Interesting to see discussion on supply and demand issues for
Python programmers. You might be interested to learn that,
after a few years of flirting with Python in various ways, the
School of Computing at the University of Leeds has recently
switched to teaching Python as the first and primary
2007/10/24, Alex Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
using C++ and Java (and often C), but as far as I know there is no
Stanford course (at least not within Symbolic Systems) that focuses
specifically and exclusively on Python (there IS one course,
In my constant try-to-push-Python-everywhere-I-go, I
2007/10/24, Ron Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Note that these items are *all* open.
I think the page title should reflect this. Possible changing it from
Python tickets
to
Python Open Tickets
Good point! It's fixed now.
Thank you!
--
.Facundo
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Interesting to see discussion on supply and demand issues for
Python programmers. You might be interested to learn that,
after a few years of flirting with Python in various ways, the
School of Computing at the University of Leeds has recently
switched to teaching Python as the first and
Just to chime in from the other side of the coin.
I'm actively trying to hire qualified scientific programmers with strong
Python experience. Unfortunately, I've had little success finding
candidates with actual Python knowledge, resorting mainly to hiring those
who've seen it and can readily
I noticed at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing that
several major universities in the US are starting to offer intro (CS1)
courses based on Python, among them:
Georgia Tech
CMU
Bryn Mawr
Some of them are using:
Introduction-Computing-Programming-Multimedia-Approach
So, it's
On Oct 25, 2007 7:59 AM, Anna Ravenscroft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I noticed at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing that
several major universities in the US are starting to offer intro (CS1)
courses based on Python, among them:
Georgia Tech
CMU
Bryn Mawr
Some of them are
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 07:59:58AM -0700, Anna Ravenscroft wrote:
- I noticed at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing that
- several major universities in the US are starting to offer intro (CS1)
- courses based on Python, among them:
- Georgia Tech
- CMU
- Bryn Mawr
It's been
Facundo Batista wrote:
2007/10/24, Ron Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Note that these items are *all* open.
I think the page title should reflect this. Possible changing it from
Python tickets
to
Python Open Tickets
Good point! It's fixed now.
Thank you!
Clicking on one
2007/10/19, Adam Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Whether this is a minor problem due to poor style or a major problem
due to a language defect is a matter of perspective. I'm working on
redesigning Python's threading support, expecting it to be used a
great deal more, which'd push it into the major
2007/10/20, Nick Coghlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
bb.py is broken - importing a module should never spawn a new thread as
a side effect (precisely because it will deadlock if the spawned thread
tries to do an import, which can happen in a myriad of ways).
Exactly, :(.
I changed timeobject.c to
Facundo Batista wrote:
It's a matter of perspective, yes. But I'll close this bug, because
he's hitting the problem through a weird way, doing something that he
shouldn't.
The real problem here, if any, is that you can not make a second
import in another thread. Feel free to open a bug for
2007/10/25, Christian Heimes [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I could look into the matter and provide a patch for the trunk.
Feel free to do it. But note, that some imports are inside the call()
function, this could have more implications that you see (at least I
saw) at first glance.
Regards,
--
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2007/10/25, Facundo Batista [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
BTW, I'll leave the optimization of importing strptime one time,
there's no reason to try to import it everytime strptime() is called.
No, I'm not. In consideration to the possible warning raised by Brett,
I won't commit the change (it does not
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On Oct 22, 2007, at 11:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's not clear that any of these implementations is going to be
perfect.
Maybe none ever will be.
I would agree with this. You write a program and know you need to
implement some kind of
I don't think file locking will ever work over NFS, since
it's a stateless protocol by design
NFS is stateless, but the NFS locking protocol (NLM) is not.
Regards,
Martin
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