Notes from PySIG, 24-May-2007

[Ted Roche]

Thirteen participants made it to the May meeting of the Python Special
Interest Group of the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group, held as
usual on the fourth Thursday of the month at 7 PM at the Amoskeag
Business Incubator, Manchester, NH.

It was a busy meeting. A quick round of introductions and announcements
was followed by several terrific presentations.

Kent Johnson entertained us with Kent's Korner, this month featuring the
logging module [1]. Simple logging can be implemented in two lines of
code and customized with a third, but the module can be expanded almost
infinitely to include multiple handlers arranged in a hierarchical
fashion with different levels of filtering and multiple output. As
usual, Kent did a fine job of showing simple examples and clearly
building on them.

Bill Sconce decided to defer his second attempt at describing a
hierarchy of data types, a discussion sure to rouse an interesting and
educational debate amongst the participants. Stay tuned for a future
meeting...

Ric Werme made the main presentation on wxPython. He brought the most
extensive handouts we've had today, with an engaging backstory of his
several-decades tinkering with graphing [2] and the Petals of the Rose
patterns. The demo was arresting, and can be downloaded from the links
below. Ric walked us through the wxPython wrapper, explaining the
various widgets used and spoke well of the new wxPython book [3].

Thanks to Ric and Kent for their presentations, to Bill Sconce and Alex
Hewitt for arranging the meeting and facilities, to the Amoskeag
Business Incubator for their hospitality and to all who attended for
their participation!


[1] http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/kk/00005.html
[2] http://wermenh.com/roses/index.html and
http://wermenh.com/roses/wxroses.html
Source: http://wermenh.com/roses/wxroses.py and
http://wermenh.com/roses/clroses.py
[3] http://www.manning.com/rappin/

-- 
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com