Re: [BangPypers] Python people required:

2009-07-31 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:32 PM, sesh_spikesgudapati_2...@yahoo.com wrote: HI We need python with Unix/linux people who has strong systems skills and python skills inculding shell programming.This is very urgent requirement.pl get back to me if any one is intrested. For which company is

Re: [BangPypers] Any python metaclasses for UID

2009-07-30 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Roshan Mathewsrmath...@gmail.com wrote: [..]  Something which Noufal seemed to pull out of thin air. Someone had to do it. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] Any python metaclasses for UID

2009-07-29 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Shivaraj M Sshivraj...@gmail.com wrote: A small typo there But an important one. super(UID,self).Wind(7)  is super(ClassI,self).Wind(7) Well google's is doing definitely a strong attempt here. I guess it's metaprogramming than metaclassing. Nonsense. It's

[BangPypers] Detailed talk on the GIL

2009-07-26 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Hi, I mentioned this during the user group meeting yesterday. It's a talk describing the issues with the GIL in detail. http://blip.tv/file/2232410 Enjoy. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] InPyCon Volunteers needed : Swag and banner management

2009-07-26 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Ravi (CCed here) has volunteered to take care of the T-shirt procurement. I think he has another source in mind but since this came up, it might be worth considering as well. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in ___ BangPypers mailing list

[BangPypers] InPyCon Volunteers needed : Swag and banner management

2009-07-25 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
(Sorry about cross posting but I need more visibility) Hello folks, We need some people to take charge of handling the T-shirt and banner printing. This will kick into full swing only after a week or two when the sponsors are completely in. But we need to do the groundwork and find out

Re: [BangPypers] User group meeting this weekend

2009-07-24 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Senthil Kumaranorsent...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 01:26:15PM +0530, Brad Allen wrote: I'm suggesting we allocate time to plan for a future coding sprint, maybe a couple of weeks later. I am all for it. Perhaps Aug1 or Aug8. Lets discuss it at

Re: [BangPypers] User group meeting this weekend

2009-07-23 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
That's 7. -- ~noufal ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] User group meeting this weekend

2009-07-23 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:38 PM, jayasimha makinenijayasimha.makin...@gmail.com wrote: Where is ZeOmega located ? Baiju can probably send a map. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] User group meeting this weekend

2009-07-23 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
I see that Baiju has put up a link on the wiki as well. http://wiki.python.org/moin/BangPypers/Meeting25July2009 See you all there. :) -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] User group meeting this weekend

2009-07-22 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
I think ZeOmega on the coming Saturday from 2:00 to 5:00 pm is okay. What does everyone else here think? How many people will show up? -- ~noufal ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] User group meeting this weekend

2009-07-21 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Baiju Mmba...@zeomega.net wrote: [..] Want a different place for just a change ? Please let me know, we can arrange ZeOmega office.[..] ZeOmega would be nice this time..Anyone else willing to come? -- ~noufal ___

[BangPypers] [OT] Accommodation for people from outside during inPycon

2009-07-08 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Hello everyone, Some of the folks coming from outside B'lore for PyCon don't have local contacts here where they can stay. If there are any people here who're willing to offer a brother Python a room for the night, please add your name to http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndiaAccommodation

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

2009-06-30 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
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. -- ~noufal ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

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

2009-06-30 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillaiabpil...@gmail.com wrote: [..]  Let me try it. If it turns out to be too much of a headache, we can always  drop it. That's wise. -- ~noufal ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] Invitations fo Pycon India

2009-06-29 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Mandar Gokhalestallo...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a standard twitter hashtag for this? IMHO would be better for visibility We could just decide on one. I don't use twitter so I don't know the details but say #pyconindia? -- ~noufal

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

2009-06-29 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillaiabpil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   This was posted in Pycon-organizers a while back. Perhaps this is useful for our twitter organizing ? Noufal, let me know if I need to follow up on this. Will do so gladly! I'm not too clued in

