Re: [BangPypers] [Job] Looking for developer

2008-07-04 Thread Venkatraman S
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you find this guy, let me know - I would like to shake his hand ;-) On 03-Jul-08, at 7:36 PM, Vijay Ramachandran wrote: Must have PhD, MS + 2years, or BE + 4years (or BE + 2 years developing web apps) Good

Re: [BangPypers] Python 3.0

2008-12-10 Thread Venkatraman S
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: , both subtle and in-your-face. A number of familiar paradigms have changed (the most obvious is the print statement which has become a function). The source converter does the changes (easily) from the

Re: [BangPypers] how to learn programming

2009-01-20 Thread Venkatraman S
A language is a tool to solve a problem. Each of the problem(s) has its own characteristics, which makes us to choose one among the many languages around - and hence the choice of the best tool to solve that problem. Language/OS wars are to stay. Lets either participate and yap, or stay put with

Re: [BangPypers] Barcamp Bangalore 8

2009-01-27 Thread Venkatraman S
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Pradip P Caulagi caul...@gmail.comwrote: Hope to meet fellow Pythoners and also have some Python centric discussions. We just _do_ things in the Python world - no discussions ;) -V- http://twitter.com/venkat83

Re: [BangPypers] Job Openings

2009-01-29 Thread Venkatraman S
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:22 PM, SP Karthik urskarthi...@gmail.com wrote: Good knowledge of Python scripting ( 2- 8 years) Whoa! if you get hold of the guy with 8 yrs exp in Py in India - please let us know. -V- http://twitter.com/venkat83 ___

Re: [BangPypers] Django + Lighttpd + Global Variables are getting initalized frequently

2009-02-02 Thread Venkatraman S
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Hussain Bohra hussainbohra...@yahoo.comwrote: I was facing the same problem in Django Development server also, but I am able to come across the same using '--noreload' option, python manage.py runserver --noreload, and updation of my variable is working properly

Re: [BangPypers] Are comprehensions faster?

2009-02-09 Thread Venkatraman S
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Senthil Kumaran orsent...@gmail.com wrote: You see that is slow and the reason is l.append being called again and again. lets eliminate it. Sorry, it is slow because the append method Look-up on the list object is done again and again. Both LC and

Re: [BangPypers] Fwd: Chicago Python User Group

2009-02-14 Thread Venkatraman S
OTOH, i wanted to go for PyCON, but looks like i wont be able to make it. Can someone get me a T-shirt? Might save and go for 26C3. +1 for the weekend meetup. -V- http://twitter.com/venkat83 ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] Open source India

2009-02-27 Thread Venkatraman S
+1 for a 'dedicated' PyCon. -1 for along with BarCamp. -V- http://twitter.com/venkat83 ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] Classmethod, Decorators and staticmethod

2009-03-05 Thread Venkatraman S
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-kbc.org wrote: On Thursday 05 March 2009 18:29:20 VIJAY KUMAR wrote: I charge 6500 a day for training - please contact me offlist ;-) On a more

Re: [BangPypers] Classmethod, Decorators and staticmethod

2009-03-05 Thread Venkatraman S
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote: entire Python OOP? Damn! dont you know that *real* world is made ONLY of 'objects' :P -V- http://twitter.com/venkat83 ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] Command line goodies

2009-03-25 Thread Venkatraman S
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!? not true AT ALL - hang around #python. -V- http://twitter.com/venkasub

Re: [BangPypers] unladen-swallow

2009-04-01 Thread Venkatraman S
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: I think they should also take a look at the work already done in Parrot and Cython which can be reused. Parrot is kinda dead (gone to meet the maker? :P) Also, pypy's design considerations can be useful

Re: [BangPypers] Guido steps down

2009-04-01 Thread Venkatraman S
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! ...check out the last few lines ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

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] Getting the know-how of UI effects using HTML etc..

2009-04-09 Thread Venkatraman S
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Anurag Priyam anurag08pri...@gmail.comwrote: learning AJAX will also be of lot of help. What is AJAX? -V- ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] Interesting historical relation between python distributed OS

2009-04-10 Thread Venkatraman S
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Pushparajan V vpra...@gmail.com wrote: Guess what ??.. already some set of people are getting involved into DS with python to overtake java.. but always survival of the fittest and the easiest.. :) Try watching/hearing Guido's keynote this year in pycon.He

Re: [BangPypers] CPython's 'bignum' Implementation

2009-05-15 Thread Venkatraman S
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Amit Saha amitsaha...@gmail.com wrote: Now, how does CPython implement bignum? From what I gather, there is more than way of doing it- using a different radix (base), an array of numbers. One hint is given by http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0237/. However,

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India logo contest!

2009-05-19 Thread Venkatraman S
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Anurag Priyam anurag08pri...@gmail.comwrote: the Tricolour as the background does not look very great. Can we not have something else for the background? What about the attachment? i would like to display it 'somewhere' during the conf :D can designers play

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

2009-06-04 Thread Venkatraman S
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:59 PM, testing123 test swtest...@gmail.comwrote: 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? It is a structured document! Please use some basic CS

Re: [BangPypers] Performance benefits of Generators?

2009-06-30 Thread Venkatraman S
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Amit Saha amitsaha...@gmail.com wrote: Theoretically and/or practically, is it possible to reason about the performance gain/loss of using generators? The PEP 255 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0255/) doesn't seem to hint at it. Since, this is out

Re: [BangPypers] Why the None ?

2009-09-03 Thread Venkatraman S
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Abhishek Mishra ideam...@gmail.com wrote: def gimmetaste(length=5): print length if __name__ == '__main__': print gimmetaste() Output - 5

Re: [BangPypers] Low level Python

2009-09-14 Thread Venkatraman S
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: 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

[BangPypers] Fwd: [Baypiggies] FWD: [PSF-Members] GHOP to run again

2009-09-15 Thread Venkatraman S
-- Forwarded message -- From: Aahz a...@pythoncraft.com Date: Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:35 AM Subject: [Baypiggies] FWD: [PSF-Members] GHOP to run again To: baypigg...@python.org - Forwarded message from C. Titus Brown c...@msu.edu - Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:01:58 -0700

Re: [BangPypers] How to search a word list very fast

2009-10-30 Thread Venkatraman S
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Amit Sethi amit.pureene...@gmail.comwrote: I am trying to develop a sort of keyword generator for blog posts much like the Yahoo Keyword service . I havent tried the latter - hence do not know how it works and what it is used for. As an initial idea I am

Re: [BangPypers] Python performance

2009-12-21 Thread Venkatraman S
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Ramdas S ram...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any recommendations on how I can improve performances in case of I/O. I have a program that opens between 4 to 7 text files in memory to analyze data. It runs beautifully on some 100 odd lines of Python code, but its

[BangPypers] Cheap hosting

2010-04-14 Thread Venkatraman S
Hi, Am looking for some cheap site hosting solutions with reasonable performance. Any recos? -V- http://twitter.com/venkasub ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] Cheap hosting

2010-04-14 Thread Venkatraman S
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Venkatraman S venka...@gmail.com wrote: Am looking for some cheap site hosting solutions with reasonable performance. Any recos? Are you talking of Python hosting

Re: [BangPypers] Cheap hosting

2010-04-23 Thread Venkatraman S
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Rahul Jha rahul@assortedtrails.comwrote: I've been using VPS hosting at http://prgmr.com for over an year now for two of my websites. They've got quite affordable plans and I haven't had any major issues till now. Guess webfaction is a better

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Venkatraman S
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: Tweeters, please tweet this if you already haven't. Let us drive some traffic to python dot org which apparently is already seeing increased traffic since this hit /. (The Slashdot effect maybe ?) I

