Re: [BangPypers] BangPypers Digest, Vol 27, Issue 32

2009-11-30 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 5:03 PM, mahaboob_sub...@dellteam.com wrote: I tried paramiko,but I am getting following error while importing paramiko ImportError: No module named Crypto.Util.randpool Subhan You need python-crypto package. --Anand ___

Re: [BangPypers] DBF error

2009-11-19 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Ranganath s rangana...@gmail.com wrote: HI all, i have installed the DBF module and just wrote a small program as follows :- from dbfpy import dbf def OpenFile(tblName): '''fpath = os.path.join(local.DB_DIR,tblName)'''

Re: [BangPypers] Drupal vs. Django

2009-11-16 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Ramdas S ram...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: We had a thread a while ago inspired by the fossee.in site. I came across this http://birdhouse.org/blog/2009/11/11/drupal-or-django/ which is

Re: [BangPypers] import module error

2009-11-16 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Ranganath s rangana...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, i downloaded the dbf module and installed the module using the command python setup.py install. It was successful. After that i can see dbf.py in the following path

[BangPypers] Python moratorium

2009-11-12 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
A.M. Kuchling has published an article related to this on LWN. This has been under discussion in Pydev for a couple of weeks now... It would be interesting to know the opinion of folks here on this... http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/361266/ef88bdbed5369800/ Here is the related PEP link.

Re: [BangPypers] BangPypers monthly meetup.

2009-11-12 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Sriram Narayanan sriram...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: Shall we fix this for 22nd then? Is TW the venue? What time? +1 for 22nd. Seems OK to me. Let's have Mahadevan decide on the time. --

Re: [BangPypers] Python moratorium

2009-11-12 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: A.M. Kuchling has published an article related to this on LWN. This has been under discussion in Pydev for a couple of weeks now

Re: [BangPypers] Google Go

2009-11-11 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Mahadevan R mdevan.foo...@gmail.com wrote: [..] By Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, Ian Taylor, Russ Cox, Jini Kim and Adam Langley - The Go Team [..] That caught my eye too

Re: [BangPypers] Google Go

2009-11-11 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Ramdas S ram...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai

Re: [BangPypers] Google Go

2009-11-11 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: Upon 2nd reading, I also thought they did, but not a very good disambiguation there I daresay. But security benefits associated

Re: [BangPypers] Google Go

2009-11-11 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: The point is that so called compiled languages provide more security loop-holes than interpreted ones. C++/C for example provide

Re: [BangPypers] Google Go

2009-11-11 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: [..] Upon 2nd reading, I also thought they did, but not a very good disambiguation there I daresay. But security benefits

Re: [BangPypers] Google Go

2009-11-11 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Balachandran Sivakumar benignb...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Shashwat Anand anand.shash...@gmail.com wrote: Go - a son of C++ and python .. ?? to me it looked like verbose C .. first impression..not good. I mean it's ok..but not to

Re: [BangPypers] But IDEs rock! (was Google Go)

2009-11-11 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Darkseid lorddae...@gmail.com wrote: 2. It's easy to hire an IDE-aware monkey to do programming in proven technology I do most of my work in Ruby (and have done for a few years now). Every day I bemoan the lack of a powerful refactoring IDE like Java has in

[BangPypers] FW: Exception file,lineno,method inforamtion needed

2009-10-26 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
Forwarding a question from a friend, since he could not reach the list due to some reason... --- From: edukulla Santhosh kumar k2_santh...@yahoo.com Subject: Exception file,lineno,method inforamtion

[BangPypers] Re-working the GIL

2009-10-25 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
There is a thread started by Antoine Pitrou in python-dev. He suggests a slightly different approach to GIL implementation, which uses a time based approach than counting opcodes to acquire/release the GIL, which is the current implementation.

Re: [BangPypers] I am new to python language. Suggest way to improve my skills in python

2009-10-20 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Senthil Kumar M msenthil...@gmail.comwrote: thank the link. I will check On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Arvind Jamuna Dixit ard...@gmail.comwrote: You may find something useful in the answers to these

Re: [BangPypers] help me to fix this error

2009-10-20 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Senthil Kumar M msenthil...@gmail.comwrote: -- #!/usr/bin/python from string import maketrans intab = aeiou outtab = 12345 trantab = intab.maketrans(outtab) str = this is string examplewow!!!;

Re: [BangPypers] help me to fix this error

2009-10-20 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Sidharth Kuruvila sidharth.kuruv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Blargh! Boy! Read the mails! That code you wrote runs fine on 2.6. But won't run on 3.0. This should work. intab = aeiou outtab = 12345 trantab = str.maketrans(intab,outtab) #Watch this line! st

