From anjali.deolapure at gmail.com  Wed Jan  4 16:47:35 2017
From: anjali.deolapure at gmail.com (Anjali Deolapure)
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 15:47:35 -0600
Subject: [Chicago] Lend-A-Hand Tutoring - Tuesdays in the Loop
Message-ID: <CAFhO0hyMUs2rOBmvoxBgXPEmf8Hzq+yJpM=9m0e=hTx9abyumg@mail.gmail.com>

If anyone wants to squeeze some free time out of their schedules,
Lend-A-Hand has a program that tutors kids every Tuesday at the CBA
building. The premise is to make it convenient for people that work in the
Loop, a great idea.

The more tutors they get the more kids can be helped, so thought I'd
forward info. Note you don't have to be a lawyer, just over 18, not a
criminal (smooth or otherwise), and willing to help.

Website:
https://lawyerslendahand.org/

Contact:
Kathryn McCabe
kmccabe at lawyerslendahand.org

There's an orientation coming up so if interested definitely get in touch
with Kathryn. Here's her forwarded info about the program:

Here's a bit about our program:

Lend-A-Hand Tutoring provides students from the Montessori School of
Englewood, a public charter school open to students in Chicago, with a
volunteer tutor. The program takes place on Tuesday evenings from 5:30 to
7:00 p.m. at the Chicago Bar Association (321 S. Plymouth Court). Each
student is paired with a volunteer tutor, and they work together each week
for the duration of the tutoring year. The students are in grades K-6th
grade and are transported to the CBA for the sessions.



Lend-A-Hand Tutoring has a focus on reading and language arts, with
students being expected to work on these subjects with their tutors for at
least 30 to 45 minutes each session. Lend-A-Hand provides reading materials
and a basic plan to follow. Student-tutor pairs can also work on math
skills, homework or standardized test prep in the time they have remaining.
Because we want this to be fun, there also are four parties a year, and
students can play games with their tutor for 15 minutes at the end of the
tutoring session once a month.

Cheers Chipsters/Chippies/Whatever We Call Ourselves,
Anjali
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From davidkunio at gmail.com  Thu Jan  5 11:13:51 2017
From: davidkunio at gmail.com (David Matsumura)
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 10:13:51 -0600
Subject: [Chicago] Quantopian Chicago meetup tonight
References: <CAFqhyCdBO9M5Q+Om1xwGhGj6tTs2T=M80C6grZLyZeeaOYp53Q@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4DFAD1C3-DC4E-438C-9C33-83CE92A8613C@gmail.com>

Hi,

Happy New Year!

Please see below from Quantopian. If you are interested this may be a good chance to meet a new Quantopian data scientist. Brave the cold and learn a bit about pair trading.

The next actual Fin SIG will be held on Feb 4th - more details to come.

Thanks
David

--
David Matsumura
773.230.1761

Begin forwarded message:

From: Kelly Elmstrom <kelmstrom at quantopian.com>
Date: January 5, 2017 at 9:08:49 AM CST
To: Jason Wirth <wirth.jason at gmail.com>, David Matsumura <davidkunio at gmail.com>
Subject: Quantopian Chicago meetup tonight

Happy New Year guys! Hope you are well!

I apologize for the late notice here! I failed to flag this to you earlier, but if you are your members want to attend our Chicago meetup, please feel free to stop by. One of our new data scientists, Max Margenot, will be running it.

Title of the talk: Basic Statistical Arbitrage: Understanding the Math Behind Pairs Trading

Details here: https://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Algorithmic-Trading/events/236337502/

Best,

Kelly 

-- 
Kelly Elmstrom
Head of Content Marketing & Events
Mobile: 617-767-6880
kelmstrom at quantopian.com
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From comicpilsen at gmail.com  Thu Jan  5 12:11:07 2017
From: comicpilsen at gmail.com (comicpilsen)
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 11:11:07 -0600
Subject: [Chicago] Quantopian Chicago meetup tonight
In-Reply-To: <4DFAD1C3-DC4E-438C-9C33-83CE92A8613C@gmail.com>
References: <CAFqhyCdBO9M5Q+Om1xwGhGj6tTs2T=M80C6grZLyZeeaOYp53Q@mail.gmail.com>
 <4DFAD1C3-DC4E-438C-9C33-83CE92A8613C@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <f6bc904d-cf54-37fb-bf13-717ff4a25e6b@gmail.com>

hi there

do we need anything to get in? OR is it just turn up and listen. Excited 
that you are holding this in my neighborhood :-)