[BangPypers] [OT] Launch Mapatree

2010-05-02 Thread Venkatraman S
Hi, It gives me immense pleasure in launching Mapatree. This is an intiative that I have been planning for quite sometime and finally got some time to implement and also launch it :) Please check and contribute : http://www.mapatree.org/ The site is still under development and the UI is

Re: [BangPypers] Cheap hosting

2010-05-05 Thread Venkatraman S
Just to answer my Q : If you are developing a new app from scratch (and in python/django), without much dependancy on libraries, then i would recommend Google App Engine. I am using them for http://www.mapatree.org/and its a wonderful experience so far. I just spent 400INR on getting the domain;

Re: [BangPypers] Looking for guest faculties in Python to take work shop for 16 hours over weekends

2010-05-08 Thread Venkatraman S
Dont you think this can be done in private emails? Probably, a training on sending emails in DLs can be offered initially. On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Dattatreya Sharma gurupreva...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Kunal, Prof Dilip Sen is not well, he has asked us to get the date from Suma Swamy,

Re: [BangPypers] [JOB Postnging !]

2010-05-21 Thread Venkatraman S
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:53 PM, M.V.Ramana Murty murty_mu...@yahoo.comwrote: We need a 2 developers with 3-5 yrs experience in Python, Zope/Django, Javascript, JQuery and MySQL. Exposure to PHP Zend Framework will be advantageious. Neat!! ___

[BangPypers] File Upload with Progress Bar

2010-05-25 Thread Venkatraman S
Well, I have trying this for quiet sometime, sans html5 coolness, but has anyone got a simple file upload with a progress bar running? Either using uploadify or jquploader? I know it sounds simple, and so did i think when i started, but the darn thing just fails to work. I dont want the server be

Re: [BangPypers] python for management studies

2010-06-03 Thread Venkatraman S
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: What's the intention of the course? The structure of the course would depend on that methinks. Is it to - Give the students some programming skills so that they can use them if needed for their actual work. -

Re: [BangPypers] python for management studies

2010-06-04 Thread Venkatraman S
I would recommend starting with http://alpha.djangogenerator.com/ to get a feel of an 'application'. -V- http://twitter.com/venkasub ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] python for management studies

2010-06-04 Thread Venkatraman S
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Venkatraman S venka...@gmail.com wrote: I would recommend starting with http://alpha.djangogenerator.com/ to get a feel of an 'application'. It might be just me but I think

Re: [BangPypers] sending sms through the web

2010-06-09 Thread Venkatraman S
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: The site requires login and has two text areas - one for the list of mobile numbers and the other for the message to be sent. I recall reading about some tools that can automate the login and fill in the relevant

[BangPypers] Fwd: [Baypiggies] Powerful Python Patterns

2010-09-24 Thread Venkatraman S
Slides from Alex's talk at Baypiggies. http://www.aleax.it/bayp010_ppp.pdf-- Yesterday's talk http://www.aleax.it/oscon010_pydp.pdf ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

[BangPypers] [x-post] Fwd: Django Linky

2010-10-12 Thread Venkatraman S
Why django suckserr...rules http://djangocon.blip.tv/file/4112452/ http://www.eflorenzano.com/blog/post/object-lesson-how-respond-criticism/ -V- ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

[BangPypers] Fwd: [Ilugc] [OT] Free E-Book For Programming Blender in Python

2010-10-18 Thread Venkatraman S
-- Forwarded message -- From: Tha.Suresh jemenisur...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:46 AM Subject: [Ilugc] [OT] Free E-Book For Programming Blender in Python To: ILUG-C il...@ae.iitm.ac.in, KanchiLug kanchi...@freelists.org -- Forwarded message -- From:

[BangPypers] [X-POST] Firesheep

2010-10-25 Thread Venkatraman S
Neat stuff : http://codebutler.com/firesheep Solution : http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/25/firesheep/ -V- http://twitter.com/venkasub ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] [Announcement] Training on Extending Python using C

2010-11-23 Thread Venkatraman S
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: IMHO, now a days, the right thing to do is to actually share the material even if the actual talk is a paid one. People are paying mainly for being in the class and getting taught by the speaker, not only

Re: [BangPypers] Django-based CMS recommendations?

