Peter Talks About Things (Neo4J, Pywin32)

Doors open at 18:30 and event starts at 19:00.

Social in the pub afterwards.

Peter will be giving two short talks on useful Python techniques he's found:

Using Neo4j as a tool for ad-hoc manipulation for graphy data from Python.

Neo4j is a graph database management system, which sounds pretty cool, but is it relevant to you if you don't have a graph database that needs managing? I've found that Neo4j can be a useful tool for the sort of ad-hoc data manipulation that I would otherwise have done in the console, and it's really easy to get started with. This talk will follow a worked example.

Using ctypes to supplement pywin32.

Pywin32 is a widely used Python library for programming Windows computers, with good coverage of the Windows API. I wanted to use PyWin32 to automate a task in Python, but realised that some of the structures that I needed to use weren't present. I thought I was going to have to learn C or Rust until I noticed that I could substitute definitions written using Ctypes instead.