[BangPypers] [OT] Venue for PyCon India 2010

2010-04-27 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Hello everyone, As you all probably know, we're working towards PyCon India 2010. We're looking for a venue right now. Our initial plan was to use JN Tata auditorium but it's quite expensive (over 1L per day) and so we're looking for alternatives. IIMB and the NIMHANS auditorium came up

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: SEC has found a way to set right those marauding bankers on Wall street by considering the use of programming languages to specify legal requirements. And the language of choice ? - Python!

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: [..]  If you don't think that as a huge business opportunity, I wonder  what kind of Python consultant you are ;-)[..] Oh. I do. It's just that I recently needed to implement a simple business rule engine

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Dhananjay Nene dhananjay.n...@gmail.com wrote: [..] I don't see a normal business transaction processing runtime getting influenced particularly. Python is a candidate for replacing what otherwise is likely to be done through excel spreadsheets and then

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Dhananjay Nene dhananjay.n...@gmail.com wrote: [..] Apologies at persisting in this .. but I do think it is a very unconventional usecase for programs to be used as specifications. The scenario here is that the program (as in the python code) is the means of

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Dhananjay Nene dhananjay.n...@gmail.com wrote: [..] And FWIW - no, I didn't read the 667 page PDF :) Given that it's a /. link, it's cultural to not RTFA and just pontificate about it (especially if it's a 667 page pdf). :) -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

Re: [BangPypers] User group meeting this weekend

2010-04-25 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Arvind Jamuna Dixit ard...@gmail.com wrote: Its 11:30 and not even one other guy is interested. Thus, I have informed Kamal that we are not meeting at his office today. See you all at the next meetup. A pity. The venue change was short notice though. We'll

Re: [BangPypers] User group meeting this weekend

2010-04-25 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
at the really last minute ! :( -- Ram On 4/25/10, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Arvind Jamuna Dixit ard...@gmail.com wrote: Its 11:30 and not even one other guy is interested. Thus, I have informed Kamal that we are not meeting at his office today. See

Re: [BangPypers] python supports frameworks ?

2010-04-25 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:53 AM, jaya kumar jayakumargen...@gmail.com wrote: when we using php we can embedded the code of html, and java script and mysql bcoz it supports mulit language You're confusing templating and application logic (just like PHP does) so this comment is not really valid.

Re: [BangPypers] User group meeting this weekend

2010-04-24 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Arvind Jamuna Dixit ard...@gmail.com wrote: Are we having a meetup tomorrow? I see not enough guys interested here. I will wait till 12:00 tomorrow. By then if we don't get enough guys I will inform Kamal that we are not meeting at his office. So, those

Re: [BangPypers] User group meeting this weekend

2010-04-23 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Sriram Narayanan sriram...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, there are the very same pest control activities at Thoughtworks' Koramangala office as well ![..] We had one of our earlier meetings at the TenXperts office in Koramangala. Kamal Govindraj is the owner and

Re: [BangPypers] User group meeting this weekend

2010-04-23 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Arvind Jamuna Dixit ard...@gmail.com wrote: [..] We can have the meetup if we get enough +1's. [..] Neat. 1500? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] Python code documentation doubt

2010-04-22 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
epydoc is python specific and uses custom markup in the doc strings. I think is was pre Rest. It might be a good place to start looking. There might be some guidelines in the sphinx docs about this as well. On 4/22/10, JAGANADH G jagana...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:58 PM,

Re: [BangPypers] User group meeting this weekend

2010-04-22 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
I'm not totally sure if I can make it to JP Nagar by 1500 on Sunday so it'll have to be a +0 from me. On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 6:53 PM, anubha sethi sethi.anu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Arvind Jamuna Dixit ard...@gmail.com wrote: Sriram just called me and informed about

