Re: [BangPypers] New to python - neuron ring

2009-10-12 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Gopinath R gopiindia...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am a newbie to python. i like to learn python strongly. which version is recommended to start with 2.6 or 3.0. I believe 3.0 has lot more features added, there is no backward compatibility in that. we

Re: [BangPypers] New to python - neuron ring

2009-10-12 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Gopinath R gopiindia...@gmail.com wrote: I am a newbie to python. i like to learn python strongly. which version is recommended to start with 2.6 or 3.0. http://diveintopython3.org/ has been released, so maybe you can start with 3.0 but OTOH, I don't know

Re: [BangPypers] New to python - neuron ring

2009-10-12 Thread Gopinath R
So Noufal, what ure suggesting me. Shall i start learning with python 3.0 ? ** On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Gopinath R gopiindia...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am a newbie to python. i like to learn python

Re: [BangPypers] New to python - neuron ring

2009-10-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Monday 12 Oct 2009 12:53:26 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote: Hi all, I am a newbie to python. i like to learn python strongly. which version is recommended to start with 2.6 or 3.0. I believe 3.0 has lot more features added, there is no backward compatibility in that. we cannot use some of

Re: [BangPypers] New to python - neuron ring

2009-10-12 Thread Baiju Muthukadan
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I believe the only real reason to stick with a pre 3.0 release is 3rd party library availability. BTW, Now 'distribute' ( http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute ) has Python 3.x support. If you want to create

Re: [BangPypers] New to python - neuron ring

2009-10-12 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Gopinath R gopiindia...@gmail.com wrote: So Noufal, what ure suggesting me. Shall i start learning with python 3.0 ? Nope. I'm pointing out what I feel the most important difference as far as usage is concerned is and then asking you to take a decision by

Re: [BangPypers] New to python - neuron ring

2009-10-12 Thread Navin Kabra
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Gopinath R gopiindia...@gmail.com wrote: I am a newbie to python. i like to learn python strongly. which version is recommended to start with 2.6 or 3.0. I believe 3.0 has lot more features added, there is no backward compatibility in that. we cannot use some

Re: [BangPypers] New to python - neuron ring

2009-10-12 Thread Navin Kabra
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Navin Kabra navin.ka...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Gopinath R gopiindia...@gmail.comwrote: I am a newbie to python. i like to learn python strongly. which version is recommended to start with 2.6 or 3.0. I believe 3.0 has lot more

Re: [BangPypers] New to python - neuron ring

2009-10-12 Thread Gopinath R
Hi i m learning python mainly for job opportunities. so is it much difficult if i learn 2.6 and then to update to 3.0 ? Thanks. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Navin Kabra navin.ka...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Navin Kabra navin.ka...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Oct

Re: [BangPypers] New to python - neuron ring

2009-10-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Monday 12 Oct 2009 2:03:35 pm Gopinath R wrote: Hi i m learning python mainly for job opportunities. so is it much difficult if i learn 2.6 and then to update to 3.0 ? if it is for job, then most production platforms are still on 2.4 and 2.5 (very few on 2.6) -- regards kg

Re: [BangPypers] New to python - neuron ring

2009-10-12 Thread sudhakar s
Hi, itz good to learn python check out A Byte of Python By *Swaroop* CHhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/2544873/A-Byte-of-Python-By-Swaroop-CH On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Gopinath R gopiindia...@gmail.com wrote: Hi i m learning python mainly for job opportunities. so is it much difficult if i

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-12 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Gopinath R gopiindia...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, It is my pleasure finding this mailing list. I am a Open Source guy. but not an expert. I m strong in Shell Scripting. I need to learn one more open source language for excellent job opportunities. I am

Re: [BangPypers] A link I found today

2009-10-12 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Baiju Muthukadan ba...@muthukadan.netwrote: http://bitcheese.net/wiki/nopython Don't start a flame war now, please ;) I had a good laugh. Many of his comments are broken including the try...catch comment. He also seems to be living on the fringes of

Re: [BangPypers] A link I found today

2009-10-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Monday 12 Oct 2009 2:42:50 pm Baiju Muthukadan wrote: http://bitcheese.net/wiki/nopython Don't start a flame war now, please ;) why should I when you have already started one? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Project Officer NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

Re: [BangPypers] A link I found today

2009-10-12 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Baiju Muthukadan ba...@muthukadan.net wrote: http://bitcheese.net/wiki/nopython Don't start a flame war now, please ;) 2.3 - 3.4 and 2/3.0 in Python, Ruby and Haskell

Re: [BangPypers] A link I found today

2009-10-12 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:42 PM,

Re: [BangPypers] A link I found today

2009-10-12 Thread Anand Chitipothu
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Baiju

Re: [BangPypers] A link I found today

2009-10-12 Thread Anand Chitipothu
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Anand

Re: [BangPypers] A link I found today

2009-10-12 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Rajeev J Sebastian rajeev.sebast...@gmail.com wrote: I am not however a fan of the decimal module since it uses strings as the base type. What else should it use then ? Nothing. It should be taken care of in the float implementation without needing

Re: [BangPypers] A link I found today

2009-10-12 Thread Anand Chitipothu
xkcd cartoon on floating point issues: http://www.xkcd.com/217/ Anand ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] A link I found today

2009-10-12 Thread Anand Chitipothu
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Rajeev J Sebastian rajeev.sebast...@gmail.com wrote: I am not however a fan of the decimal module since it uses strings as the base type. What else should it use then

Re: [BangPypers] A link I found today

2009-10-12 Thread Ruchir Shukla
def __init__(self) return 0 what is this?? __init__ and with return :O and also where is *:* On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Baiju Muthukadan ba...@muthukadan.netwrote: http://bitcheese.net/wiki/nopython Don't start a flame war now, please ;) -- Baiju M

[BangPypers] Running multiple versions of python on Fedora

2009-10-12 Thread Arvind Jamuna Dixit
Hi, Has anyone here tried installing multiple versions of python ( say 2.6 and 3.0 ) onto a Fedora system ( specifically fedora 11 )? -Arvind ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-12 Thread Carl Karsten
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Gopinath R gopiindia...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, It is my pleasure finding this mailing list. I am a Open Source guy. but not an expert. I m strong in Shell Scripting. I need to learn

Re: [BangPypers] Running multiple versions of python on Fedora

2009-10-12 Thread Arvind Jamuna Dixit
Any documentation on virtualenv that shows how to manage multiple python installations. I tried googling for it and all I could get was how to manage multiple libraries or python modules. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Amit Saha lists.amits...@gmail.com wrote: Shivaraj M S wrote: I don't

Re: [BangPypers] Running multiple versions of python on Fedora

2009-10-12 Thread Shivaraj M S
Any documentation on virtualenv that shows how to manage multiple python installations. This may make things easier if you are sure of using virtualenv. http://www.doughellmann.com/docs/virtualenvwrapper. -- View this message in context:

Re: [BangPypers] Running multiple versions of python on Fedora

2009-10-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Monday 12 Oct 2009 5:00:44 pm Arvind Jamuna Dixit wrote: Has anyone here tried installing multiple versions of python ( say 2.6 and 3.0 ) onto a Fedora system ( specifically fedora 11 )? yes - use virtualenv to run multiple pythons and multiple anything python. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [BangPypers] Running multiple versions of python on Fedora

2009-10-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Monday 12 Oct 2009 9:50:50 pm Arvind Jamuna Dixit wrote: Any documentation on virtualenv that shows how to manage multiple python installations. I tried googling for it and all I could get was how to manage multiple libraries or python modules. for django I used this: