Next Meeting: Module Iterpipes and Food Circles Help
Presented by: Steve Romanow and Jonathon Kumar
Monday, January 16th 2012 6:00PM @ Room 251, North Hall, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI.
Steve romanow will introduce us to Iterpipes, which let you use shell pipelines in Python using a shell-like syntax.
Python is a good choice for many software tools, but it lacks clarity and simplicity of command shells when it comes to running command pipelines from scripts. The standard subprocess module provides basic inter-processing tools, but it requires lots of lines to express a single shell line. Iterpipes is trying to overcome this limitation by representing a shell command pipeline as a function over iterables, similar to functions from the standard itertools module.
We will also be joined by Jonathon Kumar of Food Circles, which is a very cool local startup/charity. Jonathan is not a programmer, but he's hoping we can help him with a few Django issues. Hopefully we can at least identify the problem and get him on the right track to a fix.