Re: [BangPypers] Cheap hosting

2010-04-22 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
I have my personal site on hcoop.net. It's a hosting cooperative. Of late, they've been having some issues but the lack of a commercial entity backing it is a mixed blessing and it might be suitable for your needs. They are pretty liberal with server policies so you can do almost anything you

Re: [BangPypers] User group meeting this weekend

2010-04-21 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
+1 On 4/22/10, Arvind Jamuna Dixit ard...@gmail.com wrote: I just called Sriram and confirmed the availability of room for this Sunday. (April 25th at 15:00) The original plan was to discuss on Pygments. I have been fiddling with Pygments for a few hours and with my very limited experience

[BangPypers] Xpost : PyCon India 2010 venue

2010-04-20 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Hello everyone, My apologies for the crossposting. We really need and India Python list. We're trying to decide where to hold the next PyCon in India and have a survey set up at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QKJ93GC If you can spread the word and take some time to respond to the survey,

Re: [BangPypers] Xpost : PyCon India 2010 venue

2010-04-20 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Ankur Gupta an...@thinklabs.in wrote: Hi, We have Mumbai Python User Group as well. Not as active though. Nevertheless I am sure people would be interested in attending and would love to have a say too. Was wondering if I can post this message on mumpy user

Re: [BangPypers] User group meeting this/next weekend?

2010-04-17 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
A last minute family matter came up which stops me from attending this. Also, I've got some work to wrap up by Monday. I won't be able to show up. It would be nice if someone else could arrange it. On a semi-related note, @dabeaz is interested in a meetup on one of the evenings he's here. I'm

Re: [BangPypers] User group meeting this/next weekend?

2010-04-17 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Arvind Jamuna Dixit ard...@gmail.com wrote: [..] Noufal: Since usually the meetup is at Thoughtworks do we have to call Sriram and inform him about this or is it ok if we just go.[..] You'll have to tell him. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

Re: [BangPypers] Coaching institute in Bangalore.

2010-04-16 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Ramdas S ram...@gmail.com wrote: To my best of knowledge there are no coaching centers. But I dont mind investing in one, if there's enough scope No scope. Save your

[BangPypers] PyCon APAC registrations open

2010-04-15 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Hello everyone, For all of you who have time in June, the PyCon APAC registrations are open at http://pycon.sit.rp.sg/registrations The early bird rates end by the end of the month. Thanks. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in ___ BangPypers

Re: [BangPypers] Enclosing lexical context

2010-04-15 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Picachu Nioto picachu.ni...@gmail.com wrote: Could some one explain to me this sentence, I read in an example online Python doesn't implement assignment of variables bound in an enclosing lexical context Example, a=[b] I'm not sure where you got this

Re: [BangPypers] [COMMERCIAL] CodersCombat project hosting service for all

2010-04-14 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Azhagu selvan azhagusel...@gmx.com wrote: Many small enterprises and college students who wants an efficient project tracking tool, doesn't want to make their source code and project info public - atleast till the project ends. In our service people can make

[BangPypers] Fwd: [Inpycon] letterhead and seal

2010-04-14 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Forwarding to a wider audience. -- Forwarded message -- From: Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org Date: Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:59 PM Subject: [Inpycon] letterhead and seal To: inpy...@python.org hi, for the bank account and for filing returns and dealing with officials we

Re: [BangPypers] User group meeting this/next weekend?

2010-04-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Arvind Jamuna Dixit ard...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not in a condition to participate in the sprint we talked about last time because I've been completely tied up with some other work. Any

Re: [BangPypers] User group meeting this/next weekend?

2010-04-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy srinivas_thatipar...@akebonosoft.com wrote: I second that opinion. Like patterns used and variations of them and extendability of an app.. future prospects and counterparts .. and many more i can think of ...[..] Dates? --

Re: [BangPypers] how to create dlls in python

2010-04-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Goudar, Girish girish.gou...@goodrich.com wrote: Can any one pls tell how to create dlls in python. Ex: I am having helpers.py. I want to create helpers.dll. I am using Python2.4 version. DLLs? You want to compile your Python files into object code? I suppose

Re: [BangPypers] User group meeting this/next weekend?

