From jep200404 at columbus.rr.com  Thu Jan  9 03:36:53 2014
From: jep200404 at columbus.rr.com (jep200404 at columbus.rr.com)
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 21:36:53 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] Python Rising: The Rise And Fall of Languages in 2013
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Python rising, Perl falling
The article linked reviews the rise and fall of languages in 2013.

http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/the-rise-and-fall-of-languages-in-2013/240165192

From jdsantiagojr at gmail.com  Thu Jan  9 17:56:18 2014
From: jdsantiagojr at gmail.com (John Santiago)
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 11:56:18 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] Code by Voice
Message-ID: <CACa5CHJRt1PsMzyvUDZ0pOHpwhroOEgnLXv_Ap1u_cwHSHMKyw@mail.gmail.com>

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/99-professional/6263-code-by-voice-faster-than-keyboard.html

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From eric at intellovations.com  Fri Jan 10 19:21:09 2014
From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr)
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:21:09 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] Python Rising: The Rise And Fall of Languages in
	2013
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Interesting! Go Python! I know I've been really impressed lately with the
number of IPython Notebook based blog posts walking though crunching
datasets (like movie body count, three-point shot percentages, etc.).

But I was struck by the names of three C/C++/systems programming language
replacements. I know that there has been research on baby names and
success, I wonder if it holds true to programming languages.

For example, knowing that "Rust", "Nimrod", and "Go" occupy nearly the same
language-space and nothing else, I lean towards "Go" because of the
negative connotations of the other names. I realize my biases are
English-language based, and maybe U.S.-based (in the case of the negative
connotation of Nimrod).






On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:36 PM, <jep200404 at columbus.rr.com> wrote:

> Python rising, Perl falling
> The article linked reviews the rise and fall of languages in 2013.
>
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From eric at intellovations.com  Fri Jan 10 19:04:29 2014
From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr)
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:04:29 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] Code by Voice
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That is really amazing! It's too bad Dragon Naturally Speaking doesn't run
on Linux.

-Eric



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From jep200404 at columbus.rr.com  Sun Jan 12 00:46:18 2014
From: jep200404 at columbus.rr.com (jep200404 at columbus.rr.com)
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:46:18 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] =?utf-8?q?2014-01-10_=E9=81=93=E5=A0=B4_Scribbles_?=
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did not have reservation for "Community Room", 
so met out in the open at ordinary tables.

"wp:" prefix means Wikipedia. 
E.g., "wp:foo" indicates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo

trying to get vicent visualization library working with iPython Notebook
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/vincent
gnarly dependencies

All Your Base Are Belong To Us
http://rt.com/usa/ford-vp-retracts-remarks-429/
http://www.thecarconnection.com/news/1089607_fords-jim-farley-apologizes-for-claiming-we-know-what-youre-doing
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/09/ford-spying-car-jim-farley-ces_n_4569029.html

wp:Open Automotive Alliance
http://www.openautoalliance.net/
http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2014/01/06/googles-auto-alliance-paves-way-for-self-driving-cars/

wp:Ixquick
wp:DuckDuckGo
wp:Wolfram Alpha
wp:Ray Kurzweil
wp:The Singularity Is Near

wp:Julia (programming language)
ijulia
ijulia notebook

https://www.mywickr.com/en/index.php
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140108/23073325816/what-intelligence-community-doesnt-get-backdoor-good-guys-is-always-backdoor-bad-guys-as-well.shtml

Ken Thompson's Reflections on Trusting Trust
wp:Backdoor_exploit#Reflections_on_Trusting_Trust
wp:Ken Thompson
wp:Japan Prize

M# programming language
proprietary
wp:M Sharp (programming language)
http://www.msharp.co.uk/Home.html
http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/30/microsoft-reportedly-developing-a-programming-language-called-m-and-it-may-be-open-sourced/
http://www.i-programmer.info/news/98-languages/6786-microsofts-new-language-m.html
http://www.extremeoptimization.com/MSharp/

#coding-noobs channel on freenode
webchat.freenode.net

colug.net
http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432

From jep200404 at columbus.rr.com  Sun Jan 12 01:20:23 2014
From: jep200404 at columbus.rr.com (jep200404 at columbus.rr.com)
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 19:20:23 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] =?utf-8?q?2014-01-03_=E9=81=93=E5=A0=B4_Scribbles_?=
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Message-ID: <20140111192023.1e025175.jep200404@columbus.rr.com>

The first web browser and Doom were developed under NeXTSTEP,
the precursor to OS-X and iOS.
Objective C is pretty clean, although like C,
often requires much more low-level tedium than Python.

"wp:" prefix means Wikipedia. 
E.g., "wp:foo" indicates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo

wp:Objective-C
wp:Tim Berners-Lee
wp:WorldWideWeb
wp:NeXT Computer
wp:NeXTSTEP
wp:OS X
wp:Mach (kernel)
wp:Doom (video game)
Developing iThing apps still has NeXTSTEP stuff in it.
There are names that begin with NS for NeXTSTEP.

Acetone is a ketone, the simplest ketone.
It's name is idiomatic.
Many sugars are ketones.
wp:ketone

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60044.Class
wp:Paul Fussell

http://datasciencemasters.org/
data scientists versus statisticians

got donation of books

From pybokeh at gmail.com  Sat Jan 18 01:13:01 2014
From: pybokeh at gmail.com (pybokeh)
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:13:01 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] =?utf-8?q?2014-01-03_=E9=81=93=E5=A0=B4_Scribbles_?=
	=?utf-8?b?76SY5pu4L+aDoeaWhz86IFZpbmNlbnQgUHJvYmxlbQ==?=
Message-ID: <CAOoMBVgcrqmY2SFvq9LmmMttLoSE5YxpOqobHF-apiNU46+E-g@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun Jan 12 00:46:18 CET 2014, jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote,

> trying to get vicent visualization library working with iPython Notebook
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/vincent
> gnarly dependencies

I found out why Vincent wasn't working for me.
It relies on the D3 javascript which went up a version and
broke things with Vincent as per this GitHub issue item:

    https://github.com/wrobstory/vincent/issues/89<https://github.com/wrobstory/vincent/issues/89>
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From pybokeh at gmail.com  Sat Jan 18 01:18:16 2014
From: pybokeh at gmail.com (pybokeh)
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:18:16 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] =?utf-8?q?2014-01-10_=E9=81=93=E5=A0=B4_Scribbles_?=
	=?utf-8?b?76SY5pu4L+aDoeaWhz86IElSQyBDaGFubmVsIEZvciBOb29iaWVz?=
Message-ID: <CAOoMBVipfZh9-ouCHTymUg2mctuq3RnEC75Krn_0pBdDphWRSQ@mail.gmail.com>

On *Sun Jan 12 00:46:18 CET 2014, *jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:
<centraloh%40python.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BCentralOH%5D%20%3D%3Futf-8%3Fq%3F2014-01-10_%3DE9%3D81%3D93%3DE5%3DA0%3DB4_Scribbles_%3F%3D%0A%20%3D%3Futf-8%3Fb%3F76SY5pu4L%2BaDoeaWhz8%3D%3F%3D&In-Reply-To=%3C20140111184618.55a91429.jep200404%40columbus.rr.com%3E>
> #coding-noobs channel on freenode
The IRC channel that I sometime frequent is #coding-n00bs
(spelled with zeros, not the letter O), sorry about that.

