Re: [SLUG] python in linux mint

2013-05-30 Thread kfoskey
(or evn vi if you want to be mean to your kids) and they can then execute directly from there. -Original Message- From: Ben Donohue Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 3:58 PM To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: [SLUG] python in linux mint Hi all, I'm trying to get my kids into progra

Re: [SLUG] python in linux mint

2013-05-30 Thread Jiří Baum
Hi, Ben Donohue: > If I type python at the shell prompt I get a python >>> > However I'd like something that they can type the program in and another > window opens and displays their program running... or something like that. The "ipython notebook" can be nice. It's nicer to use than the prompt

Re: [SLUG] python in linux mint

2013-05-30 Thread Heracles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/30/2013 05:05 PM, Ben Donohue wrote: > Thanks one and all... looks like I have somewhere to start. > Right now they are using scratch via a browser... and I did thing of the > raspberry pi... > I'll start getting some stuff together and give so

Re: [SLUG] python in linux mint

2013-05-30 Thread Ben Donohue
Thanks one and all... looks like I have somewhere to start. Right now they are using scratch via a browser... and I did thing of the raspberry pi... I'll start getting some stuff together and give some feedback when I can. Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.a

Re: [SLUG] python in linux mint

2013-05-29 Thread David Lyon
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Michael Chesterton wrote: > Have you looked at the raspberry pi? it's designed for the classroom to > teach kids about programming and computers. > Semi-related to that, a rep at Element14 at cebit was saying that there are approx. 10,000 Raspberry-Pi's being sol

Re: [SLUG] python in linux mint

2013-05-29 Thread Michael Chesterton
Have you looked at the raspberry pi? it's designed for the classroom to teach kids about programming and computers. The ipython shell is nicer than the plain python shell and I'm sure there are other GUI apps that I'm not aware of that do what you want, so stay tuned ;) -- http://www.linuxsuppor

Re: [SLUG] python in linux mint

2013-05-29 Thread Chris Barnes
Sounds like you want a basic Python IDE. Never used Python myself. But a quick search looks like Eric for Linux Mint might be a good one to try. http://eric-ide.python-projects.org/ On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Ben Donohue wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get my kids into programming..

[SLUG] python in linux mint

2013-05-29 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi all, I'm trying to get my kids into programming... (I'm not a programmer by the way)... anyway Linux Mint has Python installed. If I type python at the shell prompt I get a python >>> However I'd like something that they can type the program in and another window opens and displays their

Re: [SLUG] Python, XML, and Splitting a 750M XML File?

2011-01-05 Thread Chris Donovan
I was a bit bored, and this works for me... http://pastebin.com/srPxwvSm Chris- On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Peter Miller wrote: > On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 15:50 +1100, Peter Miller wrote: >> > 'Datum' are non-trivial, containing extensive subtrees. >> > ...etc... >> > blah >> > >> >> XML

Re: [SLUG] Python, XML, and Splitting a 750M XML File?

2011-01-05 Thread Peter Miller
On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 15:50 +1100, Peter Miller wrote: > > 'Datum' are non-trivial, containing extensive subtrees. > > ...etc... > > blah > > > > XML is plain text, use a text tool. > If the line breaks are as indicated, use split(1) > and then hand edit the headers and footers. Or, use aw

Re: [SLUG] Python, XML, and Splitting a 750M XML File?

2011-01-05 Thread Peter Miller
On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 13:51 +1100, Tom Deckert wrote: > Original file looks like: > > > > blah > A couple hundred thousand Datum elements. > 'Datum' are non-trivial, containing extensive subtrees. > ...etc... > blah > XML is plain text, use a text tool. If the line breaks are as indi

Re: [SLUG] Python, XML, and Splitting a 750M XML File?

2011-01-05 Thread dave b
Sorry, I misread your email. Have you tried sax parsing? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Python, XML, and Splitting a 750M XML File?

2011-01-05 Thread dave b
On 6 January 2011 13:51, Tom Deckert wrote: > > G'Day, > > Any easy XML (Python or otherwise) tools for splitting a 750M > XML file down into smaller portions? > > Because the file is so large > and exceeds memory size, I think the tool needs to be a 'streaming' > tool.  On IBM DeveloperWorks site

[SLUG] Python, XML, and Splitting a 750M XML File?

