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Core Python books : http://CorePython.com
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Python training consulting : http://CyberwebConsulting.com
Core Python books : http://CorePython.com
Python
to me directly with any questions and
let other folks know who may be interested.
best regards,
--wesley
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:07 PM, wesley chun wes...@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings!
I'll be doing another hardcore Python course this summer in the San
Francisco area. If you're somewhat new
to meet some of you soon!
--Wesley Chun
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Python training consulting : http://CyberwebConsulting.com
Core Python books
fwiw, i've given a related talk a couple of times on this subject, the
most recent of which was at EuroPython this summer:
http://ep2011.europython.eu/conference/talks/writing-books-using-python-open-source-software
the content includes a couple of the tools mentioned in this thread as
well as
in recent news...
Python wins LinuxJournal's Readers' Choice Awards 2011 as Best
Programming Language:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/slideshow/readers-choice-2011?page=27
yee-haw!! it's even more amazing that Python has won this title 3
straight years. let's celebrate and get back to building
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From: wesley chun wes...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:32 PM
Subject: ANN: Intro+Intermediate Python course, SF, Oct 18-20
Need to get up-to-speed with Python as quickly
Need to get up-to-speed with Python as quickly and as in-depth as
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wesley chun wes...@gmail.com added the comment:
i wanted to add one additional comment that it would be nice to have a
regex that works with search() (in addition to match()) because such
an email address may appear in the middle of a line, say a From: or
To: email header.
the fix of using
New submission from wesley chun wes...@gmail.com:
In the re docs, it states the following for the conditional regular expression
syntax:
(?(id/name)yes-pattern|no-pattern)
Will try to match with yes-pattern if the group with given id or name exists,
and with no-pattern if it doesn’t
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who are
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who are
On Sep 30, 4:58 am, lallous lall...@lgwm.org wrote:
Can anyone suggest a good book Python book for advancing from beginner level?
(I started with Learning Python 3rd ed)
From: James Matthews nyt...ail.com
Date: Wed Sep 30 18:47:58 CEST 2009
I like core python programming and dive into
-on labs will help hammer the concepts home.
Come join me, Wesley Chun, author of Prentice-Hall's bestseller Core
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WHERE: near
-on labs will help hammer the concepts home.
Come join me, Wesley Chun, author of Prentice-Hall's bestseller Core
Python Programming, for a comprehensive course coming up this Fall in
beautiful Northern California to get up-to-speed with Python as
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WHERE: near
On Jul 7, 1:04 pm, kj no.em...@please.post wrote:
I'm having a hard time coming up with a reasonable way to explain
certain things to programming novices.
:
How do I explain to rank beginners (no programming experience at
all) why x and y remain unchanged above, but not z?
:
What do
!
cheers,
-wesley
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Programming, for a comprehensive intro course coming up this June
!
cheers,
-wesley
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:45 PM, wesley chun wes...@gmail.com wrote:
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Programming, for a comprehensive intro course coming up this June
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Programming, for a comprehensive intro course coming up this June in
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you think may
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you think may
when i call a method foo from another method func. can i access func context
variables or locals() from foo
so
def func():
i=10
foo()
in foo, can i access func's local variables
A. python has statically-nested scoping, so you can do it as long as you:
1. define foo() as an inner
--
From: wesley chun [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:21 AM
Subject: [ANN] final 2008 Python courses, San Francisco
To: python-list@python.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need to get up-to-speed with Python as quickly as possible? Come join
me, Wesley Chun, author of Prentice-Hall's bestseller Core
Need to get up-to-speed with Python as quickly as possible? Come join
me, Wesley Chun, author of Prentice-Hall's bestseller Core Python
Programming, for another comprehensive intro course plus a 1-day
Internet programming course coming up in November in beautiful
Northern California! I look
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Internet programming course coming up in November in beautiful
Northern California! I look
have you guys seen this on Slashdot yet? (i did a quick search in the
archives and haven't seen any posts yet so hopefully this isn't a
duplicate msg!)
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/08/06/16/1855209.shtml
this video is a visualization of the commits to the source base (and
made by
*** my apologies... this training course is next month, not this Fall! ***
contact me privately off-list for further details. thanks!
FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT
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me, Wesley Chun, author of Prentice-Hall's well-received Core Python
Programming, for another comprehensive intro course next month in
beautiful Northern California! I look forward to meeting you
You're mixing two completely different approaches of building a
property. If that code is actually in the book like that, that's a typo
that you should mention to the author.
:
The recipe you're referring to uses a magical function that returns a
dictionary of getter function,
http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/03/18/1633229.shtml
it was surprising and disappointing that Python was not mentioned
*anywhere* in that article but when someone replied, it sparked a long
thread of post-discussion.
