November 2010 meeting

From Ballarat Linux Users Group

Jython/Python talk by Duncan

Summary:

Python is elegant, small: batteries included (Try a one-line webserver with "python -m SimpleHTTPServer") (+ os, urllib, ftplib, hashlib, etc) (+ BeautifulSoup, ReportLab, PyGame)

Jython is an implementation of Python on the Java platform (With the ability to get it as one .jar file)

Jython and Java objects and classes are interchangeable Pythonesque objects being better, of course!

Jython died off somewhere between 2.1/2.2, but with 2.5 it is back in a big way and for python fans it allows us to 'just get things done' in the Java world while overcoming things like GIL in Python.

Full testing / implementations of big frameworks like Django, Pylons is now a reality

Links:

Python

Jython

Sikuli

...and because we touched on other topics:

Davmail

Kinect

Quercus

JRuby

CD Paranoia setting in Grip

XENA seems to think FLAC is the way to go, too.