Baiju Muthukadan's Blog

Few weeks back (on 3rd September) I conducted one Python workshop at KSR College of Arts & Science .  I couldn't write about it till now. The college is located in Tiruchengode, a town in Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu.  The workshop was on a Saturday, but I reached the college in the previous night.     There was around 80 students from MCA and MSc courses. One student took some photos using his mobile camera, you can see some of those pictures below. I started my journey from Bangalore on Friday afternoon in one KPN bus.  It was a Multi-axle bus and the road was also very good, so the journey was very comfortable. I reached Erode around 9.30 pm and one college staff was waiting for me. We had our dinner from Erode and went to college by one taxi car.  They had arranged my stay in the college guest house. It is a very good campus, and there are many colleges in that campus by the same management.  Next day during lunch time, the founding chai...

Python Testing Tools Taxonomy page hosted at http://pycheesecake.org was a great collection of links to Python testing tools, libraries and frameworks. It is maintained by Testing in Python (TIP) community members. The page has been moved to Python wiki for convenience of maintaining it. The new wiki page is here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonTestingToolsTaxonomy Feel free to add/update your favorite testing tools there!

It looks like, the number of Python books which exclusively cover Python 3 is increasing. A Byte of Python by Swaroop C H Dive Into Python 3 by Mark Pilgrim Programming in Python 3 by Mark Summerfield Python 3 Object Oriented Programming Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science by John M. Zelle, Ph.D. Programming Python by Mark Lutz Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python 3 from Wikibooks Please comment here, if you find any other book.

I started using LiveJournal in 2004. It was a great blogging platform back in 2004. But now a days I am finding it very difficult to use. So I am changing my main blog from LiveJournal to Blogger. My new blog URL is http://baijum.blogspot.com/ I have migrated all my old posts to the new blog. I have send mail to Planet-Python & Planet-India editors to update my blog feed URL. If anybody else subscribed to my feed, please use my new feed URL: http://baijum.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/python (This will bring any Python related blog posts to your reader)

Recently Selenium 2 has released with it's new WebDriver technology. Selenium WebDriver supports multiple web browsers like Firefox, Chrome and IE. Selenium WebDriver communicate with browser through its native API. Selenium Python bindings provide a convenient API to access functionalities of Selenium. Recently I started writing some documentation for Selenium Python bindings . It still need lots of work, but now it would be good enough to start with Selenium. I am looking forward to your feedback! EDIT (September 30 2011): The documentation has been moved to readthedocs site . And the source is hosted in Github .

On second day I attended two tutorials specific to Python 3.  I am realizing more and more that Python 3 is really a simple & cool language.  I want to start at least one project in Python 3.  After announcing the getpython3.net  site, the site started getting more feedback. On third day (First day conference) I attended the keynote by  Hilary Mason . Later we moved to the expo hall, ZeOmega has one booth. I was there in the booth for some time.  I also attended two talks: Pylons project talk and Flask talk.  During lunch time I got a chance to speak to  Matthias Klose .  In the evening we went for a dinner organized by PSF for sponsors and core developers. During dinner Brad introduced me to Barry Warsaw  and Guido.  We also talked to some other folks there.  The dinner was arranged a in hotel near by  georgia aquarium and CNN.  The night looked very nice and it as very cool. Today I woke up early morning a...

Today I am happy to announce the official launch of getpython3.net ! Thanks to all contributors Recent changes from Arun from Ubiqurio made it a great looking site. I will update about todays PyCON happenings later.  Now sitting alone in a table at Hyatt lobby with lots of Pythonistas hanging around here.

I reached here in Atlanta with my ZeOmega colleagues on March 8th evening. ZeOmega is a Gold sponsor this time ! (from 2003 onwards ZeOmega was a silver sponsor). On the first tutorial day, I attended the Advanced Python tutorial, both part 1 and part 2 . It was a great tutorial, Raymond Hettinger explained many advanced topics in Python. I really liked the explanation about Descriptors . In the evening I volunteered for placing flyer and goodies in the bag for participants. There was two teams standing around a table, picking one piece and passing around, finally a bag will be ready with all materials. I went for dinner with a crew of 10 somewhere in Downtown. It was lengthy dinner, I got some nice fish with green beans and rice, but forgot the name of fish :) The street was very beautiful in night. I met Noufal & Anand C at the restuarant (unexpected!), so we have 3 BangPypers here now, any other BangPypers here ? Today I am going to atte...

Currently there are 270+ distributions with "Framework :: Buildout"  trove category in PyPI. Now it's becoming bit inconvenient to identify whether a distribution contains a Buildout recipe or extension.  ( Recipes and extensions are two types of plugin mechanisms supported by Buildout).  Now there is a solution -- two sub-categories are added .  If you publish Buildout recipes or extensions to PyPI, please use the new trove classifiers in addition to the existing "Framework :: Buildout". If you are developing a recipe, use this classifier: classifiers=[ ... "Framework :: Buildout", "Framework :: Buildout :: Recipe", ... ], If you are developing an extension, use this classifier: classifiers=[ ... "Framework :: Buildout", "Framework :: Buildout :: Extension", ... ],   If the distribution contains both extension and recipe, use:   classifiers=[ ... "Framewor...