Re: [melbourne-pug] WiPhone, a phone you can program in Python

2019-04-18 Thread Ben Finney
roject! -- \“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” | `\—Oscar Wilde, _The Portrait of Mr. W. H._, 1889-07 | _o__) | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailin

Re: [melbourne-pug] Jobs at Reece

2018-02-28 Thread Ben Finney via melbourne-pug
Can you say what Reece does, and what the new hires would be put to work doing? Thanks! -- \ “My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if | `\I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year.” —Steven | _o__)

Re: [melbourne-pug] [JOB] Experienced Python Developer - Melbourne Area

2018-02-14 Thread Ben Finney
ift forks?” —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug

Re: [melbourne-pug] Next Melbourne Python meeting - Monday 5 February/ Reply

2018-01-30 Thread Ben Finney
s. If you have an interest in Python, you will find many like-minded people at the meet up. -- \“A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can | `\ take from you.” —Ramsey Clark | _o__)

Re: [melbourne-pug] How do I become a python developer?

2017-09-07 Thread Ben Finney
—Alan Kay | _o__) | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug

Re: [melbourne-pug] Install ‘conda’ using Debian package manager

2017-08-02 Thread Ben Finney
‘gestalt’ don't you understand?]” —Karsten M. Self | _o__) | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug

Re: [melbourne-pug] Install ‘conda’ using Debian package manager

2017-08-01 Thread Ben Finney
of Human Nature_, 1739 | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug

Re: [melbourne-pug] Install ‘conda’ using Debian package manager

2017-08-01 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > Instead, how can I use the operating-system package manager [to > install] the necessary tools? I don't see an Anaconda package in > Debian, and there is no discussion I can find on how to do this. There is a ‘conda’ package on PyP

[melbourne-pug] Install ‘conda’ using Debian package manager

2017-08-01 Thread Ben Finney
crematorium] is how they | _o__) behave.” —Jacob Bronowski, _The Ascent of Man_, 1973 | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug

[melbourne-pug] The future is looking bright for Python

2017-05-12 Thread Ben Finney
akes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in | _o__)the opposite direction.” —Albert Einstein | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug

Re: [melbourne-pug] pycon 2017

2017-05-01 Thread Ben Finney
the Bay area and up for a beer please > get in touch. Thanks for the invitation :-) -- \ “I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes. They had little | `\ pictures of cats on them. Then I took one out and he ran around | _o__) in circ

Re: [melbourne-pug] Melbourne Python user group - May meeting cancelled

2017-04-30 Thread Ben Finney
our good wishes to the person who had to cancel. -- \ “The future always arrives too fast, and in the wrong order.” | `\—Alvin Toffler | _o__)

Re: [melbourne-pug] Django Girls & Unicorn Roles

2017-04-05 Thread Ben Finney
ut paying for it.” —Oscar Wilde, _De | _o__) Profundis_, 1897 | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug

[melbourne-pug] Mail Drake 0.1.7

2017-04-04 Thread Ben Finney
ainty_, | _o__) 1977 | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug

Re: [melbourne-pug] Next Melbourne Python meeting - Monday 6 March

2017-03-05 Thread Ben Finney
ot to try and make facts harmonise with my | _o__) aspirations.“ —Thomas Henry Huxley, 1860-09-23 | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug

Re: [melbourne-pug] Next Python meeting

2016-11-07 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > I have recently read a short book, of good general interest to Python > programmers. For those who enjoyed the presentation, “How to Make Mistakes in Python” <URL:http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/how-to-make-mistakes-in-pyth

Re: [melbourne-pug] Next Python meeting

2016-11-03 Thread Ben Finney
programmers. I could present essentially by talking about its content. How to Make Mistakes in Python book by Mike Pirnat presented by Ben Finney -- \“The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect | `\everything; the young know everything.” —Oscar Wilde,

Re: [melbourne-pug] Specify the database for a Django ModelForm instance

2016-08-08 Thread Ben Finney
orse.” —James C. | _o__) Hagerty, 1909–1981 | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug

Re: [melbourne-pug] Configuring Django 1.8 on Ubuntu 14.04 to read from an existing MSSQL DB

2016-06-05 Thread Ben Finney
on.org/pypi/django-mssql>? -- \“With Lisp or Forth, a master programmer has unlimited power | `\ and expressiveness. With Python, even a regular guy can reach | _o__) for the stars.” —Raymond Hettinger | Ben Finney ___ melbourne

[melbourne-pug] Python + Django senior developer role

2016-05-17 Thread Ben Finney
itable applicant ASAP. [0] WSP Digital: http://www.wspdigital.com/ -- \“Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind | `\ the human shield of their believers' feelings.” —Richard M. | _o__) Stallman | Ben

Re: [melbourne-pug] Talk: Behaviour-driven development with Aloe

2016-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
org/pypi/behave/> -- \ “I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its | `\ eggs in my brain, because later you might think you're having a | _o__) good idea but it's just eggs hatching.” —Jack Handey | Ben Finney ___

Re: [melbourne-pug] Talk: Behaviour-driven development with Aloe

2016-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
or volunteering, Alexey! -- \ “Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It | `\indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.” | _o__)—Henry L. Mencken | Ben Finney __

Re: [melbourne-pug] MPUG Meeting?

