From christianzlong at gmail.com  Mon Jun  6 17:09:00 2016
From: christianzlong at gmail.com (Christian Long)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 16:09:00 -0500
Subject: [FoxPUG] Meeting tonight
Message-ID: <CAEP7POpxY+jbauxX7b9Ef20L61zkdpB_L0_UDPe-fhO8tSK+Ow@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Our June meeting is tonight at 7pm. I'm not sure if Sage Hall is open
during the break. My plan is for us to meet in the usual room. If we
can't get in, we'll meet in the little meeting area in the hallway
outside of the usual room.

See you there,

Christian

From christianzlong at gmail.com  Mon Jun  6 22:28:40 2016
From: christianzlong at gmail.com (Christian Long)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 21:28:40 -0500
Subject: [FoxPUG] Fwd: FoxPUG meeting links
In-Reply-To: <CAJEq=H3Hu+jyDpSrRK+nF-U8Rr7eXK0WcyOT-UdZ81X7cEPi4w@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAJEq=H3Hu+jyDpSrRK+nF-U8Rr7eXK0WcyOT-UdZ81X7cEPi4w@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAEP7POqX_kj6Sakui9o1NRBRsr6t-WXzSGjx4sgOXj9emYro8Q@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks for the links, Nick, and thanks for preparing stuff to present
at the meeting. Full recap coming soon.

Christian


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Nick Olesen <nickolaus.olesen at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 7:56 PM
Subject: FoxPUG meeting links
To: Christian Long <christianzlong at gmail.com>


PyCon 2016 Video Library on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwTD5zJbsQGJN75MwbykYNw

Kite Programming assitant for Python
https://kite.com/

Learn Python from Mode Analytics
https://community.modeanalytics.com/python/

T-SQL Call to R (Python is probably coming in the future (just replace
'R' with 'Python' and replace script of R with a script of python code

exec sp_execute_external_script  @language =N'R',
@script=N'OutputDataSet<-InputDataSet',
@input_data_1 =N'select 1 as hello'
with result sets (([hello] int not null));
go

From christianzlong at gmail.com  Mon Jun  6 22:29:07 2016
From: christianzlong at gmail.com (Christian Long)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 21:29:07 -0500
Subject: [FoxPUG] June meeting notes
Message-ID: <CAEP7POqRY1yrF+Oa+_+nmBzbh51Zjr5Hf=JOUsmLxtSCaG=dkw@mail.gmail.com>

Fox Valley Python User Group Meeting

June meeting notes

Monday, June 6, 2016

We started with a discussion of some domain names. Chris Calloway had
registered some domain names for the Fox Valley Python group when we
were first getting started. He offered to turn those domains over to
us, so we spent part of the meeting setting up to take over those
names from him.

Next, Nick talked about the videos from PyCon 2016 in Portland. A huge
number of videos from the conference went up right away. You can watch
them all on the PyCon YouTube channel. [PyCon 2016 Video Library on
YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwTD5zJbsQGJN75MwbykYNw).
One video of note is [Lars Lohn's closing
keynote](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSfe5M_zG2s) with him
performing live on his electric bassoon, and talking about learning
how to turn left.

We talked for a while about Hadoop, and machine learning. There is a
Cisco and IBM initiative to set up some machine learning based
analysis at network edges, which then report only the most salient
data back to the central data store. For example, Cisco could place an
intrusion prevention system inside a customer's network, and that
could do all the pattern matching on site, and send only the anomalies
back to the Cisco operations center for more analysis and reporting to
the customer.

Nick recommends a new podcast: [Data Driven
Security](http://datadrivensecurity.info/).

Nick talked about how SQL Server 2016 has the R language built in to
the system. Write a T-SQL stored procedure, then wrap your R commands
in the stored procedure, using the "@language" keyword.

Here's a very simple example:

    exec sp_execute_external_script  @language =N'R',
    @script=N'OutputDataSet<-InputDataSet',
    @input_data_1 =N'select 1 as hello'
    with result sets (([hello] int not null));
    go

In this example, the external language is set to 'R'. The @script
parameter contains a string that is the R code. The input data is a
very simple 1 row sql query (select 1 as hello). And the output is set
up as a SQL Server results table, with one non-nullable integer
column.

Nick thinks it's likely that Microsoft will add support for embedding
other languages within T-SQL, such as Python.

Nick explained the data analysis platform offered by Mode Analytics,
which also offers the facility to work with SQL queries and procedural
programming in Python.  They have a nice series of tutorials that
cover the basics of data processing in Python and Pandas. [Learn
Python from Mode
Analytics](https://community.modeanalytics.com/python/)

Last, Nick brought up the [Kite Programming assistant for
Python](https://kite.com/). It is a smart sidebar that provides
autocompletion and code examples as you type. It can also catch typos.
It will offer autocompletion and usage hints for imported library
code, and also for your code. It's a beta offering right now, you can
sign up for the beta at https://kite.com/. They offer support for
Sublime, vim, PyCharm, Atom, emacs, Terminal, and iTerm.


