Here's my notes on Pycon this year. I'm going to throw out a collection of links that may or may not be useful to you. If you weren't able to make the conference, hopefully this list contains a link or two that are new or interesting to you.

  • elasticwulf slides)
  • ipython1 is a branch of ipython for running parallel jobs.
  • elasticwulf is a set of python tools for controlling beowulf clusters on ec2.
  • mpi4py is python bindings for mpi.
  • http://del.icio.us/tag/ec2+gotcha )
  • pyke is an expert system written in python. (Attempt at rewriting prolog in python?)
  • gdata-python-client provides tools for reading/writing google data from python (programatically update spreadsheets, etc)
  • Firefox EC2 Extension allows one to interact with ec2 instances from a browser.
  • s3organizer extension allows one to interact with s3 from a browser.
  • boto is a python interface to amazon's webservices, s3, ec2, etc.
  • paramiko for scripting ssh sessions with ec2 instances.
  • Normal accident theory if you call echo "">/dev/null on too many instances they will crash!?!?
  • Trestle is a nose plugin for writing doctest like tests for webapps.
  • Thrift is RPC for facebook (NIH). It has python bindings.
  • haufe.eggserver allows for local pypi repositories. Could be useful when building your projects that depend on wheels that are constantly moving.
  • Python metaweb/freebase client code allows for querying the metaweb online database (like wikipedia, but graph based).
  • Ella is a cms for django that announced their open sourcing? at the conference.
  • Use argparse for parsing command line scripts if you don't mind pulling in one more library and optparse isn't quite doing it for you.
  • Orbited can be used as a comet server (server push instead of client pull).
  • Wiimote head tracking/laser/webcam blog very cool demo code for wiimote head tracking in 3d enviroment and webcam/laser detection in python. (Disclaimer: this is my brother's blog, I've had a small hand in some of this)
  • Traits is an event system for python
  • Five dash is python based open source accounting software (think quickbooks).
  • Geodjango extension to django to help with geospatial data. Jacob said this will go into the trunk soon.
  • Openlayers js library to do googlemaps type interfaces.
  • snpedia allows you to upload your dna and tells you your traits (either good or bad) has a social/wiki aspect to it.
  • geopy allows one to find coordinates of addresses, cities, etc.
  • pvote lightweight (<500 loc) voting engine, that should be easily certified as "secure".
  • TGPPL is a new license that morphs from GPL to BSD overtime. Thought to follow same ideas as IP/Patent protection.
  • pyprocessing is an attempt to get around the GIL by making a library that uses processes that has an interface very similar to the threading interface.
  • pprocess is another GIL hater.