2016-04-26 Thread Ben Finney
first-class procedure. -- \ “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good | `\ programmers write code that humans can understand.” —Martin | _o__) Fowler, _Refactoring_, 2000

Re: [melbourne-pug] Python User Group - "March" meeting: Monday 29 February @ VLSCI

2016-02-14 Thread Ben Finney
ng down.” —Jane Wagner, via | `\ Lily Tomlin | _o__) | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org https://mail.

Re: [melbourne-pug] Any interest in a tutorial night?

2015-06-03 Thread Ben Finney
the highest protection from governmental | _o__) intrusion.” —U.S. District Court Judge Dalzell | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug

Re: [melbourne-pug] last post

2015-06-02 Thread Ben Finney
| _o__) | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug

Re: [melbourne-pug] last post

2015-05-25 Thread Ben Finney
. -- \“Room service? Send up a larger room.” —Groucho Marx | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug

Re: [melbourne-pug] setuptools package_data permissions

2015-03-30 Thread Ben Finney
.” —Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's | _o__)Dictionary_, 1906 | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug

[melbourne-pug] Developing a mobile app to access online service

2015-03-26 Thread Ben Finney
to do this for us? -- \ “I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate | `\ revolver. And since he's so busy, you'd probably have to run up | _o__) to him real quick and hand it to him.” —Jack Handey | Ben Finney

Re: [melbourne-pug] Code of Conduct for MPUG

2015-03-09 Thread Ben Finney
arm that makes it clear what the response will be for infractions. -- \“When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I | `\ had any firearms with me. I said, ‘Well, what do you need?’” | _o__) —Steven Wright | Ben

Re: [melbourne-pug] Code of Conduct for MPUG

2015-03-09 Thread Ben Finney
Water? Get some onions — that'll make your eyes water!” | `\ —Groucho Marx | _o__) | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne

Re: [melbourne-pug] One speaker sought for June

2014-04-07 Thread Ben Finney
) | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug

Re: [melbourne-pug] Delayed posting to this forum

2014-02-22 Thread Ben Finney
individual responsibility.” —Ambrose Bierce, | _o__) _The Devil's Dictionary_, 1906 | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug

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

2014-02-04 Thread Ben Finney
of the contented majority who love | `\anybody who is worth a billion dollars.” —John Kenneth | _o__)Galbraith, 1992-05-23 | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org https

Re: [melbourne-pug] python future debian

2014-02-03 Thread Ben Finney
for | `\ clockwork toy, Hong Kong | _o__) | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug

Re: [melbourne-pug] Using Bittorrent for deployments

2014-02-03 Thread Ben Finney
-cd/. -- \“If you continue running Windows, your system may become | `\unstable.” —Microsoft, Windows 95 bluescreen error message | _o__) | Ben Finney ___ melbourne

Re: [melbourne-pug] Python 3 porting sprint: Monday 28 Oct

2013-10-22 Thread Ben Finney
of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is | `\ required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long | _o__) run.” —Henry David Thoreau | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne

Re: [melbourne-pug] Why can't two dicts be added together?

2013-10-16 Thread Ben Finney
the same is not true for dicts and sets. -- \“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it | `\ correct, not tried it.” —Donald Knuth, 1977-03-29 | _o__) | Ben Finney

Re: [melbourne-pug] Data type assumptions in Python

2013-09-05 Thread Ben Finney
Javier Candeira jav...@candeira.com writes: On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Javier Candeira jav...@candeira.com writes: I have a sorted list. What do you mean? Is this a Python builtin list that you have sorted? If not, where did

Re: [melbourne-pug] Data type assumptions in Python

2013-09-05 Thread Ben Finney
Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au writes: On 5 September 2013 14:48, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Why is it a problem for the exception to be raised within the bowels of your program? I'm not saying there can't be a reason, but you haven't said what the problem

[melbourne-pug] Data type assumptions in Python (was: Yesterday's MPUG session and going forward)

2013-09-04 Thread Ben Finney
) Vonnegut | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug

Re: [melbourne-pug] Data type assumptions in Python

2013-09-04 Thread Ben Finney
know which one you're identifying with by “I”. -- \ “Dare to be naïve.” —Richard Buckminster Fuller, personal motto | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney

[melbourne-pug] Data type assumptions in Python (was: Yesterday's MPUG session and going forward)

2013-09-04 Thread Ben Finney
Lars Yencken l...@yencken.org writes: For example, if you are expecting to be passed in a list that you're going to append to, or some compatible duck type There's a misunderstanding here. “Duck typing” refers to a *principle* to be followed in the practice of programming; it is not an

Re: [melbourne-pug] Unit Testing Tools

2013-08-21 Thread Ben Finney
that they | `\ themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors | _o__)were dead and in Hell.” —Henry L. Mencken | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

[melbourne-pug] Debugging: “My code isn't working :-(” (was: Thanks for coming yesterday)

2013-08-06 Thread Ben Finney
, Stay!’ He went insane. | _o__) Now he just ignores me and keeps typing.” —Steven Wright | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug

[melbourne-pug] Meeting for 2013-01-07

2013-01-06 Thread Ben Finney
.” | `\ —_Timequake_, Kurt Vonnegut | _o__) | Ben Finney ___ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug