Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Shivaraj M S
However, if someone will cover my plane ticket and hotel room . Forgive me if I am being typical... Do you mean MHRD, India by someone? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-ANN--X-Post--SciPy-India-conference-in-Dec.-2009-tp25770133p25781043.html Sent from the

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.com wrote: [..] They are only advocating Python for scientific community and not for web frameworks or CMSs. They are only expressing that there is no

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 9:48:35 am Anand Chitipothu wrote: and spread FUD about plone, but is also a slap in the face for all of us who are engaged in python advocacy. I think they have done a quite good job of picking a random CMS and not wasting their valuable time in implementing a

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: I am not objecting to their choice of CMS, I am objecting to the blog post - which clearly sends the message that 'python sucks'. Python do sucks when it comes to having a CMS. I am yet to find a decent CMS in python

[BangPypers] Pickle multiple objects

2009-10-07 Thread Aneesh A
Hi friends, I am new to python world. I am doing a small python game ( command line based). The problem is: I have to store high scores, so i pickled a list . after pickling, in append mode, load method loads only first object. How to retrieve multiple objects?? I am attaching a source.

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 12:44:33 pm Vivek Khurana wrote: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: I am not objecting to their choice of CMS, I am objecting to the blog post - which clearly sends the message that 'python sucks'. Python do sucks when it

Re: [BangPypers] Pickle multiple objects

2009-10-07 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Aneesh A aneesh...@gmail.com wrote: I have to store high scores, so i pickled a list . after pickling, in append mode, load method loads only first object. How to retrieve multiple

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Kadambari Devarajan kadambari.devara...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, The first Scientific Computing with Python conference in India (http://scipy.in) will be held from December 12th to 17th, 2009 at the Technopark in Trivandrum, Kerala, India

Re: [BangPypers] Pickle multiple objects

2009-10-07 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Aneesh A aneesh...@gmail.com wrote: I have to store high scores, so i pickled a list . after pickling, in append mode, load method loads only first object. How to retrieve multiple objects?? What does this do: import cPickle as pickle list = [ (i, str(i)) for i

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 10:31:10 am Noufal Ibrahim wrote: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Kadambari Devarajan kadambari.devara...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, The first Scientific Computing with Python conference in India (http://scipy.in) will be held from December 12th to 17th, 2009

Re: [BangPypers] Pickle multiple objects

2009-10-07 Thread Sidharth Kuruvila
Hi, I'm guessing you want to do something like this fo = file(test.pkl, w) pickle.dump([1,2,3,4], fo) pickle.dump([5,6,7,8], fo) fo.close() fi = file(test.pkl) pickle.load(fi) [1, 2, 3, 4] pickle.load(fi) [5, 6, 7, 8] pickle.load(fi) Traceback (most recent call last): File pyshell#10,

Re: [BangPypers] Pickle multiple objects

2009-10-07 Thread Sidharth Kuruvila
Oops formatting got mucked up. Should be def pickledobjects(f): try: while True: yield pickle.load(f) except EOFError: pass objs = list(pickledobjects(file(fi))) ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 1:58:17 pm Vivek Khurana wrote: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 12:44:33 pm Vivek Khurana wrote: if it has matured, how come there are still at least one critical security issue per month? Good

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Rajeev J Sebastian
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.com wrote: You may not agree to the view that Python doesn't have good CMS softwares. But saying that there is good CMS in python doesn't mean python sucks. If there are good CMS softwares in Python then why nobody in this

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.comwrote: django, plone has about one issue every two years - usually minor and not affecting anything critical. There is something radically wrong in a software that gets one core critical issue a month (even then drupal is

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Rajeev J Sebastian
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote:   -1. Not a great way to build software. I wonder what they will   end up with. You might end up with some-thing half-assed that   is neither Drupal nor Python.  Instead of doing line by line, do it at module

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 3:26:38 pm Anand Chitipothu wrote: django, plone has about one issue every two years - usually minor and not affecting anything critical. There is something radically wrong in a software that gets one core critical issue a month (even then drupal is better than

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 3:32:33 pm Anand Chitipothu wrote: +1. You got to be a forgiving Solomon to remain so cool after reading that post and I am not one when it comes to rants which are baseless. If you agree with the poster that there are no good CMS in Python, then it is your

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Anand Chitipothu
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.com wrote: django, plone has about one issue every two years - usually minor and not affecting anything critical. There is something

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Anand Chitipothu
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 3:32:33 pm Anand Chitipothu wrote:   +1. You got to be a forgiving Solomon to remain so cool after reading that post and I am not one when it comes to rants which are baseless. If you agree

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Anand Chitipothu
I think its because its just so damn easy to roll-your-own that it doesnt matter. I'm sure many people on this list have rolled their own blogs, etc perhaps combining some existing apps for the purpose (My blog http://www.rajeevsebastian.com uses lifeflow with some custom mods and a custom

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Rajeev J Sebastian
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.com wrote: I think its because its just so damn easy to roll-your-own that it doesnt matter. I'm sure many people on this list have rolled their own blogs, etc perhaps combining some existing apps for the purpose (My blog

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.comwrote: This is what is said in the Django FAQ also. Be practical. You are asking to write a Django application and start customizing it by writing code and take the headache of maintaining it? It is super-easy to

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 3:57:14 pm Anand Chitipothu wrote: because plone is a killer app and has killed all the other python CMS's So you agreed to my point. 1. Plone is difficult to customize customise as in maybe interfacing it with an RDBMS - otherwise it is dead easy to add new apps -

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 4:00:59 pm Anand Chitipothu wrote: I'm sure many people on this list have rolled their own blogs, etc perhaps combining some existing apps for the purpose (My blog http://www.rajeevsebastian.com uses lifeflow with some custom mods and a custom skin). Possible.

