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What is it?
The Python Study Group is an opportunity to learn, teach and discuss Python with your fellow edXers! Meetings occur once every three weeks and are listed on the engineering calendar.
How does it work?
Usually, a single presenter will put together a talk on a topic of their choosing. It can be anything related to python, including particular libraries or edX-specific patterns and usages. Sometimes we vary the format with things like
We are also actively looking to expand the different types of study group meetings, so if you have an idea please ping the group runner (currently Rebecca Graber (Deactivated) ) on slack.
Who can present?
Newbies, experts, and everyone in between. We especially encourage folks who are newer to python to present, as there is no better way to learn a topic than to teach others. We have also had presentations of the form ‘please help me with this thing I don’t understand,' where one person picked the brain of the assembly on a topic they were struggling with.
Tell me more about presenting
We have put together a handy guide to presenting at PSG: How to PSG (Python Study Group) . If you are interested in presenting, please reach out to Rebecca Graber (Deactivated) in Slack.
Schedule:
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Potential Topics
Older Study Group Sessions
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3/15/18 | Generators |
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4/3/18 | Generator Expressions |
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4/17/18 | Multiple Inheritance |
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5/1/18 | Decorators |
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5/22/18 | Special Methods |
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6/12/18 | Itertools |
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6/26/18 | Py 2 vs. Py 3 |
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7/10/18 | Inheritance |
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7/31/18 | Assignment |
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8/14/18 | Exceptions |
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8/28/18 | Scoping | Bessie Steinberg (Deactivated) | https://github.com/BessieSteinberg/py_study_group/tree/master/scoping |
9/11/18 | Mocking | Bessie Steinberg (Deactivated) |
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9/25/18
| Cancelled due to Hackathon |
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10/9/18 | Callables: a Smorgasbord | Ben Holt (Deactivated) | https://github.com/inventhouse/tutorials/tree/master/PySG-Callables |
10/23/18 | More Fun with Callables! | Bessie Steinberg (Deactivated) | https://github.com/BessieSteinberg/py_study_group/tree/master/callables |
11/6/18 | Decorators | Bessie Steinberg (Deactivated) |
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11/20/18 | Context Managers | Bessie Steinberg (Deactivated) |
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12/4/18 | Python 3 | Troy Sankey |
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12/18/18 | Iterators and Iterables | Bessie Steinberg (Deactivated) |
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1/1/19
| Cancelled due to Work Holiday |
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1/15/19 | Fun with import | Bessie Steinberg (Deactivated) |
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1/29/19 | Cancelled due to Hackathon |
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2/12/19
| Comprehensions
| Ben Holt (Deactivated) | Postponed due to winter storm - get home safely! |
2/26/19
| Comprehensions
| Ben Holt (Deactivated) | Ben sick today, sorry! 😞 |
2019-03-12 | Write a unit test from scratch | Alexander Dusenbery | Unit Testing in edx-platform |
2019-03-26 | Cancelled due to Open edX Conference |
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2019-04-09 | Comprehensions | Ben Holt (Deactivated) | Notes and examples |
2019-04-23
| Factories (Fuzzy text and stuff)
| Rickie Reilly (Deactivated) |
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2019-05-07 |
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2019-05-21 | Debugging, pdb, finding stuff | Alexander Dusenbery |
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2019-06-06 | Assignment Rerun | Bessie Steinberg (Deactivated) |
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2019-06-18 | Factories (Fuzzy text and stuff) | Rickie Reilly (Deactivated) |
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2019-07-02 | Regular Expressions | Christopher Pappas |
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2019-07-16 | DRYer testing (with mixins, ddt, etc.) | Kyle McCormick | https://github.com/kdmccormick/edx-python-study-group |
2019-07-30 | Decorators | Jinder Singh (Deactivated) |
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2019-08-13 | Inheritance | Bessie Steinberg (Deactivated) |
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2019-08-27 | Pickling | Rebecca Graber (Deactivated) |
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2019-09-10 | Which is faster? | Feanil Patel |
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2019-09-24 | Efficient Queries with the Django ORM | Calen Pennington (Deactivated) |
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2019-10-08 | Virtual Env Wrappers | Christopher Pappas |
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2019-10-22 | CLI tools | Rebecca Graber (Deactivated) | Slides |
2019-11-05 | Potpourri | Alexander Dusenbery |
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2019-11-19 | Objects | Kyle McCormick |
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2019-12-03 | Mocking | Christopher Pappas |
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2019-12-17 | Ask me (Ned) anything! | Ned Batchelder (Deactivated) |
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2019-12-31 | NEW YEARS EVE |
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2020-1-14 | Magnets Decorators, how do they work??
