[python-uk] London Dojo next Tuesday 19th

Hi folks, [I'm so happy people still read the ol' python-uk mailing list! :-D ] The London Code Dojo is back, at Octopus Energy next Tuesday 19th. We'll have pizza, drinks and some fun group coding. All abilities welcome. There'll also be the prize draw for a random O'

[python-uk] London Code Dojo - April

Hi folks, For April's London Code Dojo, we'll be at T. Rowe Price once more. We'll have pizza, drinks and some fun group coding. All abilities welcome. *6:30pm Wednesday 12th April 2023* Get your tickets while they're hot: https://www.m

[python-uk] London Code Dojo - October

Hi folks, For October's London Code Dojo, we'll be at T. Rowe Price again - since we had a great time there in May. We'll have pizza, drinks and some fun group coding. All abilities welcome. *6:30pm Thursday 6th October 2022* We're on m

Re: [python-uk] London Code Dojo - May

Still lots of spaces available for the London Python Dojo tomorrow at 6:30pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-python-code-dojo -season-12-episode-2-tickets-343729342717 On Thu, 19 May 2022 at 11:06, Tom Viner wrote: > Hi folks, > > We had a great in-person Dojo in March, afte

[python-uk] London Code Dojo - May

Hi folks, We had a great in-person Dojo in March, after 2 years off, where we implemented Wordle ! For May's London Code Dojo, we'll be at T. Rowe Price who are hosting for the fir

[python-uk] London Python Code Dojo next Thursday 9th

Good morning all and welcome to the new year, The London Python Code Dojo is back for 2020, next *Thursday, 9th Jan from 6:00pm.* https://go.bloomberg.com/attend/invite/python-dojo/ And this time we're kindly hosted at Bloomberg's epic European Headquarters building in the City. The address is:

[python-uk] London Python Code Dojo next Thursday

Hi all, > The London Python Code Dojo is back next *Thursday, 3rd Oct at 6:30pm.* > > https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-python-code-dojo-season-11-episode-2-tickets-74276925283 This time we're kindly hosted at Touch Surgery Labs, whose address is: 230 City Road, EC1V 2QY, UK > We'll have our

[python-uk] London Python Code Dojo - Thursday, 2nd May

Hi all, > The London Python Code Dojo is back next *Thursday, 2nd May at 6:30pm.* > > https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-python-code-dojo-season-10-episode-9-tickets-60880301621 After we recently put out a call for new venues, we've had a nice response from a handful of companies, so a big tha

[python-uk] Perhaps the London Python Dojo at your office?

Hi folks, The London Python Dojo often has a series of venues lined up a few months ahead. But right now we don't have any venues arranged for May, June & July. We rely on the generosity of companies across London to offer refreshments and space for socialising with a dose of fun coding of an eve

Re: [python-uk] December London Python Dojo

And for those without a time machine, here's the correct link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-python-code-dojo-season-10-episode-4-tickets-53229569074 On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 at 22:38, Tom Viner wrote: > Good evening all, > > > https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-python-co

[python-uk] December London Python Dojo

Good evening all, https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-python-code-dojo-season-10-episode-3-tickets-51866261384 > The London Python Code Dojo is back *this Thursday, the 6th of December at 6:30pm.* > > Growth Street are hosting us again at their offices: Growth Street Exchange, Irongate House, 2

[python-uk] London Dojo next Thursday 7th

Hi folks, For June's London Code Dojo, we'll be at Potato . We'll have pizza, drinks and some fun group coding. All abilities welcome. There'll also be the prize draw for a random O'Reilly Python book as usual. *6:30pm Thursday 7th June 2018* Get your tickets while they're h

[python-uk] London Dojo next Thursday

Hi all, For February's London code dojo, we'll be at Sohonet . We'll have pizza, drinks and some fun group coding. All abilities welcome! There'll also be the prize draw for a random O'Reilly Python book as usual. *6:30pm Thursday 1st Feb 2018* Get your tickets while