Re: [BangPypers] Invitations fo Pycon India

2009-06-29 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Anurag Priyamanurag08pri...@gmail.com wrote: i have started #pyconindia hashtag. the more the people tweet with #pyconidia in their tweet, the more it will trend, and increase our visiblity on twitter. Thanks Anurag. :) Ranganath, Can you put this on a

[BangPypers] Invitations fo Pycon India

2009-06-28 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
(Sorry for cross posting but we need some visibility here) Hello everyone, Our site is live at http://in.pycon.org/2009/ The next thing we need to do is to publicise this event. We're relying on informal channels to get everyone to know about the event. Mailing lists, blogs, tweets

Re: [BangPypers] Testing for documentation as a release criterion

2009-06-18 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
I'm doing something similar for a nascent project at my workplace. My plan was to enforce some kind of structure as well. I'm not familar enough with Restructured Text and any of the other Python text processing libraries so I'm not sure what to do yet. You could perhaps also mandate an example

Re: [BangPypers] BangPypers Digest, Vol 22, Issue 9

2009-06-12 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Aman Aggarwalaman@gmail.com wrote: [..] thanks for the response. I posted the same question here : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/974931/multiply-operator-applied-to-listdata-structure [..] You're welcome but please don't quote entire digests back

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

2009-06-12 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Srijayanth Sridharsrijaya...@gmail.com wrote: [..] I've come to lament the factory like nature of IT in India. People learn extremely minimal subset of specialized skills. I've had chaps who can't see beyond .NET or Java very simply because these are industry

[BangPypers] [commercial] : Stratbeans consulting looking for a python/PHP programmer

2009-06-09 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Hello everyone, My close buddy's company Stratbeans consulting is looking for an entry level Python/PHP programmer. They are a consulting firm and the work will mostly be web related and training. If anyone's interested, please send your resume to techj...@stratbeans.com Thanks, --

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India website admin needed!

2009-05-30 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Hi Sriinivas, Please join the inpycon list. There are lots of things for which we need volunteers. As we move forwards, things will keep coming up and it would be wonderful to have people interested in contributing then. Thanks. -- ~noufal ___

Re: [BangPypers] [Inpycon] PyCon Logo decision

2009-05-28 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Okay. Voting's over. Here are the results. Top 3 in increasing order of votes. 2. Logo no. 8 (from Smriti) * - 4 votes 1. Logo no. 9 (from Vipin) - 9 votes 0. Logo no. 14 (by Bharat Keshav) - 14 votes * - According to David Goodger, this one alters the python logo and we might have

Re: [BangPypers] [Inpycon] PyCon Logo decision

2009-05-28 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
(Missed out inpycon) On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Senthil Kumaran orsent...@gmail.com wrote: [..] I would say just go for one logo. Whichever won. Have it in site. Let us make stickers if really need to. Thinking about stickers is a minor thing that would be part of the swag. But Logo

Re: [BangPypers] [Inpycon] PyCon Logo decision

2009-05-27 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
The voting is going to stop in a day so please make your voice heard before tomorrow afternoon. -- ~noufal ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] [Inpycon] PyCon Logo decision

2009-05-27 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Anand C. * mentioned that it might make sense to have an official logo and a few 'sticker designs' (for laptop 13,14,15,16 and 17 seem to be quite suited for both. Food for thought. -- ~noufal ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] [Inpycon] PyCon Logo decision

2009-05-26 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
(Cross posting to BangPypers for participation). Please vote : http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndiaLogos I should have been clear about not voting till all the designs were in. I'll add that to my list of lessons learnt. Please vote up your favourite logo on the site. Just enter your name in

Re: [BangPypers] [Inpycon] PyCon Logo decision

2009-05-26 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.comwrote: Can I vote for more than one entry? I for one am not going to stop you from doing so. Go right ahead. :) -- ~noufal ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India logo contest!