| Ben Holt (Deactivated) | https://github.com/inventhouse/tutorials/blob/master/PySG-Decorators/Decorators.ipynb |
2020-1-28 | Scope (and Closures) | Christopher Pappas |
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2020-2-11 | CANCELLED: HACKATHON |
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2020-2-25 | Parse time vs run time evaluation | Rebecca Graber (Deactivated) |
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2020-3-10 | Strings underneath the hood | Christopher Pappas |
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2020-3-31 | Type Hints | Jinder Singh (Deactivated) |
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2020-4-21 | Django Shell and observing DB stuff | Christopher Pappas |
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2020-5-12 | Fooling Algolia With Delegators: A Case Study | Rebecca Graber (Deactivated) | https://tinyurl.com/y77osnqd |
2020-06-01 | String formatting | Juliana Kang | https://github.com/julianajlk/study/blob/master/PSG_formatstring.ipynb |
2020-06-23 | Python Governance | Jinder Singh (Deactivated) |
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2020-07-14 | Django at 20,000 Feet | Nathan Sprenkle | Slides, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nNptxD164HRsd4OFl7y1KohQekakeVMP/view?usp=sharing |
2020-08-03 | Decorators | Emma Green (Deactivated) | https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fm99xIpQVU2u4AMtimazH8AXyfHMjwkn0Jvy-acvYAo/edit?usp=sharing |
2020-08-25 | Role-based access control, JWTs, and how to live your best life in 2020 (w.r.t. to Django view AuthN/Z). | Alexander Dusenbery | https://github.com/edx/edx-rbac https://github.com/iloveagent57/edx_rbac_demo demonstrates how to make use of edx-rbac in a toy IDA that can get a JWT from the devstack LMS. |
2020-09-15 | Decorators part 2 | Emma Green (Deactivated) | zoom_0.mp4https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nLdb6dZO6JRQTG49s82_aAIqtVgZlK9r_0XiAt-SsdE/edit?usp=sharing |
2020-10-06 | "What does that do?" – Interesting Python snippets from edX repositories | Kyle McCormick | recording |
2020-10-27 | Closures (and more!) | Tim McCormack | Jupyter notebook dump: https://gist.github.com/timmc-edx/adb53ef9409233fcb3573b5e1e2c1b1c https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k2qsiiKuSqSocM8u0Eh6SwGw3MP6TrkX/view?usp=sharing |
2020-11-17 | Context Managers | Rebecca Graber (Deactivated) | Jupyter notebook:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B8z1XJofd6PRqhCI011Q6CLxcQHNHxOM/view?usp=sharing |
2020-12-08 | Multithreading | Diane Kaplan (Deactivated) | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UCX-8h8Ob64BQcjkLf1GWysx7IPtJNA5/view?usp=sharing |
Topic Ideas:
Is there something in python that seems like magic? Is there a topic you wish you knew more about? Add it to the list! You don't have to present it, but it's helpful to have a list to pull from.
decorators
context managers
py2 vs. py3
Bultin vs. local
mocking
descriptors
pdb and other debuggers
spying & advanced mocking (ex. called with correct args)
testing
generators
generator comprehensions and list comprehensions
iterators/iterables
write a new unit test from scratch / from the code base
installing dependeces / set up tools "whole ecosystem of crap that you need to use python"
regular expressions
pickle: And it's three fatal flaws! SPOOKY!
setup.py
modules and imports; how to import modules; import statements
Random library
venv wrappers
Objects
Lambdas
Writing command-line tools
Jupyter
Xonsh
Context managers
Parse time vs run time evaluation
Sad that Python Study Group is only every three weeks?
Head over to Frontend Study Group and Arch Study Group!