ambidextrous python - introduction python libraries

26th September, 2013DevCon 2013

Anoop Thomas MathewProfoundis Labs

atm@profoundis.com

Ambidextrous Python

@atmb4u Co-Founder and CTO @ Profoundis Labs Avid user of open source since 2003 Python and Django for last 4 years Contributed to linux kernel and cpython

spoken at ➢ PyCon 2013➢ FOSSMeet 2013➢ PyCon 2012➢ Fifth Elephant 2012➢ FOSSMeet 2011A

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Programming is for

EveryOne!

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Are we humans any

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How do we

THINK?

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Can I get a Mocha?

Step 1: Coffee, Chocolate, Sugar, Milk, Heat SourceStep 2: Heat the milkStep 3: When milk is boiled, put coffee powderStep 4: Get the milk off the heat, put sugarStep 5: Stir wellStep 6: Top it with Double Chocolate

●Step 7: Pour it to a glass and serve!

Enjoy!

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Real world Problems

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What is a program?

An easy way to solve

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problems

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Learning any Programming Language

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➢ Logic➢ Source➢ Representation➢ Operations➢ Sink

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● Interpreted● Dynamically Typed● Easiest● Human Understandable● Awesome Community● Availability of Libraries● Platform Independent● Quick Prototyping● Ease of Extending●Awesome!

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modules ... modules everywhere!

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The Standard Library

sqlite3, time, sys, os, itertools, math, pickle, email, collections, gzip, csv,

multiprocessing, json, re, string, md5, urllib2, smtpd, uuid, Cookie, ast,

xml,logging ...

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pip install <package name>

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Web Applications

DjangoFlask

TornadoTwistedweb2py

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Desktop Applications

PyQTTkinterpyGTK

wxPythonpySide

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Mobile Applications

Kivy

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Scientific Computing

numpyscipy

scikit-learnpandasipython

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Artificial Intelligence

PyBrainNLTK

scikit-learnlibsvm

Orange

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Image Processing

PILmatplotlib

mayaviPillow

vPythonGIMP extensions

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3D Gaming/ Rendering

pyGameBlender

OgreAutoDesk Maya

Panda3D

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Data Processing

stringre

Distributedcelerymrjobdisco

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Web Utilitiesrequests

urllib2jinja2xmpp

soaplib

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Parsing Utilities

beautifulsoupjsoncsv

lxmlast

optparsePLY

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Cloud Management

libcloudopenstack

picloud

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High Performance Computing

pyCUDAMPI

multiprocessingctypes

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APIs and Bindings

cairoboto

pyfestivalredispy

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Yes!It's a good time to start.

https://bitbucket.org/atmb4u/python-live

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Questions?

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Thank You!

@atmb4u

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