2009-05-24 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Vishal vsapr...@gmail.com wrote: How can I upload logos to the PyConIndiaLogos website. Do I have to login before I can do that? I have 2 more logos for your perusal. Please subscribe to the inpycon list. We're trying to keep all the PyCon related discussions

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India meeting minutes from 17/May/2009

2009-05-24 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Let's move this discussion to inpycon. On 5/24/09, Vivek Khurana hiddenharm...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Senthil Kumaran orsent...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:28:08PM +0530, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: Hello everyone, Here are the minutes of the last

Re: [BangPypers] New Mailing Lists

2009-05-23 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Thank you Jeff for these lists. Everyone who's interested in organising and helping out with PyCon India 2009, please join the inpycon list. We'll move all discussions regarding the event over there. If you're aware of any other Indian Python related list (other user groups) that this mail needs

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India logo contest!

2009-05-22 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Pankaj Nathani crooz...@yahoo.com wrote: Just tried to vote. Added a +1 to the 3rd logo. Because of the alignment it appears under the 1st one. Rolled back - not able to vote. No problem. We'll look at the wiki source to get the votes anyway. Just put it next

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India logo contest!

2009-05-22 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
I think the votes are skewed since I added a lot of votes when the number of designs was just 3. I'm subtracting my initial numbers from all the images. -- ~noufal ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India logo contest!

2009-05-22 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On second thought, forget it. I'll probably mess it up. We'll anyway have to finally decide. If there's any skewing, we can take it up then. -- ~noufal ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India logo contest!

2009-05-21 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Can you replace the one on the wiki with this? I don't want it to disappear in a mail thread. It's definitely nicer than the last. -- ~noufal ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India logo contest!

2009-05-21 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
I am attaching a couple of suggestions I got from a friend of mine. Let me know what you guys think. I'll put these up on the wiki in the evening. -- ~noufal attachment: pycon01-scaled.jpgattachment: pycon02-scaled.jpgattachment: pycon03-scaled.jpgattachment:

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India logo contest!

2009-05-21 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Here's another one. This one's mine. :) -- ~noufal attachment: pycon-india.png___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India logo contest!

2009-05-21 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Vivek Khurana hiddenharm...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: Here's another one. This one's mine. :) logo is good may I suggest a change... remove the gree color and the rounded corners instead make

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India logo contest!

2009-05-21 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Pankaj Nathani crooz...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, Many potential designs - we have great designers in the community I must say :-) I like many of the designs but it is difficult to judge which one is the best without seeing all together at one place. I propose

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India logo contest!

2009-05-21 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
3 more. I like the first of these the most of all the ones so far. It's simple and elegant. We can use it anywhere. The third one has a nice trick with the tongue. :) -- ~noufal attachment: pycon-logo-01.pngattachment: pycon-logo-02.pngattachment:

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India logo contest!

2009-05-21 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: 3 more. I like the first of these the most of all the ones so far. It's simple and elegant. We can use it anywhere.  The third one has a nice trick with the tongue. :) these are on the wiki BTW so please vote. -- ~noufal

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India logo contest!

2009-05-20 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Hello Pankaj, On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Pankaj Nathani crooz...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Python brothers, [..] Not to deviate much from the topic of the email - PyCon India logo - How about something like the graphic attached herewith? Just scribbled something that struct my mind. Would

Re: [BangPypers] Bangpyper's meeting today - 17 th May

2009-05-18 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: Did this happen ? Can someone post the MOM ? It happened. I will post the MoM on the wiki and mail the group after work today. -- ~noufal ___ BangPypers mailing

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

2009-05-14 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.com wrote: Fine by me. How many of us are going to be there? Do we need the net? That Barista is not too big so we might have space constraints. do you have any other place in mind? Can we get a show of hands? How many people

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

2009-05-14 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
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 of some other place. [..] I count 5 so far - Anand C. - Anand Pillai

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

2009-05-14 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
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

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

2009-05-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
This is good. I shall be there for the meeting on 17th. Venue : TW, Diamond District Time: 5pm - 7pm Date: 17 May Agenda : Follow up to last times meeting and taking the conference forward. -- ~noufal ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] Python Day India

2009-05-01 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.com wrote: Another date again? :) Well, there are 5 people signed up for for May 3 meeting. So we are going forward with it.. We can meet up on May 8th, if majority folks feel the need. Saturday is May 9th, not May 8th. May

