The NEURON simulation program now allows Python to be used, alone or in combination with NEURON's traditional Hoc interpreter. Adding Python to NEURON has the immediate benefit of making available a very extensive suite of analysis tools written for engineering and science. It also catalyzes NEURON software development by offering users a modern programming tool that is recognized for its flexi...

Python reached out to a wide and diverse audience in the last few years. During its evolution it combined a number of different paradigms under its hood: imperative, object-oriented, functional, listoriented, even aspect-oriented programming paradigms are allowed, but still remain true to the Python way of programming, thus retaining simplicity, readability and fun. OWL is a knowledge represent...

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Applied Sciences in Trier has been using and further developing a system for automatic software evaluation (ASB) for several years. The ASB system is a web application which allows students to submit solutions to programming exercises within a set time frame. The solutions can be automatically evaluated with the help of various measures. T...

The Parallel Circuit SIMulator (PCSIM) is a software package for simulation of neural circuits. It is primarily designed for distributed simulation of large scale networks of spiking point neurons. Although its computational core is written in C++, PCSIM's primary interface is implemented in the Python programming language, which is a powerful programming environment and allows the user to easi...

I have taught Introduction to Natural Language Processing several times at Northern Illinois University. Since the students are more interested in the Python code that holds the assignments together than in the NLP content, over time I have cut back on linguistic content and added to the programming content. This year I renamed the course “Introduction to NLP in Python” and spent the first few ...

Domain experts in a variety of fields utilize large-scale graph analysis; however, creating high-performance parallel graph applications currently involves expertise in both graph theory and parallel programming which might not be available to the domain specialist. This project explores methods for bringing efficient parallel performance to graph applications written in Python using selective ...

Python’s use in education has grown rapidly due to its elegantly simple syntax. Though often viewed as a “scripting language,” Python is a fully object-oriented language with an extremely consistent object model and a rich set of builtin classes. We are finishing our second year using Python as the language for an object-oriented CS1 course. Based on these experiences, we discuss aspects of Pyt...

Being a highly dynamic language and allowing reliable programming with quick turnarounds, Python is a widely used programming language in CMS. Most of the tools used in workflow management and the GRID interface tools are written in this language. Also most of the tools used in the context of release management: integration builds, release building and deploying, as well as performance measurem...

This paper presents Gamera, a new toolkit for the creation of domain-specific structured document recognition applications by domain experts with limited programming experience. The goal of the Gamera system is to leverage the user’s knowledge of the target documents to create custom applications rather than attempting to meet the needs of diverse users with a monolithic application. The system...

How can Python users be empowered with the robust simulation, compilation and scripting abilities of a nonproprietary object-oriented, equation based modeling language such as Modelica? The immediate objective of this work is to develop an application programming interface for the OpenModelica modeling and simulation environment that would bridge the gap between the two agile programming langua...