The article describes requirements to educational programming languages and considers the use of Python as the first programming language. The issues of introduction of this programming language into teaching and replacing Pascal by Python are examined. The advantages of such approach are regarded. The comparison of popular programming languages is represented from the point of view of their co...

This presentation introduces a Python module (PyCWN) for accessing and processing Chinese lexical resources. In particular, our focus is put on the Chinese Wordnet (CWN) that has been developed and released by CWN group at Academia Sinica. PyCWN provides the access to Chinese Wordnet (sense and relation data) under the Python environment. The presenation further demonstrates how this module app...

This paper presents PyMoult, a Python library implementing various dynamic software update (DSU) mechanisms. This library aims to provide a prototyping platform for experimenting with DSU and to implement a vast choice of update mechanisms while allowing their combination and customization. We selected different update mechanisms from the literature and implemented them in PyMoult. This paper f...

One of the main obstacles to a more widespread use of parallel computing in science is the difficulty of implementing, testing, and maintaining parallel programs. The combination of a simple parallel computation model, BSP, and a high-level programming language, Python, simplifies these tasks significantly. It allows the rapid development facilities of Python to be applied to parallel programs,...

SymPy is an open source computer algebra system written in pure Python. It 9 is built with a focus on extensibility and ease of use, through both interactive and programmatic 10 applications. These characteristics have led SymPy to become the standard symbolic library for 11 the scientific Python ecosystem. This paper presents the architecture of SymPy, a description of its 12 features, and a d...

We present a simple Python library to construct models of polypeptides from scratch. The intended use case is the generation of peptide models with pre-specified backbone angles. For example, using our library, one can generate a model of a set of amino acids in a specific conformation using just a few lines of python code. We do not provide any tools for energy minimization or rotamer packing,...

The Python programming language is effective for rapidly writing programs and experimenting with them. It is increasingly being used in computational sciences, and in teaching computer science. CSP is effective for describing concurrency. It has become especially relevant with the emergence of commodity multi-core architectures. We are interested in exploring how a combination of Python and CSP...

Eukaryotic genomes are hierarchically organized into topologically associating domains (TADs). The computational identification of these domains and their associated properties critically depends on the choice of suitable parameters of TAD-calling algorithms. To reduce the element of trial-and-error in parameter selection, we have developed TADtool: an interactive plot to find robust TAD-callin...