The Central Ohio Python User's Group

About Us

We are a friendly and enthusiastic group of Central Ohio Pythonistas. We meet most Thursday evenings for informal dojos, occasionally for lunch on various days of the week, and have a monthly meeting usually on the last Monday of the month. To have lunch at your favorite place, announce the time and place on the mailing list.

After our monthly meetings we like to adjourn to some nearby eatery to enjoy good food, good drinks, and good conversation.

Visit us on meetup.com

We have code on our github repository, especially of challenges where people solved problems using Python in very different ways.

Monthly Meetings

Usually on last Monday of each month.

  • 6:00 pm to 6:30 pm: eat, socialize
  • 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm: announcements and introductions then presentations
  • 8:00 pm hard stop for presentations
  • 8:00 pm adjourn to some nearby eatery

Dojos

We meet most Thursday evenings:

  • from around 6pm
  • to around 8pm in person at Smokehouse Brewing Company,
  • and online at Gather Town.

Dojos are informal Python group study sessions where everyone interested in Python gathers to learn about Python, help others with Python, or just hang out. Everyone interested in Python from complete beginners, to experts, and everyone in between are welcome to the Dojos. Bring your Python questions and problems. Digressions from Python are common.

in person

We meet in person at:
Smokehouse Brewing Company
1130 Dublin Rd
Columbus, OH 43215
map (was formerly Barley's Smokehouse)
  • When you arrive, ask the greeter to seat you in the back with the Python folks.
  • Please bring your laptop and power supply. Power strips will be available.
  • Smokehouse Brewing currently closes at 8:00 p.m. so we need to pay our bills by then. We will need to be out of the building by 8:30 p.m.
  • We will attempt to connect to our Gather on-line meeting site so folks from out of town and others can still participate.

online

Gather supports multiple conversations, so it is good for socializing with side conversations. No registration is required to use Gather and there's nothing to install or download to use Gather. The only software you need to use Gather with is a Chrome or Firefox browser. See Gather help for details on Gather.

November Monthly Meeting

November 29, 2021, 6:00 p.m.

We will be meeting online at Gather. Pay attention to the Everyone chat in Gather for guidelines as the meeting progresses.

At our November monthly meeting Jeff Allman will provide a presentation about getting started with testing in Python. We will see an overview of:

  • Why we would want to test.
  • How to use the builtin unittest library.
  • Why we might want to use the pytest package
  • How we can test web pages using Selenium library.

6:00 p.m.: Socialize, eat, and drink (your own food and beverages).

6:30 p.m.: Announcements followed by presentations

8:00 p.m.: Hard Stop for presentations; resume socializing.

Gather supports multiple conversations, so it is good for socializing with side conversations. No registration is required to use Gather and there's nothing to install or download to use Gather. The only software you need to use Gather with is a Chrome or Firefox browser. See documentation for details on Gather.

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