The meetup started with Shreyas setting the context. He gave a short presentation on what a meet-up is, and what is it not, and what to expect. After that we went in for the talks.
The first talk was Environment for a Python Dev by Dinesh Kumar He talked about setting-up and using a working environment for python development using various tools an libraries. He covered the following:
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How code with
printcould break in Python 3, pyenv shell can help change python versions. And how it also helps with library dependencies. -
How provisioning tools like Ansible can be used along with pyenv to help setup project dependencies.
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On how to do build and tests, and use tests as documentation
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On choices for linters and style checkers: Pylink, Pep8, pyflakes
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And about how to use PYVERBOSE
The second talk was on Algorithmic analysis and Time complexity in Python by Ashok Govindarajan. This talk was about:
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Measuring the execution time of algorithms in Python - simple addition program
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Big O Notation
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Time complexity of Python Operations.
Slides here: https://www.slideshare.net/secret/qA2HuxRkemDYgg
Then we all stepped out for a coffee break.
The next talk was on Debugging the easy way with python debugger by Gaurav Sehrawat. This talk covered the essentials of using pdb - the Python debugger. It went into various ways of invoking pdb, and a more sophisticated alternative called pdgpp. The speaker also went into a demo of the debugging session using an encryption program.
After that we had a few lightening talks:
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Venkatesh talked about an attendance management system he had worked on
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Sharmila talked about additions to environment using the Conda project.
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Shreyas talked about tech-communitiy's behaviour towards open source leaders.
With that, and a group photo, the meet-up came to an end.
Credits
Thanks to Babu for the beautiful photos. And thanks to Abhishek Yadav for the meeting minutes.
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