From jim at well.com Tue Aug 24 16:33:18 2010 From: jim at well.com (jim) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:33:18 -0700 Subject: [PyOP] BayPIGgies meeting Thursday, August 26, 2010: Instrumentation with Python Message-ID: <1282660398.3383.457.camel@jim-laptop> BayPIGgies meeting Thursday, August 26, 2010: Instrumentation with Python Tonight's talk is Instrumentation with Python by Keith Dart Meetings usually start with a Newbie Nugget, a short discussion of an essential Python feature, especially for those new to Python. Tonight's Newbie Nugget: defaultdict from the Python High-performance container datatypes, by Glen Jarvis LOCATION Symantec Corporation Symantec Vcafe 350 Ellis Street Mountain View, CA 94043 http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&ei=w6i_Sfr6MZmQsQOzlv0v&hl=en&t=h&msa=0&msid=116202735295394761637.00046550c09ff3d96bff1&ll=37.397693,-122.053707&spn=0.002902,0.004828&z=18 BayPIGgies meeting information is available at http://www.baypiggies.net/ ------------------------ Agenda ------------------------ ..... 7:30 PM ........................... General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements. ..... 7:35 PM to 7:40 PM ................ Tonight's Newbie Nugget: defaultdict from the Python High-performance container datatypes, by Glen Jarvis ..... 7:40 PM to 8:40 PM (or so) ................ Instrumentation with Python by Keith Dart This talk overs the use of Python in test and measurement using the open-source code base "powerdroid" for illustration. This includes instrument control by IEEE-488 bus and software interfaces and includes numpy array usage and matplotlib usage. ..... 8:40 PM to 9:30 PM ................ Mapping and Random Access Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of issues, hiring, events, and other topics. Random Access follows people immediately to allow follow up on the announcements and other interests. From jim at systemateka.com Tue Aug 24 16:28:20 2010 From: jim at systemateka.com (jim) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:28:20 -0700 Subject: [PyOP] BayPIGgies meeting Thursday, August 26, 2010: Instrumentation with Python Message-ID: <1282660100.3383.443.camel@jim-laptop> BayPIGgies meeting Thursday, August 26, 2010: Instrumentation with Python Tonight's talk is Instrumentation with Python by Keith Dart Meetings usually start with a Newbie Nugget, a short discussion of an essential Python feature, especially for those new to Python. Tonight's Newbie Nugget: defaultdict from the Python High-performance container datatypes, by Glen Jarvis LOCATION Symantec Corporation Symantec Vcafe 350 Ellis Street Mountain View, CA 94043 http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&ei=w6i_Sfr6MZmQsQOzlv0v&hl=en&t=h&msa=0&msid=116202735295394761637.00046550c09ff3d96bff1&ll=37.397693,-122.053707&spn=0.002902,0.004828&z=18 BayPIGgies meeting information is available at http://www.baypiggies.net/ ------------------------ Agenda ------------------------ ..... 7:30 PM ........................... General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements. ..... 7:35 PM to 7:40 PM ................ Tonight's Newbie Nugget: defaultdict from the Python High-performance container datatypes, by Glen Jarvis ..... 7:40 PM to 8:40 PM (or so) ................ Instrumentation with Python by Keith Dart This talk overs the use of Python in test and measurement using the open-source code base "powerdroid" for illustration. This includes instrument control by IEEE-488 bus and software interfaces and includes numpy array usage and matplotlib usage. ..... 8:40 PM to 9:30 PM ................ Mapping and Random Access Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of issues, hiring, events, and other topics. Random Access follows people immediately to allow follow up on the announcements and other interests.