Re: [BangPypers] Posting style

2009-10-20 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.com wrote: Hi, I hope this link would be useful for some newly joined members: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style This helped me when I first

Re: [BangPypers] Posting style

2009-10-20 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: On Tuesday 20 Oct 2009 5:33:21 pm Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: This helped me when I first ventured into mailing lists and IRC http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.htmlhttp://catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart

Re: [BangPypers] HTML Parsing in python

2009-10-20 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Puneet Aggarwal look4pun...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks all for the suggestions. I think I will start with BeautifulSoup (3.0.7a) and will experiment with other suggested libs if it does not fit into my requirement or if I face issues with this. You are not going

Re: [BangPypers] Why do indians copy?

2009-10-18 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
Someone posted in this thread that very little Python is happening in this list. Cannot agree with that comment yet, but this thread has no Python in it and has overgrown itself. Closing this thread. Further posts are - not welcome. And I request no personal slanging matches in the future.

Re: [BangPypers] Why do indians copy?

2009-10-18 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: Someone posted in this thread that very little Python is happening in this list. Cannot agree with that comment yet, but this thread has no Python in it and has overgrown itself. Closing this thread

Re: [BangPypers] Video streaming and video recording of the meet

2009-10-16 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Ramdas S ram...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Sriram Narayanan sriram...@gmail.comwrote: Folks: Let's assume that we have good bandwidth to stream video. Let me know what I need to set up here, and I'll see if I can have it ready by

Re: [BangPypers] Why Indians copy

2009-10-16 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy srinivas_thatipar...@akebonosoft.com wrote: Why? That's probably the answer you're looking for. That was a big story noufal.To tell in short, I couldn't understand what they are teaching(in training) me? they taught entire java

Re: [BangPypers] Weekend Meeting

2009-10-16 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Ramdas S ram...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Sriram Narayanan sriram...@gmail.comwrote: On 10/16/09, Sriram Narayanan sriram...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [BangPypers] Weekend Meeting

2009-10-16 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Sriram Narayanan sriram...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Rajeev J Sebastian rajeev.sebast...@gmail.com wrote: My response was to the larger community, and not to just you :) That's probably why you started your response with an Err

[BangPypers] Weekend Meeting

2009-10-15 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
Hi all, I am proposing a week-end meeting on Sunday at ThoughtWorks, Diamond District. I plan to present a prototype of a project I have been working on for the last few weeks which uses OpenCalais and NLP to search RSS feeds for very specfic information. The presentation will cover the

Re: [BangPypers] Weekend Meeting

2009-10-15 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: [..] It is a bit too early to decide on the meeting itself. There have been only a couple of thumbs-up so far. This week-end being

Re: [BangPypers] Weekend Meeting

2009-10-15 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Vishal vsapr...@gmail.com wrote: +1 Thanks. Since this counts to around 6 people, let us have the meeting. Hopefully more people will join in on the day. I will send another email to confirm this. Vishal Sapre On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:43 PM,

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-14 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: [..] The fact is that real good hackers don't care about the language they use, but in the quality of the code they write

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-14 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.com wrote: Koha (http://www.koha.org) is great web application written in Perl. Long back I was a Koha consultant (2003-2004):

Re: [BangPypers] Need a map showing use of Python across the world...

2009-10-13 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Vishal vsapr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I came across this on perlmongers: http://www.pm.org/groups/map.html http://www.pm.org/groups/map.htmlDoes something similar exist for Python ? Quick googling returned None. This could be a good marketing aid for

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-13 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
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] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-13 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: On Wednesday 14 Oct 2009 12:41:31 am Noufal Ibrahim wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Abhishek Mishra ideam...@gmail.com wrote: Well I don't know about power and job prospects, but I remember reading ESR's

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

2009-10-10 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
Hi, On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: 0 day Django exploit in the wild - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=872533 http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2009/oct/09/security/ Fixed rather quickly but found rather late. One of the reasons is probably

Re: [BangPypers] [Inpycon] Weekend meeting

2009-10-10 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:23 PM, abstract things abstractthi...@gmail.comwrote: Hello All, My name is Sundar and I am Senior Python programming language user [?] (I mean 3+ years). I like Python programming. Well, I haven't registered for PyCon early enough but I attended Mayavi,

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

2009-10-10 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Carl Karsten c...@personnelware.com wrote: [..] I need to inject... The line should be: cursor.execute(query, ('burger', '2009-09-10 12:00:00')) Ah. Then it's just a case of the

Re: [BangPypers] array in python

2009-10-08 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:15 AM, harshal jadhav jadhav.hars...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Everybody, I am Harshal Jadhav, student at San Jose State University. I am using Python for my Master's project and i am a beginner. I am using python language for GNU Radio. For this i have a sampled signal.