2010-11-24 Thread Venkatraman S
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda j...@pobox.com wrote: Does this list have a recommendation for a Django-based CMS? Or a review of the one conveniently named Django CMS? Try http://djangopluggables.com/ for the download stats and other options. If all you want is a simple

Re: [BangPypers] Django-based CMS recommendations?

2010-11-24 Thread Venkatraman S
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda j...@pobox.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Venkatraman S venka...@gmail.com wrote: Try http://djangopluggables.com/ for the download stats and other options. If all you want is a simple blogging app then can write your

[BangPypers] [django] Directory Listing

2010-11-25 Thread Venkatraman S
Is there a Directory Listing app? By directory i meant categories. Lets say, a system to manage the various types of categories in eBay and associate items and other categories within it. -V- http://twitter.com/venkasub ___ BangPypers mailing list

Re: [BangPypers] [django] Directory Listing

2010-11-25 Thread Venkatraman S
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: django-mptt? I have seen some people rant about it in #django. Have you tried it? ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] [django] Directory Listing

2010-11-25 Thread Venkatraman S
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: I did have a try some years back - but I am weak in mathematics, so I rolled my own. How is this related to math-troubles? You mean and are confusing? ___ BangPypers

Re: [BangPypers] [django] Directory Listing

2010-11-25 Thread Venkatraman S
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com wrote: What do you mean by an app in the context of Python? Do you mean a Django application? Check out the Subject of the email. ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] [django] Directory Listing

2010-11-25 Thread Venkatraman S
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Senthil Kumaran orsent...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 06:40:38PM +0530, Venkatraman S wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com wrote: What do you mean by an app in the context of Python? Do you mean

Re: [BangPypers] Object Oriented Python - Advice on books

2010-12-01 Thread Venkatraman S
Couple of Qs you might want to ask yourself before you venture into OO: # Why do i want to learn OO # What are the advantages of OO # What are the other design paradigms # How good am I with the basics of Python (if not spend sometime learning this) # Does OO and Python go together well? # If I am

Re: [BangPypers] Object Oriented Python - Advice on books

2010-12-01 Thread Venkatraman S
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Senthil Kumaran orsent...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Venkatraman S venka...@gmail.com wrote: Couple of Qs you might want to ask yourself before you venture into OO: Please no. Venkat, a -1 to your response as it might confuse a newcomer

[BangPypers] Fwd: India Map by State for Viz

2010-12-01 Thread Venkatraman S
I had sent this to Chennai-LUG, any thoughts from this group? -- Forwarded message -- From: Venkatraman S venka...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:57 AM Subject: India Map by State for Viz To: ILUG-C il...@ae.iitm.ac.in I was wondering whether there is anything similar

Re: [BangPypers] Fwd: India Map by State for Viz

2010-12-01 Thread Venkatraman S
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com wrote: http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery/intensitymap.html What do you mean by anything similar for India? Are you asking whether there is an already-existing site that does this, or are you asking

Re: [BangPypers] Fwd: India Map by State for Viz

2010-12-01 Thread Venkatraman S
Just an FYI : such maps are called as Choropleth Maps. http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ex/choropleth.html -V- ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] Fwd: [OT] Wikipedia

2010-12-15 Thread Venkatraman S
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: There are quite a few projects that create wikipedia dumps. What kind of dump are you talking about... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#English-language_Wikipedia I need the

Re: [BangPypers] Fwd: [OT] Wikipedia

2010-12-15 Thread Venkatraman S
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: Well, what prevents you from downloading it ? I do not want to consume so much of Wikipedia's bandwidth when it can be used for serving other users. ___ BangPypers

