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Python 3000
Guido gave his yearly Python 3000 talk here at OSCON. Most of the things he discussed are in the PEP's. He started by going over the migration path for Python 3.0 from 2.6. Additionally there were a few key features that I was pretty happy to see.
- Set Comprehensions
- Dictionary Comprehensions ("We're adding sets, and have list; we might as well have them all.")
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super()instead ofsuper(Class, instance) - Unicode source code
Django Master Class
This was an excelllent presentation. Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Simon Wilson and Jeremy Dunck presented on Django, covering a number of very useful topics. A couple of these things were areas I really needed to get my head around, so this helped a lot. My highlights:
- Unit Testing - An excellent overview of the testing available testing methods and how to use them.
- Middleware == Rails Filters (not Java/Enterprise Middleware)
- Forms with AJAX how-to. jQuery looks like a nice AJAX library.
- Custom Model Fields - actually telling you how to do this.
Jacob has posted the slides and notes online, read them and take advantage of this cool stuff and more.
OSCON Inspired Hacking -- Comments Go!
Well I've got a lot of notes to write up about OSCON, but first I'd like to announce the latest in website features: comments. I finally finished up the work I've been slowly doing for the past few months, and got comments turned on.
- I'm doing akismet spam checking, and
- am stripping all HTML tags.
- I am allowing markdown for comments.
- Comments close ten days after the post.
I've developed the framework to allow easy expansion, and probably will post this code in the near future.
OSCON 2007
Well I'm in Portland, looking forward to starting OSCON tomorrow. You can expect a major increase in blogging over the next few days as I report on things I'm learning and other cool happenings.
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