Thanks to a kind invitation by Fernando Perez, I was alerted to a BoF on Python/testing at SciPy. He made the mistake of introducing me as "the resident expert" so I felt even less inhibited than normal, which was hopefully not too problematic...
Gael Varoquaux took notes.
Basically, this …
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I wanted to write a comment on timing unittests, but that blog does not allow anonymous comments and there is no obvious place to e-mail the author.
Bummer.
(The short version of my comment is that getting the basic data out with something like nose is trivial; see my pinocchio …
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There was another mildly amusing incident during the recent SoCal Piggies meeting.
Michael Carter was showing us his incredibly neat Web 3.0 / HTTP PUSH software, orbited, by demoing an interactive IRC client on the Web. He signed onto the ruby-on-rails IRC channel and (this being a Python meeting) asked …
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To get people talking, I've created a "biology-in-python" mailing list. You can subscribe here: http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/biology-in-python, and you can post to it at bip@lists.idyll.org once you're a member.
This list is a tool/package/library-agnostic list, for people who use Python to work …
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Chris Lee and I would like to set up a Birds-of-a-Feather gathering at SciPy '07. We'll probably have an initial meeting on Thursday, August 16th, and then maybe work into sprint mode for that Saturday.
Contact me if you're interested. No reservations needed, but we should probably all plan to …
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While I'm thinking about SciPy '07, here are a few other notes:
- Chris Lasher and I are thinking about doing a Software Carpentry sprint of some kind. Interested?
- I'd be up for doing a half-day tutorial on "Testing for Scientists" or "Idiomatic Python". Interested?
--titus
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