[issue23989] Add recommendation to use requests to the documentation, per summit

2015-04-20 Thread VanL
VanL added the comment: Given the generally positive comments, here are patches for 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, and 3.5 (3.5 patch updated to also include urllib.request). -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file39153/recommend_requests_2.patch ___ Python

[issue23989] Add recommendation to use requests to the documentation, per summit

2015-04-17 Thread VanL
New submission from VanL: Attached is a basic patch to add a recommendation to use requests to the http.client documentation for 3.5. It is implemented as a seealso at the top of the file: See Also: The Requests package is recommended for a higher-level http client interface. If people

[issue14302] Move python.exe to bin/

2012-03-20 Thread VanL
VanL v...@python.org added the comment: As Éric mentioned, there are two proposals here: 1. Move the python exe 2. Change 'Scripts' to 'bin' As for #1, what about letting the location of the python binary be an install option: [ ] Put python.exe into binaries directory and add to PATH

Comments wanted: Proposed change to install layout

2012-03-17 Thread VanL
There is a proposal on Python-dev right now (championed by me) to harmonize the install layout for Python between platforms. This change would be most noticeable on Windows. Specifically, using Python 3.3 or above: 1) the 'Scripts' directory would change to 'bin'; 2) python.exe would move to

Help influence which tutorials are given at PyCon 2011

2010-12-15 Thread VanL
PyCon is made up of a number of different parts, each with its own goals. For the talks presented during the conference portion of PyCon, we go for both breadth and quality. There are enough different sessions and different tracks that each person can customize their PyCon experience according

[issue7755] copyright clarification for audiotest.au

2010-04-21 Thread VanL
VanL v...@python.org added the comment: However, a 3 second clip used for testing purposes in an open source programming language appears to meet the guidelines for fair use in the United States. In particular, no one is going to use the test clip as a substitute for any part of the Monty

PyCon is coming! Tomorrow, Feb. 10 is the last day for pre-conference rates

2010-02-09 Thread VanL
PyCon is coming! Tomorrow (February 10th) is the last day for pre-conference rates. You can register for PyCon online at: https://us.pycon.org/2010/register/ Register while it is still Feb. 10th somewhere in the world and rest easy in the knowledge that within 10 days you will enjoying the

The END (of PyCon early bird registration) is NEAR!

2010-01-06 Thread VanL
Today is the last day of registration for PyCon 2010 at the early bird rate. Registration at the early bird rate is still good as long as it is January 6 somewhere in the world. Register now! - https://us.pycon.org/2010/register/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

PyCon Early Bird is Ending Soon!

2009-12-29 Thread VanL
Do you have a year-end hole in your training budget? Or will the improved economy let you finally attend a work conference? Come to sunny and warm Atlanta in February for PyCon 2010. Early bird registration ends on January 6. Register: https://us.pycon.org/2010/register/ See the talks:

Graph library recommendations for large graphs

2009-08-24 Thread VanL
I am working on a project that will require building and querying large graph objects (initially 8M nodes, 30-40M edges; eventually 40M nodes, 100M edges). NetworkX seems to be the most popular, but I am concerned that a dict representation for nodes would use too much memory -- my initial

Survey: Does your company use Python? Do you know a company that uses Python?

2009-08-08 Thread VanL
This is a survey to find as many companies using Python as we can. You can see the survey below: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHlwaUxIY2g0ZXpUMk4tREZDSTY3bkE6MA.. You don't need to work at the company to add it to this list! We will filter for duplicates. The answers

Survey: Does your company use Python? Do you know a company that uses Python?

2009-08-07 Thread VanL
This is a survey to find as many companies using Python as we can. You can see the survey below: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHlwaUxIY2g0ZXpUMk4tREZDSTY3bkE6MA.. You don't need to work at the company to add it to this list! We will filter for duplicates. The answers to

Extracting text from html

2009-08-03 Thread VanL
Hello all, Does anyone know of a good tool to get a minimally-formatted text document out of an html document? Something along the lines of what you would get with a lynx -dump, but in Python. I have lxml installed, so I can roll my own if I need to. However, this seemed like the sort of

Re: guessing file type

2009-07-17 Thread VanL
Seldon wrote: Hello, I need to determine programmatically a file type from its content/extension (much like the file UNIX command line utility) I searched for a suitable Python library module, with little luck. Do you know something useful ? Python-magic

Re: Searching for pyvm

2009-05-27 Thread VanL
Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: I'm looking for the sources to pyvm, a python virtual machine implementation which can run Python 2.4 bytecode. The tarball for pyvm returns a 404, but you can still get the code to pyvm by getting archive.org's copy:

Re: 2.6, 3.0, and truly independent intepreters

2008-10-30 Thread VanL
Jesse Noller wrote: Even luminaries such as Brian Goetz and many, many others have pointed out that threading, as it exists today is fundamentally difficult to get right. Ergo the renaissance (read: echo chamber) towards Erlang-style concurrency. I think this is slightly missing what Andy is

Re: Billing system written in python

2008-04-24 Thread VanL
AC Perdon wrote: I was thinking of using django but Im more looking in to a ready made billing system that I will just do some tweaking and fine tunning to meet our need. like jbilling. Look at Fivedash (fivedash.com), it may be what you need. --

Re: Pycon disappointment

2008-03-17 Thread VanL
Bruce, I can't speak to your issues with the normal sessions, but your bad experience with the lightning talks was my fault. And, in apologizing to you, I hope that all the others on this thread who have expressed similar sentiments hear me too. Ultimately, we miscalculated in certain

Re: Is there any python lib for NAT transversal?

2008-02-22 Thread VanL
Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: Divmod Vertex is such a library (it does a few other things as well), but it is not nearly complete and has little documentation. Can you comment on the differences and similarities between Q2Q and Jingle? They appear to be targeting similar problems. Thanks, Van

Re: [PyCON-Organizers] Next PyCon Organizers' Meeting Tuesday, 11 September

2007-09-11 Thread VanL
Laura Creighton wrote: Does this mean that if you do not have a google account, and do not want one, there is no way to join the meeting? No. Any jabber/xmpp account will do fine. Google is just the highest-profile provider of jabber accounts. There is a list of other account providers on

Trying to find zip codes/rest example

2007-08-03 Thread VanL
discussion. Does anybody remember this demo and where I might be able to find it? Thanks, VanL -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Trying to find zip codes/rest example

2007-08-03 Thread VanL
Terry Reedy wrote: No, but does the localflavor entry on http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/docs/add_ons.txt?rev=5118 help? (found with Google) Thanks, but no. A friend asked for advice about implementing a password-checking interface; I remembered that the method described

Intellectual Property Talk at PyCon

2007-01-11 Thread VanL
I will be presenting a talk at PyCon, The Absolute Minimum an Open Source Developer Needs to Know About Intellectual Property. I want to tailor this talk so that it is interesting to as many attendees as possible. I am familiar with a lot of the internal divisions in the Free Software/Open

Re: Intellectual Property Talk at PyCon

2007-01-11 Thread VanL
Robert Kern wrote: I don't have any suggestions for other material to cover, but I'd like to express my interest in keeping this in your agenda. This is an issue that crops up again and again with ill-informed opinions all around. Thanks for the feedback. +1 for discussing GPL

Tuple Question

2004-12-21 Thread VanL
Hello, Why is this? class MyTuple(tuple): ... def __getitem__(self, name): ... return tuple.__getitem__(self, name) ... data = (1,2,3,4,5) t = MyTuple(data) t[0] Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in ? File stdin, line 3, in __getitem__ TypeError: descriptor