[Chicago] Sympy for Python 3 ???

Wed Sep 30 04:31:31 CEST 2015

Doug,

I strongly recommend that you make time to come to some events. One of
biggest strengths of Python is the amazing community behind it.  I know
that there are events on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday every
month. I think that you will find the Chicago group to be extremely
friendly and helpful. It is a great group of people to know if you are
looking at getting into professional Python development in Chicago post
graduation.

Regards,
Will

--
William Clemens
Phone: 847.485.9455
E-mail: wesclemens at gmail.com

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 8:56 PM, Lewit, Douglas <d-lewit at neiu.edu> wrote:

> Hi Joshua,
>
> My first name is Doug or Douglas, NOT Lewit!!!!  LOL!!!!
>
> It seems like Project Night is usually on a Thursday night, right?  Right
> now my Thursday nights look a little busy.  Although I would probably learn
> more from Project Night than my Informatics professor, but.... he's got that*
> PhD*, and I guess those three magic letters means he knows everything
> about computer science, right?   :-)
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Joshua Herman <zitterbewegung at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear lewit,
>> When do you have time to go to events like project nights in general ? Do
>> you live on campus all of the time? What about going on a weekend or during
>> winter break?
>> Sincerely
>> Joshua herman
>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 8:05 PM Lewit, Douglas <d-lewit at neiu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Exactly!  I'm a little nervous about changing my $PATH variable because
>>> I'm definitely NOT a Unix administrator!  I mean.... I know the basics,
>>> like cd, cp, mv, ls, ls -ld -- */, ls | wc -l, and some other cool stuff.
>>> But changing $PATH is a little scary to me!  On the rare occasion when I do
>>> that stuff, I always use Emacs as my text editor.  The great thing about
>>> Emacs is that when you edit a file, Emacs saves the original with a tilde
>>> following the name of the file.  So if I want to edit bash.rc I end up with
>>> bash.rc and bash.rc~.  If I totally screwed up bash.rc, then I just do this:
>>>
>>> mv bash.rc~ bash.rc
>>>
>>> That restores the previous bash.rc file.  It overwrites the messed up
>>> file with the original correct file.  BUT in general I'm very nervous about
>>> doing system changes like that.  I tried doing a dual boot of Ubuntu and
>>> Kali Linux a while back.  Big mistake!!!!  I mistakenly deleted the grub
>>> file and then I was really SCREWED!!!!  I had to do a fresh install of
>>> Ubuntu on my hard drive.  That wasn't fun!  (Ubuntu is pretty easy to
>>> install.  Kali Linux is NOT easy to install unless you know a lot about
>>> networking, protocols, and other stuff that is currently beyond my
>>> knowledge of modern computation.)
>>>
>>> I would love to attend a Python Project Night.  The problem is that
>>> those are always scheduled for a Thursday night.  That's when I have my
>>> Informatics class.  And since the class meets up once a week, missing a
>>> class for Python Project Night is probably not a smart move on my part.
>>>
>>> Oh hey there Safia!  Thanks for writing.  Much appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 1:57 PM, William E. S. Clemens <
>>> wesclemens at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Os.chdir( ) is not what your looking for you need to add the path for
>>>> your Anaconda packages to the sys.path list. That being said its generally
>>>> not a good idea to mess with sys.path unless you know what your doing. It
>>>> will almost surely break your code portability.
>>>>
>>>> If you need help setting up Python I would suggest that you go to
>>>> Project Night. They are a great group of people and I'm sure they would be
>>>> more then happy to get you started down the right path.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.meetup.com/ChicagoPythonistas/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> William Clemens
>>>> Phone: 847.485.9455
>>>> E-mail: wesclemens at gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Joshua Herman <
>>>> zitterbewegung at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> How do people generally learn python? I think I have progressed in the
>>>>> following manner.
>>>>> 0. Don't know what python is (First experience was from Carl Karsten
>>>>> telling me the general syntax rules.
>>>>> 1. Start by using python script on the command line
>>>>> 2. Play with IDLE / other IDEs/ Scripting
>>>>> 4. Use python at school at the compbio laboratory and Alcatel Lucen
>>>>> 5. Learn what virtualenv is and make them
>>>>> 6. Learn what ipython is and use ipython
>>>>> 7. Play with anaconda
>>>>> 8. I am here
>>>>>
>>>>> Python is generally batteries included. Should ipython be a better
>>>>> starting point for people who install python? I think more scientific/
>>>>> financial oriented people are doing the following.
>>>>> 1. Get exposed to python to apply to work
>>>>> 2. Use ipython by installing using anaconda and use it in a browser?
>>>>> possibly you don't even have a local install of python .
>>>>> Now the person's goals will cause them to make a decision.
>>>>> ?. Start by using python script on the command line
>>>>> ?. Play with IDLE / other IDEs/ Scripting
>>>>> ?. Learn what virtualenv is and make them
>>>>> ?. Do web development
>>>>>
>>>>> I think that if more people are doing the second path maybe we should
>>>>> introduce python the second way instead of the first. For one reason
>>>>> setting up ipython or some notebook interface on some cloud server is
>>>>> probably going to become more common. The first way that people seem to
>>>>> learn python takes much more steps to do interesting things and once a
>>>>> person is hooked on python then they can learn the other steps.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:16 PM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Lewit, Douglas <d-lewit at neiu.edu>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think my answer was way too long!  Sorry!  Just trying to explain
>>>>>>> what's going on.  I just wish there was a way that I could get IDLE to
>>>>>>> access all the modules that Anaconda can access.  Not really sure how to do
>>>>>>> it without tearing apart my operating system.  (And I really don't want to
>>>>>>> do that! )  I must say
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is where the google it answer is helpful. A lot of times I'll
>>>>>> have a question like this and will google and see some related stack
>>>>>> overflow questions among other things. For this case I googled: using idle
>>>>>> in anaconda
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That pulled up a mailing list discussion on the anaconda mailing
>>>>>> list. It's an interesting thread, and you can see the devs saying that IDLE
>>>>>> should be given better support. So that is nice for you to hear.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://groups.google.com/a/continuum.io/d/msg/anaconda/Dr8xFdKbA20/MWvhTO4KF8wJ
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The stack overflow response is
>>>>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26047185/import-anaconda-packages-to-idle
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Someone had the same problem you did. Try out the answer. It involves
>>>>>> changing PATH, which is a normal kind of thing to do in an OS, and you
>>>>>> won't need to worry about ripping apart your operating system. I don't know
>>>>>> if the answer works, but it something to try.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> shekay at pobox.com
>>>>>>
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