Re: What was the project that made you feel skilled in Python?

2013-05-23 Thread Ben Finney
Chris Angelico writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > This resulted in a library for rolling dice in different > > combinations, and looking up result tables > > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/alea>. > > Fun fun! Of course, when I hear "rolling dice in different > combinations", my mind immediately turns

Re: What was the project that made you feel skilled in Python?

2013-05-22 Thread Terry Jan Reedy
On 5/22/2013 9:05 AM, Ben Finney wrote: I wanted to simulate a particular board game, and had others in mind with some common mechanics. This resulted in a library for rolling dice in different combinations, and looking up result tables https://pypi.python.org/pypi/alea>. Have you cosidered a

Re: What was the project that made you feel skilled in Python?

2013-05-22 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > I wanted to simulate a particular board game, and had others in mind > with some common mechanics. > > This resulted in a library for rolling dice in different combinations, > and looking up result tables https://pypi.python.org/pypi/alea>. Fu

Re: What was the project that made you feel skilled in Python?

2013-05-22 Thread Ben Finney
Ned Batchelder writes: > as you moved from exercises like those in Learn Python the Hard Way, > up to your own self-guided work on small projects, what project were > you working on that made you feel independent and skilled? What > program first felt like your own work rather than an exercise t

Re: What was the project that made you feel skilled in Python?

2013-05-20 Thread Terry Jan Reedy
On 5/20/2013 3:36 PM, Thomas Murphy wrote: talking about "patches" in the stdlib? Is there a separate library of patches? http://bugs.python.org http://docs.python.org/devguide/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What was the project that made you feel skilled in Python?

2013-05-20 Thread Thomas Murphy
Hi Demian, Can I ask what you mean by working through the stdlib? As in writing code pieces utilizing each module from the stdlib? Also, you're talking about "patches" in the stdlib? Is there a separate library of patches? Forgive me if I'm google-failing hard over here. -- http://mail.python.org

Re: What was the project that made you feel skilled in Python?

2013-05-20 Thread Demian Brecht
TBH, I think that the first thing that I did that made me feel that I could hold my own was when I had my first (and only thus far) patch accepted into the stdlib. To me, there's a /big/ difference between throwing together a package that a few people may find useful and putting a patch together th

Re: What was the project that made you feel skilled in Python?

2013-05-19 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Ned Batchelder wrote: > So here's a question for people who remember coming up from beginner: as > you moved from exercises like those in Learn Python the Hard Way, up to > your own self-guided work on small projects, what project were you > working on that made you feel independ