Re: Open Source: you're doing it wrong - the Pyjamas hijack

2012-05-14 Thread james hedley
i have not banned anything, or even alluded to it, whatsoever. i asked that one specific mail not be commented upon OK, sorry if I misunderstood, but that's still suppression in my book. reading your accounts strewn about is interesting, what exactly are *your* motives? My motives are

Re: Extracting DB schema (newbie Q)

2012-05-14 Thread james hedley
On Monday, 14 May 2012 17:01:49 UTC+1, Steve Sawyer wrote: Brand-new to Python (that's a warning, folks) Trying to write a routine to import a CSV file into a SQL Server table. To ensure that I convert the data from the CSV appropriately, Im executing a query that gives me the schema (data

Re: Need to get Tags and Values from Dom

2012-05-14 Thread james hedley
On Monday, 14 May 2012 01:50:23 UTC+1, TommyVee wrote: I have a very simple XML document that I need to walk, and I'm using xml.dom.minidom. No attributes, just lots of nested tags and associated values. All I'm looking to do is iterate through each of the highest sibling nodes, check

Re: which book?

2012-05-09 Thread james hedley
On Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:16:01 UTC+1, d.p...@gmail.com wrote: folks hi, I am going to learn python for some plot issues. which book or sources, do you recommend please? Cheers, Dave I started with Dive Into Python. It's getting old now but for me it really catches the spirit of Python

Re: Open Source: you're doing it wrong - the Pyjamas hijack

2012-05-08 Thread james hedley
Agreed with pretty much all of that. It's third-world politics, lurching from one dictator to another. Risinger seems to have banned all discussion of the subject from the list too, I'm not posting anymore because I don't want to give him an excuse to wield his newly found banhammer. But yeah,

Re: How do I run a python program from an internet address?

2012-05-08 Thread james hedley
What would be the best way to figure out how to do this? I looked at Google app engine tutorial, but can't figure out how that will help we get the code into the cloud so I can access it from any browser. GAE is quite a good option, since it includes free hosting. You should be able to get

Re: pyjamas / pyjs

2012-05-04 Thread james hedley
On Thursday, 3 May 2012 12:52:36 UTC+1, alex23 wrote: Anyone else following the apparent hijack of the pyjs project from its lead developer? Yes, me. The guy now in control got the owner of the domain name to turn it over to him, which is probably ok legally, but he had no public mandate or

Re: pyjamas / pyjs

2012-05-04 Thread james hedley
By the way, there's a lot more to say on this, which I'll cover another time. There are arguments for and against what's happened; at this stage I'm just trying to flag up that there is *not* unanimity and we are not just carrying on as normal. --