[Lilug] Python Talk: Tuesday? Prep?

[Jorg Kewisch]

Ha!!! Thunderbird has changed. it used to be that clicking "reply" would
send the mail to the list, now it sends it to the sender only and there
is a new "reply list" button. Yesterday I send this:


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On 05/16/2017 03:30 PM, odinson wrote:
> Hello
>
>     Great news!   Jorg Kewisch has agreed to do the learning Python talk
> on 6/13.   This has a very wide cross operating system appeal.  It's
>  the perfect meeting to promote.  Make up a flyer, put it where folks
> will see it.
>
>     Tell one tell all!
>
> Thanks so much.
>
> Matt
>


In preparing the talk I realized how much python is doing for you, so
there are a lot of details to learn and my talk is on the lengthy side.
I could easily make it twice as long. Who wrote: "I am sorry to write
such a long letter, I did not have the time to write a shorter one"
Let's see how it goes, I will be learning too (teaching).

So bring your laptops, have python3 installed, and the python-tk
package. type

python3
>>> import Tkinter

to test it. Other great packages (I will not talk about) are numpy,
scipy and sympy.


Jorg
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And it went just to Matt instead of the list.

Yes, we are using python3. For the beginner there is only one difference
between python2 and python3:  print has become a function instead of a
statement and you have to add parenthesis.



On 06/09/2017 10:30 PM, Robert Wilkens wrote:
> Is the Python talk still on for Tuesday?
> 
> Is it recommended we come with a particular version of python
> installed?  I remember starting to learn python, at the time python 3
> was current, but the tutorial was encouraging us to program in python
> 2.7 or something like that.  I never got very far with the whole thing
> because i was confused with why not use the latest and greatest.
> 
> -Rob
> 
> 
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