From: Bill Sconce Subject: [Python-talk] PySIG next week - "Neapolitan Nite" Date: Saturday, April 21, 2007 04:25:41 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PySIG - Neapolitan Nite 26 April 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ o PySIG next week! Once again at the Amoskeag Business Incubator, with our continuing thanks to the folks at ABI and SNHU o We have an olio of topics this month, with something for everyone. 1. Python data types - an introduction and dissection 2. Module of the Month - the tarfile module 3. Kent's Korner - iterators and generator expressions (woot!) Plus the usual roundtable of happenings, announcements, and crunching of cookies. To wit: o After a week and a half of suspense I have been informed that there will be cookies. The recipe is under investigation, with several potential candidates. One is "Good Luck Chinese Almond Cookies", from "The Bordello Cookbook" (by Jo Foxworth, Moyer Bell press 1997, ISBN 1-55921-176-8). YMMV. o Have we a volunteer for milk? (Probably should be someone who's coming to the meeting, although we can't afford to be picky... :) o See you on Thursday! ___________________________________________________________________ PySIG -- New Hampshire Python Special Interest Group Amoskeag Business Incubator, Manchester, NH 26 April 2007 (4th Thursday) 7:00PM The monthly meeting of PySIG, the NH Python Special Interest Group, takes place fourth Thursdays, starting at 7:00 PM. Beginners' session precedes at 6:30 PM. (Bring a Python question!) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Neapolitan Nite - a flavor for everyone ------------------------------------------------------------------- Partly on purpose, April's meeting will include a topic from each of three categories.. Python data types - Bill Sconce Introductory, plus comparisons and contrasts, including with other languages, per request from last month's meeting Module of the Month - Shawn O'Shea tarfile Shawn offered to do this, having recently put it to use in his day job. My own (Bill) experience has repeatedly been that discovering the module, provided with Python's "batteries included" standard library, which does all that nasty stuff which you were about to write for yourself, is often an experience of breathless "it CAN'T be this good". But it is... and it's the heart of what "Pythonic" means. Kent's Korner - Kent Johnson Iterators and generator expressions "Kent's Korner" is the heavy lifting of many of our PySIG meetings. Generator expressions! This is the real stuff... Plus: ------------------------------------------------------------------- o Our usual roundtable of introductions, happenings, and announcements. o Gotcha contest - bring your favorite "gotcha" And of course, milk & cookies... ------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:30 Beginners' Q&A 7:00 Welcome, Announcements - Bill & Ted & Alex 7:10 Milk & Cookies - , Janet 7:15 Python discussions begin - see above 9:00 Adjourn (and we make it sometimes; sometimes coffee conversations continue for a while, now that Alex has a subscriber's key to the restroom) ___________________________________________________________________ About PySIG: PySIG meetings are typically 10-20 people, around a large table equipped with a projector, power, and Internet hookup (wired and wireless). We encourage laptops and hands-on; seminar style. The main meeting starts at 7 PM; officially we finish circa 9 PM. Everyone is welcome. ("Membership" is anyone who has an interest in the Python progamming language, whether on Microsoft systems, Linux, or mainframes. We have everyone from object-oriented gurus to recovering COBOL programmers.) Tell your friends! Beginners' session: The half hour before the formal meeting (i.e., starting at 6:30PM) we have a beginners' session. Any Python question is welcome -- whoever asks the first question gets the half hour! Questions are equally welcome by mail beforehand (in which case we can announce them) or at the meeting. (As are all Python questions, anytime.) Mailing list: http://www.dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/python-talk About Python: "Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days. Many Python programmers report substantial productivity gains and feel the language encourages the development of higher quality, more maintainable code." "NASA uses Python...so does Rackspace, Industrial Light&Magic, AstraZeneca, Honeywell, and many others." Google: "Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves." -Peter Norvig http://www.python.org About Amoskeag Business Incubator: Our gracious hosts are the Amoskeag Business Incubator, an organization providing a supportive entrepreneurial environment that stimulates the growth of businesses to ensure economic vitality and encourage job creation, by providing affordable office space and technical assistance to early stage companies. PySIG thanks the ABI for their generous hospitality. http://www.abi-nh.com _______________________________________________________________________ Directions (thanks to Ted Roche for improvements to "from the north"): PySIG NH meetings are held at the Amoskeag Business Incubator, 33 South Commercial Street, Manchester, NH. Coming in to Manchester using I-293, from the north: o Use Exit 6 from I-293. Stay to the right on the ramp, yield twice to traffic incoming from the left, cross back over I-293 and accept one merge coming in from your right. o Then get in the right lane, and stay there, over the river, and onto the Canal Street exit ramp. o Take the first right off Canal Street onto North Commercial Street. Enjoy the scenic mill buildings as the street turns into Commercial Street. o Coming to the traffic light get in the middle lane. South Commercial Street starts on the other side of the light. You go straight through (and join the folks coming from the south at step * below). Coming in to Manchester using I-293, from the south: o Use the Granite Street exit. Turn right (east). Go under I-293 and cross the bridge over the Merrimack River. o Turn right (south) at the first light after crossing the bridge. * This is South Commercial Street. Go past one parking-lot entrance, turn right into the second one. 33 Commercial Street will be right in front of you. You may go in via either the ramp or the door and three steps inside. o Inside. Up the stairs if via the door. Go through the glass doors - follow the diamonds on the floor. Go left at the last diamond. (Under a sign which says "<- Amoskeag Small Bus. Incubator"). o More diamonds, another sign... much glass and office space for SNHU; turn left there, 4 more diamonds and you're at the glass doors for the Incubator. An "abi" sign is above. o Through the doors, straight down the hall. The ABI Conference Room is on the left. ________________________________________________________________________ $URL: svn://svn.in-spec-inc.com/isi/trunk/isi/opages/pysig.announcement $ $Id: pysig.announcement 935 2007-04-21 20:19:53Z sconce $ $Rev: 935 $ _______________________________________________ Python-talk mailing list Python-talk@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/python-talk