[Baypiggies] Talk proposal

[jim]

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On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 00:59 -0700, Marc Abramowitz wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> 
> I just submitted the following abstract as a talk proposal for PyCon
> US 2013 (talk proposals due today! Get moving if you wanted to do
> one :-)) -- I have no idea whether it will be accepted, but I wonder
> if folks would be interested in me giving the talk at BayPiggies?
> 
> 
> ---
> 
> 
> There are many versions of Python out in the wild now from Python 2.x
> to Python 3.x to PyPy. It's surprisingly easy to test a Python package
> against multiple versions of Python when you have a few tools. You'll
> learn how to use tools like
> [Tox](http://tox.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html) and [Travis
> CI](http://travis-ci.org/) to test Python software against multiple
> versions of Python.
> 
> 
> * Testing (Super brief intro to why it's good, motherhood and apple
> pie, etc.)
> * The problem: Multiple Pythons
>     * Some differences between Python 2 and Python 3
> * Doing it manually with virtualenv
>     * How to test manually with virtualenv
>     * This is tedious; we can do better...
> * Automating testing across Python versions with Tox
>     * What does Tox do?
>     * Sample tox.ini
>     * How to run tox
> * Pushing testing out to the cloud with Travis CI
>     * What is Travis CI?
>     * Sample .travis.yml
>     * Setting up the GitHub service hook to trigger Travis
>     * Triggering a build
>     * Show the Travis Web UI
>     * Travis extras
>         * Embedding a Travis build status badge in README (or other
> web page)
>         * Running Travis on pull requests
> * Ensuring greater compatibility across Python versions
>     * Tips for writing portable code, useful patterns
>     * Using 2to3
>     * Using distribute's use_2to3 to automatically translate
>     * The `six` module
> * The Python 3 Wall of Shame
> * Now go forth and test and port!
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