Re: [python-uk] Python events upcoming in the south/southeast

2009-05-08 Thread Nicholas Tollervey
On 8 May 2009, at 15:09, Andy Robinson wrote: 2009/5/8 Alec Muffett : I am eagerly waiting for a DJUGL or similar event down in my area The people who attend these things are probably going to be in detox for a while after this week's EuroDjangoCon in Prague - I dread to think how much beer w

Re: [python-uk] Python events upcoming in the south/southeast

2009-05-08 Thread Andy Robinson
2009/5/8 Alec Muffett : > I am eagerly > waiting for a DJUGL or similar event down in my area The people who attend these things are probably going to be in detox for a while after this week's EuroDjangoCon in Prague - I dread to think how much beer went down there In fact if you can catch a

[python-uk] Python events upcoming in the south/southeast

2009-05-08 Thread Alec Muffett
Hi, welcome to Python. Be aware that this list (python-uk) is very low volume, and tends to be used for announcements of UK Python meetups, conferences, jobs and the like. Nothing wrong with posting technical questions here, but you might be better off on the main Python list: http://mail.python

Re: [python-uk] Python project layout?

2009-05-08 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hi, On May/08/2009, Tim Golden wrote: > Alec Muffett wrote: >> Hi folks, > > Hi, welcome to Python. Be aware that this list (python-uk) > is very low volume, and tends to be used for announcements > of UK Python meetups, conferences, jobs and the like. Nothing How often is there a Python meetup

Re: [python-uk] Python project layout?

2009-05-08 Thread Thomas Morton
Further to Tim's reply about project layout. One of the tennats of Python is that it is a choice language. If you want to put modules in a single file then do so. If it fits better in a directory then that's fine too. Both work well and neither approach will make you a leper to other Python devs.

Re: [python-uk] Python project layout?

2009-05-08 Thread Ross Lawley
Hello Alec, Welcome, sounds like you've got some good reading, as Alec says __init__.py are core for packages and therefore namespacing - so read up on that. Other than that the best advice I can give is get coding - I often find doing a little project is a great way to focus my learning in a new

Re: [python-uk] Python project layout?

2009-05-08 Thread Tim Golden
Alec Muffett wrote: Hi folks, Hi, welcome to Python. Be aware that this list (python-uk) is very low volume, and tends to be used for announcements of UK Python meetups, conferences, jobs and the like. Nothing wrong with posting technical questions here, but you might be better off on the main

[python-uk] Python project layout?

2009-05-08 Thread Alec Muffett
Hi folks, I'm a old fart^H^H^H^H Perl hacker converting to Python, and am starting out on my first Python project. I'm currently inhaling "Dive into Python" and the "Python Cookbook", and am lining up the Django book as my next read. So far I've read heaps of syntax and code, and writte

Re: [python-uk] python-uk Digest, Vol 69, Issue 1

2009-05-08 Thread Andy Robinson
2009/5/7 Shaun Laughey : > Hi Andy didn't you start a while ago? We've dabbled and done a private port of the open source toolkit using 2-to-3, which sort of works except that PIL is not yet available for 3.0 and that's a major issue for many users. We also build a ton of solutions on Django. S