Monday I attended my first Cleveland Area Python Interest Group meeting. There were about 12 people present, although there are about 40 people on the CLEPY google group. Ian Maurer gave a great introduction to jython. I’ve used it to create some custom Ant tasks for Java in the past, so much of it was a good review. The jylluminate module is something new that looks interesting. It provides the introspection capabilities we’re used to in cpython. Jaison Lee gave a presentation on the SCONS build tool. The tool’s strength appears to be it’s hiding of nuances between different target platforms to the build-script maintainer. Think of it as a replacement for make that uses python scripts instead of makefiles. Looking forward to the next meeting.