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ptmcg

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Author/maintainer of #pyparsing, #littletable, #plusminus - I do digital art when I get the time. Co-author of "Python in a Nutshell, 4th Ed". #python #pynutshell4

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ptmcg, to random
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Just 1 SO question short of a thousand for pyparsing

kati, to random
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I have wanted to go to @pytexas for years, and it did not disappoint. It was absolutely wonderful. ❤️

ptmcg,
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@kati @pytexas Was great meeting you and talking with so many new Python people this weekend! Best of luck to you at JPM and in Djangoland!

foxmask, (edited ) to python French
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https://github.com/bartTC/pip-check



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ptmcg,
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@foxmask Have you looked at textual for TUI-izing your work?

ptmcg, to random
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Me, explaining my coding struggles to my wife: You know those crane games, where you move the claw to try to get the toy?
Wife: Yeah...
Me: Ok, so I'm trying to get a particular toy. But I can't touch the crane game controls. Because that crane game is actually inside another crane game.
Wife: <frowning> Uh...?
Me: And I think that crane game's inside still another crane game...
Wife: Wow. Who wrote this code?
Me: <awkward silence>

mkennedy, to python
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Looks like I won’t be speaking at this year folks. That's 0/8 talks (accepted / submitted) over the years. You'd think just by the numbers one of them would have made it in. Oh well. Here are my 3 talks that were not accepted.

  • 20+ Cutting Edge Python Frameworks, Packages, and Tools You Should Know About
  • Python's Types: 5 Amazing Ways Python Type Hints Will Supercharge Your Code
  • HTMX + Flask: Modern Python Web Apps, Hold the JavaScript
ptmcg,
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@mkennedy Are you attending anyway? I'll be there, please look me up.

ptmcg, to python
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Enhanced my log_merger utility to include more UI niceties (search/next/prev, go to line, go to time, help/about), plus support for non-standard timestamp formats. Installable from PyPI - pip install log_merger Amazing mouse support and responsiveness in a pure-Python console app!

ptmcg, to python
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Video demo of log_merger, a terminal-session viewer of merged log files. This is v0.2.0, just showing TUI table navigation basics - v0.3 will have more UI features. Installable from pypi using pip install log_merger

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ptmcg, to python
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My little project using has come along nicely. Side-by-side browsing of multiple log files, merged by timestamp - as text output, CSV, or interactive in-terminal browser (so it can be used within an SSH session). Repo: https://github.com/ptmcg/log_merger.git Or install using pip install log_merger. Version 0.1.0 so far, some good stuff coming in 0.2.0.

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veronica, to philosophy
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Someone made a joke about numerals, and I remembered I don't need to know them because I have a function for that. 😁

The code is based on some numerical example I saw somewhere. I made a few improvements.

ptmcg,
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@veronica I do this in the pyparsing examle romanNumerals.py, that creates then parses and evaluates Roman numerals from 1-5000. https://github.com/pyparsing/pyparsing/blob/c09eb6e4bb283b375e53cfe851bb6a63ed3957bb/examples/romanNumerals.py#L46

ptmcg,
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@veronica That code is kind of old, and pre-dates the PEP8-ification of pyparsing's API. Also, after I created the railroad diagram for it, it seems like a very liberal parser, accepting any string combination of I's V's, X's, M's, etc. I have a stricter version parser almost ready.

ptmcg, to python
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I just released version 3.1.0 of . Compatibility with Python 3.12 and the latest version of railroad-diagrams. Many bugfixes and new features, all the details are here: https://github.com/pyparsing/pyparsing/releases/tag/3.1.0

ptmcg,
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@pamelafox Yes! I never thought much of them before, but Michael Milton's submission of this feature to pyparsing really helped me visualize what the parser structures are doing (and helped me fix some bugs or just generally clean up some of the provided examples).

Here is a StackOverflow answer I posted that included the railroad diagram for my proposed parser. https://stackoverflow.com/a/76546559/165216

ptmcg, to random
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Thanks David! Yes! I'll connect up with you tomorrow, either lunch or dinner would be fine, though dinner might be less time-constrained.

ptmcg,
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@benjaminhollon Ha, it was, thanks! I guess not everyone is named "David".

ptmcg, to random
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Where is the signup for lightning talks?

ptmcg,
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@hugovk @nmp I want to believe this, but I have wandered all over that area, and not seen the signup board. Can you post a picture?

ptmcg,
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@nmp @hugovk Thanks all, I finally found them. A lot of submissions, with only 50 minutes, that's, um, only 10 talks, and many more submissions than that. Good luck to everyone who submitted!

ptmcg, to python
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I'm excited and honored to be included in this group of authors - "Python in a Nutshell, 4th Ed" gets released this month! New features in this edition:

  • detailed coverage of Python versions 3.7 through 3.11
  • all new material on recent Python features, including type annotations and structured pattern matching
  • an appendix cataloging changes by each version 3.7 through 3.11
  • selected online chapters and all source code examples available in a Github repository
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