Awesome PySIG meeting last night

[Ted Roche]

Ten folks attended the monthly Python Special Interest Group meeting,  
held monthly at the Amoskeag Business Incubator in Manchester.

Ben was harassed.

Announcements were made.

Several Python gotchas were discussed.

Paul Koning demonstrated a remarkable reinvention of the TECO (Tape  
Edit and COrrection system) in Python code. Interesting discussions  
on using a class definition as a dictionary to invoke single- and  
double-letter commands, even those not allowed as method names. Why  
exceptions are exceptional. Using wxPython to create a GUI screen for  
TECO like the PDP-11 VDT peripherals.

The bang-up finale was running pi.tec - an inscrutable TECO macro  
that calculates Pi one digit at a time - to demonstrate his TECO  
compliance. Amazing. Regulars noted it ran much faster on Paul's  
laptop than it used to on a PDP-11, too.

Next Month's meeting is May 25th and Ray Cote may demonstrate a  
recent application he's developed in Python. Stay tuned for details.

Ted Roche
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