Re: [Dorset] Last Night's Meeting

2017-06-26 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday, 24 June 2017 13:10:34 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Raspberian has picked the Thonny Python IDE as the one they're pushing, > rather than IDLE. Should be a package-install away. http://thonny.org/ It's now in the Repository, as of yesterday. Also available this time is an installable

Re: [Dorset] Last Night's Meeting

2017-06-24 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > What I did catch though was the discussion about Python IDEs and the > Eric tool. Raspberian has picked the Thonny Python IDE as the one they're pushing, rather than IDLE. Should be a package-install away. http://thonny.org/ Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday,

Re: [Dorset] Last Night's Meeting

2017-06-07 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday, 7 June 2017 12:48:10 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Terry was finding pylint disliked how he named his global variables. > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#naming-conventions was > mentioned. It seems to say lower_case_with_underscores for those. Yes. I see that. Interesting

Re: [Dorset] Last Night's Meeting

2017-06-07 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
On 07/06/17 12:48, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, Tim wrote: We talked a little about Python's debugger, pdb, and its short-comings. Turns out that it *does* have a "display" command to show the value of an expression each time it stops, but only since Python 3.2: https://docs.python.org/3/library/p

Re: [Dorset] Last Night's Meeting

2017-06-07 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, Tim wrote: > We talked a little about Python's debugger, pdb, and its > short-comings. Turns out that it *does* have a "display" command to > show the value of an expression each time it stops, but only since > Python 3.2: > https://docs.python.org/3/library/pdb.html#pdbcommand-display $

Re: [Dorset] Last Night's Meeting

2017-06-07 Thread Tim Waugh
On 7 June 2017 at 11:49, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Python's interpreter's `>>>' prompt is an example of a REPL. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93print_loop > Perl's is its debugger's: perl -de1 We talked a little about Python's debugger, pdb, and its short-comings. Turns o

Re: [Dorset] Last Night's Meeting

2017-06-07 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > What I did catch though was the discussion about Python IDEs and the Eric > tool. https://eric-ide.python-projects.org/ Some other things that were mentioned. Python's interpreter's `>>>' prompt is an example of a REPL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93print_

[Dorset] Last Night's Meeting

2017-06-07 Thread Terry Coles
Hi, We were a bit sparse last night with only five of us, but there seemed to be plenty to discuss. I missed quite a bit from the other side of the table (Paul was trying to configure OpenMeeting on our side), so perhaps someone can fill in some of the blanks. What I did catch though was the

Re: [Dorset] Last Night's Meeting

2010-05-13 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On 12/05/10 18:03, Terry Coles wrote: > Well? What did we think of the new Venue? > > I liked it. At least we had Wi-Fi (a choice of many Access Points) and the > beer wasn't too expensive (not as cheap as Wetherspoons of course). Also, it > tasted good. > > I liked it, but then again I've

Re: [Dorset] Last Night's Meeting

2010-05-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Rob, > > Easy drive from Dorchester, easy to find, parking on-site. > > Not too bad coming down from north Wiltshire. I looked it up; as far North as Bath! > > I noticed the price difference, but then W'spoons is particularly > > cheap. > > Was the price difference matched by a quality di

Re: [Dorset] Last Night's Meeting

2010-05-13 Thread Robert Bronsdon
On Thu, 13 May 2010 10:26:50 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Easy drive from Dorchester, easy to find, parking on-site. Not too bad coming down from north Wiltshire. > Plush compared to our normal dens. We did look something out of place ;) > I noticed the price difference, but then W'spoons

Re: [Dorset] Last Night's Meeting

2010-05-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, Simon O'Riordan wrote: > Terry Coles wrote: > > Well? What did we think of the new Venue? Easy drive from Dorchester, easy to find, parking on-site. Plush compared to our normal dens. > > I liked it. At least we had Wi-Fi (a choice of many Access Points) > > and the beer wasn't too

Re: [Dorset] Last Night's Meeting

2010-05-12 Thread Simon O'Riordan
It was okay, but I thought the table we chose ws a bit like being at a board meeting. Possibly one of the alcoves might be better. On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 18:03 +0100, Terry Coles wrote: > Well? What did we think of the new Venue? > > I liked it. At least we had Wi-Fi (a choice of many Access Poin

[Dorset] Last Night's Meeting

2010-05-12 Thread Terry Coles
Well? What did we think of the new Venue? I liked it. At least we had Wi-Fi (a choice of many Access Points) and the beer wasn't too expensive (not as cheap as Wetherspoons of course). Also, it tasted good. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux