Anthony Scopatz presents: xonsh
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Have you ever found yourself opening up a new terminal just to launch a Python interpreter?
Wouldn't it be helpful if your default shell could interpret Python statements just like regular commands?
Now you can with xonsh: a Python-ish, BASHwards-compatible shell.
https://github.com/scopatz/xonsh
We're excited to announce this special meet up with Anthony Scopatz to talk about xonsh (and probably a lot more)! Anthony recently co-authored "Effective Computation in Physics" ( http://physics.codes ). If you're studying computational science at one of our local schools, xonsh and insight from Anthony could really help boost your work. Anthony recently relocated to South Carolina.
We're excited to have someone with a strong background in science and Python in our state that's willing to take time to come share knowledge and experiences with us. Please show your support for having big time speakers at hub.py events by attending. Looking to help contribute to an open source project? Come chat with Anthony at this special meet up. We're sure he'd love to get pull requests from you!
More about Anthony:
https://github.com/scopatz
https://twitter.com/scopatz
Anthony Scopatz is currently an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina in the Nuclear Engineering program in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He is a computational physicist and long time Python developer. Anthony holds his BS in Physics from UC, Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. in Mechanical / Nuclear Engineering from UT Austin. A former Enthought employee, he spent his post-doctoral studies at the FLASH Center at the University of Chicago in the Astrophysics Department. Then he became a Staff Scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Maidson in Engineering Physics. Anthony’s research interests revolve around essential physics modeling of the nuclear fuel cycle, and information theory & entropy. Anthony is proudly a fellow of the Python Software Foundation and has published and spoken at numerous conferences on a variety of science & software development topics.
Special thanks to Jeff Boeh ( https://twitter.com/Jeff_Boeh ) and The Iron Yard for hosting this meet up!
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