- Daniel
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From fandi.814 at gmail.com  Sat Jan 18 01:48:27 2014
From: fandi.814 at gmail.com (Fandi Peng)
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:48:27 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] =?utf-8?b?IDIwMTQtMDEtMTcg6YGT5aC0IFNjcmliYmxlcyA=?=
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>From Elephant Island to Buying a Brown Cow in Friesland
    wp:Ernest Shackleton
    wp:Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
    wp:Voyage of the James Caird
    wp:sextant
    wp:lunar distance
    wp:History of longitude
    https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/astronomy-notebooks
    https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/python-skyfield
    Bulova Accutron Spaceview
    wp:Marine chronometer
    wp:Gemma Frisius
    wp:Friesland
    wp:Menno Simons
    wp:West Frisian language
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeC1yAaWG34

From jep200404 at columbus.rr.com  Mon Jan 20 22:09:56 2014
From: jep200404 at columbus.rr.com (jep200404 at columbus.rr.com)
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 16:09:56 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] =?utf-8?q?2014-01-17_=E9=81=93=E5=A0=B4_Scribbles_?=
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The most interesting thing[1] was interesting because I should have known it.
It used the dictionary get method to count words.

    counts = {}
    for word in words_list:
        counts[word] = counts.get(word, 0) + 1

We had to look it up in Learning Python by Mark Lutz.
(p 210 in a printing of 4th edition.)

It reminded me of the introductory examples on starting on page 19 of pfda[2].

Someone just passed the CISSP exam, so now can play with Python.
If he passed, his employer would pay for it (about $600).
If he failed, his employer would not pay for it.
It was a four hour multiple choice exam.
One gets a pass/fail grade. 70% is passing.
One is not told how well one did.

http://scott.a16z.com/2014/01/17/success-at-work-failure-at-home/
http://bhorowitz.com/2014/01/02/can-do-vs-cant-do-cultures/

wp:Newton's method
need to by my post my euler to github Euler #80 11.7 ms
https://github.com/fandi-peng/Project_Euler/raw/master/code/euler80.py

someone was messing with vincent 2013-05-09
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/centraloh/2013-May/001670.html

wp:Linear algebra
wp:Linear programming

wp:Weibull distribution

Bunnie doing open source hardware
wp:Andrew Huang
http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=69&doc_id=1320638
http://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/08/23/workshop-video-36-beers-in-bunnies-workshop/
http://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/04/19/video-hua-qiang-bei-market-in-shenzhen-china/

http://www.zdnet.com/uks-security-branch-says-ubuntu-most-secure-end-user-os-7000025312/

nbconvert crashes converting .ipynb to html or pdf
    simple ones work
    complex ones, such as with Latex, crash

ghosts can not be shone in China
    shall not promote superstitious stuff in China

http://172.17.153.149:8000/Word_Count_Example.ipynb
counts = dict()
for word in words_list:
    counts[word] = counts.get(word, 0) + 1

wp:Chromium (web browser)
wp:SRWare Iron

There are towns in China that are built as movie sets to promote the making of 
movies there. Do the residents become extras?
wp:Extra (acting)

https://github.com/ipython/ipython/tree/master/examples/notebooks#a-collection-of-notebooks-for-using-ipython-effectively
http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ipython/ipython/blob/master/examples/notebooks/Part%204%20-%20Markdown%20Cells.ipynb

wp:CISSP

CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they
ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's
eyes to improve his vision.

PITH, n. See Dorothy Parker
Tallulah Bankhead
What do Tata and Ford have in common?

The Devil's Dictionary

pypy is faster than cpython
speed.pypy.org

open-source food?
http://www.wildfermentation.com/
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/13/154914381/fermentation-when-food-goes-bad-but-stays-good

wp:Charles Csuri
http://oncampus.osu.edu/v29n18/thisissue_6.html
https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=charles%20csuri%20wosu%20beyond%20boundaries
wp:Lava lamp

Polymorphism (computer science), the ability in computer programming to present
the same interface for differing underlying forms (data types).
Operator overloading can be an example of polymorphism.
wp:Polymorphism (computer science)
wp:Operator overloading
Python supports polymorphism

On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:48:27 -0500, Fandi Peng <fandi.814 at gmail.com> wrote:

>     https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/astronomy-notebooks

That's a great introduction to (i)python and is getting some maintainance
attention, including the addition of a pandas notebook.

There are probably more notes and ipython notebooks coming for 
this dojo.

[1] See http://colug.net/python/dojo/20140117/word-count-example-rev2.ipynb

[2] Python for Data Analysis by Wes McKinney
    this book just keeps coming back up
    http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023784.do
    http://blog.wesmckinney.com/

From jep200404 at columbus.rr.com  Mon Jan 20 23:56:21 2014
From: jep200404 at columbus.rr.com (jep200404 at columbus.rr.com)
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 17:56:21 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] Removing Punctuation
In-Reply-To: <20140120160956.2cd88492.jep200404@columbus.rr.com>
References: <CABGg8CKHsSRau+Q5RpeVU7=8W_ya=cairgbO9xXwJzVWQZD2NA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 16:09:56 -0500, jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:

> [1] See http://colug.net/python/dojo/20140117/word-count-example-rev2.ipynb

      "for character in bunch_of_words:\n",
      "    if character in string.punctuation:\n",
      "        bunch_of_words = bunch_of_words.replace(character,\"\")\n",

can be simplified as .translate(None, string.punctuation)

as in http://colug.net/python/dojo/20140117/word-count-example-rev3.ipynb

From pybokeh at gmail.com  Tue Jan 21 00:17:07 2014
From: pybokeh at gmail.com (pybokeh)
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:17:07 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] Removing Punctuation
In-Reply-To: <20140120175621.6abc01e6.jep200404@columbus.rr.com>
References: <CABGg8CKHsSRau+Q5RpeVU7=8W_ya=cairgbO9xXwJzVWQZD2NA@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <52DDAE73.3040003@gmail.com>

Nice, didn't know about the str.translate() method.

But it is quite clear what my script is doing, whereas, to someone not 
familiar
with translate(), it isn't so obvious.  I'll take readability over 
esoteric Python methods,
unless maybe for performance reason, we should use the translate() method?

Anyways, thanks for sharing the str.translate() method!

BTW, here's the output of doing help(str.translate) if others happen to 
read this:

translate(...)
     S.translate(table) -> str
     
     Return a copy of the string S, where all characters have been mapped
     through the given translation table, which must be a mapping of
     Unicode ordinals to Unicode ordinals, strings, or None.
     Unmapped characters are left untouched. Characters mapped to None
     are deleted.



