Pycon 2016 videos + things I wished I knew when starting python

gistfile1.txt

Here's the links I promised to post:
videos:

== python talks worth watching ==
QuickCheck for Python 
slides:  
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IF3DHYTz2b8gazUaZLF4QhSMBc6xHVIGbS_08pdl2EM/mobilepresent?pli=1&slide=id.p

source website: http://hypothesis.works/
talk video: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvwfDdgg93E


== Django for the realtime web  (learning to use python websockets) ==
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sEPipctTxw


== Refactoring Python ==
Managing a changing api, provide warnings for deprecated functionality  
(Seems like he's trying to sell his book: _Effective Python_
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d46PjvFki38



== Machette Mode ==
Doing crazy things to debug a problem (Ned Batchelder)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XvAVgcbmdY


== Gilectomy ==
Removing the GIL, and the choices & consequences thereof (Larry Hastings)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3AyI_u66Bw


== Power Debugger (Smiley) ==
Talking thru the process of building a tool.. false leads, dead ends..  (Doug Hellmann)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8kF9tuYZ6s


== Framework for communication ==
(Lorena Barba)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckW1xuGVpug

== shipping python software ==
Glyph talks about how to deploy python
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BqAeN-F9Qs
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things I wish I knew about python when i started

pystartup file:  
- set $PYTHONSTARTUP=~/.pythonstartup in .bashrc
    * export PYTHONSTARTUP=~/.pythonstartup

https://docs.python.org/2/using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONSTARTUP 

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~russell/classes/cs188/f14/faq.html

bpython interpreter  http://bpython-interpreter.org/
ipython interperter   http://ipython.org/

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non-python things

coderetreat.org


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If there's something I missed, let me know.  -- Bill
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