2011-01-05 Thread Tom Deckert
G'Day, Any easy XML (Python or otherwise) tools for splitting a 750M XML file down into smaller portions? Because the file is so large and exceeds memory size, I think the tool needs to be a 'streaming' tool. On IBM DeveloperWorks site, I found an article detailing using XSLT, but in other

[SLUG] Python Meetup around the time of google's Sydney Developer Day?

2008-05-29 Thread Brett Morgan
Guys, Brett Slatkin, one of Google's engineers on the AppEngine project will be in Sydney for the Google Developer Day. He is interested in getting together with sydney based pythoneers on either the 16th of june, or the 17th of June. He is willing to host the meetup at Google's Sydney HQ. So, wh

[SLUG] python-uno & open office depends problem

2007-12-08 Thread Mike Lake
Hi all I have this problem which is stopping me from installing anything new. System is Debian stable on a Dell. $ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dep

[SLUG] Python problem

2006-10-17 Thread Leslie Katz
Thanks very much for the reply, Erik. I'll now try to contact the developers. Leslie -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Python problem

2006-10-17 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Leslie Katz wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ gdesklets shell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ python: Objects/stringobject.c:110: > PyString_FromString: Assertion `str != ((void *)0)' failed. > > I have no idea whatever I'm being told by the above output or how to > overcome the problem disclosed. The fi

[SLUG] Python problem

2006-10-17 Thread Leslie Katz
I compiled the application called gdesklets. There were complaints during the configuration process of my missing certain files, which I believed I'd overcome, since ultimately I was able to run the necessary installation commands with no further complaints. However, when I afterwards tried to

[SLUG] Python User Group meeting, Thu 7th Sept

2006-08-30 Thread Mary Gardiner
Or, so it seems from , it seems rather informally organised (and not by me, I just pass stuff on). The details are: Date: Thursday September 7 Time: 6:30pm Venue: Grace Hotel, 77 York

Re: [SLUG] Python upgrade

2006-01-12 Thread David Gillies
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ben Donohue wrote: > Hi Matt/all, > the rpm --force option does not work for removal. Is there another way? > I need 2.3.5 for Plone CMS. Reading through what you're trying to do now, I wouldn't recommend it, but if you're hellbent on removing that rp

Re: [SLUG] Python upgrade

2006-01-06 Thread Ben de Luca
On 04/01/2006, at 6:16 PM, mlh wrote: On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 02:40:33PM +1100, Ben Donohue wrote: Hence the removal of 2.3.4 which may fix the python error in zope and so Plone will start working... Uhm, really don't remove your system python. That way lies much pain. 2.3.4 and 2.4.5

Re: [SLUG] Python upgrade

2006-01-04 Thread mlh
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 02:40:33PM +1100, Ben Donohue wrote: > Hence the removal of 2.3.4 which may fix the python error in zope and so > Plone will start working... Uhm, really don't remove your system python. That way lies much pain. I'm sure Zope would support some setting to set which pytho

Re: [SLUG] Python upgrade

2006-01-03 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 02:19:44PM +1100, Ben Donohue wrote: > I installed version 2.3.5 from source and it seems to be in and working > but using rpm -e python-2.3.4 gives tons of failed dependencies errors > Is there a way to replace the 2.3.4 version with 2.3.5? > doing a python -V shows Python

Re: [SLUG] Python upgrade

2006-01-03 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi Matt/all, the rpm --force option does not work for removal. Is there another way? I need 2.3.5 for Plone CMS. Plone CMS requires zope and python 2.3.5. I'm getting a weird error in zope where it's not finding a plone site. the only clue I have is that there is a python error on startup of zope

Re: [SLUG] Python upgrade

2006-01-03 Thread mlh
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 02:19:44PM +1100, Ben Donohue wrote: > In short how do I completely remove version 2.3.4 and have only 2.3.5? If you installed python 2.3.5 in the standard places then you MIGHT be able to just force the remove (first), install 2.3.5 and have everything work ... for a while

[SLUG] Python upgrade

2006-01-03 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi Slugs, I have a CentOS 4.2 system (RHEL clone) I'm having trouble removing python 2.3.4 which was installed with the original build of the system. I installed version 2.3.5 from source and it seems to be in and working but using rpm -e python-2.3.4 gives tons of failed dependencies errors I

Re: [SLUG] python/irc ?

2005-11-08 Thread Michael Chesterton
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I couldn't get onto irc.freenode.net/#python. I get this message: > > #python You need to be identified to join that channel try this: http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#userregistration You can also drop by #slug, sometimes python people are around. -- SLUG - S

Re: [SLUG] python/irc ?