Regards,
Daniel

On 01/20/2014 05:56 PM, jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 16:09:56 -0500, jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:
>
>> [1] See http://colug.net/python/dojo/20140117/word-count-example-rev2.ipynb
>        "for character in bunch_of_words:\n",
>        "    if character in string.punctuation:\n",
>        "        bunch_of_words = bunch_of_words.replace(character,\"\")\n",
>
> can be simplified as .translate(None, string.punctuation)
>
> as in http://colug.net/python/dojo/20140117/word-count-example-rev3.ipynb
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From pybokeh at gmail.com  Tue Jan 21 00:47:39 2014
From: pybokeh at gmail.com (pybokeh)
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:47:39 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] Removing Punctuation
In-Reply-To: <20140120175621.6abc01e6.jep200404@columbus.rr.com>
References: <CABGg8CKHsSRau+Q5RpeVU7=8W_ya=cairgbO9xXwJzVWQZD2NA@mail.gmail.com>
 <20140120160956.2cd88492.jep200404@columbus.rr.com>
 <20140120175621.6abc01e6.jep200404@columbus.rr.com>
Message-ID: <52DDB59B.7070708@gmail.com>

Wow, I just realized there is a difference in str.translate() method between
Python 2 and Python 3.  I'm currently a Python 3 user and 
str.translate(string.punctuation)
does not work for me (NOTE-str.translate() takes only 1 argument in 
Python 3).

So when I execute str.translate(string.punctuation), it does not get rid 
of the punctuation
marks since it no longer knows to map or delete the punctuation marks.

Hmm, now I wonder how do I use the str.translate() method in Python 3 to 
get rid of the
punctuation marks?


On 01/20/2014 05:56 PM, jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 16:09:56 -0500, jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:
>
>> [1] See http://colug.net/python/dojo/20140117/word-count-example-rev2.ipynb
>        "for character in bunch_of_words:\n",
>        "    if character in string.punctuation:\n",
>        "        bunch_of_words = bunch_of_words.replace(character,\"\")\n",
>
> can be simplified as .translate(None, string.punctuation)
>
> as in http://colug.net/python/dojo/20140117/word-count-example-rev3.ipynb
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From iynaix at gmail.com  Tue Jan 21 00:59:33 2014
From: iynaix at gmail.com (iynaix)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 07:59:33 +0800
Subject: [CentralOH] =?utf-8?q?2014-01-17_=E9=81=93=E5=A0=B4_Scribbles_?=
	=?utf-8?b?76SY5pu4L+aDoeaWhz8gTXVjaCBtb3Jl?=
In-Reply-To: <20140120160956.2cd88492.jep200404@columbus.rr.com>
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Message-ID: <CAEie7+phSVLA7Xaibf7yTaC1z8i7Z3ojZKvHP1-VqsL+yd-Bbw@mail.gmail.com>

Quick aside:

If you're on Python 2.7 and above, you can do the following:

    from collections import Counter
    counts = Counter(words_list)

Counter is a dictionary-like object that has nice utilities such as being
able to add or subtract counters from one another, and most_common(), which
is very useful. See the link below for the official docs:

http://docs.python.org/2/library/collections.html#collections.Counter

Cheers,
XY


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:09 AM, <jep200404 at columbus.rr.com> wrote:

> The most interesting thing[1] was interesting because I should have known
> it.
> It used the dictionary get method to count words.
>
>     counts = {}
>     for word in words_list:
>         counts[word] = counts.get(word, 0) + 1
>
> We had to look it up in Learning Python by Mark Lutz.
> (p 210 in a printing of 4th edition.)
>
> It reminded me of the introductory examples on starting on page 19 of
> pfda[2].
>
> Someone just passed the CISSP exam, so now can play with Python.
> If he passed, his employer would pay for it (about $600).
> If he failed, his employer would not pay for it.
> It was a four hour multiple choice exam.
> One gets a pass/fail grade. 70% is passing.
> One is not told how well one did.
>
> http://scott.a16z.com/2014/01/17/success-at-work-failure-at-home/
> http://bhorowitz.com/2014/01/02/can-do-vs-cant-do-cultures/
>
> wp:Newton's method
> need to by my post my euler to github Euler #80 11.7 ms
> https://github.com/fandi-peng/Project_Euler/raw/master/code/euler80.py
>
> someone was messing with vincent 2013-05-09
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/centraloh/2013-May/001670.html
>
> wp:Linear algebra
> wp:Linear programming
>
> wp:Weibull distribution
>
> Bunnie doing open source hardware
> wp:Andrew Huang
> http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=69&doc_id=1320638
>
> http://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/08/23/workshop-video-36-beers-in-bunnies-workshop/
>
> http://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/04/19/video-hua-qiang-bei-market-in-shenzhen-china/
>
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/uks-security-branch-says-ubuntu-most-secure-end-user-os-7000025312/
>
> nbconvert crashes converting .ipynb to html or pdf
>     simple ones work
>     complex ones, such as with Latex, crash
>
> ghosts can not be shone in China
>     shall not promote superstitious stuff in China
>
> http://172.17.153.149:8000/Word_Count_Example.ipynb
> counts = dict()
> for word in words_list:
>     counts[word] = counts.get(word, 0) + 1
>
> wp:Chromium (web browser)
> wp:SRWare Iron
>
> There are towns in China that are built as movie sets to promote the
> making of
> movies there. Do the residents become extras?
> wp:Extra (acting)
>
>
> https://github.com/ipython/ipython/tree/master/examples/notebooks#a-collection-of-notebooks-for-using-ipython-effectively
>
> http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ipython/ipython/blob/master/examples/notebooks/Part%204%20-%20Markdown%20Cells.ipynb
>
> wp:CISSP
>
> CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as
> they
> ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's
> eyes to improve his vision.
>
> PITH, n. See Dorothy Parker
> Tallulah Bankhead
> What do Tata and Ford have in common?
>
> The Devil's Dictionary
>
> pypy is faster than cpython
> speed.pypy.org
>
> open-source food?
> http://www.wildfermentation.com/
>
> http://www.npr.org/2012/06/13/154914381/fermentation-when-food-goes-bad-but-stays-good
>
> wp:Charles Csuri
> http://oncampus.osu.edu/v29n18/thisissue_6.html
> https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=charles%20csuri%20wosu%20beyond%20boundaries
> wp:Lava lamp
>
> Polymorphism (computer science), the ability in computer programming to
> present
> the same interface for differing underlying forms (data types).
> Operator overloading can be an example of polymorphism.
> wp:Polymorphism (computer science)
> wp:Operator overloading
> Python supports polymorphism
>
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:48:27 -0500, Fandi Peng <fandi.814 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >     https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/astronomy-notebooks
>
> That's a great introduction to (i)python and is getting some maintainance
> attention, including the addition of a pandas notebook.
>
> There are probably more notes and ipython notebooks coming for
> this dojo.
>
> [1] See
> http://colug.net/python/dojo/20140117/word-count-example-rev2.ipynb
>
> [2] Python for Data Analysis by Wes McKinney
>     this book just keeps coming back up
>     http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023784.do
>     http://blog.wesmckinney.com/
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From: jep200404 at columbus.rr.com (jep200404 at columbus.rr.com)
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:36:02 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] Removing Punctuation with str.translate() in Python
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On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:47:39 -0500, pybokeh <pybokeh at gmail.com> wrote:

> ... now I wonder how do I use the str.translate() method in 
> Python 3 to get rid of the punctuation marks?

