The next meeting of BayPIGgies will be Thurs March 11 at 7:30pm. This meeting will have two sessions: A Practical Perspective on Python Performance Jimmy Retzlaff <jimmy@retzlaff.com> Jimmy will discuss a number of lessons learned regarding performance in a relatively large client-server Python application. Concepts including when, what, and how to optimize will be discussed. Technologies including extension modules, Pyrex (http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/), and Psyco (http://psyco.sourceforge.net/) will be briefly compared. The talk will conclude with some thoughts about the potential performance benefits of dynamic typing over static typing. Toying With Python - Highlighting "Keywords" in a Body of HTML Text Danny Yoo <dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> Danny will demonstrate several approaches to solving a "simple" text processing problem including several wrong turns along the way to show what not to do. Both correctness and performance will be important in this problem. The tutorial should briefly cover: brute-force searching, dictionaries, regular expressions, and if we have time, maybe even something like the Aho-Corasick automaton. BayPIGgies meetings are in Stanford, California. For more information and directions, see http://www.baypiggies.net/ Advance notice: The May 13 meeting will have a PyCon trip report from Guido van Rossum and Aahz. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "usenet imitates usenet" --Darkhawk