[melbourne-pug] python GIS volunteers?

2014-02-03 Thread dan
Hi MPUG, In addition to my day job, I am currently devoting my free time to assisting with the online side of the Public Transport Not Traffic Campaign (http://www.publictransportnottraffic.org/). As it's a community run campaign, funding is reasonably tight and there is essentially no budget to

[melbourne-pug] python future debian

2014-02-03 Thread Brian May
After last night's talk on Python future, I decided to look up the status of packages for Debian. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736523 Oops. Seems to have deteriorated into a silly argument over what teamwork means :-( -- Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au

Re: [melbourne-pug] python future debian

2014-02-03 Thread Ben Finney
Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au writes: Oops. Seems to have deteriorated into a silly argument over what teamwork means :-( Yeah, there are some bull-headed personalities in software projects. Even ones working with Python :-) With transparent projects, like Debian and Python, the

Re: [melbourne-pug] Using Bittorrent for deployments

2014-02-03 Thread Ben Finney
Javier Candeira jav...@candeira.com writes: http://in.pycon.org/2010/talks/63-deployment-to-large-server-farms-using-fabric-and-bittorrent. Sounds great! Is the video or audio recording online for us to download? BitTorrent is a great technology for reversing the usual “victim of our own

Re: [melbourne-pug] Using Bittorrent for deployments

2014-02-03 Thread Lars Yencken
Etsy also had a great post on using BitTorrent to replicate Solr search indexes. Worth a read: http://codeascraft.com/2012/01/23/solr-bittorrent-index-replication/ On 4 February 2014 11:01, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Javier Candeira jav...@candeira.com writes:

Re: [melbourne-pug] Using Bittorrent for deployments

2014-02-03 Thread Javier Candeira
Also via the same thread in the Ansible mailing list (which I can't really recommend if you don't use Ansible, because it's high traffic, but has occasional gems like these), a Murder (of crows): And a Herd On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Javier

Re: [melbourne-pug] Using Bittorrent for deployments

2014-02-03 Thread Javier Candeira
I sent too early. This is what I meant by herd: And a Herd of Pythons: https://github.com/ru/Herd; This is one python file. J On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Javier Candeira jav...@candeira.com wrote: Also via the same thread in the Ansible mailing list (which I can't really recommend if

Re: [melbourne-pug] Using Bittorrent for deployments

2014-02-03 Thread Javier Candeira
Grrr, I can't even use email. And this is what I meant by a Murder of crows: https://github.com/lg/murder J On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Javier Candeira jav...@candeira.com wrote: I sent too early. This is what I meant by herd: And a Herd of Pythons: https://github.com/ru/Herd; This

Re: [melbourne-pug] Excel spreadsheet munging under Linux. Limits?

2014-02-03 Thread David Nugent
They work very well. I Have been using xlrd for some years under both python 2. 7 and 3.3 on OSX and Linux over some years now whenever I have had to deal with them. The down side is that they do not understand the contemporary version of excel but need the saved in the previous document

Re: [melbourne-pug] Excel spreadsheet munging under Linux. Limits?

2014-02-03 Thread Tim Richardson
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:47 PM, David Crisp dcr...@netspace.net.au wrote: I have just finished a major project using the xlrd and xlwt python libs. Theres also an xlutil lib as well which allows you to manipiulate excel. but i havent played with that one. (I also used pymssql to push this data

Re: [melbourne-pug] Excel spreadsheet munging under Linux. Limits?

2014-02-03 Thread Bianca Gibson
On 4 February 2014 15:22, Rasjid Wilcox rasj...@openminddev.net wrote: Under Linux etc. Use a head-less copy of OpenOffice, and use its automation (pyUno) to generate a spreadsheet that way. Be prepared for a lot of pain. Last time I heard (early 2013) the headless build only worked on