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NEXT EVENT
CHIPY __MAIN__ MEETING

Description:

TBD 

When: Aug. 14, 2025, 6 p.m.

Where: Tegus (by AlphaSense)

200 N. LaSalle Street. Suite 1100. Chicago, IL 60601

Directions:

Building Entry: Upon arriving at Tegus HQ, attendees will be asked to provide a legal ID to the front desk to check-in. Event Location: Floor 11 - Millennium Park Conference Room.

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Attendance:
In Person Pythonistas: 17

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TOPICS FOR NEXT EVENT

When things go wrong: better exception management
By: Heather White (eevelweezel)
Experience Level: Novice

When properly used, exceptions are a powerful tool for writing cleaner code. Let's take a look at how exceptions allow us to avoid some common antipatterns.

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Expressive: a new library for compiling symbolic expressions into fast NumPy functions
By: Russell Fordyce
Experience Level: Intermediate

Introducing a new library which can compile symbolic expressions into fast NumPy functions - I hope it can help widen the bridge between mathematicians and programmers

A SymPy expression or string is accepted along with sample data, then directly used or converted into a loop over the first dimension of those arrays, and finally compiled with Numba's ahead-of-time mode using the types from the data and exposed through the object's `__call__()`

The given sample data can also be …

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Founded in 2003, Chicago Python User Group is one of the world's most active programming language special interest groups with over 1,000 active members and many more prestigious alumni. Our main focus is the Python Programming Language. There are many ways to get and stay involved. Meetings are open to all levels. Our main meetings are on the 2nd Thursday of every month and happen online remotely. We have SIGs (Special Interest Groups) in: Mentorship, Data Science, Web technologies, and Finance.
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