2010-04-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Arvind Jamuna Dixit ard...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: Dates? 18th of this month at 15:00?[..] Takers? It's fine by me. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

[BangPypers] User group meeting this/next weekend?

2010-04-12 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Any plans/agenda? I'm not in a condition to participate in the sprint we talked about last time because I've been completely tied up with some other work. Any other ideas? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in ___ BangPypers mailing list

[BangPypers] Free weekend bootcamp on Python

2010-04-06 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
For all those in Chennai that are interested. http://www.chandrashekar.info/training/free-weekend-core-python-bootcamp.html The guy running it is an old buddy of mine and I'm quite sure it will be a good session. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in ___

[BangPypers] [OT] PyCon India 2010

2010-04-06 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Hello everyone, The planning for PyCon India 2010 will be starting in a day or two. I'd encourage everyone who wants to be a part of the event to join the inpycon list at http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon and pitch in. If you thought that the last PyCon in Bangalore had scope for

Re: [BangPypers] @dabeaz visiting b'lore

2010-04-01 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:58 AM, स्वक्ष v...@svaksha.com wrote: [..] -1 to restaurants (or any public space that is noisy and) not convenient for all present to listen to the speaker. Noufal if you have the approx dates, it would be easier to see if any office is willing to sponsor space.

Re: [BangPypers] @dabeaz visiting b'lore

2010-04-01 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Well, I'm a +1, Vishal is a +1. That's 2. Any more people? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] @dabeaz visiting b'lore

2010-04-01 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I'm a +1, Vishal is a +1. That's 2. Any more people? This count if for hotel ? It's a count for number of people interested in hearing him speak

Re: [BangPypers] @dabeaz visiting b'lore

2010-04-01 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
That's roughly 7 people. I imagine over time, it'll be around 10-11. Any suggestions on where to have the talk? I could ask at the place where I am (and where he's coming to) if they can allow for a small meeting after regular office hours. Any other suggestions? Preferably close to MG road. --

Re: [BangPypers] @dabeaz visiting b'lore

2010-03-31 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Vishal vsapr...@gmail.com wrote: OK, saw your twitter posting and question to his twitter account. Some more info would be great though. This is the guy who explained the GIL to the majority of the python speaking world.[..] I was aware of his trip when I met

Re: [BangPypers] March meeting

2010-03-23 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.com wrote: Let's meet this Saturday ?[..] I have some other plans or this weekend and won't be able to come but if there are sufficient people, good idea. I am planning (like we said in our last meeting) to have a sprint in April. --

Re: [BangPypers] Hi

2010-03-11 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Goudar, Girish girish.gou...@goodrich.com wrote: Hi, Can u pls tell what the return value of python function is? socket.connect((host, port)) on SUCCESS and on FAIL? The details are at http://docs.python.org/library/socket.html Python code doesn't

Re: [BangPypers] Feb user group meeting

2010-03-10 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Ramdas S ram...@gmail.com wrote: [..] ---This is something I'd like to attend. Please confirm the dates March 6 2010. Last weekend. :) -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in ___ BangPypers mailing list

Re: [BangPypers] [OT] Tools for writing books and publishing as pdfs

2010-03-10 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Jins Thomas jinstho...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, This is an off-topic. Would somebody please pass some suggestions on how we can write some e-book, technical in nature. I'm planning to write one book on telecom network domain . My main motive is to learn

Re: [BangPypers] Simple python database library

2010-03-05 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Vivek Khurana hiddenharm...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Dhananjay Nene dhananjay.n...@gmail.com wrote: I've decided to go ahead with SQLAlchemy even though that was not my favourite. FWIW I'm just documenting my thoughts : Cons : Why I

