Montreal Python

Greetings Pythonistas of Montreal,
as you hopefully know by now, Montreal Python 5 is this Thursday at la Banque. Here is our schedule for the evening:

• 18h00: Opening
• 18h45: Announcements and flash presentations
• 19h15: Break
• 19h45: Main presentation: Alexandre Vassalotti on Porting your
  Code to Python 3

Flash presenters will be:

• Marc-Antoine Desroches:
  VLAM Compyle, a just-in-time compiler for Python; pitch for an upcoming talk at the Montreal Scheme/Lisp User Group meetings.
  
  
• Francis Piéraut:
  Machine Learning enpowered by Python; pitch for Montreal Python 6.
  
  
• Hugo Boyer:
  FAB online: a web interface for the machinist; follow up on his presentation at Montreal Python 4.
  
  
• Philippe Chretien:
  Python and Bluetooth.
  
  
• Tristan Matthews:
  Video4linux, osc, and chuck.
  
  

update: we also had a last minute presenter:

• Joseph Turian:
  Machine Learning using Theano, An optimizing compiler in Python
  
  

– Yannick Gingras

We have the pleasure to announce that Montreal Python 5 will be on
2009-02-26 at La Banque.

The main presentation will be Alexandre Vassalotti on Porting your
Code to Python 3:

Python 3, also colloquially known as Python 3000, is now out for
general use. Unfortunately, its usage is limited since only a few
libraries are currently compatible with Python 3. In this
presentation, you will learn a straightforward process for migrating
Python code and the common difficulties related to the
transition. In addition, an overview of the new features brought by
Python 3 will be described with practical examples. Finally,
upcoming changes and features in Python 2.7 and 3.1 will be
presented.

Alexandre Vassalotti is a contributing Python core developer and a
computer science student at McGill University. He was a successful
participant of Google Summer of Code 2007, for which he worked on
the different aspects of Python 3.0.

The main presentation should be from 45 to 60 minutes. Before the main
presentation, there will be a few flash (5 mins) presentation. We
still have open spots for the flash presentation so don’t hesitate to
send us your idea for a flash presentation.

La Banque is located at 175 Roy. See you there.

– Yannick Gingras