Decorators, descriptors, and a discussion about python habitats.
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Change of plans! Michael is going to present next month instead. For this meeting (tomorrow!), let's have a discussion about decorators, descriptors, and python habitats (virtual environments, editors and IDEs).
We'll start off with a quick tutorial from Dan about decorators and descriptors. Some beautiful brain food for your pythonic brains.
Then I'll take over and talk about how I use virtual environments and alternative python distributions (Anaconda and Canopy) to sanely manage multiple python installs on the same machine. Hopefully if some of you have run into the same problems I have, you'll be able to take something good from this.
Finally I was hoping we could have an open discussion about editors. Here's what the responses to the Madpy Habits survey looked like on the question about editors.
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(If you haven't taken the Madpy Habits survey yet, you can do so here: http://bit.ly/madpy-habits . I'll update the plot for the meeting. As you can see, I'm going to try to squeeze a lot of value out of these surveys I send out, so please do take it if you have a few minutes!)
Atom is the most popular editor in the group and it has a new plugin called Hydrogen that turns it into an IDE, which is pretty cool. I'll show what it looks like.
If there is something you really love about your editor, come ready to talk about it! (Everyone loves geeking about about editors, right?)