Notes from PySIG, 25-Sept-2008: What's New in Python 2.6

[Ted Roche]

Fourteen people attended the September meeting of the Python Special
Interest Group [1] of the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group[2],
held as usual on the fourth Thursday of the month at the Amoskeag
Business Incubator[3] in Manchester, NH, 7 PM - 9 PM.

Our presenter of the evening had to postpone, due to family obligations,
so we had a general night of discussion. It was vigorous and interesting.

I was a tad late to the meeting, so I missed Ray Côté's description of a
gotcha using Python. It pays to show up early to the meetings!

Bill Sconce brought along a two page agenda and list of topics, focused
on new features in Python 2.6[4]. This lead to a lot of discussions,
clarifying what can be done in earlier Python versions and how the new
version works, including many times when we dropped to the shell and
started python to test out our assumptions.

Janet provided yummy cookies, as always -- thanks, Janet! And Ben was
harassed in absentia.

Thanks to Bill for arranging, announcing and herding cats to run the
meeting, the Amoskeag Business Incubator for their great facilities,
Janet for the cookies, and all for attending and participating.

[1] http://www.pysig.org
[2] http://www.gnhlug.org
[3] http://www.abi-nh.com
[4] http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.6.html

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Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com