Some GNOME developers have gathered in Boston for for a Python GNOME hackfest that is hosted by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. The primary goals behind the hackfest include establishing a strategy for delivering Python 3.0 compatibility for the GNOME platform and advancing the Python GObject introspection project.

RRDtool is the OpenSource industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data.

When you write code in Python you can be almost sure your code will run on different operating systems. I say almost sure, not completely sure, because some of the libraries and packages you are using can have different behaviors on different systems.

I love python for a number of reasons. Brevity is one of them. Readability is another. However writing readable concise code can take some time to getting used to. This post discusses some code snippets especially in the context of some of the comparisons done between python and clojure.

PyCon 2009 drew nearly a thousand Python programmers from around the world, representing projects on all seven continents - including Antarctica! They gathered for serious learning, discussion, and strategizing... and for not-so-serious fun. PyCon 2010, the eighth annual conference of the Python programming community, promises even more.

According to the blurb on the book's back cover, "This book offers a highly accessible introduction to natural language processing, the field that supports a variety of language technologies, from predictive text and email filtering to automatic summarization and translation".

I just wrote a review for Linux in a Nutshell, 6th Edition and commented that it seemed as if each successive edition acquired more pages. In the Linux book's case, it isn't true, but it is true in the case of Lutz's book. In fact, between the 3rd and current edition, the book has expanded some 466 pages. Good grief, what accounts for such growth?

"Jacob Kaplan-Moss, one of Django's lead developers, will give a whirlwind tour of advanced Django tips and tricks. The focus will be on the techniques you'll need to develop mature Django applications. We'll discuss the kinds of issues that arise as applications increase in scope and scale, and look at common problems in large Django projects and how to solve them..."