Careful reading[1] suggests an answer.
Use str.maketrans() and str.translate().
Use the third argument of maketrans to create a 
translation table to convert punctuation to None.
str.translate() converts punctuation to None, and deletes them.

[1] http://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.translate
    http://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.maketrans

From eric at intellovations.com  Tue Jan 21 01:20:07 2014
From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr)
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:20:07 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] Removing Punctuation
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>
> Hmm, now I wonder how do I use the str.translate() method in Python 3 to
> get rid of the
> punctuation marks?



>>> import string
>>> S = "Some, string! With punctuation."
>>> S.translate(S.maketrans("", "", string.punctuation))
'Some string With punctuation'

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From pybokeh at gmail.com  Tue Jan 21 02:43:20 2014
From: pybokeh at gmail.com (pybokeh)
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:43:20 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] Removing Punctuation with str.translate() in Python
 3
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Oh wow, this makes readability or clarity worse in my opinion.

Surely there is a performance gain from using translate()/maketrans() 
combination?

Maybe profiling a Python program can be a topic for discussion at the 
next Python
dojo meeting :-)

On 01/20/2014 07:36 PM, jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:47:39 -0500, pybokeh <pybokeh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ... now I wonder how do I use the str.translate() method in
>> Python 3 to get rid of the punctuation marks?
> Careful reading[1] suggests an answer.
> Use str.maketrans() and str.translate().
> Use the third argument of maketrans to create a
> translation table to convert punctuation to None.
> str.translate() converts punctuation to None, and deletes them.
>
> [1] http://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.translate
>      http://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.maketrans
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From pybokeh at gmail.com  Tue Jan 21 03:24:50 2014
From: pybokeh at gmail.com (pybokeh)
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:24:50 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] Removing Punctuation
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Thanks for this.

I thought I could replace a punctuation mark with a single white space 
by doing this:
S.translate(S.maketrans(" ", " ", string.punctuation))

But that didn't work.  Any ideas how to replace a punctuation mark with 
a single white space?

The reason being, what if there is no space after a punctuation mark or 
three periods were used:
"Mary had a little lamb...little lamb...little lamb! Do you know what 
Mary's problem is?No I do not!"

Then "isNo" ends up being counted as a word and also "lamblittle", so I 
want to prevent this by
replacing a punctuation mark with a singe white space instead of no 
white space.


On 01/20/2014 07:20 PM, Eric Floehr wrote:
>
>     Hmm, now I wonder how do I use the str.translate() method in
>     Python 3 to get rid of the
>     punctuation marks?
>
>
>
> >>> import string
> >>> S = "Some, string! With punctuation."
> >>> S.translate(S.maketrans("", "", string.punctuation))
> 'Some string With punctuation'
>
> http://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.maketrans
>
>
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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:20:01 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] Profiling
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On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:43:20 -0500, pybokeh <pybokeh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe profiling a Python program can be a topic for discussion 
> at the next Python dojo meeting :-)

%timeit in ipython

http://pynash.org/2013/03/06/timing-and-profiling.html

An example is in An-Introduction--Notebook-Features.ipynb in 
Brandon's celestial tour through ipython notebook.

https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/astronomy-notebooks/blob/master/An-Introduction--Notebook-Features.ipynb

Instructions for Python 2.7 on Xubuntu 12.10

    https://mail.python.org/pipermail/centraloh/2013-February/001551.html

Bleeding edge for Python 2.7 on xubuntu 12.10

    https://github.com/james-prior/astronomy-notebooks/blob/jep-dev/INSTALL-xubuntu-12.10
    https://github.com/james-prior/astronomy-notebooks/tree/jep-dev

From jep200404 at columbus.rr.com  Tue Jan 21 04:23:17 2014
From: jep200404 at columbus.rr.com (jep200404 at columbus.rr.com)
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:23:17 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] Removing Punctuation: Replace Punctuation With Spaces
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On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:24:50 -0500, pybokeh <pybokeh at gmail.com> wrote:

> I thought I could replace a punctuation mark with a single white space 
> by doing this:
> S.translate(S.maketrans(" ", " ", string.punctuation))
> 
> But that didn't work.  Any ideas how to replace a punctuation mark with 
> a single white space?

Here's an untested ugly idea: 

    S.translate(
        S.maketrans(string.punctuation, " " * len(string.punctuation))

From jcfolsom at pureperfect.com  Tue Jan 21 06:51:41 2014
From: jcfolsom at pureperfect.com (Chris Folsom)
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:51:41 -0700
Subject: [CentralOH] Removing Punctuation: Replace Punctuation With
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From eric at intellovations.com  Tue Jan 21 13:02:56 2014
From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 07:02:56 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] Removing Punctuation: Replace Punctuation With
	Spaces
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In other words (works in Python 2 and Python 3):

>>> import re
>>> import string
>>> punctuation_re = re.compile('[' + string.punctuation + ']')
>>> S = "Some, string! With punctuation."
>>> punctuation_re.sub(' ', S)
'Some  string  With punctuation '




On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:51 AM, Chris Folsom <jcfolsom at pureperfect.com>wrote:

>
> ?
>
> http://docs.python.org/2/howto/regex.html#search-and-replace
>
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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:12:30 -0700
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From erik.n.welch at gmail.com  Tue Jan 21 18:38:38 2014
From: erik.n.welch at gmail.com (Erik Welch)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:38:38 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] =?utf-8?q?2014-01-17_=E9=81=93=E5=A0=B4_Scribbles_?=
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I have a few comments on the word counting example.  First, it is possible
to view the referenced iPython notebooks online from
http://nbviewer.ipython.org/ .  See the notebook here:

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/colug.net/python/dojo/20140117/word-count-example-rev2.ipynb?create=1