Thanks everyone for an interesting meeting. [See you on July
11](http://foxpython.tumblr.com/post/145536689822/july-meeting-one-week-later-than-usual).
Note that is one week later than usual, since the first Monday in July
falls on July 4.

From coulibalym at uwosh.edu  Tue Jun  7 17:31:38 2016
From: coulibalym at uwosh.edu (Mamadou Coulibaly)
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 16:31:38 -0500
Subject: [FoxPUG] Fwd: FoxPUG meeting links
In-Reply-To: <CAEP7POqX_kj6Sakui9o1NRBRsr6t-WXzSGjx4sgOXj9emYro8Q@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAJEq=H3Hu+jyDpSrRK+nF-U8Rr7eXK0WcyOT-UdZ81X7cEPi4w@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAEP7POqX_kj6Sakui9o1NRBRsr6t-WXzSGjx4sgOXj9emYro8Q@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAH2obEdmU32ZuDSh=vm==CZ98+qHou0zdrjvzyL3a5Sc1+rzVQ@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Nick and Christian
Many thanks to the two of you
Sorry I was late. But I learned new stuff.
Kites and epassword are awesome

Cheers

Mamadou

Mamadou Y. S. Coulibaly, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Geography and Urban Planning
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
800 Algoma BLVD
Oshkosh, WI 54901
Phone: 920 424 3123
Fax: 920 424 0292


*Life's most persistent and urgent question is "What are you doing for
others?"*
*
                                                       MLK*

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 9:28 PM, Christian Long <christianzlong at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the links, Nick, and thanks for preparing stuff to present
> at the meeting. Full recap coming soon.
>
> Christian
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Nick Olesen <nickolaus.olesen at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 7:56 PM
> Subject: FoxPUG meeting links
> To: Christian Long <christianzlong at gmail.com>
>
>
> PyCon 2016 Video Library on YouTube
> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwTD5zJbsQGJN75MwbykYNw
>
> Kite Programming assitant for Python
> https://kite.com/
>
> Learn Python from Mode Analytics
> https://community.modeanalytics.com/python/
>
> T-SQL Call to R (Python is probably coming in the future (just replace
> 'R' with 'Python' and replace script of R with a script of python code
>
> exec sp_execute_external_script  @language =N'R',
> @script=N'OutputDataSet<-InputDataSet',
> @input_data_1 =N'select 1 as hello'
> with result sets (([hello] int not null));
> go
> _______________________________________________
> FoxPUG mailing list
> FoxPUG at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/foxpug
>
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From cbc at unc.edu  Wed Jun  8 15:39:08 2016
From: cbc at unc.edu (Calloway, Chris)
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 19:39:08 +0000
Subject: [FoxPUG] June meeting notes
In-Reply-To: <CAEP7POqRY1yrF+Oa+_+nmBzbh51Zjr5Hf=JOUsmLxtSCaG=dkw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAEP7POqRY1yrF+Oa+_+nmBzbh51Zjr5Hf=JOUsmLxtSCaG=dkw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <b5d08bf35ec54049b5785449ec373a9a@its-msxmbs6f.ad.unc.edu>

Christian,

These domains expire 6/19. We need to act soon. Please send me your cell number and call me at the number below.

--
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
Applications Analyst
University of North Carolina
Renaissance Computing Institute
(919) 599-3530


________________________________________
From: FoxPUG [foxpug-bounces+cbc=chriscalloway.org at python.org] on behalf of Christian Long [christianzlong at gmail.com]
We started with a discussion of some domain names. Chris Calloway had
registered some domain names for the Fox Valley Python group when we
were first getting started. He offered to turn those domains over to
us, so we spent part of the meeting setting up to take over those
names from him.

From christianzlong at gmail.com  Wed Jun 15 15:21:04 2016
From: christianzlong at gmail.com (Christian Long)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:21:04 -0500
Subject: [FoxPUG] Interesting blog
Message-ID: <CAEP7POq43Vo25eLsZtPopHJ_ODCKeVHyV9XfmbKHrqMgHr7NaQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I came across an interesting Python blog, called Practical Business Python.

http://pbpython.com/

It has a lot of articles about working with Excel spreadsheets using
Python and Pandas. A particular focus seems to be escaping "Excel
hell", those fragile, error-prone workflows that involve a lot of
copy-pasting and VBA macros.

Maybe we'll take a closer look at these techniques in a future meeting.

Christian

From nickolaus.olesen at gmail.com  Wed Jun 15 16:36:08 2016
From: nickolaus.olesen at gmail.com (Nick Olesen)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 15:36:08 -0500
Subject: [FoxPUG] Interesting blog
In-Reply-To: <CAEP7POq43Vo25eLsZtPopHJ_ODCKeVHyV9XfmbKHrqMgHr7NaQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAEP7POq43Vo25eLsZtPopHJ_ODCKeVHyV9XfmbKHrqMgHr7NaQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <0C0AE789-CFA0-486F-B510-D3BC44191875@gmail.com>

I just came across that blog yesterday (and quickly dropped in my list to check frequently) it has some great stuff! 

