CT Python UG meeting, March 2007

02 Apr 2007

On Saturday, the Cape Town Python User Group had its second shorter and smaller meeting, again at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (aka AIMS) in Muizenburg.

Simon Cross gave the "main" talk on Genshi, the XML markup based templating system.  Simon explained the evolution of XML-based templating systems from TAL, via Kid, to Genshi, and also gave a pretty good look at how Genshi is organised internally and how one would write a filter and convert from Genshi streams to ElementTree XML objects and back.

Jeremy Thurgood gave one of the two shorter talks, on Python decorators.  Neil Muller spoke about the Python Imaging Library, from simple stuff I could understand to more complicated things like using the excellect NumPy with PIL in the latest version, allowing for much more powerful image manipulation.

We set a date for the next meeting - except I've forgotten what it is.  Somewhere mid-May.  I'm sure Neil (Muller) will post it to the CTPUG list soon - sign up to keep updated.

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  1. Neil Blakey-Milner — April 02, 2007 at 04:16 PM.

    The next meeting is on the 12th of May, 2007. Venue, time, &c. still to be discussed.

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