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 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 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 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] [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 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] [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

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

2009-10-04 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: On Sunday 04 Oct 2009 11:22:28 am Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: 6 days... isn't it rather too long for a specific interest conference. weird: http://fossee.in/whydrupal Hadn't noticed

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

2009-10-03 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Baiju Muthukadan ba...@muthukadan.netwrote: I found this today at python.org : http://scipy.in/ Interesting... I would surmise that this would be in practice more of a sci than py conference, since the # of people who are interested specifically in Python

[BangPypers] Post from non-members

2009-10-01 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
Hi, Of late there has been a lot of activity in the group, which is good :) But a side effect has been a sharp increase in number of non-members trying to post to the list. I have been approving all these messages since they are all relevant and not SPAM. However if

Re: [BangPypers] web services

2009-10-01 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:39 PM, sudhakar s ssqu...@gmail.com wrote: I was trying SOAP web services.How to construct . Use SOAPpy. Here is the straight dope without any WSDL etc. from SOAPPy import ThreadingSOAPServer server = ThreadingSOAPServer(('0.0.0.0', ))

Re: [BangPypers] [Inpycon] Accommodation

2009-09-22 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
Forwarding to BangPypers. Anyone who has a contact for Hidden Reflex here who can address the following issue ? If so, please get in touch with Hidden Reflex and Mahesh and find out what went wrong. Thanks --Anand On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Mahesh Mohan maheshmohan...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: [BangPypers] [Inpycon] PyCon blog

2009-09-17 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Kumar Gaurav kgthegr...@gmail.com wrote: The dates on the blog have to be corrected. On the blog it is NOV 26,27. Good catch. Fixed. -- --Anand ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] Low level Python

2009-09-14 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:10 AM, venka...@gmail.com wrote: I was looking at some bytecode optimizations last year. Tlee had some work already done on that front ; he had a branch. (But, I was not able to reach him and

Re: [BangPypers] Why the None ?

2009-09-03 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Carl Karsten c...@personnelware.com wrote: Try this, it should all become clear: def gimmetaste(length=5): print A, length return length * 2 if __name__ == '__main__': print B, gimmetaste()

Re: [BangPypers] Looking for Linux / Python based jobs

2009-09-02 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
http://pythonjobs.blogspot.com is updated (whenever I get the time) with job information crawled from archives of this list. As of now it is a bit behind schedule (last updated in May 09), but you can find older, but still relevant jobs there. --Anand On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Ashutosh

[BangPypers] [Commercial][Off-topic] Help with CD/DVD replication

2009-08-24 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
Hi folks, Are there anybody in the list who provide medium scale CD/DVD replication services? One of my friends need to perform DVD replication for about 100-200 of them. Please contact off list either me or n.s.but...@gmail.com . -- --Anand

[BangPypers] Fwd: [Inpycon] Volunteer needed : Sponsor coordinator

2009-07-22 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
Please reply to Noufal and CC the inpycon list if you are interested. Thanks --Anand -- Forwarded message -- From: Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:45 PM Subject: [Inpycon] Volunteer needed : Sponsor coordinator To: Mailing list for the PyCon India

Re: [BangPypers] Fwd: [PyCon-Organizers] PyCon Twitter Bot

2009-06-30 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
Hi Noufal, The main use of the bot for a conference is for sending updates via twitter. The way it works is as follows. 1. A twitter bot account for the conference is created on twitter. For our conference it could be inpycon for example. 2. An admin befriends the bot. 3. For broadcasting

Re: [BangPypers] Fwd: [PyCon-Organizers] PyCon Twitter Bot

2009-06-30 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: It's probably useful if it can be quickly set up. I think *real* publicity will be gained by people posting/blogging about the event. You got it wrong. A twitter bot is not for publicity. It is for actual instant

Re: [BangPypers] which is better solution of the question

2009-06-17 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Jeff Rush j...@taupro.com wrote: Abhishek Tiwari wrote: *Ans. 1* values, items = list(zip(*sorted(zip(values,items), reverse=True))) *Ans. 2* new_values = sorted(values, reverse=True) new_items = [items[x] for x in map(values.index,new_values)]

Re: [BangPypers] which is better solution of the question

2009-06-17 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.comwrote: Don't use sorted(..., reverse=True). Instead reverse the list in place by using reverse slicing of l[-1::-1], which is about 1.5 times faster. Why are you using [-1::-1] for reversing? Isn't [::-1] the python

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Srijayanth Sridhar srijaya...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Pradeep Gowda prad...@btbytes.comwrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:43 AM, vidv...@svaksha.com wrote: Great discussion... the next time someone posts a non-curious question

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India website admin needed!

2009-06-05 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:00 PM, srinivasa rao srinivasaene...@gmail.comwrote: Dear sir I am in bangalore and to set up internet so i start work for you i hope i get a support from you thanks yours truly srinivasa rao m If you are interested, please join the inpycon list. The list can be

Re: [BangPypers] BangPypers Digest, Vol 22, Issue 1

2009-06-04 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@srijan.in wrote: On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 16:30:40 +0530 testing123 test swtest...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Venkatraman, Yes,My requirement is to compait 2 XML Files are same or not. Please help me in this regard. [...] o Use of

Re: [BangPypers] Regarding 2 XML Files Comparision using Python

2009-06-04 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:15 PM, testing123 test swtest...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am prasad.I need a help to write a python script to compare two XML Files.Is there any tutorial.Should we include any library?Please help me How to start? Are you a bot or something ? Why do you keep

Re: [BangPypers] [Inpycon] PyCon Logo decision

2009-05-26 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.comwrote: Can I vote for more than one entry? Nothing in the voting system to prevent you from doing that. After all it is just a Wiki. Btw, I have numbered each logo. It would have been better to have a separate voting

Re: [BangPypers] New Mailing Lists

2009-05-24 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Jeff Rush j...@taupro.com wrote: Partially as a result of nudging from Anand Balachandran Pillai for the needs of PyCon India, there are now two new mailing lists on python.org: (1) The conferen...@python.org mailing list is for open discussion of issues

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India logo contest!

2009-05-24 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
This thread is CLOSED. The discussion has moved to the new inpycon list. Please reply to the thread there. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/inpycon/2009-May/00.html -Anand ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India logo contest!

2009-05-21 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
+1 pycon-04-scaled.jpg The quality of the most recently posted logos are pretty good. On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Ruchir Shukla ruchiryshu...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, all are good specially last one *pycon04-scaled.jpg +1 **pycon04-scaled.jpg* * * On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:48 PM,

Re: [BangPypers] MOM - Meeting on Sunday May 3rd

2009-05-15 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: [..] Can we get a show of hands? How many people plan to attend? If we're around 10 or so, I think the Barista is enough, otherwise, we'll think

[BangPypers] Python jobs blog

2009-05-07 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
Hi all, I have updated the python jobs blog {http://pythonjobs.blogspot.com} with all the job postings so far in the list in 2009. I had developed the plugin to HarvestMan for this last year but I did not keep up with running it on the mail archives in 2008. This year, it is one of the things

[BangPypers] MOM - Meeting on Sunday May 3rd

2009-05-04 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
Hi, We had a meeting to discuss the status of PyCon India efforts at TW yesterday. I have put up the minutes of yesterday's meeting at http://wiki.python.org/moin/BangPypers/Meeting03May2009 . We plan to have regular f2f meetings from here on. IRC can be used for any quick follow ups but the

Re: [BangPypers] Python Day India

2009-05-01 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.comwrote: I created a wiki page for the meeting. http://wiki.python.org/moin/BangPypers/Meeting03May2009 Please confirm your participation by adding your name. Anybody interested to give a talk? I plan to attend this and

Re: [BangPypers] Python Day India

2009-05-01 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.comwrote: I remember reading somewhere that ICH is moved out. Let's have it at Thoughtworks. Thoughtworks is too far. How about Barista at church street? You seem to have a subversive agenda on MG Road that day. Perhaps a

Re: [BangPypers] Python Day India

2009-04-30 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Ramdas S ram...@developeriq.com wrote: Let me explain. Starting a society even not for profit has its own little legal tangles and will also cost some monies (less than 10 K). But most importantly you'll need to keep accounts, ensure that returns are filed,

Re: [BangPypers] Help in reading the pdf file

2009-04-04 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Sridhar Ratnakumar sridhar.ra...@gmail.comwrote: On 3/26/09 3:29 PM, M Kumar wrote: I need to read one pdf file and extract data from it. Is there any one can guide me pyPdf? http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/ To give my $0.02, I had an opportunity to use both

Re: [BangPypers] magic in datetime module?