Re: [BangPypers] Simple python database library

2010-03-05 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: On Friday 05 Mar 2010 3:22:12 pm Dhananjay Nene wrote: I might add that I've worked with ORMs almost regularly since 1996 in C++, Java and Python. SQLAlchemy has probably been the most successful ORM I  have seen

Re: [BangPypers] Feb user group meeting

2010-03-05 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
March 2010 10:50, Arvind Jamuna Dixit ard...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else? I will be there too. -- Arvind ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] Simple python database library

2010-03-05 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Pradeep Gowda prad...@btbytes.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.com wrote: Aaargh, few hours after I decide that I run into this. From an intent perspective it is much more consistent with what I was looking for -

Re: [BangPypers] Feb user group meeting

2010-03-05 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 12:24 AM, || स्वक्ष || v...@svaksha.com wrote: [..] Agreed. But I am not sure how many outside of this list (or the inpycon list) are aware that other cities can bid if they wish to. For starters, a page on the wiki perhaps and later communicate this publicly on the

Re: [BangPypers] Feb user group meeting

2010-03-04 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Arvind Jamuna Dixit ard...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: If that's fine, we can do 2 meetings in March (one which is the postponed Feb

[BangPypers] Feb user group meeting

2010-02-23 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Anyone game for a meeting this weekend? i probably won't be back by then but I don't like a meeting being missed. I can present something during the first weekend on March (specifically about PyCon in Atlanta). If that's fine, we can do 2 meetings in March (one which is the postponed Feb meeting)

Re: [BangPypers] Feb user group meeting

2010-02-23 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Sriram Narayanan sriram...@gmail.com wrote: Could we meet when you folks are back? I'd like to present on Cintinuous Integration and on What are Unit Tests with a focus on experienced developers. -- Sriram[..] Sure. Shall we do that for the Feb meeting

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon 2010

2010-02-15 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:16 PM, || स्वक्ष || v...@svaksha.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 22:19, Senthil Kumaran orsent...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 08:37:30AM +0530, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: Not sure about anybody else. I am going. Presenting a tutorial on How to

Re: [BangPypers] date range

2010-02-09 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy srinivas_thatipar...@akebonosoft.com wrote: Formally, if a, b, c, ..., y, z  are expressions and op1, op2, ..., opN are comparison operators, then a op1 b  op2 c ... y opN  z is equivalent to a op1 b and  b op2 c and ...  y opN z,

Re: [BangPypers] Regarding Python popularity

2010-02-08 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy srinivas_thatipar...@akebonosoft.com wrote: [..] I never searched for it .But in what domains  Python is excellent compared to other OOP languages? Glue apps. It seems to have a foothold in web programming Prototyping/Rapid development

Re: [BangPypers] Regarding Python popularity

2010-02-08 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: On Monday 08 Feb 2010 4:17:23 pm Dhananjay Nene wrote: So to put it simply - there is no simple cut and dry answer. If you look beyond the Marketing and a bit of the resultant herd mentality, you will realise that most

Re: [BangPypers] WxPython: Unhandled exception

2010-02-06 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Rama Rao Polneni ram...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have developed a GUI application. Some times I am getting an unhandled exception with the following message: *An unhandled exception occurred. * *Press Abort to terminate the program, Retry to exit the

Re: [BangPypers] Help -- Python with C

2010-02-06 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 11:46 PM, ravi chandel ravi_...@in.com wrote: hi, i am looking for a good c programming books with examples pls help. 0. Please don't hijack threads. Unless you're following up on a topic of conversation in an existing thread, start a new one. 1. This mailing list

Re: [BangPypers] Internationals getting Python/Programming Jobs

2010-02-05 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Rory Hart hart...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm an Australian who is considering living/working in Bangalore, I work with a lot of Indians here in Australia and figure why should they have all the fun of coming to another country to work. In my experience,