-Nick

> On Jun 15, 2016, at 2:21 PM, Christian Long <christianzlong at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I came across an interesting Python blog, called Practical Business Python.
> 
> http://pbpython.com/
> 
> It has a lot of articles about working with Excel spreadsheets using
> Python and Pandas. A particular focus seems to be escaping "Excel
> hell", those fragile, error-prone workflows that involve a lot of
> copy-pasting and VBA macros.
> 
> Maybe we'll take a closer look at these techniques in a future meeting.
> 
> Christian
> _______________________________________________
> FoxPUG mailing list
> FoxPUG at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/foxpug

From mike at theputnams.net  Wed Jun 15 16:36:55 2016
From: mike at theputnams.net (Mike Putnam)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 15:36:55 -0500
Subject: [FoxPUG] Interesting blog
In-Reply-To: <0C0AE789-CFA0-486F-B510-D3BC44191875@gmail.com>
References: <CAEP7POq43Vo25eLsZtPopHJ_ODCKeVHyV9XfmbKHrqMgHr7NaQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <0C0AE789-CFA0-486F-B510-D3BC44191875@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAOoaTOj9Vr6CtbZtBDi_9O4eDwh8agPO6XsOKRMc=5x+J-oOoA@mail.gmail.com>

Added said blog to my feedly reader.  Thanks!

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Nick Olesen <nickolaus.olesen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I just came across that blog yesterday (and quickly dropped in my list to
> check frequently) it has some great stuff!
>
> -Nick
>
> > On Jun 15, 2016, at 2:21 PM, Christian Long <christianzlong at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I came across an interesting Python blog, called Practical Business
> Python.
> >
> > http://pbpython.com/
> >
> > It has a lot of articles about working with Excel spreadsheets using
> > Python and Pandas. A particular focus seems to be escaping "Excel
> > hell", those fragile, error-prone workflows that involve a lot of
> > copy-pasting and VBA macros.
> >
> > Maybe we'll take a closer look at these techniques in a future meeting.
> >
> > Christian
> > _______________________________________________
> > FoxPUG mailing list
> > FoxPUG at python.org
> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/foxpug
> _______________________________________________
> FoxPUG mailing list
> FoxPUG at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/foxpug
>
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From christianzlong at gmail.com  Wed Jun 15 17:11:14 2016
From: christianzlong at gmail.com (Christian Long)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 16:11:14 -0500
Subject: [FoxPUG] Interesting blog
In-Reply-To: <0C0AE789-CFA0-486F-B510-D3BC44191875@gmail.com>
References: <CAEP7POq43Vo25eLsZtPopHJ_ODCKeVHyV9XfmbKHrqMgHr7NaQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <0C0AE789-CFA0-486F-B510-D3BC44191875@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAEP7POrQPzFqw-Fkyi_LzzoipsFJvM_9PmKGGqVjCnsYgyjW4g@mail.gmail.com>

Ha, funny coincidence. Great minds etc.

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Nick Olesen <nickolaus.olesen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just came across that blog yesterday (and quickly dropped in my list to check frequently) it has some great stuff!
>
> -Nick
>
>> On Jun 15, 2016, at 2:21 PM, Christian Long <christianzlong at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I came across an interesting Python blog, called Practical Business Python.
>>
>> http://pbpython.com/
>>
>> It has a lot of articles about working with Excel spreadsheets using
>> Python and Pandas. A particular focus seems to be escaping "Excel
>> hell", those fragile, error-prone workflows that involve a lot of
>> copy-pasting and VBA macros.
>>
>> Maybe we'll take a closer look at these techniques in a future meeting.
>>
>> Christian
>> _______________________________________________
>> FoxPUG mailing list
>> FoxPUG at python.org
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/foxpug

From mike at theputnams.net  Fri Jun 17 23:50:34 2016
From: mike at theputnams.net (Mike Putnam)
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 22:50:34 -0500
Subject: [FoxPUG] Urwid - Console user interface library for Python
Message-ID: <CAOoaTOiay6wkijDxfZN2Qgw-wc2UAo=w_PW4F=aLDo99a0JqRA@mail.gmail.com>

Looks like fun!

--

A full-featured console (xterm et al.) user interface library

Urwid is a console user interface library for Python. It includes many
features useful for text console application developers including:


   - Applications resize quickly and smoothly
   - Automatic, programmable text alignment and wrapping
   - Simple markup for setting text attributes within blocks of text
   - Powerful list box with programmable content for scrolling all widget
   types
   - Your choice of event loops: Twisted, Glib, Tornado or select-based loop
   - Pre-built widgets include edit boxes, buttons, check boxes and radio
   buttons
   - Display modules include raw, curses, and experimental LCD and web
   displays
   - Support for UTF-8, simple 8-bit and CJK encodings
   - 256 and 88 color mode support
   - Compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2+ and PyPy

http://urwid.org/
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