2009-04-03 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/4/3 Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.com: I'm noticed a strange Import error in some web.py template. I nailed down the problem to the following python code. __builtins__ = {} import datetime now =

Re: [BangPypers] magic in datetime module?

2009-04-03 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: __builtins__ = {'__import__': ximport} f = now.strftime print f(%m %Y) You can get this directly if you use -v. Calling strftime imports the time module print now.strftime(%m %Y)

Re: [BangPypers] unladen-swallow

2009-04-01 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Shekhar pytho...@gmail.com wrote: Already slashdotted and many of us should already be knowing but could not resist posting. http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/google-launches-project-to-boost-python-performance-by-5x.ars

Re: [BangPypers] Guido steps down

2009-04-01 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
2009/4/1 Venkatraman S venka...@gmail.com: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Indrajith K indrajit...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0401/ Not sure, if this is a April fool joke! Come on, the name of the PEP itself should tell you that... PEP 04-01 i.e April 01.

Re: [BangPypers] Guido steps down

2009-04-01 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Ramakrishna Reddy ramkr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/1 Venkatraman S venka...@gmail.com: Linus played

Re: [BangPypers] Python switches to Mercurial

2009-03-31 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Ramakrishna Reddy ramkr...@gmail.com wrote: Source :: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/102706 From: Guido van Rossum guido at python.org Subject: And the winner is... Newsgroups: gmane.comp.python.devel Date: 2009-03-30 14:58:38 GMT (16 hours

Re: [BangPypers] Command line goodies

2009-03-25 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: I found this via. hacker news. http://commandlinefu.com/ It's a repository of command line tricks. I found a python one python -m

Re: [BangPypers] Face to face meeting for Python conference

2009-03-19 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: Okay. Time: 11am - 1pm Venue : Thoughtworks (Diamond District, Domlur) Agenda : Upcoming Python conference I have put up a page on http://wiki.python.org/moin/BangPypers/Meeting21Mar2009 Sidu,  Can you arrange the

Re: [BangPypers] A question for us...

2009-03-13 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Ramdas S ram...@developeriq.com wrote: Answer is $$$ is required for funding conferences. The organizers did not find anyone with $$$ who has some vested interest in Python. If they had you'd see Python there. I you look at sponsors of the conference, you can

Re: [BangPypers] Classmethod, Decorators and staticmethod

2009-03-06 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Senthil Kumaran orsent...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:29 PM, VIJAY KUMAR vnbang2...@yahoo.com wrote:    Can some one please explain me with example about    1) classmethod    2) staticmethod    3) Decorators I will try to explain

Re: [BangPypers] Classmethod, Decorators and staticmethod

2009-03-05 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: On Thursday 05 March 2009 18:29:20 VIJAY KUMAR wrote: Dear All,    Can some one please explain me with example about    1) classmethod    2) staticmethod    3) Decorators I charge 6500 a day for

Re: [BangPypers] Classmethod, Decorators and staticmethod

2009-03-05 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Venkatraman S venka...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au

Re: [BangPypers] Questions regarding Image cropping

2009-03-02 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Arunabha Adhikari arunabha.adhik...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, I am a beginner in Python programming. I am not a computer professional I am a physicist. I was trying to write a code in python for my own research which involves a little image processing. All

Re: [BangPypers] Today's IRC meeting

2009-03-02 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
Hi, On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.net wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: On Tuesday 03 March 2009 10:30:16 Noufal Ibrahim wrote: * Positions (IMPORTANT) handling money is the point where conferences here get into

[BangPypers] Open source India

2009-02-27 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
Anyone going for this conference (Mar 12-14) at Chennai ? This used to be called LinuxAsia and had the reputation of a conference for suits. Not sure how it is now. There seems to a track for FOSS languages the first day. Let me know if someone is going (from Bangalore) for this. -- -Anand

Re: [BangPypers] Open source India

2009-02-27 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: On Friday 27 February 2009 16:51:36 Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: I think, if we can get a discussion going around this topic, we can form ideas concrete enough to organize PyCon India at least in 2010. ok

Re: [BangPypers] Open source India

2009-02-27 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Banibrata Dutta banibrata.du...@gmail.com wrote: Obviously, it'd be pointless to call a track in Barcamp -- PyCon or PyCamp. Why not use the Barcamp track just for kicking up some dust about PyCamp and PyCon ? Unless one is strongly allergic to Barcamp in

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India Proposal

2009-02-27 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Ramdas S ram...@developeriq.com wrote: Good! Let's keep the momentum going I propose that we have a meeting soon to discuss this. Updated this with a Community Discussion section. Please enter individual comments there, so that we don't modify the main

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