2005-11-07 Thread David
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 05:58:49PM +1100, Daniel Bush wrote: > On 11/8/05, Mark Johnathan Greenaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 04:55:52PM +1100, David wrote: > > > Is there a newbie oriented #python on irc somewhere? or something > > similar? > > > > Yes, there's a #

Re: [SLUG] python/irc ?

2005-11-07 Thread Daniel Bush
On 11/8/05, Mark Johnathan Greenaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 04:55:52PM +1100, David wrote:> I'm trying to learn Python, and running into some really simple problems.> Is there a newbie oriented #python on irc somewhere? or something similar? > Google was unhelpful :(Yes,

Re: [SLUG] python/irc ?

2005-11-07 Thread Mark Johnathan Greenaway
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 04:55:52PM +1100, David wrote: > I'm trying to learn Python, and running into some really simple problems. > Is there a newbie oriented #python on irc somewhere? or something similar? > Google was unhelpful :( Yes, there's a #python channel on irc.freenode.net. There's a go

[SLUG] python/irc ?

2005-11-07 Thread David
I'm trying to learn Python, and running into some really simple problems. Is there a newbie oriented #python on irc somewhere? or something similar? Google was unhelpful :( -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/

[SLUG] Python Interest Group

2005-04-06 Thread Richard Hayes
Dear list, Is pig.slug doing anything? If not, is there any other python group having meetings? -- Richard Hayes Nada Marketing PO Box 12 Gordon NSW Australia 2074 Tel: +(61-2) 9412 4367 Fax: +(61-2) 9412 4920 Mob: +(61) 0414 618 425 www.nada.com.au begin:vcard fn:Richard Hayes n:Hayes;Richard org:

Re: [SLUG] Python recommendations, please.

2004-07-15 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004, Robert Collins wrote: > As long as there is beer, I'm happy to attend some meetings :). I found organising a talk each month a bit much work for relatively little payoff (only 4 or so attendees on average) so I'm not interested in organising it solo again. There's still talk

Re: [SLUG] Python recommendations, please.

2004-07-15 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 16:03, Mary Gardiner wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004, Bill Bennett wrote: > > Also, there's a Python interest group somewhere, isn't there? > > We had one in Sydney in 2002-2003, but I haven't organised any meetings > since then. As long as there is beer, I'm happy to attend s

Re: [SLUG] Python recommendations, please.

2004-07-14 Thread Andrew Bennetts
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:54:23PM +1000, Bill Bennett wrote: > I want to teach myself Python. Can anyone recommend a > good textbook, please? I've heard good things about O'Reilly's _Learning Python_. There are some very positive reviews on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai

Re: [SLUG] Python recommendations, please.

2004-07-14 Thread Mary Gardiner
Did you mean to set your reply-to to slug@ On Thu, Jul 15, 2004, Bill Bennett wrote: > Well, I live in Armidale. > > I'll be happy if I can simply ask someone about anything that comes > up. I don't know of any groups local to you. Within Australia, there's a python-au list: http://starship.pyt

Re: [SLUG] Python recommendations, please.

2004-07-14 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004, Bill Bennett wrote: > Also, there's a Python interest group somewhere, isn't there? We had one in Sydney in 2002-2003, but I haven't organised any meetings since then. http://pig.slug.org.au/ -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subs

[SLUG] Python recommendations, please.

2004-07-14 Thread Bill Bennett
I want to teach myself Python. Can anyone recommend a good textbook, please? The last book I used to teach myself a language was ideal. It had for every chapter:--- a) an introduction to the topic b) some history c) examples of what was being introduced d) problems, problems, problems. e) answers

Re: [SLUG] python.

2003-11-15 Thread Chris Deigan
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 16:53, Shaun Oliver wrote: > I'm wondering who would be the best person to speak to about learning > python. http://pig.slug.org.au/ - Python SIG -- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listi

Re: [SLUG] python.

2003-11-15 Thread Benno
On Sun Nov 16, 2003 at 16:53:01 +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote: >hi, >I'm wondering who would be the best person to speak to about learning >python. >or what would be the best docs to read? Start with: http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/tut.html >mind you I prefer the first as I like that interact

[SLUG] python.

