pyCologne Python User Group, Cologne, Germany, August 13th Notes

The Python User Group in Cologne met at the computer centre of the University of Cologne. The meeting was attended by 16 people. German speakers might want to refer to our wiki page: http://www.pycologne.de.

This time we had as a special guest Guy Kloss, who introduced the New Zealand Python User Group (NZPUG)
and held his talk about Python/C++-Integration:

Thinking Hybrid - Python/C++ Integration (Guy Kloss)

• The slides can be found at SlideShare: Thinking Hybrid - Python/C++ Integration
• Source-Code and Examples:
  • Examples: PyNativeIntegration-examples.tar.gz
  • NaSt2D (2D Fluid-Dynamics-Solver): PyNativeIntegration-nast2d.tar.gz
  • (on the Web: ftp://ftp.lrz-muenchen.de/pub/science/fluiddynamics/cfd/NaSt2D or http://people.scs.fsu.edu/~burkardt/cpp_src/nast2d/nast2d.html or Version 2.0: http://home.arcor.de/drklaus.bauerfeind/nast/eNaSt2D.html)

Past Events

• EuroPython 2008 from 7th to 12th July 2008 in Vilnius.

  • Talks from pyCologne-Members: Reimar Bauer (MoinMoin und Mercurial), Stefan Pielicke (SVNChecker), Andreas Schreiber (DataFinder)

• Talk by Travis Oliphant (ENTHOUGHT) on 24th of July 2008 at DLR about NumPy, SciPy and the Enthought Tool Suite. The slides and Video can be found at https://wiki.sistec.dlr.de/TechTalks/20080724OliphantNumPy

• Talk by Guy Kloss on 13th of August.at DLR about Multithreading vs. Multiprocessing. The slides and Video can be found at https://wiki.sistec.dlr.de/TechTalks/20080813KlossMultithreadingVsMultiprocessing

• FrOSCon on 23th/24th of August 2008 at FH Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in St. Augustin Talks/Events from pyCologne-Members: Stefan Pielicke about SVNChecker and "A Python Coffee/Tea-Party" featuring a general introduction into Python and a talk about Turtle-Graphics by Dirk Hünniger and Günter Jantzen.

Upcoming Events

• PyCon UK from 12th to 14th September in Birmingham

  Talks by pyCologne-Members: Andreas Schreiber about Organizing the Data Chaos of Scientists

Book-Presentations

• "wxPython in Action" (Noel Rappin, Robin Dunn)

• "Python für Kids" (Gregor Lingl) - Introduction to Python for children

• "Turtle Geometry" (Harold Abelson, Andrea diSessa) - A book diving into the mathematics of Turtle-Graphics
  

Links

The following Web-Pages were presented during the meeting:

• Snake Wrangling for Kids
  

• Presentations by Guy Kloss

• Computer-Science Uplugged

• boost.Python Python-Wrapper Generator für C++

• SCons: Build Tool based on Python
  

The minutes of the meeting in German language can be found here.

The next meeting will be held on, Wednesday, September, 10th.

Like usual we enjoyed the rest of the evening in our usual italian restaurant having food, drinks and friendly conversation.