Presentation software for Python code

[Michael Hoffman]

I mean to give a presentation next week to my workgroup on good Python
programming practice. Last time I did a Python presentation I used
PowerPoint which was not totally well-suited for the task. In
particular, formatting code snippets was a pain, and they weren't even
prettyprinted.

Does anyone here have software they would suggest for making a
presentation that includes Python code? Other than that it would
probably be mainly bullet points. I'm willing to consider TeX- and
HTML-based approaches.

 

[John Reid]

Does anyone here have software they would suggest for making a
presentation that includes Python code? Other than that it would
probably be mainly bullet points. I'm willing to consider TeX- and
HTML-based approaches.

I like pygments for formatting python code. It can generate TeX and you
can use it inline it in your TeX source if you like.

 

[John Reid]

Michael Hoffman wrote:
You might take a look at Crunchy, and just do up your talk there.
Crunchy is a Python program that combines an otherwise static html
document with an interactive Python session within a browser
http://code.google.com/p/crunchy/

IPython offers something similar for giving demos. I've found that very
useful in the past.

 

[André]

You might take a look at Crunchy, and just do up your talk there.
Crunchy is a Python program that combines an otherwise static html
document with an interactive Python session within a browser
     http://code.google.com/p/crunchy/

A demo from an earlier version of Crunchy  (when thedemo was made,
Firfox only). The basic features of that early version of Crunchy
are demonstrated in this screencast.

     http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=1430000&fromSeriesID=143

And if you do use Crunchy for a presentation, you might be interested
in the html style used for Crunchy's own talk at the latest Pycon:
http://us.pycon.org/media/2009/talkdata/PyCon2009/012/crunchy_.html


André Roberge

 

[Michael Hoffman]

Thanks for the suggestions.

And if you do use Crunchy for a presentation, you might be interested
in the html style used for Crunchy's own talk at the latest Pycon:
http://us.pycon.org/media/2009/talkdata/PyCon2009/012/crunchy_.html

Hmmmm, I have to click on the next link every time?

The best option might be to use an existing HTML presentation style with
keyboard shortcuts.

 

[alex23]

Does anyone here have software they would suggest for making a
presentation that includes Python code? Other than that it would
probably be mainly bullet points. I'm willing to consider TeX- and
HTML-based approaches.

How do you feel about reStructuredText? If you're open to it, I highly
recommend Bruce: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bruce

It also supports embedded interpreters in the presentation, which I've
seen using to good effect at conventions.

 

[Neal Becker]

IPython offers something similar for giving demos. I've found that very
useful in the past.

Really? Any pointers?

 

[Michael Hoffman]

How do you feel about reStructuredText? If you're open to it, I highly
recommend Bruce: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bruce

That looks like it would be perfect. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to
work on my Windows laptop:

C:\Documents and
Settings\Michael\Desktop\bruce-3.2.1>C:\Python25\python.exe bru
ce.pyw ..\bruce-3.2.1-examples\test_bullet_mode.rst
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "bruce.pyw", line 6, in <module>
run.main()
File "bruce-library.zip\bruce\run.py", line 25, in main
File "bruce-library.zip\bruce\run.py", line 217, in cmd_line
File "bruce-library.zip\bruce\run.py", line 313, in run
File "bruce-library.zip\bruce\presentation.py", line 31, in
start_presentation

File "bruce-library.zip\bruce\page.py", line 29, in create
File "bruce-library.zip\bruce\layout.py", line 143, in create
File "bruce-library.zip\pyglet\graphics\__init__.py", line 348, in add
File "bruce-library.zip\pyglet\graphics\__init__.py", line 436, in
_get_domain

File "bruce-library.zip\pyglet\graphics\vertexdomain.py", line 135,
in create_
domain
File "bruce-library.zip\pyglet\graphics\vertexdomain.py", line 174,
in __init_
_
File "bruce-library.zip\pyglet\graphics\vertexbuffer.py", line 117,
in create_
mappable_buffer
File "bruce-library.zip\pyglet\graphics\vertexbuffer.py", line 383,
in __init_
_
File "bruce-library.zip\pyglet\graphics\vertexbuffer.py", line 301,
in __init_
_
File "bruce-library.zip\pyglet\gl\lib_wgl.py", line 94, in __call__
File "bruce-library.zip\pyglet\gl\lib.py", line 63, in MissingFunction
pyglet.gl.lib.MissingFunctionException: glGenBuffers is not exported by
the avai
lable OpenGL driver. VERSION_1_5 is required for this functionality.
Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "'VertexDomain' object has no
attribute 'at
tributes'" in <bound method VertexDomain.__del__ of
<VertexDomain@a9c7350 allocs
=[]>> ignored

I don't understand this. OpenGL Extensions Viewer says I have OpenGL 1.5
and the glGenBuffers function.

 

[alex23]

That looks like it would be perfect. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to
work on my Windows laptop:

I don't understand this. OpenGL Extensions Viewer says I have OpenGL 1.5
and the glGenBuffers function.

That's a shame, if you feel like pursuing it you should report the
error to the pyglet devs, but I'd certainly understand if you didn't.

 

[ajaksu]

That's a shame, if you feel like pursuing it you should report the
error to the pyglet devs, but I'd certainly understand if you didn't.

Might be a bug in the bundled version of pyglet, so installing it from
upstream and Bruce from source could also help.

 

[Michael Hoffman]

I can recommend latex with the beamer package. It doesn't directly support
formatting of code snippets, but the pygments syntax highlighter comes with
a Latex formatter.

This is what I have been doing so far, and it works pretty well. Thanks!

Michael

 

[John Reid]

Really? Any pointers?

http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/manual/html/api/generated/IPython.demo.html