Re: Question on Python as career

2009-12-11 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
> Tim Roberts wrote: >> There are very, very few full-time Python jobs anywhere in the world, >> although many people use Python as one tool in their toolbox. Not that few. Anyway, it's not a zero-sum game: you want to work with Python? Find a job where *you* introduce it. :-) Aahz wrote: > All

Re: Question on Python as career

2009-12-10 Thread Aahz
In article , Tim Roberts wrote: > >There are very, very few full-time Python jobs anywhere in the world, >although many people use Python as one tool in their toolbox. Depending on how you define "Python job", I disagree with you. All my employment in the last decade, including three different

Re: Question on Python as career

2009-12-08 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
joy99 a écrit : (snip) I was thinking if I need to know Django,any good RDBMS(I know only MS- Access) Any job in IT will (well... "should") indeed require a decent knowledge of the relational thery / algebra, relational database design (normal forms etc), SQL, and working knowledge with at l

Re: Question on Python as career

2009-12-05 Thread r0g
TimmyGee wrote: > On Dec 4, 1:08 pm, r0g wrote: >> TimmyGee wrote: >>> On Dec 4, 2:48 am, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-12-03, r0g wrote: >>> I have done one MA in Linguistics, did a PhD in Natural >>> Language Processing and doing a Post Doctoral now. ... >>> After I complete my

Re: Question on Python as career

2009-12-04 Thread joy99
On Dec 4, 6:53 pm, Michele Simionato wrote: > After 5 years of postdoc in Physics I decided to changecareerand to > move to IT. I decided to learn Object Oriented Programming first. I > chosePythonsince it was already installed on my Linux machine and it > was easy to tackle for a beginner. In the

Re: Question on Python as career

2009-12-04 Thread Michele Simionato
After 5 years of postdoc in Physics I decided to change career and to move to IT. I decided to learn Object Oriented Programming first. I chose Python since it was already installed on my Linux machine and it was easy to tackle for a beginner. In the process of learning Python I began posting to th

Re: Question on Python as career

2009-12-03 Thread John Bokma
TimmyGee writes: > On Dec 4, 1:08 pm, r0g wrote: >> TimmyGee wrote: >> > On Dec 4, 2:48 am, Grant Edwards wrote: [..] >> >www.rentacoder.com? >> >> Euwww, that's not an experience I'd recommend! >> >> Roger. > > Really? I was considering giving it a go one of these days. Not a good > idea? I

Re: Question on Python as career

2009-12-03 Thread TimmyGee
On Dec 4, 1:08 pm, r0g wrote: > TimmyGee wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2:48 am, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2009-12-03, r0g wrote: > > > I have done one MA in Linguistics, did a PhD in Natural > > Language Processing and doing a Post Doctoral now. ... > > After I complete my Post Doctoral wh

Re: Question on Python as career

2009-12-03 Thread r0g
TimmyGee wrote: > On Dec 4, 2:48 am, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2009-12-03, r0g wrote: >> > I have done one MA in Linguistics, did a PhD in Natural > Language Processing and doing a Post Doctoral now. ... > After I complete my Post Doctoral which may be only 2-3 months > away, wit

Re: Question on Python as career

2009-12-03 Thread TimmyGee
On Dec 4, 2:48 am, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-12-03, r0g wrote: > > >>> I have done one MA in Linguistics, did a PhD in Natural > >>> Language Processing and doing a Post Doctoral now. ... > > >>> After I complete my Post Doctoral which may be only 2-3 months > >>> away, with this knowledge c

Re: Question on Python as career

2009-12-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-12-03, r0g wrote: >>> I have done one MA in Linguistics, did a PhD in Natural >>> Language Processing and doing a Post Doctoral now. ... >>> >>> After I complete my Post Doctoral which may be only 2-3 months >>> away, with this knowledge can I join IT? > Getting involved in an open sourc

Re: Question on Python as career

2009-12-03 Thread r0g
Tim Roberts wrote: > joy99 wrote: >> I am a researcher in India's one of the premier institutes.(Indian >> Institute of Science,Bangalore). >> >> I have done one MA in Linguistics, did a PhD in Natural Language >> Processing and doing a Post Doctoral now. >> ... >> After I complete my Post Doctora

Re: Question on Python as career

2009-12-03 Thread Tim Roberts
joy99 wrote: > >I am a researcher in India's one of the premier institutes.(Indian >Institute of Science,Bangalore). > >I have done one MA in Linguistics, did a PhD in Natural Language >Processing and doing a Post Doctoral now. >... >After I complete my Post Doctoral which may be only 2-3 months a

Re: Question on Python as career

2009-12-03 Thread joy99
On Dec 3, 11:16 am, Tim Roberts wrote: > joy99 wrote: > > >I am a researcher in India's one of the premier institutes.(Indian > >Institute of Science,Bangalore). > > >I have done one MA in Linguistics, did a PhD in Natural Language > >Processing and doing a Post Doctoral now. > >... > >After I co

Re: Question on Python as career

2009-12-02 Thread Roy Smith
joy99 wrote: > Dear Group, > > I am a researcher in India's one of the premier institutes.(Indian > Institute of Science,Bangalore). > [...] > I have developed them either in Python2.5 and Python2.6. > > After I complete my Post Doctoral which may be only 2-3 months away, > with this knowledge

Re: Question on Python as career

2009-12-01 Thread joy99
On Dec 2, 2:11 am, Phlip wrote: > joy99 wrote: > > I have developed the following toolkits: > > (i) A web based crawler; > > (ii) A Bayesian classifier; > > (iii) One NER engine; > > (iv) One XML parser; > > (v) One PoS Tagger; > > (vi) One Parser based on CRF; > > (vii) One MLE training system; >

Re: Question on Python as career

2009-12-01 Thread Phlip
joy99 wrote: I have developed the following toolkits: (i) A web based crawler; (ii) A Bayesian classifier; (iii) One NER engine; (iv) One XML parser; (v) One PoS Tagger; (vi) One Parser based on CRF; (vii) One MLE training system; (viii) One Spell Checker; (ix) One Transliteration System; I hav

Question on Python as career

2009-12-01 Thread joy99
Dear Group, I am a researcher in India's one of the premier institutes.(Indian Institute of Science,Bangalore). I have done one MA in Linguistics, did a PhD in Natural Language Processing and doing a Post Doctoral now. Earlier I knew C/C++ and presently work on Python on WinXP. I use IDLE to as g