[omaha] Cool Python tidbits

[Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T]

SAGE
While Working on the nextflix challenge I came across, SAGE - no note
the sysadmin usenix group, not the Firefox rss addon, and not the
account package, but the Software for Algebra and Geometry
Experimentation, http://www.sagemath.org/  .  There have been a couple
of recent articles about it on Network World and /.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/08/1350258

Has anyone tried it out yet?  It didn't seem to look like what I
wanted at the time but I made a bookmark
http://del.icio.us/dundeemt/python to get back to it.

Human Friendly Sorting
The Planet Python feed had an interesting article on "Human Friendly"
sorting, http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200712.html#e20071211T054956
I've done a number of very helpful things with list.sort method by
handing it  a user defined function so that it could sort an array of
objects http://wiki.python.org/moin/HowTo/Sorting#head-e14f7c85c8ba38eb451a659e6f8784eefe2f0b6b
the way I wanted but this type of sort is something that I could use
for another project I'm working on.

PyCon 2008
PyCon is coming up and this year it's being held in Chicago, hosted by
the Chicago Users group (http://chipy.org/)
http://us.pycon.org/2008/about/
The dates are March 14-16, last years conference reg cost was $195
early, $260 normal.  The conference is held from Fri - Sun, with a day
of tutorials (extra $) on the 13 and code sprints from 17 - 20.  I've
always had good experiences at PyCon and have every intention of
making this one.  Anyone else thinking about going?

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Jeff Hinrichs
Dundee Media & Technology, Inc
jeffh at dundeemt.com
402.218.1473