-- wesley
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Core Python
6-11 Conversion.
(a) Create a program that will convert from an integer to an
Internet Protocol (IP) address in the four-octet format of WWW.XXX.YYY.ZZZ
(b) Update your program to be able to do the vice verse of the above.
I think it's is asking to convert a 32-bit int to the dotted
Folks, I'd like to announce my final Python courses for 2007:
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$1295/pp for the intro course and $495/ for the 1-day course (but $395
if you take the intro course too).
http://cyberwebconsulting.com (click Python Training) for more details
-wesley
On 8/23/07, Jeff Pang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sounds good.How about the costs for those lessons?thanks.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 23 Mar 2007 06:20:15 -0700
Core Python Programming is mostly theory and very little code. It's
good for reference and digging deeper into the language...
let me clarify here that mike's statement refers to the total number
of large applications in the book.
I'll be giving a variety of Python courses this Spring. Daytime
courses are for visitors and locals who need Python training in the
shortest amount of time possible via consecutive workdays. Python is
certainly gaining momentum as our February course filled up
completely! Although I had planned
I'll be giving a variety of Python courses this Spring. Daytime
courses are for visitors and locals who need Python training in the
shortest amount of time possible via consecutive workdays. Python is
certainly gaining momentum as our February course filled up
completely! Although I had planned
On Mar 20, 8:33 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mar 20, 1:56 am, Tina I [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to screen scrape some stock data from yahoo, so I am
trying to use urllib2 to retrieve the html and beautiful soup for the
parsing.
You can do this fairly easily. I found a
On Mar 8, 7:06 pm, Tommy Nordgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could some kind soul please recommend a few textbooks on Python 2.5
and it's class library?
it's not necessary to have a 2.5 book that can introduce you to the
modules of the Python Standard Library (not all modules are [or have]
Robert Hicks wrote:
I would get Core Python Programming by Wesley Chun. It covers just
about everything under the sun and includes version 2.5.
Robert, thanks for the plug. if the OP wants to learn more about my
book and its philosophy, feel free to check out my comments on the
Amazon product
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What: (Intensive) Intro to Python
When: February 7-9, 2007
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Need to get up-to-speed with Python as quickly as possible? Come join
FINAL REMINDER... we still have some seats left!
What: (Intensive) Intro to Python
When: February 7-9, 2007
Where: San Francisco (SFO/San Bruno), CA, USA
Web:http://cyberwebconsulting.com (click Python Training link)
Need to get up-to-speed with Python as quickly as possible? Come join
apologies to all... this is the Intro course, not Advanced as the orig
subject line stated, and it takes place Feb 7-9, 2007.
On 1/12/07, wesley chun wescpy at gmail.com wrote:
FINAL REMINDER... we still have some seats left!
What: (Intensive) Intro to Python
When: February 7-9, 2007
(mostly off-topic)
vertu makes a $310,000US cell phone which has rubies on it. i thought
it was quite interesting that they have a cheaper phone ($115,000)
called Python which *doesn't* have rubies:
http://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/biz2/cellphone
better order yours now since only 26 will be
reminder that we have a lite meeting this thursday evening at
Google. it is a meet-n-greet event, almost a long random access
session where folks introduce themselves, mingle/network, discuss
common interests, and get to know one another in the community. we may
discuss any number of current
has anybody got any experience opening and manilpulating excel
spreedsheets via python? it seems pythoncom allows this to happen
i posted a couple of snippets along with others in this earlier thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/a7ed60067ca5a8d4
the
the silicon valley-san francisco bay area python users group meets at
the Googleplex once a month in mountain view, CA.
more info and directions available at http://baypiggies.net
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From: Dennis Reinhardt
Date: Nov 2, 2006 9:03 PM
To: Python [EMAIL
(warning: LONG reply)
thanks to those above for the kind remarks. tackling comments
and questions, not quite in chronological order. :-)
Who would you say the book is aimed at? Advanced programmers?
this book is targeted towards technical professionals already
literate in another high-level
From: Tom Plunket
Date: Tues, Oct 17 2006 6:34 pm
You've got a lot of sleep calls in there- did you find that things
behaved erratically without them? I haven't done any Office
automation with Python, but my DevStudio stuff has always worked a
treat without the sleep calls.
sorry, i
Final REMINDER:
Tonight, the Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay Area Python users group
meets at Google in Mountain View from 7:30-9p.
the featured speaker is Alex Martelli, author of O'Reilly's Python in
a Nutshell and editor of the Python Cookbook(s). the topic is Python
2.5.
for more info and
Final REMINDER:
Tonight, the Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay Area Python users group
meets at Google in Mountain View from 7:30-9p.
