[kanchilug] Minutes of meeting in Chennaipy meet (24 / 07 / 2010)
- From: Raji Seetharaman <sraji.me@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: kanchilug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:49:21 +0530
Dear all,
We ( the attendees) are lucky to attend yesterday's Chennaipy meet
Yes, we had a special speaker named Mr. Vijay Kumar from Zilogic Systems
*Date* : 24 / 07 / 2010
*Time *: 3 p.m to 6 p.m.
*Place* : MIT, Chromepet
*No of People* : 10
*Topics Discussed :*
1. Text processing using Python by Rajeswari
2. GUI programming using Jython by Vijay Kumar
*Attendees :
*
Akilan, Arulalan, Nandha, Ahamed, Praveen, Rajeswari(myself),
Elango, Selvamani, Vijay Kumar, Arulappan
I started the session with an introduction to Text Processing
Discussed a few functions present in the modules os, os.path
Shown a simple python script of how to search for a particular file.
Followed by Mr. Vijay Kumar told us the basics of Jython
He talked about advantages of GUI programming using Jython when compared to
other GUI's ( Tkinter, PyGTK, PyQt ).
He continued with how to use Swing libraries with Jython ?
Shown examples from helloworld program to a form creation.
Explained the basics of callbacks.
We raised many questions towards Mr. Vijay Kumar ( general python questions
too )
We had discussions related to Glade, GTKBuilder, libglade.
He also displayed how to create a simple setup.py file
Mr. Vijay Kumar told us to give more talks in future :-)
Then Arulalan, who is doing real time project in Indian Meterological
Department using Python showed a real time
application of using Text processing
Also, he showed his final output.
Further discussions involved to come forward to give talks in PyCon India
2010, how to bring more people to Chennaipy meet , conducting python
workshop for newbies.
On the whole, the session was very useful
Thanks to all
Regards
Rajeswari
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