Re: [BangPypers] Advanced Python or Understanding Python

2009-04-04 Thread CsquaredinOmaha
the performance of Python is like letting a swallow bird fly without having to carry a coconut!   - Original Message From: Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com To: Bangalore Python Users Group - India bangpypers@python.org Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 11:56:05 PM Subject: [BangPypers] Advanced Python

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

[BangPypers] Advanced Python or Understanding Python

2009-04-01 Thread Roshan Mathews
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 to swallow, so to speak. Regards, Roshan Mathews

Re: [BangPypers] Advanced Python or Understanding Python

2009-04-01 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [BangPypers] Advanced Python or Understanding Python

2009-04-01 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: So Unladen Swallow - A lightweight Python. Quite cryptic I say... they could have opted for something more straightforward perhaps... Their idea is to backport the changes to CPython. So, there is nothing in

Re: [BangPypers] Advanced Python or Understanding Python

2009-04-01 Thread Venkatraman S
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Senthil Kumaran orsent...@gmail.com wrote: Collin Winters was explaining at VM Panel at PyCon that their work is coming from customer requirements internally at Google and they wanted a faster a Python. Think this panel was the only thing on the core ; or

Re: [BangPypers] Advanced Python or Understanding Python

2009-04-01 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Venkatraman S venka...@gmail.com wrote: Think this panel was the only thing on the core ; or were there any other talks (i did not see any in the roster)? Do you have any notes from this panel? Nope, there were other talks on the core too. Like writing the

Re: [BangPypers] Advanced Python or Understanding Python

2009-04-01 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: Monty python reference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2R3FvS4xr4 Plus the 'unladen' meaning lightweight or some such. In an early Star Trek: The Next Generation novel, Geordi is looking for someone in a bar. He is told