Interested in learning about Python, meeting other people behind tech startups, or just working into the night with friends? Check out our roundup of technology events in Washington, DC this week, and check out that full event calendar over at DC Tech Events.

Monday, January 21

8:45 pm

DC Nightowls Co-Working Group : Interested in brainstorming, bouncing ideas, hacking, or just working late night? Check out this meetup to get some work done and meet other productive people.

Tuesday, January 22

6:30 pm

DC Lean Startup Circle Meetup : Folks from local startups like UmbaBox, mphoria, and HelloWallet will talk about their strategies for reaching out to new customers and keeping them on board at this meetup.

7:00 pm

DC jQuery Meetup : This month the DC jQuery group is teaming up with the Selenium meetup to talk about testing suites like Jasmine and others.

Thursday, January 26

6:30 pm

Refresh DC : Want to learn more about what services are offered in the cloud, and what all the hype is about? Check out this month’s meetup for an introduction.

Saturday, January 28

11:00 am — 2:00 pm

Python Web Scraping 101 for Journalists : The good folks at the Sunlight Foundation are hosting this hacking how to, introducing the fundamentals of Python using a simple web scraping example. If you’ve been wanting to dive in or hone up on Python, you’ll want to check this out.