James Tauber : Python

Python is my programming language of choice. I've been using it since 1998.

I am a member of the Python Software Foundation and previously served on its Board of Directors. In 2007 and 2008, I was the organizational administrator for the Python Software Foundation's projects in the Summer of Code.

I've given numerous Python-related talks from local meetups to keynoting PyCon Taiwan in Jun 2012.

I develop a lot of open source software in Python, notably Pinax and various other projects such as Sebastian, a music composition system; czerny, a music performance assessment system; ApplePy, an Apple II emulator in Python; and Rev, an exploration of git-like versioning ideas for generic Python data structures.

I was previously started projects such as Leonardo, pyjamas and Redfoot.

I used to blog a lot about Python and here are list of posts:

Pages in this category

Enumerating the Rationals in Python

Posted July 1, 2004; Updated Feb. 8, 2005

Leonardo 0.4.0 Released

Posted Jan. 2, 2005; Updated Feb. 8, 2005

Leonardo 0.4.1 Released

Posted Jan. 7, 2005; Updated Feb. 8, 2005

Sebastian

Posted Feb. 8, 2005; Updated Oct. 22, 2009

Testing For Directories Outside the Tree

Posted May 24, 2005

Finding Dependencies in Tabular Data

Posted May 26, 2005

Finding Dependencies in Tabular Data, Part 2

Posted May 27, 2005

Leonardo 0.6.0 Released

Posted June 1, 2005

Mentoring the Summer of Code

Posted June 7, 2005; Updated June 30, 2005

Leonardo 0.6.1 Released

Posted June 9, 2005

Summer of Code Kick-off

Posted July 1, 2005

Simulating Mechanical Clock Movement

Posted July 8, 2005

Leonardo 0.6.2 Released

Posted July 9, 2005

Isometric Games in Python

Posted July 10, 2005

Summer of Code Blogs

Posted July 12, 2005

Indexing Time

Posted July 19, 2005

Leonardo and Atom 1.0

Posted July 23, 2005

Sorting in Python with Identical Comparison Keys

Posted Aug. 2, 2005

Using Simulated Annealing to Order Goal Prerequisites

Posted Aug. 3, 2005

Ordering Goals Rather Than Prerequisites

Posted Aug. 3, 2005

Python Slice Questions

Posted Aug. 17, 2005

Demokritos and Leonardo

Posted Oct. 8, 2005

Working on atompub-protocol-06

Posted Nov. 8, 2005

Relational Python

Posted Nov. 9, 2005

Relational Python: Basic class for relations

Posted Nov. 9, 2005

Relational Python: Displaying Relations

Posted Nov. 11, 2005

Using Python Coroutines for AJAX Applications

Posted Nov. 13, 2005

Relational Python: Projection

Posted Nov. 17, 2005

Atom (and Demokritos) Status

Posted Nov. 21, 2005

Demokritos 0.1.0 Released

Posted Nov. 29, 2005

Relational Python: Restrict

Posted Nov. 29, 2005

Leonardo 0.7 beta 1 Released

Posted Dec. 6, 2005

Contributing to Open Source Python Projects

Posted Dec. 26, 2005

Proof that Python Programmers are Smarter

Posted Jan. 13, 2006; Updated Jan. 21, 2006

Demokritos 0.2.0 Released

Posted Jan. 14, 2006

Subversion as a Persistence Layer

Posted Jan. 21, 2006; Updated Feb. 8, 2006

Implementing the Unicode Collation Algorithm in Python

Posted Jan. 22, 2006

Python Web Frameworks and REST

Posted Jan. 25, 2006; Updated Feb. 9, 2006

Python Unicode Collation Algorithm

Posted Jan. 27, 2006; Updated June 21, 2012

Python Subversion Binding

Posted Feb. 8, 2006

Using the Python Subversion Binding

Posted Feb. 8, 2006

Pyworks Common Library and Import Issues

Posted Feb. 9, 2006; Updated Feb. 15, 2006

Bug Fix to Python Unicode Collation Algorithm

Posted Feb. 12, 2006; Updated June 21, 2012

First Pass of Demokritos Persistence Done

Posted Feb. 15, 2006

Are Absolute Imports Available in Python 2.4 or Not?

