I missed the September ClePy meeting because I was too busy helping my wife fork a child process (there seems to be an awful lot of that going around the Python community lately, based on what I’ve seen on the Planet feeds–something in the water, perhaps?). But I hear that Brian Beck put together some nice slides for his talk on his Pagoda CMS system, and Nick Barendt clued folks into how to run their own open-source PBX with Asterisk and AGI.
Asterisk turned up again during open discussion at this Monday’s meeting; while getting caught up, I got the scoop on Asterisk (since I’d missed the talk and been too busy with baby and work to read Nick’s PDF) and we had a good time talking about crazy PBX tricks; the coolest idea was to use Asterisk to hook up your desk phone as a combination lock to trigger a secret door to your underground lair (awesome!).
The meeting proper was a short one due to the sudden absence of one of our speakers; Monday’s lone presenter was Gary Bernhardt, who put three great packages together–httplib2, Beautiful Soup, and Feedparser–for a discussion of “Talking to the Web with Python.” In a particularly interesting example, Gary showed us how to combine Beautiful Soup with Feedparser to build a Technorati-ish blog link extractor in eight lines of code. Note that combining these in a nice, sparse nested loop structure (or even in a super-l33t list comprehension) is a fabulous way to peg your CPU (you have been warned).
Our next meeting will be November 5–if chance finds you in the greater Cleveland area, drop on by!
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