Awesome PySIG meeting last night

Ted Roche · *nix forums beginner Joined: 28 Apr 2006 Posts: 2

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

Ben Scott · *nix forums beginner Joined: 15 Sep 2005 Posts: 2

On 4/28/06, Ted Roche <tedroche@tedroche.com> wrote:

Ted Roche · *nix forums beginner Joined: 28 Apr 2006 Posts: 2

On Apr 28, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Ben Scott wrote:

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