[python-uk] London Python (remote) Dojo - Thursday 7th May, 7pm

2020-04-30 Thread Daniel Pope
The London Python Dojo is back next week - remotely! Join us next Thursday, 7th May, from 7pm for an evening of pizza, beer and hacking (pizza and beer not included, but feel free to bring your own). Of course, given that we’re remote, you don’t have to be London-based to participate. We’ll be us

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2018-09-29 Thread Daniel Pope
Hi all, Pyweek 26 is running from 21st to 27th October: https://pyweek.org/26/ Pyweek is an online Python-only game jam. You have a week to write a game "from scratch" in Python, using Pygame, Pyglet or any other technology you like. Theme voting starts on the 14th October with five themes to th

[python-uk] Pyweek Game Jam in April

2018-03-25 Thread Daniel Pope
The next Pyweek will run from 00:00 UTC on Sunday 15th April to 00:00 UTC on Sunday 22nd April. It's an online games programming competition, where you have to write a game from scratch in a week. The full rules are at https://pyweek.org/s/rules/. We usually have a few UK entrants. I've entered a

Re: [python-uk] Burning desire to watch cataract surgery?

2017-10-16 Thread Daniel Pope
I'm in tears! On Mon, 16 Oct 2017, 10:52 Steve Holden, wrote: > You people are clearly very sharp. S > > Steve Holden > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Nathan Jeffrey > wrote: > >> I roil at eye rolls for eye roles. >> >> - N >> >> On 13 Oct 2017 20:25, "S Walker" wrote: >> >>> Is it appro

[python-uk] Pyweek 24 is next week

2017-10-09 Thread Daniel Pope
Next week will be Pyweek 24! Pyweek is a week-long games programming contest, which has been running since 2005 [1]. Entrants create a game in Python in exactly one week, on a theme chosen by vote, and which will be rated by other entrants on criteria of fun, production, and innovation. Theme voti

Re: [python-uk] A stack with better performance than using a list

2017-06-11 Thread Daniel Pope
I was able to get about a 20% speed up over Steve's solution, on some benchmark data I created, by: * converting LOAD_GLOBAL to LOAD_FAST for __builtins__ * eliminating the conditional in each loop in favour of a conditional on pop only * eliminating string comparison for the operation in favour o

[python-uk] PyWeek is next week, 19th-26th February

2017-02-13 Thread Daniel Pope
Hello all, PyWeek, the Python games programming contest, is coming up next week. https://pyweek.org/23/ Many of you will have heard me bang on about PyWeek quite a lot over the years - if so, sorry! It's a games programming contest where you are challenged to write a game from scratch, in a week

Re: [python-uk] Announcing the Yorkshire Inquisition

2016-12-07 Thread Daniel Pope
ed, Dec 7, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Daniel Pope wrote: > > Idle thought: can the code of conduct be violated by accurately quoting > Time Person-of-the-Year Donald Trump? > > > On Wed, 7 Dec 2016, 13:21 Andy Robinson, wrote: > > I believe I am one of the original founding list adm

Re: [python-uk] Announcing the Yorkshire Inquisition

2016-12-07 Thread Daniel Pope
Idle thought: can the code of conduct be violated by accurately quoting Time Person-of-the-Year Donald Trump? On Wed, 7 Dec 2016, 13:21 Andy Robinson, wrote: > I believe I am one of the original founding list admins, after 20-odd > years. Sadly, the other, John Pinner, has passed away. > > I th

[python-uk] London Python Dojo - 6th October

2016-09-29 Thread Daniel Pope
The next London Python dojo will be on the 6th of October, courtesy of GoCardless - 3rd floor, 338-346 Goswell Road, London, EC1V 7LQ. The office is wheelchair accessible and will be serving Basilico pizza and beer. Arrive from 6:30pm for our usual mix of pizza and beer and socialising and hacking

Re: [python-uk] job postings to this list

2016-09-02 Thread Daniel Pope
Just a reminder that the python.org jobs board and pythonjobs.github.io are available if you want to post job opportunities. On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 09:10 Nicholas H.Tollervey, wrote: > On 01/09/16 22:49, Chris Withers wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > What's the current state of play with job ads and this

[python-uk] London Python Code Dojo, 7th April

2016-03-31 Thread Daniel Pope
Pyladies and Pygentlemen and py-non-binary-gendered-persons! The next London Python Dojo will be next Thursday evening, 7th April. This time the event will be hosted by Essence Digital at 180 Oxford Street, W1D 1NN. We'll have the usual geek tropes of beer (optional) and pizza (recommended), and

Re: [python-uk] Pyweek runs Feb-Mar: London team?

2016-02-08 Thread Daniel Pope
Thanks, everyone. Any other takers? Team, let's take this chat off-list. On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 07:58 Nick Sarbicki wrote: > Looks awesome! I'll get involved if I have any time that week :-). > > On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, 01:16 Daniel Pope wrote: > >> The 21st Pyweek competi

[python-uk] Pyweek runs Feb-Mar: London team?