Re: [BangPypers] Fwd: [OT] Wikipedia

2010-12-15 Thread Venkatraman S
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:26 AM, JAGANADH G jagana...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have more than 600 GB space available ? The total volume of 7zip file is about 70 GB . Unzipping it will result around 600 GB Have more than 1.5TB space. As I said, space is not an issue, i just dont want to

Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India videos up

2010-12-21 Thread Venkatraman S
Any recommended videos? -V- http://blizzardzblogs.blogspot.com/ ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] Convert to Black and White to an image

2011-01-07 Thread Venkatraman S
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: Currently I am doing like this image=ImageOps.grayscale(image) for i in range(0,width): for j in range(0,height): if image.getpixel((i,j)) = 200:

Re: [BangPypers] Convert to Black and White to an image

2011-01-07 Thread Venkatraman S
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote: What is the general mailing list to ask question on python ? This is one. There is also: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/baypiggies And http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list I dont think

Re: [BangPypers] Convert to Black and White to an image

2011-01-07 Thread Venkatraman S
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2011-January/006639.html So i tried my code snippet and it worked. The above thread asks you to convert to greyscale and then do a pixel check. For a sufficiently

Re: [BangPypers] Convert to Black and White to an image

2011-01-07 Thread Venkatraman S
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: I am sorry but your code snippet was less efficient then what i posted initially. moreover, I was having black and white image. I thought you needed BW image. (I should read properly!!) Also, can you

Re: [BangPypers] Distributing a python project as a binary.

2011-01-08 Thread Venkatraman S
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: I am still unable to understand that You company can still earn by making NonCommercial License. You can choose any opensource license and put a extra condition of non-commercial over it. This is the

Re: [BangPypers] Suggestion for GUI

2011-01-10 Thread Venkatraman S
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: Thanks !! I understand that you have trouble expressing yourselves, but bottom/posting does not mean that you type one word at the end of a long email. If you want yourselves to be taken seriously in any

Re: [BangPypers] Convert to Black and White to an image

2011-01-10 Thread Venkatraman S
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: I am sorry but your code snippet was less efficient then what i posted initially. Are you sure? ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] Convert to Black and White to an image

2011-01-11 Thread Venkatraman S
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com wrote: Correction - as moderator of this forum, still you can go and take a hike. :) Anywayz, i was planning to post the following reply initially when this thread started, but opined that i will first

Re: [BangPypers] Creating PPT with graphs

2011-01-13 Thread Venkatraman S
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Jins Thomas jinstho...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Would these kind of problems happen if i had used Python also Looks like the link to OO is a weak link; so any changes in OO can cause trouble for you. More than that, if the program that was written was 'bad', the

Re: [BangPypers] am new to this group

2011-01-30 Thread Venkatraman S
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:29 PM, jaya kumar jayakumargen...@gmail.comwrote: am kumar new to this group Welcome :) can any one tell when and where the bang py meet will be held in bangalore ? location and venue timings and date ? Keep tuned to the mailing list, you will hear

Re: [BangPypers] BangPypers meeting February 2011

2011-02-12 Thread Venkatraman S
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Santosh Rajan santra...@gmail.com wrote: My 2 cents before you jump into the nosql bandwagon. 1) If sql works for you, stick with it. RDBMS's like postgeSQL, MySQL will not wake you up in the middle of the night with a crash. 2) If you have scaling problems,

Re: [BangPypers] FOSS String library in C/C++ that matches Python string functions...

2011-02-21 Thread Venkatraman S
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Vishal vsapr...@gmail.com wrote: by the way, has anyone used the Boost String algorithms library with Cython? I used it almost 3 years back - python and C++ bindings are pretty good. Works for most of the time ;) ___

[BangPypers] Companies using Django in Bangalore/Chennai

2011-05-10 Thread Venkatraman S
Hi, Was wondering which companies in Bangalore/Chennai use Django actively; was wondering whether companies do spend in getting their employees trained on Django; or is it more along the lines of in-house training? Also, i guess some of us are freelancers in this group - can you share the

[BangPypers] [X-POST] Python@Google in Google I/O

2011-05-12 Thread Venkatraman S
Was watching Python@ Google talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKQS8EDG1P4 Didnt know Python turned 20 in Feb this year! (Born in Feb 1991). Belated wishes honey ;) -V- http://blizzardzblogs.blogspot.com/ ___ BangPypers mailing list

Re: [BangPypers] The myth of free software

2011-05-16 Thread Venkatraman S
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Santosh Rajan santra...@gmail.com wrote: Ridiculous is the right word not hilarious, when you make such generalisation, and spins new theories Thanks for pointing out how ridiculous what I said was, and I am glad you understood what I was talking about.

Re: [BangPypers] The myth of free software

2011-05-16 Thread Venkatraman S
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Santosh Rajan santra...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, thanks for the good words, and I entirely agree with you. My humble effort here is to try and put a mirror in the face of the entire Indian software Industry. They need to look into the mirror and understand what is

Re: [BangPypers] Scratch Python

2011-05-23 Thread Venkatraman S
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Varun Naik varun.v.n...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, I want to learn python, I don't have any idea on programming languages as for now, can anybody help me from where I can start with. Please help me. http://docs.python.org/tutorial/ -V

Re: [BangPypers] Use group meeting

2011-06-08 Thread Venkatraman S
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.comwrote: I can talk about OuchDB, a project I'm working on to implement CouchDB API on relational databases. Curious : whats the use case? ___ BangPypers mailing list

Re: [BangPypers] return value

2011-06-13 Thread Venkatraman S
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Nitin Kumar nitin.n...@gmail.com wrote: In my framework, some of function returns a Tuple. def fn (): return a,b x,y = fn() Going forward, I got such a situation where we need to return single value from function. (Don't ask me to retain old behavior

Re: [BangPypers] return value

2011-06-13 Thread Venkatraman S
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Nitin Kumar nitin.n...@gmail.com wrote: It takes, *arg as well as**args. I just gave an example to show the return from function behavior. Then it should be easy right... think in terms of...what you will do when you are given an ice-cream... case 1 - your gf

Re: [BangPypers] How to compare the relevancy between news headlines?

2011-06-14 Thread Venkatraman S
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Gopalakrishnan Subramani gopalakrishnan.subram...@gmail.com wrote: Jayalalithaa meets PM, DMK watches closely Jaya to meet PM today in New Delhi Jaya-PM meet, 'jittery' DMK watches on Times How to do this in Python? I think, NLT toolkit is too large for me

Re: [BangPypers] How to compare the relevancy between news headlines?

2011-06-14 Thread Venkatraman S
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Gopalakrishnan Subramani gopalakrishnan.subram...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for suggestion. Can you give me a specific NLT toolset/approach with example if you have experience already? Use Google. Shingling followed by Jaccard similarity. -V

[BangPypers] svg string to pdf

2011-06-28 Thread Venkatraman S
Hi, I am trying to use reportlab(along with svglib) to draw a svg string into a pdf, but so far have not been successful. I can share the code for the same; but was wondering if anyone has any other options for the same? -Venkat ___ BangPypers mailing

Re: [BangPypers] svg string to pdf

2011-06-29 Thread Venkatraman S
S venka...@gmail.com* wrote: From: Venkatraman S venka...@gmail.com Subject: [BangPypers] svg string to pdf To: Bangalore Python Users Group - India bangpypers@python.org Date: Wednesday, 29 June, 2011, 11:17 AM Hi, I am trying to use reportlab(along with svglib) to draw a svg string

Re: [BangPypers] svg string to pdf

2011-06-29 Thread Venkatraman S
Ah. got it , had to use : drawing.transform = (0.5,0,0,0.5,0,0) On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Venkatraman S venka...@gmail.com wrote: So the problem is this: I need to scale the svg - know how to do that? On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:30 AM, vijay vnbang2...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Venkat

