[GNHLUG] PySIG next week - "Neapolitan Nite"

Bill Sconce sconce at in-spec-inc.com
Sat Apr 21 16:22:38 EDT 2007


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PySIG - Neapolitan Nite                                    26 April 2007
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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!

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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!)

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Neapolitan Nite - a flavor for everyone
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    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:
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o Our usual roundtable of introductions, happenings, and 
  announcements.  
o Gotcha contest - bring your favorite "gotcha"

And of course, milk & cookies...
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6:30 Beginners' Q&A
7:00 Welcome, Announcements - Bill & Ted & Alex
7:10 Milk & Cookies - <your name here>, 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)


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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

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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.

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