From carl at personnelware.com Sat Apr 3 18:08:33 2010 From: carl at personnelware.com (Carl Karsten) Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 10:08:33 -0600 Subject: [ChiPy-announce] Python April 8, 7pm at ITA Message-ID: ChiPy ========================= Come join us for our best meeting ever! When: 7 PM Thursday April 8, 2010 Where: ITA Sign up: http://chipy.org/FrontPage#sign-up Topics ------ 1. 7:00 What's coming up in 2.7 (Brian Curtin) 2. 8:00 Pizza (Imaginary Landscape) 3. 8:15 Twiggy: A Pythonic Logger (Peter Fein) 4. 8:45 Book Giveaway (O'Reilly) Details ------- 1. What's coming up in 2.7 Brian Curtin With 2.7 likely being the end of the 2.x line, come see what's in store for the upcoming release. Changes to unittest, introduction of the argparse module, and a whole host of 3.1 features are here to ease your eventual transition into the wonderful world of Python 3. 2. Pizza Imaginary Landscape Local Python shop wants to make sure we don't pass out from starvation. Return the favor by visiting http://chicagopython.com 3. Twiggy: A Pythonic Logger Peter Fein Twiggy is an early-stage project to build a more Pythonic logging module. It was started at Pycon 2010. Home: http://python-twiggy.googlecode.com See the notes for a quick overview http://pythontwiggy.googlecode.com/hg/notes.html 4. Book Giveaway O'Reilly Take notes and be ready to answer questions - correct answer gets you a book. Location -------- Illinois Technology Association (ITA) 200 S. Wacker Drive 15th Floor Chicago, IL 60606 312.435.2805 http://www.illinoistech.org Metra: exit on Adams St, walk East across the bridge, first door on the right. Show your ID to security. Be on the list or they will be sad. About the group --------------- ChiPy is made up of people of all levels of programming and Python knowledge. At every meeting we have had both beginning programmers, people who are just starting to use Python, as well as experienced Python programmers. Don't be intimidated about coming to a meeting. Note that ChiPy is not a formal organization. We collect no dues, elect no officers, and keep no roster. Signing up for the mailing list carries no obligation. Nor does showing up at the meetings. Nor, at least so far, does anything else we have done, although we always appreciate it when our presenters show up. (They usually do!)