Re: [BangPypers] Internationals getting Python/Programming Jobs

2010-02-05 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Baishampayan Ghose b.gh...@gmail.com wrote:  You also get Fosters here :) [OT] May be it's not common knowledge here in India, but nobody drinks Foster's in Australia. Whatever we see in the ads here is all propaganda :) I've heard that too. A lot of genuine

Re: [BangPypers] Internationals getting Python/Programming Jobs

2010-02-05 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah s...@mahiti.org wrote: On 5 February 2010 18:19, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.com wrote: The main questions I have are:   - Do Bangalore IT companies hire many internationals? I don't see any reason why they shouldn't. Does

Re: [BangPypers] Help -- Python with C

2010-02-04 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:29 PM, VIJAY KUMAR vnbang2...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi ,     I wanted to call the function defined in C in to python module. C filedummy_c_module.c contains below    int dummy_c_function(int value)     {    int ret;    ret = value + 5;

Re: [BangPypers] Future of Python Programmers

2010-01-30 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:40 AM, nikunj badjatya nikunjbadja...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all BangPyPers, I couldnt attend the January's user group meeting becoz of unforseen circumstances. I have one important question to ask to all of you, I am a fresher, recently completed my graduation, had

Re: [BangPypers] Python syntax highligting in Latex beamer

2010-01-29 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:19 PM, JAGANADH G jagana...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All Can somebody give me a clear example how to highlight Python code in latex beamer. I used listings but no result . http://pygments.org/ can tokenise and highlight your code and output LaTeX which you can probably

Re: [BangPypers] Python/Django issue

2010-01-25 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Praveen Kumar praveen.python.pl...@gmail.com wrote: [..] However at least IE4.5 for the Mac, will only allow you to send and retrieve information to the server that contains the flash file. For this reason it is recommended that you place you flash file and HTML

Re: [BangPypers] January user group meeting

2010-01-23 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Arvind Jamuna Dixit ard...@gmail.com wrote: How did the meet go. Couldn't come as I got stuck in MG Road traffic.[..] Pretty well. Baiju's presentation on using using buildout to easily configure buildbot was nice. I also learnt that if you 'activate' a

Re: [BangPypers] January user group meeting

2010-01-22 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Jeffrey Jose jeffjosej...@gmail.com wrote: Do you folks upload the presentation/audio/video somewhere? I am much interested in the buildbot talks. This is not really a talk about buildbot

Re: [BangPypers] The merge : Unladen Swallow into CPython

2010-01-21 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Dhananjay Nene dhananjay.n...@gmail.comwrote: [..] I think the comparison of a VM enhanced CPython vs. traditional CPython is a little unfair when conducted from a binary size perspective (and not particularly critical imo). The actual python application

Re: [BangPypers] Help plzz..

2010-01-20 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:38 PM, murugadoss murugadoss2...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I want to learn python scripting. Can anyone suggest me any book or link to start with.Books with sample example will be more helpfull. The official tutorial : http://docs.python.org/tutorial/index.html (best

[BangPypers] The merge : Unladen Swallow into CPython

2010-01-20 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/109919 Looks it's really lead laden rather than unladen. An interpreter binary is over 100 MB (as opposed to the original CPython one which is less than 10). More details in the PEP in the above email thread. I sense a disturbance in the force.

Re: [BangPypers] January user group meeting

2010-01-19 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Sriram Narayanan sriram...@gmail.comwrote: Ok, can we make this Jan 232 Saturday if we're ok with meeting at Thoughtworks ? Fine by me. What time? 1530? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in ___ BangPypers mailing

Re: [BangPypers] January user group meeting

2010-01-19 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
So are we decided? Date : Jan 23 Time : 1530 Venue : ThoughtWorks, Diamond District Topics : Baiju - Buildbot Noufal - py.test. Fine? Vishal had a -1 for 23. If there many others, we can change the date to 24th. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

Re: [BangPypers] January user group meeting

2010-01-19 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Jeffrey Jose jeffjosej...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately I wont be able to attend, @Baiju, will you be making your talk available online? I am afraid that would be possible as we don't

[BangPypers] January user group meeting

2010-01-18 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Any ideas? Suggestions? Presentations? Sessions? It would be on 23/24th. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] January user group meeting

2010-01-18 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: Any ideas? Suggestions? Presentations? Sessions? It would be on 23/24th. I am fine with 23rd/24th. I can give a demo about using collective.buildbot

Re: [BangPypers] How should I do it?

