[python-advocacy] Proposal for Monthly podcast series

[Cameron Laird]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 05:28:28PM +0100, Michael Foord wrote:
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> Laura Creighton wrote:
> >> Nabu  http://furius.ca/nabu/
> >> http://xmpppy.sourceforge.net/  xmpppy: the jabber python project
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> > There are very few of these projects I either know about nor have
> > any current interest in knowing about.  Perhaps this means that
> > you are a better magnet-for-cool than I am.  If so, these podcasts
> > should be a sure hit.  But if not, perhaps we should ask on
> > comp.lang.python for suggestions on what to produce.  
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> Agreed. :-)
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> The concept is great but the choice of projects seems 'esoteric'. Is it 
> a deliberate choice to not stick to mainstream projects.
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> My *personal* suggestions would be (some of which are included in your 
> list):
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> * docutils
> * PIL
> * wxPython (possibly and/or Dabo)
> * SciPy
> * matplotlib
> * twisted
> * crunchy
> * Pyjamas
> * Django (Turbgears and Pylons are both great projects and *equally* 
> deserving of coverage - but would this be too much of a web-app focus)
> * IPython
> * py2exe
> * pygame
> * pywin32
> * setuptools
> * SQLObject or SQLAlchemy
> * Mechanize
> * BeautifulSoup
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> There's a few anyway...
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> I would even include ctypes, ElementTree and sqlite - even though they 
> are now part of the standard library.
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> Oh, and there is always Zope. ;-)
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I like Michael's list.  People learn about ElementTree, sqlite,
IPython, BeautifulSoup, ctypes, py2exe, ..., and soon wonder how
life was ever possible without them.