[colug-432] 2014-10-11 Columbus Code Camp Scribbles: anaconda pytoolz watership down excel_tab csv pdb wingware ide 18f afrc hackathon

[jep200404 at columbus.rr.com]

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Anaconda is the good way to install Python on Windows.

There are two main contributors to the pytoolz library. 
Matthew Rocklin is the main contributor to the pytoolz library.
Erik Welch is the second main contributor.
https://github.com/pytoolz/toolz/
http://toolz.readthedocs.org
There's much math stuff in it.
Matthew Rocklin is a developer for Continuum Analytics, Inc. 

wp:Watership Down

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excel_tab CSV dialect for tab separated values
https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/csv.html#csv.excel_tab
https://docs.python.org/3.3/library/csv.html#csv.excel_tab

!cat eggs.csv worked
in Ipython
    was that because of excel_tab CSV dialect?

pdb python debugger

easy_install to install virtualenv (which includes its own pip),
so one uses easy_install to install pip.

need best practices for installing Python stuff suite
http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/
http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/install/win/

    likes and uses WingWare IDE.
    was using Ubuntu (with Unity GUI).
    is working for 18F. wp:18F

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AFRC hackathon 26-hour long 2014-10-25 to 2014-10-26
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/afrl/
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123427433
http://www.labhack.org/