Second, there have been somewhat recent blog posts using word counting as
an example.  The first compares a verbose solution with simple terms to
concise solutions with complex terms:

http://matthewrocklin.com/blog/work/2013/11/15/Functional-Wordcount/

A newer blog post looks at the performance of Python and other languages
for a specific text processing task:

http://matthewrocklin.com/blog/work/2014/01/13/Text-Benchmarks/

Finally, to learn more about functional data analysis in Python, here is a
video tutorial from the same author as the above posts (and it uses the
`toolz` library, although the talk isn't strictly about `toolz`):

http://vimeo.com/80096814

Cheers,
Erik


On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 6:59 PM, iynaix <iynaix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Quick aside:
>
> If you're on Python 2.7 and above, you can do the following:
>
>     from collections import Counter
>     counts = Counter(words_list)
>
> Counter is a dictionary-like object that has nice utilities such as being
> able to add or subtract counters from one another, and most_common(), which
> is very useful. See the link below for the official docs:
>
> http://docs.python.org/2/library/collections.html#collections.Counter
>
> Cheers,
> XY
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:09 AM, <jep200404 at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> The most interesting thing[1] was interesting because I should have known
>> it.
>> It used the dictionary get method to count words.
>>
>>     counts = {}
>>     for word in words_list:
>>         counts[word] = counts.get(word, 0) + 1
>>
>> We had to look it up in Learning Python by Mark Lutz.
>> (p 210 in a printing of 4th edition.)
>>
>> It reminded me of the introductory examples on starting on page 19 of
>> pfda[2].
>>
>> Someone just passed the CISSP exam, so now can play with Python.
>> If he passed, his employer would pay for it (about $600).
>> If he failed, his employer would not pay for it.
>> It was a four hour multiple choice exam.
>> One gets a pass/fail grade. 70% is passing.
>> One is not told how well one did.
>>
>> http://scott.a16z.com/2014/01/17/success-at-work-failure-at-home/
>> http://bhorowitz.com/2014/01/02/can-do-vs-cant-do-cultures/
>>
>> wp:Newton's method
>> need to by my post my euler to github Euler #80 11.7 ms
>> https://github.com/fandi-peng/Project_Euler/raw/master/code/euler80.py
>>
>> someone was messing with vincent 2013-05-09
>> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/centraloh/2013-May/001670.html
>>
>> wp:Linear algebra
>> wp:Linear programming
>>
>> wp:Weibull distribution
>>
>> Bunnie doing open source hardware
>> wp:Andrew Huang
>> http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=69&doc_id=1320638
>>
>> http://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/08/23/workshop-video-36-beers-in-bunnies-workshop/
>>
>> http://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/04/19/video-hua-qiang-bei-market-in-shenzhen-china/
>>
>>
>> http://www.zdnet.com/uks-security-branch-says-ubuntu-most-secure-end-user-os-7000025312/
>>
>> nbconvert crashes converting .ipynb to html or pdf
>>     simple ones work
>>     complex ones, such as with Latex, crash
>>
>> ghosts can not be shone in China
>>     shall not promote superstitious stuff in China
>>
>> http://172.17.153.149:8000/Word_Count_Example.ipynb
>> counts = dict()
>> for word in words_list:
>>     counts[word] = counts.get(word, 0) + 1
>>
>> wp:Chromium (web browser)
>> wp:SRWare Iron
>>
>> There are towns in China that are built as movie sets to promote the
>> making of
>> movies there. Do the residents become extras?
>> wp:Extra (acting)
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/ipython/ipython/tree/master/examples/notebooks#a-collection-of-notebooks-for-using-ipython-effectively
>>
>> http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ipython/ipython/blob/master/examples/notebooks/Part%204%20-%20Markdown%20Cells.ipynb
>>
>> wp:CISSP
>>
>> CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not
>> as they
>> ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a
>> cynic's
>> eyes to improve his vision.
>>
>> PITH, n. See Dorothy Parker
>> Tallulah Bankhead
>> What do Tata and Ford have in common?
>>
>> The Devil's Dictionary
>>
>> pypy is faster than cpython
>> speed.pypy.org
>>
>> open-source food?
>> http://www.wildfermentation.com/
>>
>> http://www.npr.org/2012/06/13/154914381/fermentation-when-food-goes-bad-but-stays-good
>>
>> wp:Charles Csuri
>> http://oncampus.osu.edu/v29n18/thisissue_6.html
>>
>> https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=charles%20csuri%20wosu%20beyond%20boundaries
>> wp:Lava lamp
>>
>> Polymorphism (computer science), the ability in computer programming to
>> present
>> the same interface for differing underlying forms (data types).
>> Operator overloading can be an example of polymorphism.
>> wp:Polymorphism (computer science)
>> wp:Operator overloading
>> Python supports polymorphism
>>
>> On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:48:27 -0500, Fandi Peng <fandi.814 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >     https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/astronomy-notebooks
>>
>> That's a great introduction to (i)python and is getting some maintainance
>> attention, including the addition of a pandas notebook.
>>
>> There are probably more notes and ipython notebooks coming for
>> this dojo.
>>
>> [1] See
>> http://colug.net/python/dojo/20140117/word-count-example-rev2.ipynb
>>
>> [2] Python for Data Analysis by Wes McKinney
>>     this book just keeps coming back up
>>     http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023784.do
>>     http://blog.wesmckinney.com/
>> _______________________________________________
>> CentralOH mailing list
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>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/centraloh
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Subject: [CentralOH] 10 Reasons to Learn and Use Regular Expressions (From
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From erik.n.welch at gmail.com  Tue Jan 21 20:11:41 2014
From: erik.n.welch at gmail.com (Erik Welch)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:11:41 -0500
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On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Chris Folsom <jcfolsom at pureperfect.com>
wrote:

>
> If you have more than one line of code, you're probably doing it wrong.


Many people have learned to be more modest by avoiding statements like
this.  You never know for certain when you may be wrong.  In this case, you
misunderstood the problem being considered and what the final outcome is
supposed to be.  It is not simply counting the number of words, the goal is
to count the number of occurrences of each word.  There are more nuances to
this than you might initially expect.  There are also many different
approaches, and each has its own merits.  In general, there often isn't a
single optimal solution, because "optimal" can mean many different things,
and optimality can also be different in different contexts.

Anyway, thanks for sharing the regex example!

p.s. I tried to run your code in Python to count the total number of words
in a string.  It gave me an incorrect answer.


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Chris Folsom <jcfolsom at pureperfect.com>wrote:

