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After a small summer hiatus, Clepy is back and ready for Pythonic goodness.
At tonight’s meeting, I presented “The Joy of Logging”, an introduction to the Python standard library’s logging module and all the various wicked cool things you can do with it. (Okay, so “wicked cool” is relative here…) After concluding my presentation […]

At Monday’s Clepy meeting, I presented “The Joy of Optparse”, all about why optparse is your friend (assuming of course that you want friends that manage command line input for you). We had a brief bit of round-table discussion after that, then adjourned to the local TGIF for munchies and beer. Even though […]

Okay, I surrender. Life has officially kicked my ass, culminating in a spectacular, week-long coup de gras involving crazy cat Julia, Liz’s Powerbook, and my now thoroughly bandaged right arm.
In general, I’ve been feeling pretty crappy, too crappy to even whine about things on LiveJournal. Work has been extraordinarily stressful–it’s been “crunch time” […]

Last night’s Clepy meeting was a bit shorter than average, but still chock full of Python goodness. Extra special props to Matt Zipay and Brulant for their hosting hospitality, complete with, for the first time in Clepy’s history, live, reliable internet access!
Brian Beck gave a nice introductory presentation on “Releasing Your Python Package” that […]

Tonight was the March installment of Clepy, the little Cleveland Python group that could. We hit what I think is a new attendance record–19 in all! Each meeting gets a little bit bigger, and according to our defacto fearless leader David Stanek, we’re quickly becoming one of the larger Python groups. Nifty!
This […]

Another fun night at Clepy, the Cleveland Python group. David Stanek and I did a trial run of our PyCon presentation (and we thank everyone for the feedback, it’s very helpful!), and David gave us the lowdown on the Kid templating system.
We welcomed a lot of new folks this meeting; it’s really great to […]

One of the reasons I haven’t been messing much with TurboGears lately (aside from the current heavy development activity and resulting instability and lack of recent docs–plus the week it took me to catch up on the mailing list after a week of jury duty) is that I recently received a review copy of Twisted: […]

Tonight was another fun-filled episode of Clepy, our little Python group that could. I presented “Fun With RSS”, a quickie overview of RSS, feedparser, and PyRSS2Gen, plus a little bit of fun combining the two. David Stanek introduced us to IPython, the Python interactive shell on steroids.
We had some nice discussion of some […]

Tonight’s ClePy meeting went pretty well; my presentation introducing the TurboGears web framework managed to not bomb and was in fact well received. Some of that I will chalk up to general politeness (thanks to my combination of false modesty and self-esteem issues), but mostly I think it was pretty good. There was […]

Most weeks, I feel like for every N items on my plate, I have enough time to accomplish N-1 or N-2 of them, and I’m generally okay with that. If things slide a little, so what, as long as I get to them eventually. This week, I feel like I can only get […]