PyCodeConf Notes

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Learn:
software transactional memory
couroutines
* http://www.dabeaz.com/coroutines/Coroutines.pdf
python 3
* Improvements to GIL
http://www.dabeaz.com/python/GIL.pdf
pypy
* Maybe getting rid of gil
* jit genarator
async python
* twisted/stackless
multitreading
* Process states, ready-wait, iterrupt, OS
mongohub
* http://mongohub.todayclose.com
virtualenv
* For environment management
* http://warm-mist-1692.heroku.com
Smalltalk
* Look at it again
* Presentation with iphone
* ZeroMQ

Jesse Noller:
Slides are @ bitly (put this as well)
Black on white (apple style)

Practicality beats puriy
Use it where it makes sense
Approachability and at the same time maintainability

Embrace the GIL
* dis module
import dis
dis.dis(methodname)

GIL protects (imagine that there is threads running on cores simultaneously)
* Reference count updates
* Mutable types

Python interpreter is not written in a thread-safe manner. It does not use dictionalires in a threadsafe manner, and the refrence counting is not threadsafe. So you cannot run multi threads since it can be preemted


Raymond Hettinger - what makes python awesome?
* Async yield - get around the way of using callbacks (procedural aycn)
* from itty import get, post, run_itty (small web framework)
>> a tiny web service to track a box

* with statement (awesome)
* http://docs.python.org/library/abc.html

leah culver - IRC 
* Grove, IRC server for the company

Alex Gaynor:
* L

Laura Thompson - processing firefox
Sagrada, mozilla queueing system
http://blog.mozilla.com/services/2011/09/15/introducing-project-sagrada/

Craig Kerstiens
State of packaging & Dep mgmt
pypi
pip & virtualenv
pip install --use-mirrors

Kenneth Reitz:
https://github.com/kennethreitz/python-for-humans for slides
Requests
Legit
OXS-GCC Installer
Clint
python requests is good for url opening stuff
http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/index.html

Avery Pennarun
Bup - backup software (store your stuff in git, backup your computer - awesome)
VPN software sshuttle
* Tight inner loop is terrible
* Line of code executes x80-100 slower
* You don't want to run a line manytimes.. you just want to interpret once and then execute that really fast in c.. interpretation takes time
* C module is cool
* In python fork using multiple cores
* scipy - puts C code in the python code
* weakrefs - does not increase the reference count


Gary Bernhardt:
http://bret.appspot.com/entry/tornado-web-server
* Flask if you want to add a small http server to an existing application
* python-request to make an easy url call
* http://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests

Dustin Sallings
Breakdancer