2016-02-04 Thread Daniel Pope
The 21st Pyweek competition is coming up at the end of the month, running from 00:00 UTC on 28th February to 00:00 UTC 6th March. Pyweek is a games programming contest in which you must write a game in Python, from scratch, in exactly one week. Games must be written around a theme that is up for vo

[python-uk] July London Python Dojo tickets available

2015-06-26 Thread Daniel Pope
The next London Python Dojo will be at 6:30pm on Thursday 2nd July at the offices of Mind Candy in Shoreditch. Join us for a night of beer, pizza and Python-ing, in the company of friends. For details and to sign up for a free ticket, please visit the link below: https://ldnpydojo.eventwax.com/l

Re: [python-uk] hexagonal Django

2014-08-13 Thread Daniel Pope
Coincidentally, I blogged on the topic of Django project organisation at the weekend. http://mauveweb.co.uk/posts/2014/08/organising-django-projects.html May be of interest? ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman

[python-uk] London Python Dojo TOMORROW (6th March)

2014-03-05 Thread Daniel Pope
Hi all, There are still a few tickets available for tomorrow's London Python Dojo, if anyone is interested. https://ldnpydojo.eventwax.com/london-python-code-dojo-season-5-episode-7 Dan ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.pytho

Re: [python-uk] London Python Dojo March

2014-02-27 Thread Daniel Pope
> On 27/02/14 12:34, Jon Ribbens wrote: > > Will you be posting further messages when more tickets are added? No! Persistence and patience will be rewarded, instead of speed out of the gate. Dan ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://ma

[python-uk] London Python Dojo March

2014-02-27 Thread Daniel Pope
Hi all, The next London Python Dojo will be on Thursday 6th March at Mind Candy in Shoreditch. We will have the usual mix of beer, pizza, socialising and coding silly things in Python. Full details and ticket sign up* is at https://ldnpydojo.eventwax.com/london-python-code-dojo-season-5-episode

Re: [python-uk] copyright info in source

2013-09-09 Thread Daniel Pope
Maybe you could omit license headers in your repo, but add them when building the sdist? On 9 September 2013 20:57, Jonathan Hartley wrote: > Thanks for all the input, people. > > FWIW, The folks downstream said their motivation was the continual > difficulty of automatically checking for accep

Re: [python-uk] copyright info in source

2013-09-09 Thread Daniel Pope
You don't have to include a notice of copyright to enjoy copyright protection (under the Berne Convention). Nothing is assumed to be public domain unless it is explicitly disclaimed as such. Since licence terms are based on copyright I don't think you need to state it everywhere. If someone fails

[python-uk] Steganography Code

2013-06-07 Thread Daniel Pope
Our team's code from last night's London Python Dojo (HTML Steganography) is on Bitbucket at https://bitbucket.org/akhare/html-steganography ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

Re: [python-uk] Suggestions / best practices for deployment

2013-05-20 Thread Daniel Pope
ssh and so on and then build up from there. The > basic principles behind testing a fabric deploy should be extendable to > other environments, I'd have thought? > > I must say, I'd love to see something about testing bash scripts, and, > perhaps, where to draw the line (if at

Re: [python-uk] Suggestions / best practices for deployment

2013-05-18 Thread Daniel Pope
I thoroughly disagree with those who are saying that for small installations, it's less time-consuming to do things manually. A deployment/provisioning system gives you reproducibility - an executable record of how to re-create a server configuration or re-run a deployment without missing anything.

Re: [python-uk] Maze Generator - Team 3

2013-05-07 Thread Daniel Pope
On 4 May 2013 11:13, Ciarán Mooney wrote: > Below is a link to my maze generator, using David's idea of procedural > generator (rather than the algorithm Dan described). > Seeing as everyone seems to still be hacking on this, I took a stab at implementing the algorithm I was suggesting in the do

Re: [python-uk] Maze Generator - Team 3

2013-05-04 Thread Daniel Pope
My 3D maze-drawing code is at https://bitbucket.org/lordmauve/ldnpydojo-s4e9 Integrating a maze just requires implementing itercells(). On 4 May 2013 11:13, Ciarán Mooney wrote: > To the members of team three and other dojo'ers, > > Below is a link to my maze generator, using David's idea of

[python-uk] Reading Python Dojo, next Tuesday, 26th February

2013-02-21 Thread Daniel Pope
The next Reading Python Dojo will be on Tuesday 26th February at 7pm, at Austin Fraser in Forbury Square, Reading. Please sign up for a free ticket at the link below if you would like to attend. https://rdgpydojo.eventwax.com/reading-python-dojo-february-2013 Dan

[python-uk] Reading Python Dojo, tomorrow (Tuesday 22nd January)

2013-01-21 Thread Daniel Pope
Hi all, Just a reminder that there are plenty of places still available for tomorrow's Python Dojo in Reading. If you'd like to brave the cold and the snow, the reward is beer and pizza, not to mention a couple of hours to program something cool in Python. If you would like to attend, please take

