Previous Talks

March 2003

Malcolm Tredinnick spoke about using Python in production environments, and you can view his slides or download a download a tarball [27K].

February 2003

Andrew Bennetts showed us examples of programming in the Twisted Internet Framework. Browse his examples, his slides or view the slides as HTML.

January 2003

Adrian van den Dries introduced the ZODB (Zope Object Database).

You can view his slides and examples (also available at cantanker.net) or download them in gzipped tar format [12K] (also available at cantanker.net).

November 2002

Andrew Bennetts introduced the cool, zany and weird new features of Python 2.2. View his MagicPoint source [14K] or the slides themselves [HTML file].

October 2002

Pete Hardy talked about the Python ncurses library, which he used in making a terminal interface for the Julie Jukebox.

You can grab his MagicPoint presentation [5KB], his simple Python curses MagicPoint viewer, voodoo.py [5KB], or download both as a gzipped tarball [4KB].

September 2002

No meeting held

August 2002

Jamie Wilkinson gave an impromptu talk on writing a Python wrapper for a C library, using his recently written pymad module, which wraps around the libmad MPEG Audio Decoder library, as a demonstration.

July 2002

The projector failed us, but:

• Download Mary Gardiner's intended talk on Numeric Python [2K, gzipped .tar file, MagicPoint slides and examples], or browse the examples or the slides [HTML file].
• Andrew Bennetts spoke about iPython
• Steven Kowalik spoke about Linda

June 2002

Mark Greenaway introduced PyGTK. You can view his example Python files here or download a tarball.

May 2002

Andrew Bennetts introduced Twisted. Slides coming shortly.