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Job offering for junior Python developer

Our lab is seeking to hire an engineer to work on porting our machine learning code to the scikit learn, adding tests and documentation and packaging it.

We are looking for someone motivated by quality in software and open source. No prior scientific computing experience is required. You will be …

Pycon FR: presentations and tutorials

May 30th and 31st the French Python conference, Pycon FR, will be held at ‘la citée des sciences’, la Villette, in Paris.

The first day, I will be giving a one-hour-long tutorial (in French) on numpy, scipy, and all the Python for Science jazz. On the following day, I will …

Minimum spanning tree

Gary Ruben came up with the excellent idea of visualizing the minimum spanning tree of a Delaunay tesselation in addition to Delaunay tessalation itself. After he sent me his code, I spent some times playing with it, because I found out that, with the right choice of visualization parameter, it …

Extracting the data from the Delaunay triangulation

Gary Ruben just asked me if it was possible to retrieve the triangulation information from my previous Delaunay example. Actually the reason I came up with this example is that Emanuelle Gouillart, my partner[*], needed to do Delaunay triangulation on some data. She was kind enough to extract that code …

Mayavi image of the … month

Tonight I sat down and played a bit with VTK’s Delaunay tessalation filter. I wanted to inspect the local structure of a graph created by Delaunay tessalation of random points. To see better the structure, I selected a slab of the resulting unstructured grid. I think the image is …

Long sys.path and consequences, one more reason not to use easy_install

For those who don’t know, sys.path is the path that the Python interpreter traverse at each module import to look for the module file imported.

This blog post is about the consequences of having a long sys.path. I’ll try and make it short, but I would …

Mayavi documentation: in multiple small pages, or a few long ones

Prabhu and I can’t decide: what is best for the documentation, have more pages, and thus have them be small, or have longer pages, but have less. Two specific examples:

http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi/docs/development/html/mayavi/examples.html

http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi/docs …

Mayavi on the web

Ondrej Certik has installed a sage notebook on a server opened to the net, with Mayavi installed on it. The result is that you have a command line interface on the web, in which you can enter Mayavi commands, and see the result. You have to be very careful to …

Mayavi UI issue

I have been wanting to change slightly the design of a Mayavi dialog for a while. Here is the issue: when you create a visualization, eg throught the command line in IPython, whith mlab, you get a nice and small window with only your visualization, and a toolbar. If you …

Error in my article

There is an error in a code example in my article that just came out in Linux Magazine France. I am so ashamed. I did test the code, but I didn’t have automated tests, so I broke it when tweaking it :(. I think the lesson is that you need …