversity of the topics. These don’t even begin to scratch the surface of what is going on in the Python world, but they may whet your appetite. Enjoy!

• Ever wanted to learn a little about Meta-programming in Python? Now’s your chance!
• Don’t know Sage? Well, there’s a Beginner’s Guide for it out now and here’s a review by John Cook.
• Steve Holden talks about Childish Behavior regarding the naming of a certain Python module
• PyCon Australia’s schedule has been announced! Now you too can learn about Python and see Kangaroos in their natural habitat. I call that a win/win!
• There’s an update on the Python African tour
• For up to the minute Python news, check out Twitter
• NWSGI 2.1 for IronPython 2.7 out now

It’s been a while since I have done any interesting Python links. I quit for a while because these things take a while to put together and few seemed interested, but I’ll give it another go. This week has a really interesting article on Python and robots. Jesse Noller has a fun article where he collects various Python stories too (I nabbed a couple of his picks for mine too because he was right: they are interesting!)

• Building a face-tracking robot (Headroid1) with Python in an afternoon
• Python Debugging; Embarrassment, Contracts and Nothing is private (Jesse Noller)
• Nothing is Private: Python Closures (and ctypes) – Michael Foord
• namedtuple and exec() by Kristján Valur
• Both PyTexas and PyCon Japan are calling for papers so if you like talking about Python, get in on the action now!
• mock 0.7.2 and PyDev 2.1.0 were both released recently.
• Quick and Easy Debugging in Python by Jeet Sukumaran
• Teaching (and learning) Python by Ned Batchelder
• Filenames with accents by Ned Batchelder

If you think I missed something awesome that happened in the Python world recently, let me know in the comments and maybe I’ll add it next time. Thanks for your support!