Re: [python-uk] London Dojo next Thursday

0/2017 23:24, Tom Viner wrote: > >> Darn, I hadn't seen the possible tube strike. > >> > >> Let's keep an eye on the situation. I'll update this list and email > >> direct to ticket holders if we have to postpone. > >> > > > >

Re: [python-uk] London Dojo next Thursday

to come back after a few > months absence, but there is a Tube strike planned for Thursday 5th > October and if it's confirmed I may need to cancel my ticket :/ > > Cheers > > On 28 September 2017 at 10:01, Tom Viner wrote: > > Hello folks, > > > > For O

[python-uk] London Dojo next Thursday

Hello folks, For October's London dojo, of the year 2017, we'll be at Growth Street. We'll have triangles of tasty food, drinks and all the group coding you can imagine. There'll also be the prize draw for a random O'Reilly Python book as is mostly usual. Get your tickets while they're oww that

[python-uk] Announcing: New Years London Dojo Next Thursday 5th

Hi all, Hope everyone's having a stellar holiday period. Take a moment between mince pies and Christmas puddings to sign up for next weeks Dojo. Our hosts for January will be Sohonet in... Soho. *Date: Thursday Jan 5th*. As usual we'll have pizza, drinks and all the group coding you can manage.

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

Potential candidates as well as recruiters are reminded that hitting reply will result in a mail aimed back to the list. You must then manually edit the To: field. Furthermore: Outlook's "recall this message" will not work, rather it will send a further email to the list, each and every time you

[python-uk] London Dojo Tickets Up

Morning all, As I mentioned last week, the dojo is on the 2nd Thursday of the month this time, due to PyCon. We're back at Bank of America and as usual we'll have our blend of food, drink, chatting and coding. As well as the give away book from O'Reilly and pub afterwards. That's the London Pytho

[python-uk] London Dojo postponed a week

Morning all, Just to let South-East Englander's know: to avoid clashing with PyCon, June's Dojo is postponed a week, to the 9th of June. And I can reveal that Bank of America will be our hosts! Expect ticket availability in a week. While I'm here, two extra messages: If you've been to a dojo b

Re: [python-uk] Last night's dojo (fowl play)

Team 4's Quizical Web Quiz: https://github.com/tomviner/quizical On 5 February 2016 at 11:55, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > Loving the commit messages in there ;-) > > N. > > On 05/02/16 11:41, Matt Wheeler wrote: > > Team 2's (almost working (or working perfectly, depending on your > > vie

Re: [python-uk] Announcing: London Dojo Thursday 3rd December

Just to let everyone know, there's still tickets available for tomorrow night's dojo: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-python-code-dojo-season-7-episode-4-tickets-19777226216 Come along! On 30 November 2015 at 12:08, Tom Viner wrote: > Hi all, > > Slightly later em

[python-uk] Announcing: London Dojo Thursday 3rd December

Hi all, Slightly later email than usual, too much mulled wine already! For the Christmas Dojo - this Thursday - we'll be with Forward Partners, in their office just North of Old Street. As usual we'll have pizza, drinks and all the group coding you can manage. Maybe a lightning talk too. Get you

Re: [python-uk] Issue with unit tests in IntelliJ IDEA

Hi David, A random Google makes it look like argparse is involved: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=error%3A+unrecognized+arguments Are you using argparse? Maybe that's enough to solve it, but if not, if you can show us the argparse parts of your code that would be useful. Cheers, Tom On 14 Ju

[python-uk] [London] EuroPython Talk practice

Hi all, As I mentioned at the London dojo last night it would be great to have an informal meetup to practice our EuroPython talks sometime next 10 days. I did a similar thing with my first talk, last year, which went from "Python unittesting libraries: a comparative overview" (people actually fe

Re: [python-uk] July London Python Dojo tickets available

Hey Andrea, (hope you meant to reply all!) no worries, just make sure you get it all complete by the next dojo... only kidding :-). Just to add, if teams do want to share your code you can PR onto here: https://github.com/ldnpydojo/Battleships-AI I've linked to team2's "3 AIs and a simulator to

Re: [python-uk] PyGame Zero: I tried to install but I failed :/

ere's anything else I need to do please let me know. > > S > > On Jun 6, 2015, at 7:16 PM, Tom Viner wrote: > > We have the code from two teams (1 & 4) linked here: > https://github.com/ldnpydojo/ldnpydojo-game-zero > > Laptop owners on teams 2, 3 and 5 do get i

Re: [python-uk] PyGame Zero: I tried to install but I failed :/

We have the code from two teams (1 & 4) linked here: https://github.com/ldnpydojo/ldnpydojo-game-zero Laptop owners on teams 2, 3 and 5 do get in contact so your team mates and others can view and improve on your team's code. On 6 June 2015 at 18:25, Steve Holden wrote: > Good question. I was w

Re: [python-uk] DJUGL - Django User Group London: this evening (April 22th) at 19:00 c/o WayraUK

Hi Andrea n all, Pity, I love DJUGL (it was my first ever London meetup), but this is too late notice. Joint twitter / this-listserv announcements would be appreciated by me for one. Tom On 22 April 2015 at 10:30, a.gra...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi! > > My current company, Yoyo Wallet, will be ho

[python-uk] Announcing: London Dojo Thursday 9th April

Hi all, For April's Dojo we'll be with Skimlinks, in their office just North of Old Street. As usual we'll have pizza, drinks and all the group coding you can manage. We'll have a couple of lightning talks too. There'll also be the prize draw for a random O'Reilly Python book. Get your tickets

Re: [python-uk] Next London Dojo

Hi Carles and everyone, seeing as the first Thursday in April is right up against the Easter long weekend, it makes sense to pencil the next London dojo for Thursday 9th April. Look out for the ticket details around a week before that. Cheers, Tom On 21 March 2015 at 12:28, Carles Pina i Estany

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

Cheryl Fay would like to recall the message, "[python-uk] New Year's London Dojo Next MONDAY". ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk On 4 February 2015 at 15:49, Steve Holden wrote: > +1 > >

Re: [python-uk] Question from uniq dojo about fileinput

27;] == ['bar\r\n', 'f...n', >> 'end\r\n'] >> E At index 0 diff: 'bar\n' != 'bar\r\n' >> E Full diff: >> E - ['bar\n', 'foo\n', 'bar\n', 'foo\n', 'end\n'] >&g

[python-uk] Question from uniq dojo about fileinput

Hi all, So before the London dojo meets again tomorrow night I wanted to resolve a question from last month. The task last month was to make our own GNU uniq commands. After the dojo I got our team's code working with the fileinput module . This a

[python-uk] Announcing: London Dojo Thursday 8th, in Shoreditch

Hi and Happy New Year everyone! It's a fresh new year, and as the holiday season resides we have a fresh new London Dojo for you. Something tells me everyone's glad it wasn't held yesterday, on our traditional first Thursday of the month! We're with our regular hosts FryIT in Shoreditch again, wh

Re: [python-uk] Cryptopals study group

as I was saying to Peter off list, count me in. I tried to sign up when the challenges were on email, but they never replied! (Maybe they don't like Tuvaluan people email addresses...) On 27 December 2014 at 14:30, xtian wrote: > I'm definitely keen. I've done up to exercise 13 in Python (and

Re: [python-uk] Next London Python Code Dojo - 3rd June at Hogarth in Soho

Thanks to all who came along to Hogarth for the London Dojo last week. Here's some more details about what we got up to: We started with a talk by Mark Needham and Nigel Small about Neo4j and it's Python library py2neo. They showed us some advantages of graph databases, some cypher queries for ext

Re: [python-uk] Interesting libraries

As Tim hints, last month's task was based on the game show Pointless. The challenge being to pick the least known Python module or library that upon demo of a team's best imagined "interesting use", gets the most votes of "can imagine using this i

