Tales from Dallas

It’s time to resurrect this bog from the ashes.

Here I am at PyCon2007 in Dallas, seeing face to face many of the
people who’s names line up in my email browser each morning. I’ve
just come out of one on Python web frameworks and now feal slightly
better qualified to evaluate the superfluity of options.

In the lineup were Django, Pyjamas, Zope, Spyce, Turbogears, Pylons,
CherryPy, Twisted. Quite a diverse selection.

There’s some good notes on the session at
http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2007/02/23/pycon-2007-web-frameworks-panel

One jucy comment was “the plethora of web frameworks seems Perlish and
not Pythonic”. This was very well handled by pointing out web
frameworks are a lot less mature than Python and there is still a lot
of experimenting going on. That’s a good answer for framework
developers but doesn’t make choosing between the options any easier.
Still, I think I should give django a try sometime.

Other interesting talks: a mind-blowingly technical talk on iterators — still exciting though,
Heartening talk about teaching python to school children and a
rallying call to improve Python advocacy.

The good news is that every single sponsor in the lighting talks were
recruiting. The bad news is that Python development has a supply-side
problem unless it gets the word out about it’s power.

I hope more is to come but I have a Python for Science BoF to go to.