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Anand Chitipothu
Possible. But writing a software requires time and you need to maintain it. how much time? I wrote and deployed the ilugc.org.in site in two hours and deployed it in 10 minutes and I can happily sleep at night because I know there will be no need for security patches and maintainence. The

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 4:27:36 pm Anand Chitipothu wrote: Possible. But writing a software requires time and you need to maintain it. how much time? I wrote and deployed the ilugc.org.in site in two hours and deployed it in 10 minutes and I can happily sleep at night because I know

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Madhusudan C.S madhusuda...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks for clarifying. We(The Python group of the FOSSEE team) have been looking at this thread and the thread on Scipy India 2009 - SciPy.in. I don't want to make any comments on the exchanges in the threads.

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Asokan Pichai
Dear Anand, It is as much your assumption that KG's one line comment referred to scipy.in that started this. And the first page of fossee.in explains that python is only one of the components of the project. All the comments about the appropriateness of drupal for a python conference site are

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 4:44:10 pm Asokan Pichai wrote: It is as much your assumption that KG's one line comment referred to scipy.in that started this. And the first page of fossee.in explains that python is only one of the components of the project. my objection was not to the use of drupal

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 4:44:10 pm Asokan Pichai wrote: All the comments about the appropriateness of drupal for a python conference site are misguided--because the conference site __is__ in django. shameless plug incidentally there is a readymade locally available conference management

[BangPypers] [OT] Re: [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Asokan Pichai
   and quite often very critical discussions.  The rights are more than    inalienable, they are fundamental. inalienable: unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor Does not seem to be lesser than Fundamental to me. -- Asokan Pichai *---* We will find a

Re: [BangPypers] [OT] Re: [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Asokan Pichai paso...@gmail.com wrote: and quite often very critical discussions. The rights are more than inalienable, they are fundamental. inalienable: unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor Does not seem to be lesser than

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.com wrote: [..] Btw, some part or whole of scipy.in is running on Django. [..] Scipy.in is in django fossee.in is drupal Details here http://fossee.in/blog/Drupal -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Asokan Pichai paso...@gmail.com wrote: [..] And equally inappropriate are the comments along the lines of 'for propagating python how can you use drupal?' because the site is for more than python and that is explained in the first page. [..] Like I said earlier,

[BangPypers] Fwd: Nested try-catch

2009-10-07 Thread bhaskar jain
My mails seem not to go :( -- Forwarded message -- From: bhaskar jain bhaskar.jain2...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:21 AM Subject: Re: [BangPypers] Nested try-catch To: Bangalore Python Users Group - India bangpypers@python.org Anand, nice find.. But i read this in

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Asokan Pichai paso...@gmail.com wrote: [..] And equally inappropriate are the comments along the lines of 'for propagating python how can you use drupal?' because the site is for more

Re: [BangPypers] SciPy India 2009 - SciPy.in

2009-10-07 Thread Kadambari Devarajan
Hi All, On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, it surely is more Sci than Py I would say. Still, it would be a good conf for engineers and mathematicians and guys who need more insights into numerical and mathematical problem solving.

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Madhusudan C.S madhusuda...@gmail.com wrote: [..] Thanks for clarifying. We(The Python group of the FOSSEE team) have been looking at this thread and the thread on Scipy India 2009 - SciPy.in. I don't want to make any comments on the exchanges in the threads.

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: [..] django, plone has about one issue every two years - usually minor and not affecting anything critical. There is something radically wrong in a software that gets one core critical issue a month (even then drupal is

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Vivek Khurana hiddenharm...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: I am not objecting to their choice of CMS, I am objecting to the blog post - which clearly sends the message that 'python sucks'.  Python

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.com wrote: [..] If there are good CMS softwares in Python then why nobody in this group hasn't named a single one other than Plone? [..] Perhaps not a general drupal like CMS but infogami which you work on is surely an option?

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Pradeep Gowda
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.com wrote: [..] If there are good CMS softwares in Python then why nobody in this group hasn't named a single one other than Plone? [..] There is Skeletonz http://orangoo.com/skeletonz/ Which is pretty user friendly from the

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Pradeep Gowda
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Pradeep Gowda prad...@btbytes.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.com wrote: [..] If there are good CMS softwares in Python then why nobody in this group hasn't named a single one other than Plone? [..] There is

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Kadambari Devarajan
Hi All, On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: cool - I wish your conference all the best, Thank you. but I have a serious beef. I would suggest that before spreading python around the world, you could take a fewdays off and spread python around your

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 3:38:25 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: [..] django, plone has about one issue every two years - usually minor and not affecting anything critical. There is something radically wrong in a software

Re: [BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

2009-10-07 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 3:38:25 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: [..] django, plone has about one issue every two years - usually minor and not

[BangPypers] Fwd: [fsug-tvm][X] National workshop on SciPy - November 7-8, 2009

2009-10-07 Thread JAGANADH G
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sajjad Anwar sajja...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:28 AM Subject: [fsug-tvm] National workshop on SciPy - November 7-8, 2009 To: fsug-calicut fsug-cali...@freelists.org, fsug-tvm ilug-...@googlegroups.com, fsug-...@googlegroups.com,