the featured speaker is Alex Martelli, author of O'Reilly's Python in
a Nutshell and editor of the Python Cookbook(s). the topic is Python
2.5.
for more info and
in beautiful Northern California for another rigorous
Python training event taught by software engineer, Core Python
Programming author, and technical instructor, Wesley Chun. This
course will take place in San Bruno right near the San Francisco
International Airport at the:
Staybridge Suites
San
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tues, Oct 10 2006 2:08 pm
I'm a Python newbie, and I'm just getting to the wonders of COM
programming.
welcome to Python!! i too, have (recently) been interested in COM
programming, so much so that i added some material on Microsoft Office
(Win32 COM Client)
just a small OT question coming from a linux openoffice
system...
Does there exist something similar for powerpoint? Would be
nice, if anybody can direct me to more examples...
fabian,
see below for a PP example. you mentioned you were coming from a
linux OOo system... are you trying to
as fredrik and others have mentioned, '%%' in a format string gives
you the single '%' in the string as desired.
however, in your specific application (database), it's best to avoid
using Python's string formatting unless that is the default provided
by your database adapter for the reasons that
Following a discussion with an associate at work about various ways to
build strings from variables in python, I'd like to hear your opinions
and preferred methods.
from the performance standpoint, i believe that #4 (list join) from
scott is the fastest. #1 (string formatting) is next preferred
as others have said, that project provides a working interface to OOo
(OpenOffice 2 on Ubuntu Breezy and Dapper). i've made several posts
to this regard over the summer here on CLP. i was mostly using it to
mess around with documents in StarWriter.
cheers,
-- wesley
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From: OKB (not okblacke) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 04:04:02 GMT
- at yahoo, we developed yahoo!mail in python (and some C++)
- at synarc, i wrote software for doctors in python (and some C)
- at ironport, most everything is in python (and some C, PyRex)
This is
From: Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, Sep 23 2006 12:03 pm
i cover through 2.5, but also include stuff that have
already been slated for 2.6 and 2.7.
and what would that be? target versions in the PEP:s are usually just
wild guesses...
true, and it's obviously a *bad* idea to
since 1997, i've been pretty much working full-time in Python:
- at yahoo, we developed yahoo!mail in python (and some C++)
- at synarc, i wrote software for doctors in python (and some C)
- at ironport, most everything is in python (and some C, PyRex). we
have a million lines in python
as a side note, the ints that are cached (for current versions of
Python) are in range(-1, 100)... is this documented somewhere? i know
it's subject to change. and as already mentioned, you probably
wouldn't use is this way in real code... i know you are just
reinforcing your learning of the
Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
as a side note, the ints that are cached (for current versions of
Python) are in range(-1, 100)... is this documented somewhere?
Not true for at least 2.4 and 2.5. The cached range has expanded
oops, apologies to all... it really *is* subject to change.
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
crystalattice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Sebastian Bassi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thurs, Aug 31 2006 7:51 am
Subject: Re: Timeline for Python?
Groups: comp.lang.python
I am working on a Python book, since it could be completed in about a
year (writing
From: Rrajal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, Sep 18 2006 9:50 am
Subject: Re: Help
Groups: comp.lang.python
Hi there, I am new in this subject so could you please tell
me from where I can get help (or good e-book) of python?
do you have some kind of programming background? if so,
good intro
in parallel to Mark's week-long Python seminar (Nov 6-10), we are
offering an alternative session focusing only on advanced topics. it is
3-days long (Nov 8-10) and will be held in San Francisco.
course description:
http://roadkill.com/~wesc/cyberweb/pp2dsc.html
general information:
in parallel to Mark's week-long Python seminar (Nov 6-10), we are
offering an alternative session focusing only on advanced topics. it is
3-days long (Nov 8-10) and will be held in San Francisco.
course description:
http://roadkill.com/~wesc/cyberweb/pp2dsc.html
general information:
attendees who saw the rough draft last week at
the convention bookstore.
hope this helps!
-wesley
From: John Salerno [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tues, Aug 1 2006 6:48 am
wesley chun wrote:
if you want a large case study (tons of
examples, i.e., everything *plus* the kitchen sink
gene tani wrote:
IOANNIS MANOLOUDIS wrote:
I want to learn python.
I plan to buy a book. I always find printed material more convenient than
reading on-line tutorials.
I don't know PERL or any other scripting language. I only know some BASH
programming. I am looking for a book which
-to-speed with Python as quickly as possible? Come join
us in beautiful Northern California the week before Labor Day. We are
proud to announce another rigorous Python training event taught by
software engineer and Core Python Programming author, Wesley Chun.
This is an intense introduction
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