2010-01-15 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Dhananjay Nene dhananjay.n...@gmail.comwrote: This seems to be an output of print_r of PHP. If you have a flexibility, try to have the PHP code output the data into a language neutral format (eg json, yaml, xml etc.) and then parse it in python using the

Re: [BangPypers] How should I do it?

2010-01-15 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Baishampayan Ghose b.gh...@gmail.com wrote: It is a clever hack, taking advantage of the nature of the data. But it is far more faster than the other approaches posted here. I

Re: [BangPypers] psyco V2

2010-01-15 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Vishal vsapr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Came across this post on codespeak. Christian Tismer of Stackless fame as taken up pysco and created a V2 of it...and seems the effort continues... http://codespeak.net/pipermail/pypy-dev/2009q3/005288.html Nice..

[BangPypers] Unladen Swallow for Py3k

2010-01-06 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Details here http://jessenoller.com/2010/01/06/unladen-swallow-python-3s-best-feature/ -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] Unladen Swallow for Py3k

2010-01-06 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: Details here http://jessenoller.com/2010/01/06/unladen-swallow-python-3s-best-feature/ Interesting to read about that merge

Re: [BangPypers] Unladen Swallow for Py3k

2010-01-06 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: [..] What I am more worried is that if Google produces a CPython implementation on *nix which is say 50-100 times faster than the main CPython implementation for most common operations, then with

Re: [BangPypers] Execute Windows shutdown command through python !

2009-12-29 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Wouldn't it make more sense for you to use the exposed windows API using the Python win32 module rather than calling an external program via os.popen? I googled a little and found http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa376868(VS.85).aspx which should be callable. I also found

Re: [BangPypers] Tuples vs Lists, perfromance difference

2009-12-24 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: psyco is 32 bit only and development has pretty much ceased since all the chaps working on it went to PyPy. Also, for some perverse bits of code

Re: [BangPypers] Tuples vs Lists, perfromance difference

2009-12-23 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Vishal vsapr...@gmail.com wrote: [..] Also interesting stuff about the Java comparison. The question remains, why the JVM is so fast and why Python is not as far as JVM? I am sure there must be a ton of info on this over the net :) This came up (albeit in

Re: [BangPypers] Python performance

2009-12-22 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Ramdas S ram...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I saw this doc and a few other docs online. http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSpeed/PerformanceTips Are there any recommendations on how I can improve performances in case of I/O. I have a program that opens

Re: [BangPypers] Tuples vs Lists, perfromance difference

2009-12-22 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Vishal vsapr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was presuming that since tuples are immutable, like strings, and string immutability increases performance ( http://effbot.org/pyfaq/why-are-python-strings-immutable.htm) so also, using tuple would improve performance

Re: [BangPypers] Tuples vs Lists, perfromance difference

2009-12-22 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote: [..] http://jtauber.com/blog/2006/04/15/python_tuples_are_not_just_constant_lists/ Tuples are not constant lists -- this is a common misconception. Lists are intended to be homogeneous sequences, while tuples

Re: [BangPypers] Meet on Sunday

2009-12-20 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Abhaya Agarwal abhaya.agar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guys, Is there going to be a meet on Sunday - 20th? If yes, what's the time and place? Yes. Date : December 20 Time : 1600 hours