2003-11-15 Thread Shaun Oliver
hi, I'm wondering who would be the best person to speak to about learning python. or what would be the best docs to read? mind you I prefer the first as I like that interaction thing. I'm thinking of incorperating ogg/vorbis support into supercast as well as doing a few little changes and I wanna m

[SLUG] Python Special Interest Group: Becoming bi-monthly

2003-06-15 Thread Mary Gardiner
Hi everyone, Just a quick announcement re the Sydney Python Interest Group. In the future meetings will be held every second month. The next will be in July and will be announced as usual. -Mary Also: The linux.conf.au organisers have agreed to Andrew Bennetts' Python mini-conf proposal. The mi

[SLUG] SLUG Python Interest Group: Monday 24th March

2003-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
Hi everyone, The SLUG Python Interest Group is on this Monday. Apologies that I've been a week late getting it off the ground. This month, Malcolm Tredinnick will talk about "Python in Production Environments", in particular, things that come up in business scenarios that aren

Re: [SLUG] Will there be a SLUG Python IG meeting this month [March]?

2003-03-16 Thread wm
don't forget too that u can always check the web page http://pig.slug.org.au/ Warren On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:30, Shane MacPhillamy wrote: > I'm quite new to this list hence the question. Does the Python Interest > Group meet monthly at the same time & place? > > Thanks. > > Cheers > Shane MacPhil

Re: [SLUG] Will there be a SLUG Python IG meeting this month [March]?

2003-03-16 Thread Mary
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 08:30:24AM +1100, Shane MacPhillamy wrote: > I'm quite new to this list hence the question. Does the Python Interest > Group meet monthly at the same time & place? Generally - it will probably be held on Monday 24th this month, mainly because I haven't organised the talk y

[SLUG] Will there be a SLUG Python IG meeting this month [March]?

2003-03-16 Thread Shane MacPhillamy
I'm quite new to this list hence the question. Does the Python Interest Group meet monthly at the same time & place? Thanks. Cheers Shane MacPhillamy -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Python Interest Group: Appeal for speakers.

2003-03-12 Thread Mary
Hi everyone, This month's SLUG Python Interest Group will probably be held on Monday March 24, but before I can organise it, I need a speaker. Can anyone who could talk to us about Python or Python applications please email me? Thanks, Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Gr

[SLUG] SLUG Python Interest Group - Monday 17th February 2002

2003-02-12 Thread Mary Gardiner
Hi everyone, SLUG's Python Interest Group is on this Monday... Andrew Bennetts: Twisted Programming Date: Monday February 17th Time: 7:00pm Location: UTS Broadway, building 10, room 2.440 (computer lab, on the entrance level). -Mary ---- SLUG Python Interest Group meetin

[SLUG] SLUG Python Interest Group: Monday 13th January 2003 (tomorrow).

2003-01-11 Thread Mary Gardiner
Hi everyone, A reminder that the SLUG Python Interest Group is being held a week early this month, due to linux.conf.au, and will be on tomorrow night. For our first meeting in 2003, Adrian van den Dries: ZODB Adrian van den Dries will introduce the ZODB (Zope Object Database) - a persistent

[SLUG] SLUG Python Interest Group: Monday 13th January 2003.

2003-01-05 Thread Mary Gardiner
a his taster for a talk on Zope which he will give at a future SLUG meeting. Date: Monday January 13th Time: 7:00pm Location: UTS Broadway, building 10, room 2.440 (computer lab, on the entrance level). -Mary ---- SLUG Python Interest Group meetins are announced on: * comp.lang.python.ann

[SLUG] Reminder: SLUG Python Interest Group: Monday 7pm

2002-11-15 Thread Mary Gardiner
For our last act in 2002[1], the SLUG Python Interest Group presents: Andrew Bennetts: "Fun New Stuff in Python 2.2" """ Fun new stuff in Python 2.2 An introduction to new language features, including: - Iterators - Generators - Properties, classmethods and sta

[SLUG] SLUG Python Interest Group: 18th November

2002-11-10 Thread Mary Gardiner
For our last act in 2002[1], the SLUG Python Interest Group presents: Andrew Bennetts: "Fun New Stuff in Python 2.2" """ Fun new stuff in Python 2.2 An introduction to new language features, including: - Iterators - Generators - Properties, classmethods and sta

[SLUG] Reminder: SLUG Python Interest Group: Monday 21st October 2002

2002-10-18 Thread Mary Gardiner
The SLUG Python Interest Group meeting: Monday the 21st October (THIS MONDAY), 7pm - 9pm University of Technology Sydney, Australia, Broadway campus. This month's meeting is being held in the Fairfax Building of UTS Broadway, room 2.440 (level 2, solaris lab 10). This month, Pete Har

