Twenty Second Meeting, Tuesday January 8, 2008

Again, a few new people showed up. Mike Mueller gave a presentation about the use of Python for a coupled simulation model. The following look at the model's source code triggered an interesting discussion about coding styles. The Python newbees were introduced to PEP8. But also the ones that use Python for longer could learn something new.

The next meeting will be on February 12th, 2008.

Maik Derstappen will give a persentation about Plone.

Twenty Third Meeting, Tuesday February 12, 2008

Maik Derstappen gave an interesting and comprehensive talk about Plone. The meeting was well visited with people as far as from Dresden.

We did some planing for our booth at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage and assigned tasks for making the poster.

The next meeting will be on March 11, 2008.

Twenty Fourth Meeting, Tuesday March 11, 2008

We talked about our successful both at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage and some interesting talks at this event.

The next meeting will be on April 8, 2008.

Twenty Fifth Meeting, Tuesday April 8, 2008

We had interesting discussions about different topics.

The next meeting will be on May 13, 2008.

Twenty Sixth Meeting, Tuesday May 13, 2008

Christian Theune gave an interesting talk about Grok. He built a new Grok project from scratch and showed many of Grok's features. There were many questions that were answered with examples.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, June 10, 2008. Markus Zapke-Gründemann will give a talk about a program for conversion of csv to xml files.

Twenty Seventh Meeting, Tuesday June 10, 2008

Markus Zapke-Gruendemann gave a talk about a program for conversion of csv to xml files. There was a very interesting discussion about the source code of the program.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, July 8, 2008.

Twenty Eighth Meeting, Tuesday July 8, 2008

Even though the meeting was in parallel to the EuroPython we had quite a few people joining into the discussion.

The next meeting will be Tuesday, August 12, 2008.

Twenty Nineth Meeting, Tuesday August 12, 2008

Mike Mueller talked about matplotlib.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, September 9, 2008.

Thirtieth Meeting, Tuesday September 9, 2008

We improved a solution for programming competition for the German Linux-Magazin.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, October 14, 2008.

Thirty First Meeting, Tuesday October 14, 2008

The question if doctest works properly with unicode was the central point of our discussion. After an extensive search, we found out that doc strings are just ordinary Python strings. Therefore, contained back slashes have to be escaped or the whole doc string has to be a raw string. Group intelligence at work.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, November 11, 2008.

Thirty Second Meeting, Tuesday November 11, 2008

The Programming competition of German LINUX Magazin provided lots to talked about. Python was the most frequent language among the sent in solutions. Number of lines and run times favorably compare with the solutions in other languages. The comparison with languages such as Perl, Ocaml, Haskell or ruby was really interesting.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, December 11, 2008. The topic is "Generators in Python as unix-like pipelines".

Thirty Third Meeting, Tuesday December 9, 2008

Our topic was "Generators in Python as unix-like pipelines". Chaining several generators yields a special programming style. At some point we had the impression to use a language different from Python. Used in the right way, generators can have advantages especially for large amounts of data.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, January 13, 2009.