eGenix PyCon UK 2007 Presentations
PyCon UK
The PyCon UK Conference is a new European Python conference and was held in Birmingham, UK, on September 8th & 9th 2007. With more than 200 attendees at its first installment, the conference was a great success.
eGenix Talks at PyCon UK
We gave the following two talks at the conference. Both presentations are available for download from our Presentations and Talks section.
Parsing Languages with mxTextTools
mxTextTools comes with a high performance Tagging Engine for text and Unicode data which can be used to tokenize and parse languages. The resulting abstract syntax tree can then be hooked up to a generator to build a complete and fast compiler in pure Python. The talk gives an introduction to the way the mxTextTools Tagging Engine works and how it can be used to build compilers. mxTextTools is an eGenix Open Source product available as part of the eGenix mx Base Distribution.The slides are available as PDF.
Marc-Andre Lemburg, CEO of eGenix, gave this presentation.
Developing Unicode-aware Applications in Python
The talk presents ways of designing Python applications to be Unicode-aware from ground up. After a short introduction to Unicode, the talk provides practical guidelines for internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n). We also present the idea of an online translation manager that collects string to be translated and provides ways to have them translated to various languages. This technique has been put to good use in a large financial trading system platform.
The slides are available as PDF.
Marc-Andre Lemburg, CEO of eGenix, gave this presentation.
Enjoy !
Charlie Clark, eGenix.com