Posted Feb. 15, 2006

Thank You Daily Python-URL

Posted Feb. 16, 2006

Demokritos 0.3.0 Released

Posted Feb. 28, 2006; Updated March 1, 2006

Demokritos 0.3.5 Released

Posted March 1, 2006

brainf

Posted March 1, 2006

Demokritos 0.3.7 Released

Posted March 8, 2006

Leonardo 0.7.0 Released

Posted March 17, 2006

Python Tuples are Not Just Constant Lists

Posted April 15, 2006; Updated Nov. 22, 2011

Summer of Code 2006

Posted April 28, 2006

Summer of Code

Posted May 12, 2006

Python Templates

Posted May 13, 2006; Updated May 19, 2006

Python Equivalent to Google Web Toolkit

Posted May 17, 2006; Updated May 24, 2006

Primitive Python Version of GWT Working

Posted May 24, 2006; Updated May 26, 2006

Summer of Code Projects Announced

Posted May 25, 2006

pyjamas Update

Posted May 27, 2006

Update: pyjamas

Posted July 5, 2006

Pyjamas Now Supports Browser-Specific Code

Posted Aug. 19, 2006

Pyjamas Progress

Posted Oct. 28, 2006

PyCon Submission on Pyjamas

Posted Nov. 1, 2006

Pyjamas 0.1 Released

Posted Nov. 6, 2006

Quisition Going Django

Posted Nov. 15, 2006

Incompatible SQLite in OS X and Python

Posted Nov. 25, 2006

PyCon Submission Rejected

Posted Nov. 29, 2006; Updated Nov. 30, 2006

Quisition Almost Ready for Deployment

Posted Jan. 20, 2007

Going to PyCon

Posted Feb. 3, 2007

Quisition Launched

Posted Feb. 5, 2007

Economics, Computational Neuroscience and Differential Geometry

Posted Feb. 17, 2007

Off to PyCon

Posted Feb. 22, 2007

One Laptop Per Child, Python (and Cleese)

Posted Feb. 23, 2007

PyCon Web Panel

Posted Feb. 23, 2007

Interfaces versus Abstract Base Classes in Python

Posted March 4, 2007

How to be a Python Mentor in the Google Summer of Code

Posted March 11, 2007

Generating the Hex Digits of Pi

Posted March 14, 2007

Python Software Foundation Accepted into Google Summer of Code

Posted March 15, 2007

Python Primality Regex

Posted March 18, 2007; Updated March 19, 2007

Cleese

Posted March 30, 2007; Updated Nov. 25, 2011

Python at the Google Summer of Code

Posted April 12, 2007

Introducing PotterPredictions.com

Posted July 10, 2007

Atom Format Support Pretty Much Done

Posted July 31, 2007; Updated Aug. 1, 2007

django-atompub

Posted Aug. 9, 2007

Django Sprint

Posted Sept. 14, 2007

Demokritos and django-atompub

Posted Sept. 15, 2007

Distance and Checksum Algorithms on Lists

Posted Nov. 10, 2007

Numerical Representation of Pitch

Posted Dec. 13, 2007; Updated Dec. 14, 2007

Avoiding Recursion

Posted Dec. 15, 2007

Evolution of Default Dictionaries in Python

Posted Feb. 27, 2008

Another Dictionary Trick

Posted Feb. 27, 2008

Google Summer of Code 2008

Posted Feb. 27, 2008

PyCon

Posted March 11, 2008

PyCon Update

Posted March 14, 2008

Documentation Can Speed Up Your Code

Posted March 25, 2008; Updated March 26, 2008

Thunks, Trampolines and Continuation Passing

Posted March 30, 2008

Game Neverending in Django

Posted April 6, 2008; Updated April 14, 2008

Python Software Foundation

Posted April 28, 2008

Factoring Out Common Args To Zipped Generators

Posted May 2, 2008; Updated May 3, 2008

Creating Gradients Programmatically in Python

Posted May 18, 2008

Two Podcast Interviews

Posted June 4, 2008

My Talk on Pinax at DjangoCon

Posted Sept. 16, 2008

Why 13th Chords

Posted Sept. 23, 2008; Updated Jan. 1, 2012

London Python Meetup and FOWA

Posted Oct. 8, 2008

HSL Gradients

Posted Oct. 18, 2008

Guinea Pigs, Karaoke Machines and Minimum Sample Size

Posted Oct. 18, 2008

Pinax 0.5.0 Released

Posted Oct. 28, 2008

Two Fun(ctional) Questions

Posted Nov. 1, 2008

Python's re.DEBUG Flag

Posted Nov. 3, 2008

Voronoi Diagrams

Posted Nov. 7, 2008

More Questions on the Path to Combinatory Python

Posted Nov. 20, 2008

Relations with Python Named Tuples

Posted Nov. 21, 2008

First Success With Combinatory Python

Posted Nov. 22, 2008

Church Encoding in Python

Posted Nov. 26, 2008

Thoughts On A New Language

Posted Nov. 28, 2008

Bayesian Classification of Pages on This Site

Posted Nov. 29, 2008

Pinax 0.5.1 Out

Posted Jan. 10, 2009

Moving to Distutils

Posted Jan. 31, 2009

Conference Time

Posted Feb. 5, 2010

Open Source Project: Czerny

Posted July 19, 2010

Open Source Project: Pinax

Posted July 21, 2010

Open Source Project: Rel

Posted July 22, 2010

Open Source Project: gyt

Posted July 23, 2010

Rebasing MorphGNT off SBLGNT

Posted Jan. 18, 2011

ApplePy Now On GitHub

Posted Aug. 6, 2011

Julython 2012 First Week

Posted July 8, 2012