CP

On 01/05/2017 10:13 AM, David Matsumura wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Happy New Year!
>
> Please see below from Quantopian. If you are interested this may be a 
> good chance to meet a new Quantopian data scientist. Brave the cold 
> and learn a bit about pair trading.
>
> The next actual Fin SIG will be held on Feb 4th - more details to come.
>
> Thanks
> David
>
> -- 
> David Matsumura
> 773.230.1761
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From:* Kelly Elmstrom <kelmstrom at quantopian.com 
> <mailto:kelmstrom at quantopian.com>>
> *Date:* January 5, 2017 at 9:08:49 AM CST
> *To:* Jason Wirth <wirth.jason at gmail.com 
> <mailto:wirth.jason at gmail.com>>, David Matsumura <davidkunio at gmail.com 
> <mailto:davidkunio at gmail.com>>
> *Subject:* *Quantopian Chicago meetup tonight*
>
> Happy New Year guys! Hope you are well!
>
> I apologize for the late notice here! I failed to flag this to you 
> earlier, but if you are your members want to attend our Chicago 
> meetup, please feel free to stop by. One of our new data scientists, 
> Max Margenot, will be running it.
>
> Title of the talk: Basic Statistical Arbitrage: Understanding the Math 
> Behind Pairs Trading
>
> Details here: 
> https://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Algorithmic-Trading/events/236337502/
>
> Best,
>
> Kelly
>
> -- 
> Kelly Elmstrom
> Head of Content Marketing & Events
> Mobile: 617-767-6880
> kelmstrom at quantopian.com <mailto:kelmstrom at quantopian.com>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Chicago mailing list
> Chicago at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago

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From davidkunio at gmail.com  Thu Jan  5 12:14:21 2017
From: davidkunio at gmail.com (David Matsumura)
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 11:14:21 -0600
Subject: [Chicago] Quantopian Chicago meetup tonight
In-Reply-To: <f6bc904d-cf54-37fb-bf13-717ff4a25e6b@gmail.com>
References: <CAFqhyCdBO9M5Q+Om1xwGhGj6tTs2T=M80C6grZLyZeeaOYp53Q@mail.gmail.com>
 <4DFAD1C3-DC4E-438C-9C33-83CE92A8613C@gmail.com>
 <f6bc904d-cf54-37fb-bf13-717ff4a25e6b@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <5E7E65DA-FB81-485D-B2A7-DD0F11A2320C@gmail.com>

I think if you RSVP'd in the meetup link that would likely be appreciated by the Quantopian people, but otherwise I think it's fine if you just show up. Security isn't particularly rigorous at that location.

See you there
David

--
David Matsumura
773.230.1761

On Jan 5, 2017, at 11:11 AM, comicpilsen <comicpilsen at gmail.com> wrote:

hi there

do we need anything to get in? OR is it just turn up and listen. Excited that you are holding this in my neighborhood :-)

CP
> On 01/05/2017 10:13 AM, David Matsumura wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Happy New Year!
> 
> Please see below from Quantopian. If you are interested this may be a good chance to meet a new Quantopian data scientist. Brave the cold and learn a bit about pair trading.
> 
> The next actual Fin SIG will be held on Feb 4th - more details to come.
> 
> Thanks
> David
> 
> --
> David Matsumura
> 773.230.1761
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Kelly Elmstrom <kelmstrom at quantopian.com>
> Date: January 5, 2017 at 9:08:49 AM CST
> To: Jason Wirth <wirth.jason at gmail.com>, David Matsumura <davidkunio at gmail.com>
> Subject: Quantopian Chicago meetup tonight
> 
> Happy New Year guys! Hope you are well!
> 
> I apologize for the late notice here! I failed to flag this to you earlier, but if you are your members want to attend our Chicago meetup, please feel free to stop by. One of our new data scientists, Max Margenot, will be running it.
> 
> Title of the talk: Basic Statistical Arbitrage: Understanding the Math Behind Pairs Trading
> 
> Details here: https://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Algorithmic-Trading/events/236337502/
> 
> Best,
> 
> Kelly 
> 
> -- 
> Kelly Elmstrom
> Head of Content Marketing & Events
> Mobile: 617-767-6880
> kelmstrom at quantopian.com
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Chicago mailing list
> Chicago at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago

_______________________________________________
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From comicpilsen at gmail.com  Thu Jan  5 12:17:12 2017
From: comicpilsen at gmail.com (comicpilsen)
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 11:17:12 -0600
Subject: [Chicago] Quantopian Chicago meetup tonight
In-Reply-To: <5E7E65DA-FB81-485D-B2A7-DD0F11A2320C@gmail.com>
References: <CAFqhyCdBO9M5Q+Om1xwGhGj6tTs2T=M80C6grZLyZeeaOYp53Q@mail.gmail.com>
 <4DFAD1C3-DC4E-438C-9C33-83CE92A8613C@gmail.com>
 <f6bc904d-cf54-37fb-bf13-717ff4a25e6b@gmail.com>
 <5E7E65DA-FB81-485D-B2A7-DD0F11A2320C@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <0ecae9f3-4ebb-be06-885a-4c732600d201@gmail.com>

thanks David should be great fun and thank you for such a speedy reply.  
I am heartened that things like this are happening in Pilsen, I was just 
chatting with the Kpcb guys and pointed out how there is an untapped 
skill group in the area.