[python-uk] Announcing: The London Dojo next week at BAML

Hi all, For February's London dojo we'll be back at the Bank of America again. If you've never come to the dojo before, why not join us this time? Any and all skill levels most welcome. We'll have pizza, drinks and enough group coding to keep you busy for an hour or two. Are there any volunteers

Re: [python-uk] London Dojo Next Thursday at onefienstay (07/11/2013)

Have fun dude! On 6 Nov 2013 14:01, "Luis Visintini" wrote: > Hey Guys, > > Just a friendly reminder to all pythonistas coming to this months London > Python Dojo. > > The meet-up is tomorrow at 6:30 in the onefinestay offices near Farringdon > station ( 5 St John's Lane, EC1M 4BH) > > If you got

Re: [python-uk] Trip to Bletchley Park

ships made by a local club; someone's toy collection; the on-site >>> wartime Post Office. >>> >>> And it's all run by fans who are delighted to talk. >>> >>> Definitely go if you haven't already. (And if you have). >>> >>> TJG

Re: [python-uk] Trip to Bletchley Park

about arrangements etc. On 13 October 2013 23:28, Tom Viner wrote: > Just to add, if you're getting the train, follow the instruction here and > print out the voucher. Then we can pair up and get half price entry to > Bletchley: > http://www.daysoutguide.co.uk/bletchley-park-(

Re: [python-uk] Trip to Bletchley Park

Just to add, if you're getting the train, follow the instruction here and print out the voucher. Then we can pair up and get half price entry to Bletchley: http://www.daysoutguide.co.uk/bletchley-park-(1) On 13 October 2013 22:47, Tom Viner wrote: > As promised, just less than a w

Re: [python-uk] Trip to Bletchley Park

7;re having trouble noticing a roving band of programmers in the station / park. I'm on 07828 013 277. See ya on Saturday! Cheers, Tom @tomviner <https://twitter.com/tomviner> On 25 September 2013 21:33, Tom Viner wrote: > Hi all, > > A few of us had a discussion at Pycon

[python-uk] London Dojo this Thursday at BAML

Hi folks, For October's London dojo we'll be back at the Bank of America. We'll have pizza, drinks and all the group coding you can imagine. There'll also be the prize draw for a random O'Reilly Python book as usual. Get your tickets while they're hot: https://ldnpydojo.eventwax.com/london-pyth

[python-uk] Trip to Bletchley Park

Hi all, A few of us had a discussion at PyconUK about doing a trip to Bletchley Park and the The National Museum of Computing. Saturday, 19 Oct seemed to be the best option. Londoners could meet at Euston Station and others could make their own way. In terms of timing: - Bletchley Park is open

[python-uk] The London Python Dojo is this Thursday

Greeting from Florence and the EuroPython conference, As the sprint pizza boxes get cleared away, it reminds me, there's a London dojo to announce for this Thursday! Pizza and social coding for the win. Everyone welcome. We've got our O'Reilly give-away book ready, it's Think Complexity includin

[python-uk] Fwd: more maze

I mentioned some comments to Thomas about his elegant random spanning tree maze script and he insisted that I post here so everyone can see the correction and extensions . First there was a minor bug where the initial

Re: [python-uk] EC1 Pyb Lunch

t; > > On 23 April 2013 22:55, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > > > > > > > I'm up for that! > > > Exmouth Market sounds good. > > > > > > On Apr/23/2013, Tom Viner wrote: > > > > Good question Carles, let's do next Tue

Re: [python-uk] EC1 Pyb Lunch

Good question Carles, let's do next Tuesday 30th, as that makes it a pre-dojo lunch. Nicholas recommended: If it's a sunny day we should look at Exmouth Market - lots of food > stalls and a nice park for a Pycnic ;-) Otherwise there are Pubs and > restaurants close by. Although indoors may be be