>
> If it's for word counting. You're over complicating it. In language
> neutral pseudo-code:
>
> var myString = "blah.blah?blah! blah blah"
>
> var regExpForWhiteSpaceAndPunctuation = "(\.|\;|\:|\!|\?|\s)*"
>
> var[] wordsInMyString = myString.split(regExpForWhiteSpaceAndPunctuation)
>
> println "Word count: " + wordsInMyString.length
>
> or alternatively:
>
> "some random string".split("(\.|\;|\:|\!|\?|\s)*").length
>
> That ought to be the optimal solution in any language. No substitution or
> additional string creation is necessary. The python equivalent is
> re.split(*pattern*, *string*, *maxsplit=0*, *flags=0*)
> So
>
> len(re.split(regExpForWhitespaceAndPunctuation, myString))
>
>
> If you have more than one line of code, you're probably doing it wrong.
>
>  -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [CentralOH] 2014-01-17_??_Scribbles_ ??/???
> Much more
> From: Erik Welch <erik.n.welch at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, January 21, 2014 12:38 pm
> To: "Mailing list for Central Ohio Python User Group (COhPy)"
> <centraloh at python.org>
>
> I have a few comments on the word counting example.  First, it is possible
> to view the referenced iPython notebooks online from
> http://nbviewer.ipython.org/ .  See the notebook here:
>
>
> http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/colug.net/python/dojo/20140117/word-count-example-rev2.ipynb?create=1
>
> Second, there have been somewhat recent blog posts using word counting as
> an example.  The first compares a verbose solution with simple terms to
> concise solutions with complex terms:
>
> http://matthewrocklin.com/blog/work/2013/11/15/Functional-Wordcount/
>
> A newer blog post looks at the performance of Python and other languages
> for a specific text processing task:
>
> http://matthewrocklin.com/blog/work/2014/01/13/Text-Benchmarks/
>
> Finally, to learn more about functional data analysis in Python, here is a
> video tutorial from the same author as the above posts (and it uses the
> `toolz` library, although the talk isn't strictly about `toolz`):
>
> http://vimeo.com/80096814
>
> Cheers,
> Erik
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 6:59 PM, iynaix <iynaix at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Quick aside:
>>
>> If you're on Python 2.7 and above, you can do the following:
>>
>>     from collections import Counter
>>     counts = Counter(words_list)
>>
>> Counter is a dictionary-like object that has nice utilities such as being
>> able to add or subtract counters from one another, and most_common(), which
>> is very useful. See the link below for the official docs:
>>
>> http://docs.python.org/2/library/collections.html#collections.Counter
>>
>> Cheers,
>> XY
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:09 AM, <jep200404 at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The most interesting thing[1] was interesting because I should have
>>> known it.
>>> It used the dictionary get method to count words.
>>>
>>>     counts = {}
>>>     for word in words_list:
>>>         counts[word] = counts.get(word, 0) + 1
>>>
>>> We had to look it up in Learning Python by Mark Lutz.
>>> (p 210 in a printing of 4th edition.)
>>>
>>> It reminded me of the introductory examples on starting on page 19 of
>>> pfda[2].
>>>
>>> Someone just passed the CISSP exam, so now can play with Python.
>>> If he passed, his employer would pay for it (about $600).
>>> If he failed, his employer would not pay for it.
>>> It was a four hour multiple choice exam.
>>> One gets a pass/fail grade. 70% is passing.
>>> One is not told how well one did.
>>>
>>> http://scott.a16z.com/2014/01/17/success-at-work-failure-at-home/
>>> http://bhorowitz.com/2014/01/02/can-do-vs-cant-do-cultures/
>>>
>>> wp:Newton's method
>>> need to by my post my euler to github Euler #80 11.7 ms
>>> https://github.com/fandi-peng/Project_Euler/raw/master/code/euler80.py
>>>
>>> someone was messing with vincent 2013-05-09
>>> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/centraloh/2013-May/001670.html
>>>
>>> wp:Linear algebra
>>> wp:Linear programming
>>>
>>> wp:Weibull distribution
>>>
>>> Bunnie doing open source hardware
>>> wp:Andrew Huang
>>> http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=69&doc_id=1320638
>>>
>>> http://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/08/23/workshop-video-36-beers-in-bunnies-workshop/
>>>
>>> http://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/04/19/video-hua-qiang-bei-market-in-shenzhen-china/
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.zdnet.com/uks-security-branch-says-ubuntu-most-secure-end-user-os-7000025312/
>>>
>>> nbconvert crashes converting .ipynb to html or pdf
>>>     simple ones work
>>>     complex ones, such as with Latex, crash
>>>
>>> ghosts can not be shone in China
>>>     shall not promote superstitious stuff in China
>>>
>>> http://172.17.153.149:8000/Word_Count_Example.ipynb
>>> counts = dict()
>>> for word in words_list:
>>>     counts[word] = counts.get(word, 0) + 1
>>>
>>> wp:Chromium (web browser)
>>> wp:SRWare Iron
>>>
>>> There are towns in China that are built as movie sets to promote the
>>> making of
>>> movies there. Do the residents become extras?
>>> wp:Extra (acting)
>>>
>>>
>>> https://github.com/ipython/ipython/tree/master/examples/notebooks#a-collection-of-notebooks-for-using-ipython-effectively
>>>
>>> http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ipython/ipython/blob/master/examples/notebooks/Part%204%20-%20Markdown%20Cells.ipynb
>>>
>>> wp:CISSP
>>>
>>> CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not
>>> as they
>>> ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a
>>> cynic's
>>> eyes to improve his vision.
>>>
>>> PITH, n. See Dorothy Parker
>>> Tallulah Bankhead
>>> What do Tata and Ford have in common?
>>>
>>> The Devil's Dictionary
>>>
>>> pypy is faster than cpython
>>> speed.pypy.org
>>>
>>> open-source food?
>>> http://www.wildfermentation.com/
>>>
>>> http://www.npr.org/2012/06/13/154914381/fermentation-when-food-goes-bad-but-stays-good
>>>
>>> wp:Charles Csuri
>>> http://oncampus.osu.edu/v29n18/thisissue_6.html
>>>
>>> https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=charles%20csuri%20wosu%20beyond%20boundaries
>>> wp:Lava lamp
>>>
>>> Polymorphism (computer science), the ability in computer programming to
>>> present
>>> the same interface for differing underlying forms (data types).
>>> Operator overloading can be an example of polymorphism.
>>> wp:Polymorphism (computer science)
>>> wp:Operator overloading
>>> Python supports polymorphism
>>>
>>> On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:48:27 -0500, Fandi Peng <fandi.814 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> >     https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/astronomy-notebooks
>>>
>>> That's a great introduction to (i)python and is getting some maintainance
>>> attention, including the addition of a pandas notebook.
>>>
>>> There are probably more notes and ipython notebooks coming for
>>> this dojo.
>>>
>>> [1] See
>>> http://colug.net/python/dojo/20140117/word-count-example-rev2.ipynb
>>>
>>> [2] Python for Data Analysis by Wes McKinney
>>>     this book just keeps coming back up
>>>     http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023784.do
>>>     http://blog.wesmckinney.com/
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> CentralOH mailing list
>>> CentralOH at python.org
>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/centraloh
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From michael at yanovich.net  Tue Jan 21 20:02:45 2014
From: michael at yanovich.net (michael at yanovich.net)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:02:45 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] 10 Reasons to Learn and Use Regular Expressions
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On 01/21/2014 01:37 PM, Chris Folsom wrote:
> 
> http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/10-reasons-to-learn-and-use-regular-expressions
> 
> #11 Because someday you might want to write useful shell scripts.
> 
> #12 Because they look like sparkles and magic to people with pointy hair.
> 
> 

This is a nifty way to practice regular expressions, http://regex.alf.nu/

cf. https://xkcd.com/1313/

-- 
Michael Yanovich


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From eric at intellovations.com  Tue Jan 21 20:13:29 2014
From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:13:29 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] 10 Reasons to Learn and Use Regular Expressions
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Related, I was filling out a web form and entered my phone number as a
sequence of 10 digits, ala: 6145551212

It returned with an error saying I must enter my phone number in the form
"###-###-####".

