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=PYTHON SESSION – ADVANCED=
Start with python3

* [http://conda.pydata.org/miniconda.html anaconda/miniconda]
* [http://conda.pydata.org/docs/test-drive.html  Test drive]
* [http://www.fabfile.org/ Fabric:] Lets you login to a server and run code
* For deployment of [https://github.com/aptivate/dye Django applications]

Puppet sets up the server. Fabric is scripting. Python creates virtual environments.

Create an env:<br>
<code>conda env -n projname python=3.4</code>

For [http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/generating-an-ordered-data-set-from-an-OCR-text-file.html OCR manipulation]
* django documentations (e.g. django girls)


=Testing Libraries=
Python testing libraries are great.

Good testing libraries
* [http://pytest.org/latest/ Pytest:] Good for everything;”domain specific” helps you write and run you test
* [http://www.seleniumhq.org/ Selenium]: lets you drive the browser
**automates browsers. 
* [http://scrapy.org/ Scraping] library called scrapy
**An open source and collaborative framework for extracting the data you need from websites. In a fast, simple, yet extensible way.
* [https://pypi.python.org/pypi/beautifulsoup4/4.4.1 Beautiful Soup] (USE 4 or +)
beautifulsoup4 4.4.1
**Beautiful Soup sits atop an HTML or XML parser, providing Pythonic idioms for iterating, searching, and modifying the parse tree

Example files:
*[https://github.com/birdsarah/scrapy-miscellany Scrapy Miscellany]
Diversity of python:
Allows various communities to come together.
* server nerds
* education
* data science
* web-dev

=Resources=
*topic modeling library
**https://radimrehurek.com/gensim/ 

*(tangent: Watson from IBM: interesting api for devs on natural language processing e.g. speech to text, analytics, personality analyzer)
**http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/services-catalog.html#Speech 

* [http://scikit-learn.org/stable/ scikit learn]

* [http://scikit-image.org/ scikit image:]
**scikit-image is a collection of algorithms for image processing. It is available free of charge and free of restriction. 

* [http://www.nltk.org/ ntltk:] natural language toolkit
**NLTK is a leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data.

*videos on youtube
**http://www.pyvideo.org/

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