Re: [BangPypers] Meet on Sunday

2009-12-20 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Arvind Jamuna Dixit ard...@gmail.comwrote: Noufal, The meet went well. Four guys attended the meet: Sriram, Karthik, Kunal, Abhaya and myself. First, Sriram gave a demo of the cool features of ZFS ( snapshots, clones, replacing devices when online,

Re: [BangPypers] December user group meeting

2009-12-19 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 7:37 PM, karthik diga...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: So, 20th is is then? ThoughtWorks? 1600? Yes. Date : December 20 Time : 1600 hours Venue : ThoughtWorks, Diamond District, Airport Road. Agenda

Re: [BangPypers] December user group meeting

2009-12-16 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:03 AM, vid v...@svaksha.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 02:28, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: We tried AFAIK to record Mahadevan's talk on llvm-py but recordmydesktop didn't work as expected so we ditched the idea. My requirements are less...just

Re: [BangPypers] December user group meeting

2009-12-16 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
So, 20th is is then? ThoughtWorks? 1600? Sounds like it's going to be a coding session. I can pitch in but will have to pair with someone else since I don't have a computer. ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] December user group meeting

2009-12-15 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:27 AM, vid v...@svaksha.com wrote: [..] am aware its supposed to encourage f2f meets and all that but would it be too much to ask for an online code together course (excuse the term) , ala http://www.linuxchix.org/courses.html ... for those non-attendees who

Re: [BangPypers] Business rule engine in Python

2009-12-14 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Asokan Pichai paso...@gmail.com wrote: Take a look at (PY)CLIPS Thanks for that. I also found http://pyke.sourceforge.net/. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] December user group meeting

2009-12-14 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Sriram Narayanan sriram...@gmail.comwrote: Since we have a few +1s, I've a proposal: From a code together perspective, How about developing a ZFS management application ? I can be the resident sysadmin/ZFS-guru, and we can develop something together.[..]

Re: [BangPypers] December user group meeting

2009-12-14 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Sriram Narayanan sriram...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Sriram Narayanan sriram...@gmail.com wrote: Since we have a few +1s, I've a proposal: From a code

[BangPypers] [OT] Fwd: General Bangalore programming list

2009-12-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
This might be of interest to people here who want to diversify a little. Cross pollination is always a good thing. -- Forwarded message -- From: C. K. Ponnappa ckponna...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 9:48 PM Subject: Re: [ Bangalore RUG] [OT] Bangalore Clojure group To:

Re: [BangPypers] December user group meeting

2009-12-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Anyone? Atleast some subjects people would like to hear about? On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: It's as nice a time as ever to bring this up and see if there are any interesting talks that could be delivered on 18 or 25th. Anyone have a talk suggestion

Re: [BangPypers] December user group meeting

2009-12-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: It's as nice a time as ever to bring this up and see if there are any interesting talks that could be delivered on 18 or 25th. Why

Re: [BangPypers] Reg : Python Scripting

2009-12-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:04 AM, murugadoss murugadoss2...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I am new to python scripting. I saw about subprocess module. I need to send an input to the running src,like eg: For adding two numbers 1. image running and waiting for input from user 2.

Re: [BangPypers] December user group meeting

2009-12-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Arvind Jamuna Dixit ard...@gmail.comwrote: I find stuff related to python compiler/interpreter interesting. Just like the talk presented by Mahadevan in the previous meetup. [..] I would have loved to do a presentation on the PVM itself but my computer is

Re: [BangPypers] Little help

2009-12-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Zubin Mithra zubin.mit...@gmail.comwrote: hi i just downloaded the latest version of pyroom 0.4.1 from launchpad; its a minimalistic document editor written in python. its reported to run well on other versions of ubuntu other than karmic which i am

Re: [BangPypers] Reg : Python Scripting

2009-12-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:09 AM, murugadoss murugadoss2...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Thank u for the reply. My program is like this; This is the third or fourth time this is being repeated. Please look through http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html -- ~noufal

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