Re: [BangPypers] Python Day India

2009-04-30 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
While these inputs are valuable, they are OT. Let's stick to the discussion of the PyCon-lite. -- ~noufal ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] Python Day India

2009-04-30 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: [..] While we are talking away to glory, has anyone tried to measure the pulse of the prospective sponsors to see whether we could get the kind of money and support required for having a 3 day PyCon India in

Re: [BangPypers] Python Day India

2009-04-30 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Unless we get a little more concrete about the PyCon-lite idea that Ramakrishnan suggested, I think we should move forward with the September idea. Otherwise, this will degenerate into total talking away to glory. Some timelines and expense estimates would be a good start. -- ~noufal

Re: [BangPypers] Python Day India

2009-04-29 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
If we actually spend time and energy *organising* a mini pycon, that will be the end of the real conference I think. I'm -1 for that. However, putting an extra session during a user group meeting to discuss the PyCon will be fruitful and will move us towards a conference. I'm +1 for this. What

Re: [BangPypers] Python Day India

2009-04-28 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Ramakrishna Reddy ramkr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everybody. Since most of the folks here expressed an interest to hold  a face to face meeting for planing pycon. I would like to propose a Python Day. Sometime in late June/July, It might give people from

Re: [BangPypers] Python Day India

2009-04-28 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
to discuss the *real* conference. What do all of you think? pycon-india === Author: Noufal Ibrahim nou...@sanctuary Date: 2009-04-28 22:39:01 IST Table of Contents = 1 PyCon India discussion 1.1 Items discussed

Re: [BangPypers] Python Day India

2009-04-28 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Suppose we have a mini meeting in June, what would our timeline be like after that in order to get something going in September? -- ~noufal ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] When are we meeting? Saturday or Sunday?

2009-04-24 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Senthil Kumaran orsent...@gmail.com wrote: What time? and where? I vote for Sunday, evening 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. Satuday is fine with me too. I propose we do an IRC meeting this Sunday to get our general bearings. The number of people who can attend will be

Re: [BangPypers] What's the latest with Pycon India?

2009-04-19 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
I think we *should* have a F2F first. That should get us started. We can do IRC meetings/mails to work out the details but we need a *live* meeting to lay out the basics. I propose 25 or 26th (we can decide the venue later). Perhaps this can be a python user group meeting (which we had decided to

Re: [BangPypers] What's the latest with Pycon India?

2009-04-18 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
From the general feeling, I think we should (as was suggested by some of the wiser folks on the first IRC meeting), keep it small. Shall we have a F2F on 26th or so? (25th is Python Bug day). -- ~noufal ___ BangPypers mailing list

[BangPypers] Python bug day coming up.

2009-04-15 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Rev your engines people! http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonBugDay -- ~noufal ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] magic in datetime module?

2009-04-03 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
I'm not an expert but here's a guess. import uses the builtin __import__ function. Since you set __builtins__ to {}, you cannot import any modules. eg. __builtins__ = {} import subprocess Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in module ImportError: __import__ not found Are

Re: [BangPypers] magic in datetime module?

2009-04-03 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
__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) dlopen(/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/time.so, 2); import time # dynamically loaded from

Re: [BangPypers] Advanced Python or Understanding Python

2009-04-01 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote: Since everyone seems to be mailing in today. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7760178035196894549 By one of the people behind Unladen Swallow incidentally.  What's with that name, btw?  Quite the mouthful, hard

Re: [BangPypers] Python switches to Mercurial

2009-04-01 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
There was a long discussion about this on python-dev where two links were posted pointing to mails on the bzr list. They summarise? the reasons why the community didn't chose bzr https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2009q1/055850.html and

Re: [BangPypers] Python switches to Mercurial

2009-03-31 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: [..] +1 for anything other than svn. I wonder if there were some real reasons for choosing hg over git, except perhaps to be different from the kernel folks ? Emacs moved I think a while ago to bzr. I like