[SLUG] SLUG Python Interest Group: Monday 21st October 2002

2002-10-09 Thread Mary Gardiner
The SLUG Python Interest Group meeting: Monday the 21st October, 7pm - 9pm University of Technology Sydney, Australia, Broadway campus. This month's meeting is being held in the Fairfax Building of UTS Broadway, room 2.440 (level 2, solaris lab 10). This month, Pete Hardy is talking abou

[SLUG] Reminder: SLUG Python Interest Group, this Monday (19th August)

2002-08-16 Thread Mary
The Sydney Python Interest Group meeting: Monday the 19th August, 7pm - 9pm University of Technology Sydney, Australia, Broadway campus, room 1.27.26 (building 1, level 27). This month we'll be discussing the Python/C API. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More I

[SLUG] SLUG Python Interest Group: Monday 19th August

2002-08-09 Thread Mary
The Sydney Python Interest Group meeting: Monday the 19th August, 7pm - 9pm University of Technology Sydney, Australia, Broadway campus, room 1.27.26 (building 1, level 27). A speaker is yet to be found, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you are interested in speaking to our PIG. The Sydney

[SLUG] SLUG Python Interest Group: Tonight (Monday)

2002-07-14 Thread Mary
SLUG Python Interest Group Monday 15th July 2002, 7pm - 9pm Location: UTS room 2.04.29 (not the same room as last month). In the absense of volunteers, I myself am sharing my First Discoveries of Numeric Python. -Mary. msg24815/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

[SLUG] SLUG Python Interest Group: Monday 15th July

2002-07-02 Thread Mary
SLUG Python Interest Group Monday 15th July 2002, 7pm - 9pm Location: UTS room 2.04.29 (not the same room as last month). The SLUG Python Interest Group is still looking for a speaker for this month. If you are interested in speaking on any Python topic or project, we will be able to provide a

[SLUG] SLUG Python Interest Group: Monday night.

2002-06-14 Thread Mary
SLUG Python Interest Group. Location: Room 2.3.16 (building 2, level 3), UTS Broadway. When: Monday 17th June (this Monday), 7:00pm Now with a speaker! Topic: PyGTK Speaker: Mark Greenaway. People thinking of coming along who are not familiar with Python should check out the tutorial at http

[SLUG] SLUG Python Interest Group: June Meeting

2002-06-06 Thread Mary
What: The SLUG Python Interest Group When: Monday 17th June 2002, 7:00pm Where: UTS Broadway, room 2.3.16, level 3, building 2. Level 3 is the level below entrance level. This is NOT the same room as last month. As yet, we do not have a speaker for this month. People interested in speaking

[SLUG] Python Interest Group - Call for Speakers.

2002-06-04 Thread Mary
Hi SLUG, The SLUG Python Interest Group (meeting third Monday of every month) started last month. I would love to hear from anyone who would like to speak to the group. At present it is very small and informal (~10 attendees) so the atmosphere would be very different from speaking to, say, SLUG

[SLUG] Re: SLUG Python Interest Group: Monday (time)

2002-05-18 Thread Mary
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 06:44:32PM +1000, Mary wrote: > A reminder that the SLUG Python Interest Group is happening this Monday, > 20th May. ... at 7:00pm. Sorry :) -Mary. msg23599/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

[SLUG] SLUG Python Interest Group: Monday

2002-05-18 Thread Mary
A reminder that the SLUG Python Interest Group is happening this Monday, 20th May. Location: University of Technology Sydney, room 1.26.15 (that's on level 26 of the main tower building, use the lifts). This month we'll have: * a discussion on what you want to see from/in the PIG

[SLUG] PIG Location Change (Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] SLUG Python Interest Group)

2002-05-02 Thread Mary
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 04:39:04PM +1000, Mary wrote: > Following on from Andrew Bennett's Python talk at SLUG tonight: > > The beginning of the SLUG Python Interest Group (PIG). > > When: 7:00pm, third Monday of every month, starting May 20th 2002. > Where: Woolloom

[SLUG] SLUG Python Interest Group

2002-04-25 Thread Mary
Following on from Andrew Bennett's Python talk at SLUG tonight: The beginning of the SLUG Python Interest Group (PIG). When: 7:00pm, third Monday of every month, starting May 20th 2002. Where: Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel, Bourke Street, Woolloomooloo. We would welcome talks on the foll

Re: [SLUG] Python SIG: The saga continues.