[python-uk] Announcing: March's London Python Code Dojo

Hi Python people, Places are now available for this Thursday's London Python Code Dojo. Grab your tickets now before they are all gone: https://ldnpydojo.eventwax.com/london-python-code-dojo-season-5-episode-6 That's Thursday 7th March at FryIT. This month's cat herder will be Tim and I've got

Re: [python-uk] Python Trademark at Risk in Europe

I contacted Webfaction, who say they're looking at this now. I think they'll make a good case as they were trading at python-hosting.com back in the beginning . Tom @tomviner On 14 February 2013 20:35

[python-uk] Peer-to-peer dojo

Hi again everyone (except recruiters), Well the dojo was fun last night wasn't it! The "build a peer to peer chat network" proved interesting if a little tricky to finish in the time. And with that in mind, I think some of the teams/dojoers would enjoy seeing if they can get their network working.

Re: [python-uk] New Year's London Dojo Next MONDAY

Nice doing business with you Harry ;-) On 3 January 2013 12:43, Harry Percival wrote: > Yeah yeah yeah. Nice attempt at a cover-up Tom. Are any of Tom's > colleagues or managers on here? Looks like someone is shopping > around! Better give Tom a raise... > > On 3 Jan

Re: [python-uk] New Year's London Dojo Next MONDAY

Thanks for the heads up Harry, I'd already archived the email not noticing it came via the list serve. Luckily I do find it all hilarious, especially: '''Cheryl Fay would like to recall the message, "[python-uk] New Year's London Dojo Next MONDAY".''' Just to confirm, in terms of grammar, you ca

Re: [python-uk] New Year's London Dojo Next MONDAY

Thanks for the heads up Harry, I'd already archived the email not noticing it came via the list serve. Luckily I do find it all hilarious, especially: '''Cheryl Fay would like to recall the message, "[python-uk] New Year's London Dojo Next MONDAY".''' Just to confirm, in terms of grammar, you ca

[python-uk] New Year's London Dojo Next MONDAY

Greeting Christmasy Pythonistas, I hope you've had a lovely holiday and are raring to go for some group coding, dojo style. This time we're dojoing on a Monday (the 7th), rather than the usual Thursday - more convenient for Fry-It, who kindly supply their office for our nefarious purposes. 30 ti

[python-uk] London Py Dojo code submission

Hi all, If you want to post your code up in all it's ever lasting glory, pop along to our github repo for last night: https://github.com/ldnpydojo/countdown-number-game See the README for instructions. Cheers, Tom ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@

Re: [python-uk] Announcing the next London Python Code Dojo

We've got 4.cancellations for today's dojo if anyone other people would like to attend. Get back to me off-list or tweet @tomviner/@ldnpydojo to get a place. I'll tweet when they're taken. Cheers, Tom On Jul 6, 2012 11:34 AM, "Tom Viner" wrote: > Hi Folks,

[python-uk] Announcing the next London Python Code Dojo

Hi Folks, As you may have noticed, The London Python Code Dojo didn't take place this week due to EuroPython, so this month's dojo is: Thursday 12th July from 6:30pm. We'll be meeting back at our usual location: at the offices of Fry-IT and will start with an hour of pizza, beer and general social

Re: [python-uk] word chains: impossible ones

That's a nice discovery Carles! Or do you just have a ridiculously unfairly gigantic dictionary? Have you uploaded your code (and dictionary?) somewhere? We could include it in the dojo github repo or more likely if you have you're own hosting, just fork our readme and add a link. Cheers, Tom On

Re: [python-uk] London Python dojo, January: Team 4 game of life

pectively). Said hacked together >> approach was inspired by one (or more?) of the other teams who used sets, >> etc. >> >> https://bitbucket.org/**maddagaska/pygol/overview<https://bitbucket.org/maddagaska/pygol/overview> >> >> I think there was a link up to

Re: [python-uk] Game of Life / TDD ideas

René, that's called Rest Driven Development :-) (Although that can mean "no sleep allowed until it's done!") I've also attended an Emily Bache TDD formal dojo as well as Harry Percival's code-along Test-Driven-Django-Tutorial. Both were really good to help learn a discipline I personally find it h

Re: [python-uk] saturday london python dojos?