Re: [BangPypers] svg string to pdf

2011-06-29 Thread Venkatraman S
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Venkatraman S venka...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to use reportlab(along with svglib) to draw a svg string into a pdf, but so far have not been successful. I can share the code for the same; but was wondering if anyone has any other options for the same

Re: [BangPypers] svg string to pdf

2011-06-29 Thread Venkatraman S
So, i spent some more time in investigating some issues with SVG to PDF conversion and it looks like that the text and opacity present in SVG cant be converted to PDF 'directly'. For eg. the last image on this page : http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/docs/label.html Using Reportlab and svglib,

Re: [BangPypers] [OT] getting a business email vendor

2011-06-30 Thread Venkatraman S
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Vishal vsapr...@gmail.com wrote: Google Apps looks very attractive...but prices are high ($50/per account/per year)...where as many Indian vendors provide 5-10 email addresses at much lower price. Any suggestions? Try mitsu.in for a domain registration

Re: [BangPypers] Iterating list of tuples

2011-07-04 Thread Venkatraman S
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:07 PM, delegb...@dudupay.com wrote: Your new code should read this. data = [ (10, 25, 18, 17, 10, 12, 26, 5), ] for value in data: if value 5: print greater else: print lesser WRONG. Please dont misguide.

Re: [BangPypers] Iterating list of tuples

2011-07-04 Thread Venkatraman S
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:23 PM, delegb...@dudupay.com wrote: I still can't see my mistake Kenneth. May I just point out that, I am quite unhappy with Venk's choice of word. I would have apologized if you had tried the code that you had written or atleast mentioned in the email that 'i

Re: [BangPypers] Iterating list of tuples

2011-07-04 Thread Venkatraman S
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: Right. I wrote this and then didnt send as the OP sounds like a n00b. n00b (especially with the leet speak) is a tad pejorative. I think you should not use the word here. I apologize captain! :)

Re: [BangPypers] Iterating list of tuples

2011-07-04 Thread Venkatraman S
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:53 PM, delegb...@dudupay.com wrote: You sound quite rude and arrogant. This is a public forum and you should manage your choice of words. My error was a typo and I wouldn't have pushed what I haven't tried out. What I didn't put was the index of the tuple in the

Re: [BangPypers] [OT] language fanaticism

2011-07-11 Thread Venkatraman S
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: The Ruby Speed Center (which is similar to speed.pypy.org) uses codespeed which is a Python/Django based application[1]. So? I think a lot of people get married to a language or a tool and stop seeing the broader

Re: [BangPypers] [OT] language fanaticism

2011-07-11 Thread Venkatraman S
Ah ok. Probably i misread your email - it sounded to me as if you were not happy with certain things in the py community. -V ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

[BangPypers] Django Develeopers

2011-07-11 Thread Venkatraman S
Can we have a roll call of developers who actively use Django? Also, it would be great if you can mention where and how exactly you are using. -V ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] [Small Hitch]Minidom and xml parsing.

2011-07-12 Thread Venkatraman S
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Subhodip Biswas subhodipbis...@gmail.comwrote: I am fairly new to python and i am stuck with a problem. What I am trying to do is parse a xml file using minidom. My xml file as almost a structure like this : someparentabove parent

Re: [BangPypers] [OT] language fanaticism

2011-07-14 Thread Venkatraman S
Never seen KG type so much till now ;) -V ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] parsing xml

2011-07-28 Thread Venkatraman S
grep or regexp? -V ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] parsing xml

2011-07-28 Thread Venkatraman S
parsing using minidom is one of the slowest. if you just want to extract the distance and assuming that it(the tag) will always be consistent, then i would always suggest regexp. xml parsing is a pain. ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] parsing xml

2011-07-28 Thread Venkatraman S
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.comwrote: 2011/7/28 Venkatraman S venka...@gmail.com: parsing using minidom is one of the slowest. if you just want to extract the distance and assuming that it(the tag) will always be consistent, then i would always

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