Re: [Python-authors] what should we do with this list?

2016-10-10 Thread Mike Driscoll
I'm working on finishing up a wxPython Cookbook that my blog readers have requested me to do for a number of years. That should be done and published sometime in November or early December. Then I'll be moving on to one on mobile applications, assuming I can figure that out in a timely manner. Mik

Re: [Python-authors] what should we do with this list?

2016-10-10 Thread Doug Hellmann
> On Oct 10, 2016, at 4:23 PM, Steve Holden wrote: > > Hi Doug, > > My experience is that there aren't a huge number of changes tot he standard > library (and no new modules yet). I don't think you will lose a lot of > audience with your decisions. Thanks for the confirmation, Steve! > > S

Re: [Python-authors] Python-authors Digest, Vol 31, Issue 4

2016-10-10 Thread Vasudev Ram
>Maybe another purpose of the list could be to come up with ideas. I've been >something of a fan of Seth Godin in the past, and particularly his suggestion >that it's best to give ideas away because anybody half-way creative has so >many they can never implement more than a tenth of them. Ha ha

Re: [Python-authors] Python-authors Digest, Vol 31, Issue 4

2016-10-10 Thread Steve Holden
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 8:27 PM, Chalmer Lowe wrote: > Actually kinda nice to see this mailing list spring to some sort of life. > > I have been weighing my options in terms of trying to author something > Python related, but the subject matter is escaping me. Every time I come > across a topic t

Re: [Python-authors] what should we do with this list?

2016-10-10 Thread Steve Holden
As far as not-writing work goes, I'm currently the CTO of a fintech startup, which has severely limited the time I've had for writing. If the company doesn't succeed there has to be a book in that! S Steve Holden On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Steve Holden wrote: > Hi Doug, > > My experience

Re: [Python-authors] what should we do with this list?

2016-10-10 Thread Steve Holden
Hi Doug, My experience is that there aren't a huge number of changes tot he standard library (and no new modules yet). I don't think you will lose a lot of audience with your decisions. S Steve Holden On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote: > > On Oct 10, 2016, at 12:19 PM, Stev

Re: [Python-authors] what should we do with this list?

2016-10-10 Thread Vasudev Ram
>> So, having tried to get the party started, what's everyone else working >> on? >> >> regards >> Steve >> >> Steve Holden I had a few book ideas and have been doing some writing of bits and pieces of them, to help me settle on one. Once done, will mention it here. -- Vasudev Ram - gumroad.com

Re: [Python-authors] Python-authors Digest, Vol 31, Issue 4

2016-10-10 Thread Doug Hellmann
appens - i.e. if there > > will be any activity on it and if it turns out to be useful to people. > > That still doesn't solve how new people will get to know of it, > > though. Maybe it could be mentioned somewhere on the Python Wiki, if > > that is not already done

Re: [Python-authors] Python-authors Digest, Vol 31, Issue 4

2016-10-10 Thread Chalmer Lowe
it be kept open, and just see if anything happens - i.e. if there > > will be any activity on it and if it turns out to be useful to people. > > That still doesn't solve how new people will get to know of it, > > though. Maybe it could be mentioned somewhere on the Python Wiki, if

Re: [Python-authors] what should we do with this list?

2016-10-10 Thread Naomi Ceder
I'm working on the third edition of The Quick Python Book, with Manning. This time around I'll be adding some comprehension check exercises, and stuff like that. Right now I don't expect to be done until Q1 of 2017, more because of various external stuff than anything in the book. Cheers, Naomi

Re: [Python-authors] what should we do with this list?

2016-10-10 Thread Doug Hellmann
> On Oct 10, 2016, at 12:19 PM, Steve Holden wrote: > > Maybe we could encouraging some swapping of war stories, under "frieNDA". > > I can mention that I have an authoring project on the go - with Alex Martelli > and Anna Ravenscroft I am working on the 3rd Edition of "Python in a > Nutshell

Re: [Python-authors] what should we do with this list?

2016-10-10 Thread Brian Jones
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Steve Holden wrote: > So, having tried to get the party started, what's everyone else working on? I'm working on defining clear goals in the writing space for myself. I'm scattered on multiple personal writing projects, in various stages of completion. One I tho

Re: [Python-authors] what should we do with this list?

2016-10-10 Thread Steve Holden
Maybe we could encouraging some swapping of war stories, under "frieNDA". I can mention that I have an authoring project on the go - with Alex Martelli and Anna Ravenscroft I am working on the 3rd Edition of "Python in a Nutshell." I spent this weekend taking the "What's New in Python 3.6" documen

Re: [Python-authors] what should we do with this list?

2016-10-10 Thread Vasudev Ram
Steve Holden wrote: >But if nobody has the time to perform the resultant tasks, the list would >probably be better fading away. What would be those resultant tasks? IIRC it's quite a while since I saw any emails from this list, so I don't remember what kinds of emails there may have been, earlie

Re: [Python-authors] what should we do with this list?

2016-10-10 Thread Mike Driscoll
I think the only question I've ever had has been workflow related. Being a self-published author, I sometimes struggle with how to create all the different formats effectively. I still haven't figured out a good way to streamline adding iBooks to my book formats for example. I have noticed that pu