Cp



On 01/05/2017 11:14 AM, David Matsumura wrote:
> I think if you RSVP'd in the meetup link that would likely be 
> appreciated by the Quantopian people, but otherwise I think it's fine 
> if you just show up. Security isn't particularly rigorous at that 
> location.
>
> See you there
> David
>
> -- 
> David Matsumura
> 773.230.1761
>
> On Jan 5, 2017, at 11:11 AM, comicpilsen <comicpilsen at gmail.com 
> <mailto:comicpilsen at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> hi there
>
> do we need anything to get in? OR is it just turn up and listen. 
> Excited that you are holding this in my neighborhood :-)
>
> CP
>
> On 01/05/2017 10:13 AM, David Matsumura wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Happy New Year!
>>
>> Please see below from Quantopian. If you are interested this may be a 
>> good chance to meet a new Quantopian data scientist. Brave the cold 
>> and learn a bit about pair trading.
>>
>> The next actual Fin SIG will be held on Feb 4th - more details to come.
>>
>> Thanks
>> David
>>
>> -- 
>> David Matsumura
>> 773.230.1761
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> *From:* Kelly Elmstrom <kelmstrom at quantopian.com 
>> <mailto:kelmstrom at quantopian.com>>
>> *Date:* January 5, 2017 at 9:08:49 AM CST
>> *To:* Jason Wirth <wirth.jason at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:wirth.jason at gmail.com>>, David Matsumura 
>> <davidkunio at gmail.com <mailto:davidkunio at gmail.com>>
>> *Subject:* *Quantopian Chicago meetup tonight*
>>
>> Happy New Year guys! Hope you are well!
>>
>> I apologize for the late notice here! I failed to flag this to you 
>> earlier, but if you are your members want to attend our Chicago 
>> meetup, please feel free to stop by. One of our new data scientists, 
>> Max Margenot, will be running it.
>>
>> Title of the talk: Basic Statistical Arbitrage: Understanding the 
>> Math Behind Pairs Trading
>>
>> Details here: 
>> https://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Algorithmic-Trading/events/236337502/
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Kelly
>>
>> -- 
>> Kelly Elmstrom
>> Head of Content Marketing & Events
>> Mobile: 617-767-6880
>> kelmstrom at quantopian.com <mailto:kelmstrom at quantopian.com>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Chicago mailing list
>> Chicago at python.org
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago
>
> _______________________________________________
> Chicago mailing list
> Chicago at python.org <mailto:Chicago at python.org>
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Chicago mailing list
> Chicago at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago

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From brianhray at gmail.com  Sun Jan  8 14:08:02 2017
From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray)
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 14:08:02 -0500
Subject: [Chicago] Beer and Pizza
Message-ID: <CANKg38tUeDYmHomanDm4awSg87g+9jzpiSBUTez69tg+-Sdzmg@mail.gmail.com>

Any corporate sponsors out there want to donate some Beer and Pizza for
Thursday's meeting? Expecting 120 folks.

-- 
Brian Ray
@brianray
(773) 669-7717
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From adamkyala at gmail.com  Sun Jan  8 17:05:04 2017
From: adamkyala at gmail.com (Adam Yala)
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 16:05:04 -0600
Subject: [Chicago] Avoiding circular imports
Message-ID: <CADucJ+1eKCV+77HTiBBghZN964SWNaMN=U5J+Y3T82wQ7Au9dA@mail.gmail.com>

I'm trying to write a python wrapper for a web api. I have two files,
api.py and models.py. api.py contains a Client class used to make requests
to the web api. models.py contains objects from the web api in python form.

api.py has the line: from models import Company
models.py has the line: from api import Client

The Company class uses the Client class to make other needed web api calls
(like getting Employees). The Client class returns instances of Company
after web api calls.

However, I'm getting circular import errors. Is there a safer way to
implement these imports? I've tried absolute imports and relative imports,
but both throw errors.

