{"id":374,"date":"2007-10-27T10:54:27","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T14:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/wordpress\/?p=374"},"modified":"2011-12-17T12:24:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T16:24:12","slug":"playing-with-python-finding-some-snarkiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2007\/10\/playing-with-python-finding-some-snarkiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing With Python – Finding some Snarkiness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nI have been looking into Python for the last two weeks as I may be teaching Python next semester to Freshmen and Sophmore students to do data analysis. I have been searching and learning as I go. The message below was just plain fun to read – it is in some other community – so I could read it and let it go by :)<\/p>\n

\nIn general Python seems to be the best and worst of open source – there are tons of extenstions – but very little overall organization. There should be more things like:<\/p>\n

\nThe Enthought Distribution<\/a><\/p>\n

\nToo bad there is no Mac version of the distro. Enough about that – on to the fun snarkiness! Interestingly the person complaining (at the bottom) is complaining much about the same as me – why is there not some quick and easy to use “get me started” distro?<\/p>\n

\n—— Everyhing below this line is from the mail message ——-<\/p>\n

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