You get to learn about:
- Using Python to compute gravitational positions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGVBo6JJa6M
- Using Python to devise trading strategies to beat S&P 500: https://us.pycon.org/2016/schedule/presentation/1697/
- Using Python to do advance statistics: https://us.pycon.org/2016/schedule/presentation/1576/
- Using the dynamic features of Python in code real time to debug hard problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XvAVgcbmdY
And many such diverse areas, even though you might be just toiling away to store and obtain some data in a database. Opens up horizons and makes you feel empowered.
On the other hand, some other programming communities are too obsessed with their testing frameworks and task runners.
Who cares what language communities obsess over what?
Snark ruins otherwise informative posts.
There are plenty of cars (programming languages) with varied priorities. Identifying and labelling them is very useful in context to make ones own calls.
Also a lot of the power of Python comes from the extensive ecosystem, so the fact that certain domain problems are made easy in Python is itself an achievement of the language.
The closing keynote had everyone very excited. It's a beautiful talk about music, programming, biking, and life:
Full abstracts for the talks are available at - https://us.pycon.org/2016/schedule/talks/list/
Accompanying slides will be available here soon - https://speakerdeck.com/pycon2016
*Currently blocked by a bug in Speaker Deck [ticket filed]. As a workaround in the meantime, you can access several decks from Google's cache by copying a URL from here, then searching it prefaced by "cache:".
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?client=safari&r...