If anyone has any guides or good reads on writing web api wrappers, I'd
love to give them a read. My google-fu has failed me on finding good
resources.
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From zitterbewegung at gmail.com  Sun Jan  8 17:12:12 2017
From: zitterbewegung at gmail.com (Joshua Herman)
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 16:12:12 -0600
Subject: [Chicago] Avoiding circular imports
In-Reply-To: <CADucJ+1eKCV+77HTiBBghZN964SWNaMN=U5J+Y3T82wQ7Au9dA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CADucJ+1eKCV+77HTiBBghZN964SWNaMN=U5J+Y3T82wQ7Au9dA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <38D37BC7-0AA7-4567-B970-96AA7FB90EF7@gmail.com>

Searching on how to fix this on stack overflow it appears you can do this with absolute imports.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7336802/how-to-avoid-circular-imports-in-python
> On Jan 8, 2017, at 4:05 PM, Adam Yala <adamkyala at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to write a python wrapper for a web api. I have two files, api.py and models.py. api.py contains a Client class used to make requests to the web api. models.py contains objects from the web api in python form.
> 
> api.py has the line: from models import Company
> models.py has the line: from api import Client
> 
> The Company class uses the Client class to make other needed web api calls (like getting Employees). The Client class returns instances of Company after web api calls.
> 
> However, I'm getting circular import errors. Is there a safer way to implement these imports? I've tried absolute imports and relative imports, but both throw errors.
> 
> If anyone has any guides or good reads on writing web api wrappers, I'd love to give them a read. My google-fu has failed me on finding good resources. 
> _______________________________________________
> Chicago mailing list
> Chicago at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago


From adamkyala at gmail.com  Sun Jan  8 17:26:45 2017
From: adamkyala at gmail.com (Adam Yala)
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 16:26:45 -0600
Subject: [Chicago] Avoiding circular imports
In-Reply-To: <38D37BC7-0AA7-4567-B970-96AA7FB90EF7@gmail.com>
References: <CADucJ+1eKCV+77HTiBBghZN964SWNaMN=U5J+Y3T82wQ7Au9dA@mail.gmail.com>
 <38D37BC7-0AA7-4567-B970-96AA7FB90EF7@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CADucJ+291jsbvQYvkG0ANWCUnJ69XQBRPwLP1LiKMD915RyVdg@mail.gmail.com>

I tried their method, when I did I got an AttributeError: module 'models'
has no attribute 'Company' even through it most definitely does contain
that class.

On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Joshua Herman <zitterbewegung at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Searching on how to fix this on stack overflow it appears you can do this
> with absolute imports.
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7336802/how-to-
> avoid-circular-imports-in-python
> > On Jan 8, 2017, at 4:05 PM, Adam Yala <adamkyala at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to write a python wrapper for a web api. I have two files,
> api.py and models.py. api.py contains a Client class used to make requests
> to the web api. models.py contains objects from the web api in python form.
> >
> > api.py has the line: from models import Company
> > models.py has the line: from api import Client
> >
> > The Company class uses the Client class to make other needed web api
> calls (like getting Employees). The Client class returns instances of
> Company after web api calls.
> >
> > However, I'm getting circular import errors. Is there a safer way to
> implement these imports? I've tried absolute imports and relative imports,
> but both throw errors.
> >
> > If anyone has any guides or good reads on writing web api wrappers, I'd
> love to give them a read. My google-fu has failed me on finding good
> resources.
> > _______________________________________________
> > Chicago mailing list
> > Chicago at python.org
> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago
>
> _______________________________________________
> Chicago mailing list
> Chicago at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago
>
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From kenschutte at gmail.com  Sun Jan  8 20:30:12 2017
From: kenschutte at gmail.com (Ken Schutte)
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 19:30:12 -0600
Subject: [Chicago] Avoiding circular imports
In-Reply-To: <CADucJ+291jsbvQYvkG0ANWCUnJ69XQBRPwLP1LiKMD915RyVdg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CADucJ+1eKCV+77HTiBBghZN964SWNaMN=U5J+Y3T82wQ7Au9dA@mail.gmail.com>
 <38D37BC7-0AA7-4567-B970-96AA7FB90EF7@gmail.com>
 <CADucJ+291jsbvQYvkG0ANWCUnJ69XQBRPwLP1LiKMD915RyVdg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAG=8SLpYXxX3LZMfgp_6feP9hT64BG4zzPL104hjPgU4sqdJVg@mail.gmail.com>

Try this experiment:

=== api.py ===
print("api: top")
import models
print("api: models.Company exits? " + repr(hasattr(models,"Company")))

=== models.py ===
print("models: top")
import api
class Company:
    pass
print("models: Company has been defined")

run it:
$ python api.py
api: top
models: top
api: top
api: models.Company exits? False
models: Company has been defined
api: models.Company exits? True

It can be a bit confusing, but hopefully it shows what is happening
and how imports work. Your best bet is probably to rearrange things.
For example, use models.Company within a function (wouldn't be called
directly when being imported), then call that from somewhere else.

Ken



On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Adam Yala <adamkyala at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried their method, when I did I got an AttributeError: module 'models'
> has no attribute 'Company' even through it most definitely does contain that
> class.
>
> On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Joshua Herman <zitterbewegung at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Searching on how to fix this on stack overflow it appears you can do this
>> with absolute imports.
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7336802/how-to-avoid-circular-imports-in-python
>> > On Jan 8, 2017, at 4:05 PM, Adam Yala <adamkyala at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm trying to write a python wrapper for a web api. I have two files,
>> > api.py and models.py. api.py contains a Client class used to make requests
>> > to the web api. models.py contains objects from the web api in python form.
>> >
>> > api.py has the line: from models import Company
>> > models.py has the line: from api import Client
>> >
>> > The Company class uses the Client class to make other needed web api
>> > calls (like getting Employees). The Client class returns instances of
>> > Company after web api calls.
>> >
>> > However, I'm getting circular import errors. Is there a safer way to
>> > implement these imports? I've tried absolute imports and relative imports,
>> > but both throw errors.
>> >
>> > If anyone has any guides or good reads on writing web api wrappers, I'd
>> > love to give them a read. My google-fu has failed me on finding good
>> > resources.
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Chicago mailing list
>> > Chicago at python.org
>> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Chicago mailing list
>> Chicago at python.org
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Chicago mailing list
> Chicago at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago
>

From davidkunio at gmail.com  Mon Jan  9 09:00:08 2017
From: davidkunio at gmail.com (David Matsumura)
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 14:00:08 +0000
Subject: [Chicago] Ride to Church
Message-ID: <CA+SrYEenkx5fmwS_HTBf76RL_fbXxpTrykQ1U8LBkLFSTeeyuw@mail.gmail.com>

Anyone in or pass by the vicinity of 40th and Albany (near the stake
center) and could pick up a member for a ride this coming week? If so
please let me know.

Thanks
David
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From davidkunio at gmail.com  Mon Jan  9 09:05:55 2017
From: davidkunio at gmail.com (David Matsumura)
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 14:05:55 +0000
Subject: [Chicago] Ride to Church
In-Reply-To: <CA+SrYEenkx5fmwS_HTBf76RL_fbXxpTrykQ1U8LBkLFSTeeyuw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CA+SrYEenkx5fmwS_HTBf76RL_fbXxpTrykQ1U8LBkLFSTeeyuw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CA+SrYEfibdohwF_BQG11_vNZ7axMYgD5cyzaW8TXB0Zo1ktMiA@mail.gmail.com>

Sorry, wrong mail list. Please disregard.

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:00 AM David Matsumura <davidkunio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyone in or pass by the vicinity of 40th and Albany (near the stake
> center) and could pick up a member for a ride this coming week? If so
> please let me know.
>
> Thanks
> David
>
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From joe.jasinski at gmail.com  Mon Jan  9 09:22:45 2017
From: joe.jasinski at gmail.com (Joe Jasinski)
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 08:22:45 -0600
Subject: [Chicago] ChiPy January 2017 Meeting: Mentorship Finals
Message-ID: <CACdfcwU6+qRVby2=xsfMbYLSbFVdWzVPGhrioj=H-GdmjutPiQ@mail.gmail.com>

ChiPy,

The January 2017 meeting is almost here!

The ChiPy Mentorship program is a unique pairing of mentors and mentees as
they work together on Python-based projects related to Python 101, Web
Development, and Data Science.

This month, we'll get to see what the most recent class of the ChiPy
Mentorship Program has been up to as they give presentations about their
Python-based projects. There should be a bunch of interesting talks and
projects!

For more information about what the ChiPy Mentorship Program, visit the
official ChiPy mentorship homepage (also linked directly off of chipy.org).
http://www.chipymentor.org/

Hope to see you there!


*When:*
Thursday January 12th
6:00pm:  doors open; food arrives
7:00pm:  Talks Start promptly at 7


*How:*You can rsvp at chipy.org or via our Meetup
<https://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/events/236184632/> group.

*Where:*

DeskLabs
3033 N. Clark Chicago IL 60657
*What:*


   - *Mentorship Program Finals*
   By:
   The largest ever cadre of ChiPy Mentorship participants meet to present
   their findings after 13 weeks of study with their mentors. You'll see demos
   and discussion for entry level projects, web development projects and data
   science experiments gone mad with the power of Python. Each presenter gets
   five minutes to tell the story of their journey and what they produced.
   Plus amazing prizes and announcements on how to apply for the spring term.



Thanks always to all our Platinum sponsors, especially: Braintree,
Imaginary Landscape, and Telnyx.

Please be aware of our code of conduct http://www.chipy.org/pages/conduct/

See you there!



-- 
Joe J. Jasinski
www.joejasinski.com
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From shekay at pobox.com  Mon Jan  9 09:45:16 2017
From: shekay at pobox.com (sheila miguez)
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 08:45:16 -0600
Subject: [Chicago] ChiPy January 2017 Meeting: Mentorship Finals
In-Reply-To: <CACdfcwU6+qRVby2=xsfMbYLSbFVdWzVPGhrioj=H-GdmjutPiQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CACdfcwU6+qRVby2=xsfMbYLSbFVdWzVPGhrioj=H-GdmjutPiQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAHCs_racjjkTHwzueja0L7YCR5EPbBKGH-0YFkC6U7gNgkduZw@mail.gmail.com>

I am sorry to miss this. I really enjoyed attending the previous one.

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Joe Jasinski <joe.jasinski at gmail.com> wrote:

> ChiPy,
>
> The January 2017 meeting is almost here!
>
> The ChiPy Mentorship program is a unique pairing of mentors and mentees as
> they work together on Python-based projects related to Python 101, Web
> Development, and Data Science.
>
> This month, we'll get to see what the most recent class of the ChiPy
> Mentorship Program has been up to as they give presentations about their
> Python-based projects. There should be a bunch of interesting talks and
> projects!
>
> For more information about what the ChiPy Mentorship Program, visit the
> official ChiPy mentorship homepage (also linked directly off of chipy.org
> ).
> http://www.chipymentor.org/
>
> Hope to see you there!
>
>
> *When:*
> Thursday January 12th
> 6:00pm:  doors open; food arrives
> 7:00pm:  Talks Start promptly at 7
>
>
> *How:*You can rsvp at chipy.org or via our Meetup
> <https://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/events/236184632/> group.
>
> *Where:*
>
> DeskLabs
> 3033 N. Clark Chicago IL 60657
> *What:*
>
>
>    - *Mentorship Program Finals*
>    By:
>    The largest ever cadre of ChiPy Mentorship participants meet to
>    present their findings after 13 weeks of study with their mentors. You'll
>    see demos and discussion for entry level projects, web development projects
>    and data science experiments gone mad with the power of Python. Each
>    presenter gets five minutes to tell the story of their journey and what
>    they produced. Plus amazing prizes and announcements on how to apply for
>    the spring term.
>
>
>
> Thanks always to all our Platinum sponsors, especially: Braintree,
> Imaginary Landscape, and Telnyx.
>
> Please be aware of our code of conduct http://www.chipy.org/pages/conduct/
>
> See you there!
>
>
>
> --
> Joe J. Jasinski
> www.joejasinski.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Chicago mailing list
> Chicago at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago
>
>


-- 
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From adamkyala at gmail.com  Mon Jan  9 10:23:33 2017
From: adamkyala at gmail.com (Adam Yala)
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 09:23:33 -0600
Subject: [Chicago] Avoiding circular imports
In-Reply-To: <CAG=8SLpYXxX3LZMfgp_6feP9hT64BG4zzPL104hjPgU4sqdJVg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CADucJ+1eKCV+77HTiBBghZN964SWNaMN=U5J+Y3T82wQ7Au9dA@mail.gmail.com>
 <38D37BC7-0AA7-4567-B970-96AA7FB90EF7@gmail.com>
 <CADucJ+291jsbvQYvkG0ANWCUnJ69XQBRPwLP1LiKMD915RyVdg@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAG=8SLpYXxX3LZMfgp_6feP9hT64BG4zzPL104hjPgU4sqdJVg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CADucJ+3krNraKWAP6Q73qBUisQXK87Sb5Go_UOFNt2CEgMOmNQ@mail.gmail.com>

Ken, thank you for your example. I had to think through it for a while, but
that cleared up a lot of the import behavior I didn't understand.

I think I now have the insight to go back in and fix my circular import
errors. I'll report back with my findings (and hopefully a github repo so
people can see what I'm seeing).

On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 7:30 PM, Ken Schutte <kenschutte at gmail.com> wrote:

> Try this experiment:
>
> === api.py ===
> print("api: top")
> import models
> print("api: models.Company exits? " + repr(hasattr(models,"Company")))
>
> === models.py ===
> print("models: top")
> import api
> class Company:
>     pass
> print("models: Company has been defined")
>
> run it:
> $ python api.py
> api: top
> models: top
> api: top
> api: models.Company exits? False
> models: Company has been defined
> api: models.Company exits? True
>
> It can be a bit confusing, but hopefully it shows what is happening
> and how imports work. Your best bet is probably to rearrange things.
> For example, use models.Company within a function (wouldn't be called
> directly when being imported), then call that from somewhere else.
>
> Ken
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Adam Yala <adamkyala at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I tried their method, when I did I got an AttributeError: module 'models'
> > has no attribute 'Company' even through it most definitely does contain
> that
> > class.
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Joshua Herman <zitterbewegung at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Searching on how to fix this on stack overflow it appears you can do
> this
> >> with absolute imports.
> >>
> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7336802/how-to-
> avoid-circular-imports-in-python
> >> > On Jan 8, 2017, at 4:05 PM, Adam Yala <adamkyala at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I'm trying to write a python wrapper for a web api. I have two files,
> >> > api.py and models.py. api.py contains a Client class used to make
> requests
> >> > to the web api. models.py contains objects from the web api in python
> form.
> >> >
> >> > api.py has the line: from models import Company
> >> > models.py has the line: from api import Client
> >> >
> >> > The Company class uses the Client class to make other needed web api
> >> > calls (like getting Employees). The Client class returns instances of
> >> > Company after web api calls.
> >> >
> >> > However, I'm getting circular import errors. Is there a safer way to
> >> > implement these imports? I've tried absolute imports and relative
> imports,
> >> > but both throw errors.
> >> >
> >> > If anyone has any guides or good reads on writing web api wrappers,
> I'd
> >> > love to give them a read. My google-fu has failed me on finding good
> >> > resources.
> >> > _______________________________________________
> >> > Chicago mailing list
> >> > Chicago at python.org
> >> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Chicago mailing list
> >> Chicago at python.org
> >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Chicago mailing list
> > Chicago at python.org
> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago
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From shekay at pobox.com  Mon Jan  9 10:39:02 2017
From: shekay at pobox.com (sheila miguez)
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 09:39:02 -0600
Subject: [Chicago] Chicago area python events Fwd: [PSF-Community] Python
 Events in 2017, Need your help.
Message-ID: <CAHCs_rb02MwSyx0QDU3CgXKh5kZ8uBtxO555LVH_RyAAhAqJpg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

There are events around here we could include.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Stephane Wirtel via PSF-Community <psf-community at python.org>
Date: Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 3:54 AM
Subject: [PSF-Community] Python Events in 2017, Need your help.
To: Python Conferences <conferences at python.org>, PSF Community <
psf-community at python.org>, Python Users <python-list at python.org>


Dear Community,

For the PythonFOSDEM [1] on 4th and 5th February in Belgium, I would like
to present some slides with the Python events around the World.  Based on
https://python.org/events, I have noted that there are missing events, for
example:

* PyCon Otto: Italy
* PyCon UK: United Kingdom
* PyCon CA: Canada
* PyCon Ireland: Ireland
* PyCon France: France

Some of these events are not yet announced and I understand they are in the
second semester, and thus, they don't know the location and the dates,
excepted for PyCon Otto (April).

In fact, I have noted that we know some big events in the Python community
(for example: PyCon US and EuroPython) but do you know the others events,
maybe the local event, PyCon IE, PyCon UK or PyCon IT.

I like to know where there is a PyCon or a Django Conf or a PyData Event.

In fact, I think we can help the Python Community if we submit all the
events in https://python.org/events.

This page has been created by the PSF and is maintained by some volunteers.

I know this list of events:
* PyCon Cameroon : 20-23 Jav, Cameroon
* PythonFOSDEM : 4-5 Feb, Belgium
* PyCon Colombia : 10-12 Feb, Colombia
* PyCon Pune : 16-20 Feb, India
* Swiss Python Summit : 17-18 Feb, Switzerland
* IrPyCon : 17-18 Feb, Iran
* PyCon SK : 10-13 Mar, Slovakia
* Django Europe : 3-8 Apr, Italy
* PyCon Otto : 6-9 Apr, Italy
* Python Sudeste : 5-7 Mai, Brazil
* GeoPython : 8-11 May, Switzerland
* PyCon US : 17-26 May, USA
* EuroPython : July, Italy
* PyCon AU : 3-9 Aug, Australia
* PyCon UK : September, United Kingdom
* PyCon CA : November, Canada
* PyCon Ireland : October, Ireland
* PyCon FR : October/November, France

And you ?
Please, could you check on https://www.python.org/events/ , if you are an
organizer, please add your event.