2002-01-12 Thread Harry Ohlsen
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 01:10, Mary Gardiner wrote: > Hi again SLUG, > > I'm still intending starting a SLUG Python SIG, but here's what I need: Something I've been meaning to ask for a while now is ... Are there any people in SLUG who've been bitten by the Ruby bug

Re: [SLUG] Python SIG: The saga continues.

2002-01-12 Thread Jeff Waugh
> > Second Tuesdays after Meetings are ctte meetings, so it can't be then. > > Perhaps SLUG needs to maintain some sort of monthly events calendar to make > scheduling these things a bit easier? Well, we have this new website thingy that kind of does that. Gus can explain. > Heh -- you really

Re: [SLUG] Python SIG: The saga continues.

2002-01-12 Thread Andrew Bennetts
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 01:39:17AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > * A time. Tuesdays or Thursdays are my favourites... It will be held > > monthly. > > Second Tuesdays after Meetings are ctte meetings, so it can't be then. Perhaps SLUG needs to maintain some sort of monthly events calendar to ma

Re: [SLUG] Python SIG: The saga continues.

2002-01-12 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I'm still intending starting a SLUG Python SIG, but here's what I need: ROCK! > * A location. It needs to be able to accomodate say 10-20 attendees. > Some facilites for giving talks (eg projector) would be handy. > Availability of or at worst proximity to

[SLUG] Python SIG: The saga continues.

2002-01-12 Thread Mary Gardiner
Hi again SLUG, I'm still intending starting a SLUG Python SIG, but here's what I need: * A location. It needs to be able to accomodate say 10-20 attendees. Some facilites for giving talks (eg projector) would be handy. Availability of or at worst proximity to food and dr

Re: [SLUG] Python.

2001-07-03 Thread Andrew Bennetts
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:32:27PM +1000, Steven downing wrote: > >>> Andrew Bennetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2/07/01 23:55:56 >>> > >It's not a very interesting script, but I thought the list could do with > >some variety from the usual perl gunk ;) > > On a related note, it appears upcoming Python

[SLUG] Python.

2001-07-02 Thread Steven downing
>>> Andrew Bennetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2/07/01 23:55:56 >>> >It's not a very interesting script, but I thought the list could do with >some variety from the usual perl gunk ;) On a related note, it appears upcoming Python releases will be GPL compatible again. Good news for Debian / License zea

Re: [SLUG] python version

2000-11-27 Thread DaZZa
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, David wrote: > I need to have python version 1.5.2 > > How do I tell what version I have? Is there a generic way of discovering > versions? > > At a superficial observation, it looks like I have two versions installed > (1.5 and 1.5.2) but I think invokes the older versio

Re: [SLUG] python version

2000-11-27 Thread Ben Leslie
> I need to have python version 1.5.2 > > How do I tell what version I have? Is there a generic way of discovering > versions? benno@benlaptop:~$ python Python 1.5.2 (#0, Apr 3 2000, 14:46:48) [GCC 2.95.2 2313 (Debian GNU/Linux)] on linux2 ^ Just start it up in interactiv

[SLUG] python version

2000-11-27 Thread David
I need to have python version 1.5.2 How do I tell what version I have? Is there a generic way of discovering versions? At a superficial observation, it looks like I have two versions installed (1.5 and 1.5.2) but I think invokes the older version. sorry for the dumb question btw: $ man pyt

Re: [SLUG] Python, wow.

2000-10-02 Thread erich
On 02-Oct-00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As Jeff mentioned, try working through the python tutorial, you can find it > on > their web site, and it probaly comes with the distribution. I worked through > some of it just to get an intro, and it was preety good. > > I have read a few books on the l

Re: [SLUG] Python, wow.

2000-10-01 Thread Ben Leslie
On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I thought people might like to know, I have just started developing under > python, and it' unbelievably fast to develop in. > > If you haven't looked at it yet, it really is worth the effort. It is a > fantastic prototyping language, and for most

[SLUG] Python, wow.

2000-10-01 Thread erich
I thought people might like to know, I have just started developing under python, and it' unbelievably fast to develop in. If you haven't looked at it yet, it really is worth the effort. It is a fantastic prototyping language, and for most things, it's fast enough, but for my money, the best thi