[python-uk] Next Reading Python Dojo, 22nd January 2013

2013-01-14 Thread Daniel Pope
The next Reading Python Dojo will be on Tuesday 22nd January at 7pm, at Austin Fraser in Forbury Square, Reading as usual. Please sign up for a free ticket at the link below if you would like to attend. https://rdgpydojo.eventwax.com/reading-python-dojo-january-2013 Our hosts Austin Fraser also

Re: [python-uk] hexagonal Django

2012-12-04 Thread Daniel Pope
I go a little way in this direction. I rarely go as far as dependency injection for business logic, but a good habit I picked up is to ensure that my business logic is put in appropriate places somewhere other than view functions, and all queries are kept with the models (ie. as Manager methods), a

[python-uk] Reading Python Dojo 20th November

2012-11-07 Thread Daniel Pope
The next Reading Python Dojo will be on Tuesday 20th November at 7pm at Austin Fraser in Forbury Square. As usual there will be beer and pizza, but there's also a slot for talks if anyone would like to give a talk. Please sign up for a free ticket at the link below if you would like to attend. ht

[python-uk] Reading Python Dojo, 25th September

2012-09-14 Thread Daniel Pope
The next Reading Python Dojo will be on Tuesday 25th September at 7pm at Austin Fraser in Forbury Square, with the usual mix of beer, pizza and coding. Please sign up for a free ticket at the link below if you would like to attend. https://rdgpydojo.eventwax.com/reading-python-dojo-september-2012

[python-uk] Reading Python Dojo

2012-07-23 Thread Daniel Pope
Hi, Just another little plug for this Wednesday's Python Dojo in Reading: https://rdgpydojo.eventwax.com/reading-python-dojo-number-7 Dan ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

[python-uk] Reading Python Dojo, 25th July

2012-07-12 Thread Daniel Pope
Hi all, The next Reading Python Dojo will be on Wednesday 25th July at 7pm at Austin Fraser in Forbury Square. Please sign up for a free ticket at the link below if you would like to attend. https://rdgpydojo.eventwax.com/reading-python-dojo-number-7 Dan

[python-uk] Reading Python Dojo - Wednesday 20th June

2012-06-12 Thread Daniel Pope
Hi all, The next Reading Python Dojo will be on Wednesday 20th June at 7pm at Austin Fraser in Forbury Square. Free beer and pizza will be available as usual. Please sign up for a free ticket at the link below if you would like to attend. https://rdgpydojo.eventwax.com/reading-python-dojo-number

Re: [python-uk] Reading Python Dojo

2012-04-30 Thread Daniel Pope
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 04:45:21PM +0100, Daniel Pope wrote: > The next Reading Python Dojo will be Tuesday 1st May at 7pm at Austin > Fraser in Forbury Square. Free beer and pizza will be available as > usual. > > Please sign up for free ticket on the EventWax site if you would li

[python-uk] Reading Python Dojo

2012-04-25 Thread Daniel Pope
Hi all, The next Reading Python Dojo will be Tuesday 1st May at 7pm at Austin Fraser in Forbury Square. Free beer and pizza will be available as usual. Please sign up for free ticket on the EventWax site if you would like to attend. https://rdgpydojo.eventwax.com/reading-python-dojo-number-5 ___

[python-uk] Reading Python Dojo Number 4

2012-03-08 Thread Daniel Pope
Hi all, The next Reading Python Dojo will be next Wednesday, 14th March, at 7pm at One Forbury Square. Free beer and pizza will be available as usual, courtesy of our sponsors and hosts Austin Fraser. Please sign up for free ticket on our EventWax site if you would like to attend. https://rdgpy

[python-uk] Python Dojo in Reading

2012-01-26 Thread Daniel Pope
Hi all, After a busy few weeks I've finally managed to get my act together and arrange the next Reading Python Dojo. It will be next Tuesday, 31st January, at 7pm at Austin Fraser in Forbury Square. Free beer and pizza will be available as usual. Please sign up for free ticket on our EventWax si

[python-uk] Python Dojo Reading, 7pm 16th November, One Forbury Square

2011-11-08 Thread Daniel Pope
Hello everyone. The next Reading Python Dojo will be at 7pm on Wednesday 16th November, at One Forbury Square, Reading, RG1 3BB. Before the coding starts, we will have a brief talk by Mal Minhas about his experiences trying to extract information from Excel files with Python. There is another ~

[python-uk] Python Dojo in Reading?

2011-10-04 Thread Daniel Pope
Hi all, A couple of months back I was searching to see if there was a Python Dojo in or near Reading. This led to a Google search that turned up little except articles extolling how easy Python code is to read. On the basis of this negligible research, and Nicholas' talk at Europython, I thought I

Re: [python-uk] Library for (undirected) graphs in Python?

2011-01-25 Thread Daniel Pope
On 24/01/11 22:29, Alex Willmer wrote: The only program I know for (un)directed graphs is Graphviz and associated DOT format. For which there a few hits: http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=search&term=graphviz You don't need a library to use graphviz. graphviz has a command-line interface tha