That sounds like a plan. I'm happy to gauge interest among the (admittedly self selecting) audience of the weekday dojo when I host it this Thursday. The tickets booked out within 3 hrs this month so there's clearly unmet demand. I personally would really enjoy having a longer session to create mo

[python-uk] ANN: The London Python Dojo: Thur 2nd Feb

Announcing the February London Python Dojo! Episode Six (mid season high-point) of the 3rd Year of London Python Dojos has a date (Thursday 2nd February) and a sign up page: https://ldnpydojo.eventwax.com/london-python-code-dojo-season-3-episode-6 30 tickets waiting to be snapped up (and they us

Re: [python-uk] TDD / Django / Selenium workshop - any interest in a part 2?

Definitely interested. Last one was really good, which reminds me I'm supposed to be presenting everything I learnt to my workmates. On Dec 7, 2011 2:57 PM, "Harry Percival" wrote: > Hi All, > > So I've finished digesting the lessons from the workshop last month, > and re-writing my tutorials app

Re: [python-uk] Dojo / workshop on "TDD Django with Selenium" - any interest?

Definitely interested in this. We're expanding the testing we do at U-Dox and adding something like Selenium to the arsenal would be a major win. I went to a BrightonPy talk by Jim Purbrick last year and was impressed by the comprehensive setup he had. In particular, as I recall, he had Selenium r

[python-uk] Come work with us on world class django websites

Hey all, In short, we're looking for a new django developer, someone with a couple of years of web development experience with a web framework such as Django, Ruby on Rails etc. We build the bulk of our projects on the Django platform so you need to be comfortable with how web-apps are built

Re: [python-uk] Details about U-Dox Django job opportunity

Just to confirm, this if a permanent position working with us in London. Salary according to experience. On Sep 19, 2011 7:48 PM, "Anand K" wrote: > > Hi Tom, > > You haven't said if you are after contractors or permanents though. > > Cheers, > Anand ___

[python-uk] Details about U-Dox Django job opportunity

or some offline code you can show us) or else a very lengthy and detailed technical blog. We're a creative agency with a heavy focus on digital. We are very much a LAMP shop. With the P standing for Python. If that sounds good, do drop me an email. Meet us, I'll be at PyConUK this we

Re: [python-uk] Next week in London: Informal python pub meetup with YouGov

This is just round the corner from UDox, so I'll definitely come over and say hello. Tom On 10 May 2011 17:07, Brent Tubbs wrote: > The votes are in. Let's meet at 7PM Thursday the Hoxton Grill Bar: > > 81 Great Eastern St, > EC2A 3HN > > > http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=112041544107027

Re: [python-uk] pyweek. london python code dojo pyweek team?

viously you'll have to take most of the week off work, but 5 hours of sleep per night is scheduled into the plan so don't worry. Seriously though, we don't have a set game idea or even a game type yet, so if any of the above sounds like fun, let us know and come create a game in a wee

Re: [python-uk] Code Dojo - yesterday and next year...

2010/1/3 : > On Jan 3, 2010 9:49pm, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: >> >> see you in 4 days! >> >> >> >> Any planning/schedule? >> >> > > If anyone is interested I would like to throw doing CRC design into the mix > - I think it would work well with splitting the dojo into small groups. > > CRC desig

Re: [python-uk] Code Dojo - yesterday and next year...

2010/1/3 : > On Jan 3, 2010 9:49pm, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: >> >> see you in 4 days! >> >> >> >> Any planning/schedule? >> >> > > If anyone is interested I would like to throw doing CRC design into the mix > - I think it would work well with splitting the dojo into small groups. > > CRC desig