Meeting Summary: February 5, 2007
Mike Pirnat
attend tonight! (Today's fun fact: the daytime air temperature on
Mars is warmer than that of Cleveland, Ohio.)
Matt Wilson: "It's not IronPython tonight?"
Pizza and pop -- thanks, Dave!
Mike Pirnat: Dateutil to the Rescue!
* Preview of presentation for PyCon 2007
* A powerful set of extensions for Python's datetime
* Compatible with Python 2.3 and above
* Parsing date/time strings
* Relative deltas
* Time zones
* Simple recurrence
* Complex recurrence
* Presentation will eventually be online for your PDF enjoyment
* In the mean time, check out http://labix.org/python-dateutil for
examples and documentation galore
Mike Nugent: Regular Expressions in Python
* History of regular expressions, alternative algorithms
* Comparison of regex performance on various platforms, algorithms
(NFA vs. DFA)
* Python re basics
* Methods for searching
* Backreferences
* Making re commentable and clean dictionaries of results
* Replacing
* Multiline searching, DOTALL
* Arcana: Optimizing alternation
* Advice: build re's slowly, methodically
* Gotchas
Other Chatter
* PyCon 2007 is just a few weeks away! Maybe we'll see you there?
* Website project -- needs activity! Send David Stanek an htpasswd hash
* Book reviews in exchange for free books -- talk to David Stanek
or Mike Pirnat
Next Time
* Monday, March 5, 6:30 PM
* At American Greetings
* Ralph Heimburger: ReportLab
* Matt Gibberman: TBD
April
* Monday, April 2, 6:30 PM
* At American Greetings
* Microsoft's Drew Robbins on IronPython
See you then!
--
Mike Pirnat
mpi...@gmail.com
http://www.pirnat.com/