Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of Talks/Spring2012/PythonBeverage


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    1111'''The first meeting will be this Friday, April 13th, at 4pm in the Library! '''
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    13 ''Schedule:''
    14 ||'''April 13'''||Getting help, packages, and logging: Configures workstation environments||
    15 ||'''April 27'''||Plotting 1 (?)||
    16 ||'''May 11'''||Plotting 2 (?)||
     13[[BR]]
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     17== ''Schedule:'' ==
     18'''April 13'''
     19 * Where to get help with Python
     20    * For tutorials and guides, see:
     21        * [http://docs.python.org/tutorial/ Official Python Tutorial]
     22        * [http://scipy.org/Getting_Started Using SciPy]
     23        * [http://docs.python.org/faq/index.html Python FAQ]
     24    * For debugging errors and finding solutions to problems, see:
     25        * [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python Stack Overflow]
     26    * Other good resources:
     27        * [http://scicoder.org Scicoder]
     28        * [http://www.astrobetter.com/ astrobetter]
     29        * [http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/rowen/AstroPy.html List of Astronomical Packages]
     30 * Python package manager
     31    * [http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pip/pip-1.1.tar.gz#md5=62a9f08dd5dc69d76734568a6c040508 PIP]
     32    * This replaces the default "easy_install".
     33    * A list of packages in PIP's repository are listed at [http://pypi.python.org/pypi the Cheese Shop]
     34    * Installing new packages is as easy as {{{pip install <packagename>}}}
     35 * Debugging code
     36    * Rather than fill your scripts with a ton of print statements that you comment and uncomment, I'll show you how to use the packages [http://docs.python.org/library/argparse.html argparse] and [http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html logging].