Are you serious? In this day and age, there is no excuse for that. That's
what computers are GOOD at.

If you'd like to stretch your regex muscle, build a regex that allows for
any number of phone number formats, including optional 1.  Of course you
could also Google it :-).



On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Chris Folsom <jcfolsom at pureperfect.com>wrote:

>
>
> http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/10-reasons-to-learn-and-use-regular-expressions
>
> #11 Because someday you might want to write useful shell scripts.
>
> #12 Because they look like sparkles and magic to people with pointy hair.
>
>
>
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From herrold at owlriver.com  Tue Jan 21 20:08:43 2014
From: herrold at owlriver.com (R P Herrold)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:08:43 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [CentralOH] 10 Reasons to Learn and Use Regular Expressions (From
 Flagrant Badassery)
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On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Chris Folsom wrote:

> #12 Because they look like sparkles and magic to people with pointy hair.

# 13 -- ' ... added a Regex layer to my project:  Now it has N 
	+ 1 problems' [1, restated]

-- Russ herrold

[1] http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247

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From: jcfolsom at pureperfect.com (Chris Folsom)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:05:34 -0700
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From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:29:16 -0500
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>
> re.split("(\s|\.|\!|\?)+", "Blah. Blah!Blah! Blah Blah?Blah")
>
> Results in:
>
> ['Blah', ' ', 'Blah', '!', 'Blah', ' ', 'Blah', ' ', 'Blah', '?', 'Blah']
>
> Where as in Java:
>
> "Blah. Blah!Blah! Blah Blah?Blah".split("(\\s|\\.|\\!|\\?)+")
>
> Results in:
>
> [Blah,Blah,Blah,Blah,Blah,Blah]
>
>
> Don't blame me. I didn't break it.
>


Parens are a "capturing group" versus brackets which are a "character
class".  Python's split will "capture" matched groups in the split, whereas
Java doesn't. In other contexts, using parens indicates to the regex engine
you'd like to keep the match to refer to it later.

Perhaps Python's implementation is less broken in that regard.

To be correct in both Java and Python, this regex should be using brackets.
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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:59:15 -0500
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Very cool. I did not know about the tools lib. Thank you!

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jan 21, 2014, at 12:38 PM, Erik Welch <erik.n.welch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a few comments on the word counting example.  First, it is possible to view the referenced iPython notebooks online from http://nbviewer.ipython.org/ .  See the notebook here:
> 
> http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/colug.net/python/dojo/20140117/word-count-example-rev2.ipynb?create=1
> 
> Second, there have been somewhat recent blog posts using word counting as an example.  The first compares a verbose solution with simple terms to concise solutions with complex terms:
> 
> http://matthewrocklin.com/blog/work/2013/11/15/Functional-Wordcount/
> 
> A newer blog post looks at the performance of Python and other languages for a specific text processing task:
> 
> http://matthewrocklin.com/blog/work/2014/01/13/Text-Benchmarks/
> 
> Finally, to learn more about functional data analysis in Python, here is a video tutorial from the same author as the above posts (and it uses the `toolz` library, although the talk isn't strictly about `toolz`):
> 
> http://vimeo.com/80096814
> 
> Cheers,
> Erik
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 6:59 PM, iynaix <iynaix at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Quick aside:
>> 
>> If you're on Python 2.7 and above, you can do the following:
>> 
>>     from collections import Counter
>>     counts = Counter(words_list)
>> 
>> Counter is a dictionary-like object that has nice utilities such as being able to add or subtract counters from one another, and most_common(), which is very useful. See the link below for the official docs:
>> 
>> http://docs.python.org/2/library/collections.html#collections.Counter
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> XY
>> 
>> 
>>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:09 AM, <jep200404 at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>>> The most interesting thing[1] was interesting because I should have known it.
>>> It used the dictionary get method to count words.
>>> 
>>>     counts = {}
>>>     for word in words_list:
>>>         counts[word] = counts.get(word, 0) + 1
>>> 
>>> We had to look it up in Learning Python by Mark Lutz.
>>> (p 210 in a printing of 4th edition.)
>>> 
>>> It reminded me of the introductory examples on starting on page 19 of pfda[2].
>>> 
>>> Someone just passed the CISSP exam, so now can play with Python.
>>> If he passed, his employer would pay for it (about $600).
>>> If he failed, his employer would not pay for it.
>>> It was a four hour multiple choice exam.
>>> One gets a pass/fail grade. 70% is passing.
>>> One is not told how well one did.
>>> 
>>> http://scott.a16z.com/2014/01/17/success-at-work-failure-at-home/
>>> http://bhorowitz.com/2014/01/02/can-do-vs-cant-do-cultures/
>>> 
>>> wp:Newton's method
>>> need to by my post my euler to github Euler #80 11.7 ms
>>> https://github.com/fandi-peng/Project_Euler/raw/master/code/euler80.py
>>> 
>>> someone was messing with vincent 2013-05-09
>>> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/centraloh/2013-May/001670.html
>>> 
>>> wp:Linear algebra
>>> wp:Linear programming
>>> 
>>> wp:Weibull distribution
>>> 
>>> Bunnie doing open source hardware
>>> wp:Andrew Huang
>>> http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=69&doc_id=1320638
>>> http://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/08/23/workshop-video-36-beers-in-bunnies-workshop/
>>> http://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/04/19/video-hua-qiang-bei-market-in-shenzhen-china/
>>> 
>>> http://www.zdnet.com/uks-security-branch-says-ubuntu-most-secure-end-user-os-7000025312/
>>> 
>>> nbconvert crashes converting .ipynb to html or pdf
>>>     simple ones work
>>>     complex ones, such as with Latex, crash
>>> 
>>> ghosts can not be shone in China
>>>     shall not promote superstitious stuff in China
>>> 
>>> http://172.17.153.149:8000/Word_Count_Example.ipynb
>>> counts = dict()
>>> for word in words_list:
>>>     counts[word] = counts.get(word, 0) + 1
>>> 
>>> wp:Chromium (web browser)
>>> wp:SRWare Iron
>>> 
>>> There are towns in China that are built as movie sets to promote the making of
>>> movies there. Do the residents become extras?
>>> wp:Extra (acting)
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/ipython/ipython/tree/master/examples/notebooks#a-collection-of-notebooks-for-using-ipython-effectively
>>> http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ipython/ipython/blob/master/examples/notebooks/Part%204%20-%20Markdown%20Cells.ipynb
>>> 
>>> wp:CISSP
>>> 
>>> CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they
>>> ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's
>>> eyes to improve his vision.
>>> 
>>> PITH, n. See Dorothy Parker
>>> Tallulah Bankhead
>>> What do Tata and Ford have in common?
>>> 
>>> The Devil's Dictionary
>>> 
>>> pypy is faster than cpython
>>> speed.pypy.org
>>> 
>>> open-source food?
>>> http://www.wildfermentation.com/
>>> http://www.npr.org/2012/06/13/154914381/fermentation-when-food-goes-bad-but-stays-good
>>> 
>>> wp:Charles Csuri
>>> http://oncampus.osu.edu/v29n18/thisissue_6.html
>>> https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=charles%20csuri%20wosu%20beyond%20boundaries
>>> wp:Lava lamp
>>> 
>>> Polymorphism (computer science), the ability in computer programming to present
>>> the same interface for differing underlying forms (data types).
>>> Operator overloading can be an example of polymorphism.
>>> wp:Polymorphism (computer science)
>>> wp:Operator overloading
>>> Python supports polymorphism
>>> 
>>> On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:48:27 -0500, Fandi Peng <fandi.814 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> >     https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/astronomy-notebooks
>>> 
>>> That's a great introduction to (i)python and is getting some maintainance
>>> attention, including the addition of a pandas notebook.
>>> 
>>> There are probably more notes and ipython notebooks coming for
>>> this dojo.
>>> 
>>> [1] See http://colug.net/python/dojo/20140117/word-count-example-rev2.ipynb
>>> 
>>> [2] Python for Data Analysis by Wes McKinney
>>>     this book just keeps coming back up
>>>     http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023784.do
>>>     http://blog.wesmckinney.com/
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From joskra42.list at gmail.com  Fri Jan 24 21:10:09 2014
From: joskra42.list at gmail.com (Joshua Kramer)
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:10:09 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] Capturing stdin/out when using ctypes?
Message-ID: <CAMPA5geh6-1iJxRBPW+be4VdezXe1aHxo53tdVJQNWi-V_cPfw@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Group...