Re: [BangPypers] Fwd: [PyCon-Organizers] Global PyCon open space on Sunday

2009-03-28 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Lovely. We should discuss how things can move ahead once you guys are back. On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Senthil Kumaran orsent...@gmail.com wrote: Baiju / Pradeep, Lets plan to attend this one. -- Senthil -- Forwarded message -- From: A.M. Kuchling a...@amk.ca

[BangPypers] Command line goodies

2009-03-25 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
I found this via. hacker news. http://commandlinefu.com/ It's a repository of command line tricks. I found a python one python -m SimpleHTTPServer which serves the current directory on port 8000 I've not really seen many python one liners. The language culture and the indentation requirement

Re: [BangPypers] Command line goodies

2009-03-25 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Venkatraman S venka...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: I've not really seen many python one liners. The language culture and the indentation requirement discourage that kind of thing I imagine. Eh

Re: [BangPypers] Command line goodies

2009-03-25 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
I don't agree. It is painful to write command liners with python. My thoughts exactly. Although I like the examples the other Anand gave. :) As for code one-liners, the indentation rules do contain some obfuscation. The language culture that emphasises readability over tricks is also a nail in

Re: [BangPypers] Command line goodies

2009-03-25 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
I don't agree. It is painful to write command liners with python. My thoughts exactly. Although I like the examples the other Anand gave. :) As for code one-liners, the indentation rules do contain some obfuscation. The language culture that emphasises readability over tricks is also a nail in

Re: [BangPypers] User Groups at devcamp

2009-03-20 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Darkseid lorddae...@gmail.com wrote: That's a nice idea - do you think it would be useful to host user groups as part of dev camp? This may involve no more than priniting (say) BangPyper stickers which can be added to participants name tags, and setting aside a

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

2009-03-19 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
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 venue? Thanks. -- ~noufal ___

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

2009-03-19 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: [..] The Agenda Upcoming Python Conference is too broad. I agree. I will parse the logs for the last meeting and merge it with the first meetings minutes to make a solid agenda. I will then send it out. For

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India IRC Dicussion #2

2009-03-16 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Okay. I think this should give us enough outline. I propose a face to face sometime soon so that we can beat out the remaining problems and get to work. Any proposals for dates? I think we should have it in March itself. -- ~noufal ___ BangPypers

Re: [BangPypers] collected postings from the various Python usergroups around the world

2009-03-16 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
I think we should start with a group blog. That way, our stuff goes online. IF someone can own that up, I can contact Jeff and also try to get the blog on the planet python feed list. -- ~noufal ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] Next IRC meeting

2009-03-12 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Can someone else moderate this meeting and post the logs? I had a last minute change of schedule. On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: So, is Thursday night 9:00 pm fine with everyone

Re: [BangPypers] Next IRC meeting

2009-03-10 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
=== - Magazines (being looked at by 'jace' and 'rmz102') On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: Hello folks,   I propose we have the next IRC meeting on Thursday (12/Mar) at 9:00 pm. I will upload the minutes of the last meeting by tomorrow (been too

Re: [BangPypers] Next IRC meeting

2009-03-10 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
So, is Thursday night 9:00 pm fine with everyone? -- ~noufal ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

[BangPypers] Next IRC meeting

2009-03-09 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Hello folks, I propose we have the next IRC meeting on Thursday (12/Mar) at 9:00 pm. I will upload the minutes of the last meeting by tomorrow (been too tired to work on it till now). Thanks. -- ~noufal ___ BangPypers mailing list

[BangPypers] Meeting minutes

2009-03-04 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Hello folks, I will upload the meeting minutes later tonight. Haven't had time to sift through the logs. Are we having another IRC gathering tonight? Thanks. -- ~noufal ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

[BangPypers] Today's IRC meeting

2009-03-02 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Hello everyone, The meeting is planned for today at 9:00. It would be great if someone can own up to making minutes of the meeting and posting them on the wiki. I have some other commitments and will not be there for meeting but will keep my client connected so that I have the

Re: [BangPypers] Questions regarding Image cropping

2009-03-01 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Hello, 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

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India IRC Discussion

2009-02-28 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
I think apart from the IRC meeting, we should also have a proper face to face thing. It's a little premature perhaps given how recent the last BangPypers meeting was but I think it'd be useful. We can Skype in the people who are from outside the city. -- ~noufal

[BangPypers] IDEs Presentation (was Re: Do we have any NetBeans IDE for Python users here?)

