Mailman 3 April 2016 - Python-announce-list

The Real-Time Use of Python in Data Science World!
by Anita Goyal March 7, 2020

March 7, 2020

This course will help you to expertise the usage of Python in Data Science world. Carter your Python Knowledge so that it can be utilized to get the Insights of Data using Methodologies and Techniques of Data Science... Objective: Understand the concepts of Data science and Python You will be able to use Python in Discovering Data. You will have an idea of Statistical and Analytical methods to deal with huge data sets. You will gain an expertise on Regular Expressions, looping functions and … [View More]

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EuroPython 2016: Extra Hot Topics - Call for Proposals
by M.-A. Lemburg April 30, 2016

April 30, 2016

The Program work group is happy to announce that there will be an extra Call for Proposals early in June. This call is limited to hot topics and most recent developments in software and technology. Why is there a second call ? ---------------------------- Planning a big conference is a challenge: On one hand people like to know what will be on our talk schedule to make up their mind and make travel arrangements early. On the other hand technology is progressing at the speed of light these … [View More]

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Nikola v7.7.8 is out!
by Chris Warrick April 29, 2016

April 29, 2016

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v7.7.8. It fixes some bugs and adds new features. What is Nikola? =============== Nikola is a static site and blog generator, written in Python. It can use Mako and Jinja2 templates, and input in many popular markup formats, such as reStructuredText and Markdown — and can even turn Jupyter (IPython) Notebooks into blog posts! It also supports image … [View More]

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Leo 5.3-b1 released
by Edward K. Ream April 29, 2016

April 29, 2016

Leo <http://leoeditor.com/> 5.3-b1 is now available on SourceForge <http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/files/Leo/>. Leo is a PIM, an IDE and an outliner. *The highlights of Leo 5.3* - Leo now supports Jupyter Notebook (.ipynb) files. - @chapter is now allowed anywhere. No need for @chapters. - Faster spell checking. - The rst3 command supports @rst-table. - The show-invisibles command now uses native Qt characters. - Dozens of other improvements and bug fixes. *… [View More]Leo is*: - An outliner. Everything in Leo is an outline. - A Personal Information Manager. - A browser with a memory. - A powerful scripting environment. - A tool for studying other people's code. - A fully-featured IDE, with emacs-like commands. - Extensible via a simple plugin architecture. - A tool that plays well with IPython, vim and xemacs. - Written in 100% pure Python - Compatible with Python 2.6 and above or Python 3.0 and above. *Leo's unique features*: - Always-present, persistent, outline structure. - Leo's underlying data is a Directed Acyclic Graph. - Clones create multiple views of an outline. - A simple, powerful, outline-oriented Python API. - Scripts and programs can be composed from outlines. - Importers convert flat text into outlines. - Scripts have full access to all of Leo's sources. - Commands that act on outline structure. Example: the rst3 command converts outlines to reStructuredText. - @test and @suite scripts create unit tests automatically. - @button scripts apply scripts to outline data. - Outline-oriented directives. Simulating these features in vim or Emacs is possible, just as it is possible to simulate Python in assembly language... *Links* - Leo's home page <http://leoeditor.com> - Documentation <http://leoeditor.com/leo_toc.html> - Tutorials <http://leoeditor.com/tutorial.html> - Video tutorials <http://leoeditor.com/screencasts.html> - Forum <http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor> - Download <http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/files/> - Leo on Github <https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor> - What people are saying about Leo <http://leoeditor.com/testimonials.html> - A web page that displays .leo files <http://leoeditor.com/load-leo.html> - More links <http://leoeditor.com/leoLinks.html> Edward ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edward K. Ream: edreamleo(a)gmail.com Leo: http://leoeditor.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [View Less]

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Big World, Big Data, Big Mind : Spark | Scala | Python
by Apporva Jain April 28, 2016

April 28, 2016

Become proficient in both Scala and python to implement programming skills on Apache spark and have independent understanding of all three platforms Objectives: Understand the difference between Apache Spark and Hadoop Learn Scala and its programming implementation Implement Spark on a cluster Write Spark Applications using Python, Java and Scala Understand Module 4-RDD and its operation Learn common Spark Algorithms Define and explain Spark Streaming Execute Pattern Matching in Scala … [View More]

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PyCon JP 2016: Call for Proposals
by Takayuki Shimizukawa April 23, 2016

April 23, 2016

Hi everyone! We will hold PyCon Japan on September 21-22 this year in Tokyo and are looking for talk proposals. We hope to get a wide variety of talk submissions from first time speakers to seasoned veterans of PyCons around the world, so please don’t hesitate to submit your proposal. Please also forward this Call for Proposals to anyone that you feel may be interested. ** https://pycon.jp/2016/en/talks/cfp/ ** Submission deadline is … [View More]

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[ANN] arclib 0.1 released!
by Ryan Gonzalez April 20, 2016

April 20, 2016

I'm happy to announce the very first release of arclib! https://github.com/kirbyfan64/arclib To quote the README: arclib aims at providing a unified API for accessing Python's archive formats. In particular, it provides the following APIs: - Basic, one-shot: For gzip, bzip2, and LZMA. Supports one-shot compression and decompression. - Basic, incremental: For bzip2 and LZMA. Supports incremental compression and decompression. - Complex: For zip and tar. Supports accessing the various members … [View More]

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ANN: Python Meeting Düsseldorf - 27.04.2016
by eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg April 19, 2016

April 19, 2016

[This announcement is in German since it targets a local user group meeting in Düsseldorf, Germany] ________________________________________________________________________ ANKÜNDIGUNG Python Meeting Düsseldorf http://pyddf.de/ Ein Treffen von Python Enthusiasten und Interessierten in ungezwungener Atmosphäre. Dienstag, 27.04.2016, 18:00 Uhr Raum 1, 2.OG im Bürgerhaus Stadtteilzentrum … [View More]Bilk Düsseldorfer Arcaden, Bachstr. 145, 40217 Düsseldorf Diese Nachricht ist auch online verfügbar: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/Python-Meeting-Duesseldorf-2016-04-27 ________________________________________________________________________ NEUIGKEITEN * Bereits angemeldete Vorträge: Matthias Endler "Protector - a Circuit Breaker for Time-Series Databases" Dr. Klaus Bremer "django-autotask" Jens Diemer "PyHardLinkBackup" Tom Engemann "Eine kurze Einführung in Kivy" Johannes Spielmann "Symmetrische Verschlüsselung für alle!" Weitere Vorträge können gerne noch angemeldet werden: info(a)pyddf.de * Startzeit und Ort: Wir treffen uns um 18:00 Uhr im Bürgerhaus in den Düsseldorfer Arcaden. Das Bürgerhaus teilt sich den Eingang mit dem Schwimmbad und befindet sich an der Seite der Tiefgarageneinfahrt der Düsseldorfer Arcaden. Über dem Eingang steht ein großes "Schwimm' in Bilk" Logo. Hinter der Tür direkt links zu den zwei Aufzügen, dann in den 2. Stock hochfahren. Der Eingang zum Raum 1 liegt direkt links, wenn man aus dem Aufzug kommt. Google Street View: http://bit.ly/11sCfiw ________________________________________________________________________ EINLEITUNG Das Python Meeting Düsseldorf ist eine regelmäßige Veranstaltung in Düsseldorf, die sich an Python Begeisterte aus der Region wendet: * http://pyddf.de/ Einen guten Überblick über die Vorträge bietet unser YouTube-Kanal, auf dem wir die Vorträge nach den Meetings veröffentlichen: * http://www.youtube.com/pyddf/ Veranstaltet wird das Meeting von der eGenix.com GmbH, Langenfeld, in Zusammenarbeit mit Clark Consulting & Research, Düsseldorf: * http://www.egenix.com/ * http://www.clark-consulting.eu/ ________________________________________________________________________ PROGRAMM Das Python Meeting Düsseldorf nutzt eine Mischung aus Open Space und Lightning Talks, wobei die Gewitter bei uns auch schon mal 20 Minuten dauern können ;-). Lightning Talks können vorher angemeldet werden, oder auch spontan während des Treffens eingebracht werden. Ein Beamer mit XGA Auflösung steht zur Verfügung. Lightning Talk Anmeldung bitte formlos per EMail an info(a)pyddf.de ________________________________________________________________________ KOSTENBETEILIGUNG Das Python Meeting Düsseldorf wird von Python Nutzern für Python Nutzer veranstaltet. Um die Kosten zumindest teilweise zu refinanzieren, bitten wir die Teilnehmer um einen Beitrag in Höhe von EUR 10,00 inkl. 19% Mwst, Schüler und Studenten zahlen EUR 5,00 inkl. 19% Mwst. Wir möchten alle Teilnehmer bitten, den Betrag in bar mitzubringen. ________________________________________________________________________ ANMELDUNG Da wir nur für ca. 20 Personen Sitzplätze haben, möchten wir bitten, sich per EMail anzumelden. Damit wird keine Verpflichtung eingegangen. Es erleichtert uns allerdings die Planung. Meeting Anmeldung bitte formlos per EMail an info(a)pyddf.de ________________________________________________________________________ WEITERE INFORMATIONEN Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Webseite des Meetings: http://pyddf.de/ Mit freundlichen Grüßen, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Experts (#1, Apr 19 2016) >>> Python Projects, Coaching and Consulting ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> Python Database Interfaces ... http://products.egenix.com/ >>> Plone/Zope Database Interfaces ... http://zope.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: We implement business ideas - efficiently in both time and costs ::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ http://www.malemburg.com/ [View Less]

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Wing IDE 5.1.11 released
by Wingware April 18, 2016

April 18, 2016

Hi, Wingware has released version 5.1.11 of Wing IDE, our cross-platform integrated development environment for the Python programming language. Wing IDE features a professional code editor with vi, emacs, visual studio, and other key bindings, auto-completion, call tips, context-sensitive auto-editing, goto-definition, find uses, refactoring, a powerful debugger, version control, unit testing, search, project management, and many other features. This release includes the following … [View More]

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EuroPython 2016: Schedule online
by M.-A. Lemburg April 16, 2016

April 16, 2016

We are happy to announce the schedule for EuroPython 2016 in Bilbao. The program WG has been working hard trying to fit all the sessions in the last few weeks. With over 180 sessions, over 150 speakers, one day for workshops, 5 days of talks, training, keynotes, lightning talks and open spaces, followed by 2 days of sprints, EuroPython will be one of the most exciting and vibrant Python events this year: *** EuroPython 2016 Schedule *** https://ep2016.europython.eu/p3/schedule/… [View More]

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