If you think there is a missing event, please, send me the info via
[email](mailto:stephane at wirtel.be) or via my [twitter account](
https://twitter.com/matrixise) and I will add it on my slides.

I would like to present your event.

Thank you so much for your help.

Stephane Wirtel

[1] https://www.python-fosdem.org

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From jdumblauskas at gmail.com  Sat Jan 14 13:14:02 2017
From: jdumblauskas at gmail.com (Jerry Dumblauskas)
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 12:14:02 -0600
Subject: [Chicago] Jr Developer Role
Message-ID: <CA+G_OOtNXgfOOdd1DWvCq9UPwRwrMgjVHizDbdmTGJyAUwmigA@mail.gmail.com>

We have someone looking for a junior python developer.  If you want more
details please ping me OFF list (jdumblauskas at gmail.com)and if there is
interest we can start the process.

thx

Jerry
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From tathagatadg at gmail.com  Wed Jan 18 00:31:10 2017
From: tathagatadg at gmail.com (Tathagata Dasgupta)
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 05:31:10 +0000
Subject: [Chicago] 1 Hour Workshops at Python Project Nights
Message-ID: <CAB32_MNX1+3rMrA+-oC9PM+HdhuQ26uCDFaQLxziqSA_SEOFhw@mail.gmail.com>

The Python Project night will be hosted by ChiPy every Third Thursday at
Braintree at 6:30 pm. We are organizing 1 hour workshops at Python Project
Nights where attendees will learn something new every month by hands on
problem solving. This is an evolved version of the Coding Dojos that was
limited only to Mentors & Mentees of ChiPy's Mentorship program. We are are
now opening it up for everyone and looking for TAs for running the
workshops.

As Python Project Night TA, you would be part of the team who would be
designing the problems on Python, Data Science and Web Development. You
will also be helping the attendees with environment setup, explain related
concepts and answer question with the problem. In addition to the event
night, we will meet twice every month for planning next month's meeting.
Total expected time commitment per month is about 6 to 8 hours.

Learn something new every month and help others learn as well.

https://github.com/chicagopython/CodingWorkshops/

Register here <https://goo.gl/forms/26WgWChxzP3equBv1> to become a TA.
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From proba at allstate.com  Tue Jan 24 18:45:56 2017
From: proba at allstate.com (Robare, Phillip (TEKSystems))
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 23:45:56 +0000
Subject: [Chicago] Interesting Chicago data set - Taxi trips
Message-ID: <50869A74BA4F07468AD797C9BFF1FE3E35A70AF8@A0185-XPO1026-C.ad.allstate.com>

I missed it at the time, but back in November the city released information on taxi trips 2013 - 2016.  The announcement with links to the data: http://digital.cityofchicago.org/index.php/chicago-taxi-data-released/

Now New York based data analyst Todd W. Schneider has published a blog post of his analysis (done in R) of the trips in the data http://toddwschneider.com/posts/chicago-taxi-data/.

These show taxi rides declining sharply outside of the central business area and declining generally all over.  No data from Uber or Lyft is available it seems.  Now I just need a spark cluster and pyspark to do my own analysis.

I hope people on this list find this interesting.

Phil Robare

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From zitterbewegung at gmail.com  Tue Jan 24 21:36:37 2017
From: zitterbewegung at gmail.com (Joshua Herman)
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 02:36:37 +0000
Subject: [Chicago] Interesting Chicago data set - Taxi trips
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A quick google showed this https://movement.uber.com/cities
Uber will be releasing data soon ...
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 7:23 PM Robare, Phillip (TEKSystems) <
proba at allstate.com> wrote:

> I missed it at the time, but back in November the city released
> information on taxi trips 2013 - 2016.  The announcement with links to the
> data:
> http://digital.cityofchicago.org/index.php/chicago-taxi-data-released/
>
>
>
> Now New York based data analyst Todd W. Schneider has published a blog
> post of his analysis (done in R) of the trips in the data
> http://toddwschneider.com/posts/chicago-taxi-data/.
>
>
>
> These show taxi rides declining sharply outside of the central business
> area and declining generally all over.  No data from Uber or Lyft is
> available it seems.  Now I just need a spark cluster and pyspark to do my
> own analysis.
>
>
>
> I hope people on this list find this interesting.
>
>
>
> Phil Robare
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Chicago mailing list
> Chicago at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago
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