Here's a tricky one.  My platform is cpython 2.7 on Windows 7.  I am using
the ctypes library to run a routine inside of a third-party DLL.  This DLL
presents the user with a prompt and waits for input.

If I spawn an .exe from a Python script, I can capture stdout and insert
data on stdin.  Is there some way to do this when I am calling a DLL
instead of spawning an .EXE?

I could write a small "stub script" that does all of the DLL work, and then
call that stub script from my main script by spawning
"c:\python27\python.exe c:\users\josh\myscript.py" and attaching to the
stdin/out of that subprocess.  But I'd like to have everything neatly
contained in one process if possible.

Thanks!
-JK
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From jep200404 at columbus.rr.com  Mon Jan 27 22:10:42 2014
From: jep200404 at columbus.rr.com (jep200404 at columbus.rr.com)
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:10:42 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] Meeting Python Tonight
Message-ID: <20140127161042.2cc54e6e.jep200404@columbus.rr.com>

Hi everyone, 

The monthly meeting is tonight. See cohpy.org.

From jep200404 at columbus.rr.com  Tue Jan 28 20:08:11 2014
From: jep200404 at columbus.rr.com (jep200404 at columbus.rr.com)
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:08:11 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] =?utf-8?q?2014-01-27_=E6=9C=83=E8=AD=B0_Scribbles_?=
 =?utf-8?b?76SY5pu4L+aDoeaWhz8gSm9obiBDYXNzaWR5OiBKeXRob247IFJheW1vbmQg?=
 =?utf-8?q?Chandler_III=3A_Super_Advanced_Python?=
Message-ID: <20140128140811.7d40c294.jep200404@columbus.rr.com>

Thanks again to Nate Bennick and Pillar Technology for hosting 
us at The Forge. They catered more than we could eat.

John Cassidy gave presentation on Jython
What is URL for slides?

Jython 2.5.3 implements Python 2.5.3
There is a Jython 2.7 version under development for Python 2.7
When that's done, they'll do Jython 3 for Python 3

Raymond Chandler III (re)presented Super Advanced Python
https://www.spkrbar.com/profile/1
https://www.spkrbar.com/talk/11
generators are cool
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/centraloh/2013-June/001718.html
spkrbar.com has certificate problems with Knoppix.

wp:Apollo Computer
wp:Single-level store
wp:Domain/OS
http://jim.rees.org/apollo-archive/
http://jim.rees.org/apollo-archive/monitor-info
http://web.archive.org/web/20000304201403/http://cvs.anu.edu.au/monitorconversion/apollo.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20000603081917/http://cvs.anu.edu.au/monitorconversion/Gsync.gif
http://web.archive.org/web/20000306013122/http://cvs.anu.edu.au/monitorconversion/monitor-info
http://web.archive.org/web/20010418164040/http://www.dse.nl/~skyline/monpc.html

From guy.jacks at gmail.com  Tue Jan 28 22:49:48 2014
From: guy.jacks at gmail.com (Guy Jacks)
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:49:48 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] looking for some mentors
Message-ID: <CAPM-g_=oWSN6xtmV4-UTQj35OW1Y-E7heyVxO1tpYMhyVB3zfg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Guys,

I've been developing a moderately sized Flask app for a few months now and
my code has become a bit of a mess.  I've tried my best to balance making
progress with coding things the best way.

Specifically, I would like to buy a few hours of time to help me
restructure my application.  I'm thinking an hour or two to look over my
code and an hour or two to walk me through suggestions.  Maybe another hour
or so for answering follow up questions.

Thank you.

-- 
Guy Jacks
Fndrz (coming soon)

mobile: 614.448.7649
guy.jacks at gmail.com
gtalk: guy.jacks
skype: guy.jacks
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From kurtis.mullins at gmail.com  Tue Jan 28 22:56:06 2014
From: kurtis.mullins at gmail.com (Kurtis Mullins)
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:56:06 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] looking for some mentors
In-Reply-To: <CAPM-g_=oWSN6xtmV4-UTQj35OW1Y-E7heyVxO1tpYMhyVB3zfg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAPM-g_=oWSN6xtmV4-UTQj35OW1Y-E7heyVxO1tpYMhyVB3zfg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAPbEHsdDOXN9+Ni6bAChs7S4hsnZYkFonkzKhEYir7B-wc8Uww@mail.gmail.com>

If you're close enough to Dayton to meet up around here, I'd be happy to
help on one of the weekends my son is with his mother (this weekend and
every other one there-after)

If you can't find anyone else, we might be able to arrange something
online. I just think it would be a lot easier in-person.


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Guy Jacks <guy.jacks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> I've been developing a moderately sized Flask app for a few months now and
> my code has become a bit of a mess.  I've tried my best to balance making
> progress with coding things the best way.
>
> Specifically, I would like to buy a few hours of time to help me
> restructure my application.  I'm thinking an hour or two to look over my
> code and an hour or two to walk me through suggestions.  Maybe another hour
> or so for answering follow up questions.
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
> Guy Jacks
> Fndrz (coming soon)
>
> mobile: 614.448.7649
> guy.jacks at gmail.com
> gtalk: guy.jacks
> skype: guy.jacks
>
> _______________________________________________
> CentralOH mailing list
> CentralOH at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/centraloh
>
>
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