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Document options Document options requiring JavaScript are not displayed Rate this pageHelp us improve this contentLevel: IntroductoryDavid Mertz (mertz@gnosis.cx), Applied Metaphysician, Gnosis Software, Inc. 01 Mar 2001Although users usually think of Python as a procedural and object-oriented language, it actually contains everything you need for a completely functional approach to programming. This article discusses general concepts of functional programming, and illustrates ways of implementing functional techniques in Python. We'd better start with the hardest question: "What is functional programming (FP), anyway?" One answer would be to say that FP is what you do when you program in languages like Lisp, Scheme, Haskell, ML, OCAML, Clean, Mercury, or Erlang (or a few others). That is a safe answer, but not one that clarifies very much. Unfortunately, it is hard to get a consistent opinion on just what FP is, even from functional programmers themselves. A story about elephants and blind men seems apropos here. It is also safe to contrast FP with "imperative programming" (what you do in languages like C, Pascal, C++, Java, Perl, Awk, TCL, and most others, at least for the most part).

IPython on resizeable Win32 Console If you are on win32, you might want to use Console, an open source replacement for that inflexible old win32 terminal. Here's how. Install IPython using the .exe installer. Download stable version of Console (1.5 at this time). Create a shortcut to console.exe, right-click -> properties. Set target to e.g. C:\opt\Console\console.exe -c "/k python c:\python25\scripts\ipython.py -p sh" you can also create a tab dedicated to Ipython (and have other dedicated to other shells or command-line app). go to edit->settings->tabs : click on the add button and fill the following fields : * title : ipython ico : C:\Python24\py.ico shell : cmd.exe /k "ipython" start-up dir : whatever is good for you. note that python.exe need to be in the path Using IPython with Version 2 of Console use the -r option for creating the shortcut, e.g. C:\opt\Console2\console.exe -r "/k python c:\python25\scripts\ipython.py -p sh" Some advantages of Console2 over normal console (for IPython use) Distinctive taskbar icon Can reside in system tray There are many other benefits, so it's well worth setting up Example config for Console-2.00b120-Beta (you need to edit the xml file): http://vvtools.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/config/console.xml If you have problems with ctrl+C killing Console2 immediately, launch ipython from a normal Console2 session manually.

[IPython-user] ipython1 and farm tasking Brian Granger ellisonbg.net@gmail.... Wed Feb 27 16:29:03 CST 2008 Previous message: [IPython-user] ipython1 and farm tasking Next message: [IPython-user] yet another leopard/readline question Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Alex, First, I would suggest updating your ipython1 install from our svn repository. We are about to push out a major new version and the documentation is _much_ better. Also, there are many new features that will hopefully help you. Here is a simple example (using the latest svn of ipython1): In [1]: from ipython1.kernel import client In [2]: mec = client.MultiEngineClient(('127.0.0.1',10105)) In [3]: tc = client.TaskClient(('127.0.0.1',10113)) In [4]: def fold_package(x): ...: return 2.0*x ...: In [5]: mec.push_function(dict(fold_package=fold_package)) Out[5]: [None, None, None, None] In [6]: tasks = [client.Task("y=fold_package(x)",push={'x':x},pull=('y',)) for x in range(128)] In [7]: task_ids = [tc.run(t) for t in tasks] In [8]: tc.barrier(task_ids) In [9]: task_results = [tc.get_task_result(tid) for tid in task_ids] In [10]: results = [tr.ns.y for tr in task_results] In [11]: print results [0.0, 2.0, 4.0, 6.0, 8.0, 10.0, 12.0, 14.0, 16.0, 18.0, 20.0, 22.0, 24.0, 26.0, 28.0, 30.0, 32.0, 34.0, 36.0, 38.0, 40.0, 42.0, 44.0, 46.0, 48.0, 50.0, 52.0, 54.0, 56.0, 58.0, 60.0, 62.0, 64.0, 66.0, 68.0, 70.0, 72.0, 74.0, 76.0, 78.0, 80.0, 82.0, 84.0, 86.0, 88.0, 90.0, 92.0, 94.0, 96.0, 98.0, 100.0, 102.0, 104.0, 106.0, 108.0, 110.0, 112.0, 114.0, 116.0, 118.0, 120.0, 122.0, 124.0, 126.0, 128.0, 130.0, 132.0, 134.0, 136.0, 138.0, 140.0, 142.0, 144.0, 146.0, 148.0, 150.0, 152.0, 154.0, 156.0, 158.0, 160.0, 162.0, 164.0, 166.0, 168.0, 170.0, 172.0, 174.0, 176.0, 178.0, 180.0, 182.0, 184.0, 186.0, 188.0, 190.0, 192.0, 194.0, 196.0, 198.0, 200.0, 202.0, 204.0, 206.0, 208.0, 210.0, 212.0, 214.0, 216.0, 218.0, 220.0, 222.0, 224.0, 226.0, 228.0, 230.0, 232.0, 234.0, 236.0, 238.0, 240.0, 242.0, 244.0, 246.0, 248.0, 250.0, 252.0, 254.0] Or if you don't need load balancing: # This sends the fold_package function for you! results = mec.map(fold_package, range(128)) Let us know if you run into other problems. Cheers, Brian

Pypar does not require the Python interpreter to be modified or recompiled: Parallel python programs use the standard Python and need merely import the pypar module. This means for example that you can upgrade Python independently of your parallel codes.

Pypar is an efficient but easy-to-use module that allows programs/scripts written in the Python programming language to run in parallel on multiple processors and communicate using message passing. Pypar provides bindings to an important subset of the message passing interface standard MPI. Other Python MPI bindings available from other developers include: PyMPI, Scientific Python and pythonMPI.

sychotic is an innovative optimizing compiler for Python code. It has unique features, the most important of which is that it breaks through the ConstantTimeBarrier. It is very easy to use and has an interface similar to that of the popular Psyco project. Below, you can see a usage example. You can also learn about HowItWorks, the ProjectHistory and KnownIssues. You can also browse the easy-to-understand source especially the alysis.py analyzer module and the dingo.py runtime bootstrap. There is an introductory screencast available (less than 5 minutes long). Usage

Pycha is a very simple Python package for drawing charts using the great Cairo library. Its goals are: Lightweight Simple to use Nice looking with default values Customization It won't try to draw any possible chart on earth but draw the most common ones nicely. There are some other options you may want to look at like pyCairoChart Pycha is based on Plotr which is based on PlotKit. Both libraries are written in JavaScript and are great for client web programming. I needed the same for the server side so that's the reason I ported Plotr to Python. Now we can deliver charts to people with JavaScript disabled or embed them in PDF reports.

PyACTS- http://www.pyacts.org -- PyACTS is a collection of Python Modules that are very useful to Parallel Computing in a High Performance Computing environment. This packages incorporates several modules like PyBLACS (allows communication data for Linear Algebra), PyPBLAS (distributed Matrix Operations) and PyScaLAPACK (solve linear systems and get the eigenvalue problems). These libraries are part of PyACTS project that provide interfaces to the ACTS Collection. Also is provided a parrallel interpreter for using this package that implements message-based parallel programming using MPI.

Description geopy makes it easy for developers to locate the coordinates of addresses, cities, countries, and landmarks across the globe using third-party geocoders and other sources of data, such as wikis. Development Status Under development since September 2006. Latest release: 0.93. License geopy is open source software released under the MIT license. Contact Questions, comments, and bug reports are welcome at exogen@gmail.com, the geopy mailing list, and on brian's blog.