2009-02-27 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
A little unrelated but nevertheless There was (and is) interest expressed in knowing about editing setups ( http://wiki.python.org/moin/BangPypers/PresentationTopics). Since you're actively involved in developing IDEs and plugins, I think it would be great if you could volunteer a presentation

Re: [BangPypers] IDEs Presentation (was Re: Do we have any NetBeans IDE for Python users here?)

2009-02-27 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Lakshman Prasad scorpion...@gmail.comwrote: [..] Here is my 2 cents to that thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/81584/what-ide-to-use-for-python/495355#495355 This looks like a good thread. Thanks. Reminds me of XKCD: http://xkcd.com/378/ I relate

Re: [BangPypers] IDEs Presentation (was Re: Do we have any NetBeans IDE for Python users here?)

2009-02-27 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Amit k. Saha amitsaha...@gmail.com wrote: [..] Sure.. I would love to :-) Capital! I've put your name next to the item on the wiki page. Going strictly by what's there, it's the only item for which people are interested *and* for which someone is willing to

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India Proposal

2009-02-27 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: [..] I think if this has to work, a group has to produce something like a formal proposal on what the conference is about. A writeup on the goals and agenda of the proposed conference is essential for

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India Proposal

2009-02-27 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Ramdas S ram...@developeriq.com wrote: You can start by announcing it in 1) All User Groups -- like django, TG, Pylons, etc. There are a few hundred user groups.. It is viral. [..] All the above steps will give you 99% of the target audience. I think all

[BangPypers] Bangpypers meeting on Feb 21

2009-02-21 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Greetings all, The meeting on Feb 21 went well. We had a couple of quick presentations and some discussions about testing tools that thought works was developing. I've put up the minutes (for want of a better term) on http://wiki.python.org/moin/BangPypers/Meeting21Feb2009 We thought it

Re: [BangPypers] foss calendar

2009-02-19 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: Hi, after a brief hiatus, the foss calendar is now getting up to date. Please contribute to this to make it a definitive guide to Indian foss events: http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/calendar/ -- Thanks for this

Re: [BangPypers] Fwd: Chicago Python User Group

2009-02-16 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
It might be a good idea to put up an event on meetup.com I just searched for Python stuff in Bangalore and found a LAMP group and mySQL one. http://www.meetup.com/search/?keywords=Pythonradius=25country=inlocationPickerRef=0dbCo=usdbOutsideUsLink=zip=meetup4submitButton=Search -- ~noufal

Re: [BangPypers] Squirrelmail replacement in Python

2009-01-25 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Ramdas S ram...@developeriq.com wrote: Hi, Anyone is aware of any squirrel-mail replacement written in Python? Try Posterity. It's from the creators of trac. http://posterity.edgewall.org/ -- ~noufal ___

Re: [BangPypers] how to learn programming

2009-01-23 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Since 80s to late 90s many Indian/foreign(US etc) have been teaching programming in C/C++.When I talked to 2 ex-professors in India,they observed that the rigor when students go through using c/++ is higher than java/python.For.e.g.manipulation of linked list,hash table. Can you define

Re: [BangPypers] how to learn programming

2009-01-20 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:26 AM, prasanna diwadkar pdiwad...@yahoo.comwrote: Hi, I think Chetan is right. Algorithms play important role.I am not biased towards specific language but I have found those how have programmed in C/C++ are generally better(in problem solving) than who program

Re: [BangPypers] py2exe

2008-09-20 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Pradeep Gowda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] Also don't forget the hash-bang at the top of the file : #! /usr/bin/env python This line tells the OS which program to use launch the script. Scripts are First Class citizens in *NIX world. So, not every program

Re: [BangPypers] py2exe

2008-09-20 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20-Sep-08, at 10:25 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: This does have some 'limitations' though. There are a lot of people who just want to run their 'applications' without dependency problems and such. Being able

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