This was the second meeting of py4science!
Attendance
There were 9 attendees, with an experience breakdown of:
- Experienced: 7
- Intermediate: 2
- New: 0
People came from the following departments and organizations:
- Neuroscience
- IPython
- Psychology
- D-Lab
- Bioengineering
- Vision Science
Working Groups
Dav talked about the differences between working groups and the py4science meeting, emphasizing that py4science is more “show and tell” while py4text/py4data is more hands-on.
Newbie Nugget
Cindee presented this week’s Newbie Nugget. The topic is about if __name__ ==
"__main__":
IPython notebook for the Newbie Nugget
Min pointed out that you can write files in IPython notebook using the
%%file cell magic!
Jess mentioned that if __name__ == "__main__" doesn’t work well in emacs and IPython. Apparently python-mode ignores anything in the ‘if’ statement.
Lightning Talks
What’s New in IPython
Presented by Min
Awesome stuff: %matplotlib, raw_input, nbconvert, widgets
Notebook for New Features in IPython 1.0
Notebook for Upcoming Features in IPython 2.0
Python 3
Presented by Thomas
Thomas covered a range of topics, including: print, iterators, unicode, function annotation for
typechecking and command line argument parsing, yield from and return from generators.
Useful tip: python -o will remove assert statements!
Update: Thomas’ Slides
Next Time: Editors
Next py4science meeting is in two weeks, on 10/16/2013!
- Dav will do the newbie nugget
- Overview of different editors (Each person should take about 10 minutes to describe their workflow, what things are most useful, and resources on how to get started using that particular editor).
- Emacs: Jess
- Sublime: Bill
- Vim: Paul
- TextMate: Min
- Gedit: Dav
This meeting will be good for beginners! Please come join us to learn more.