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[python-uk] Benevolent Dictator On Permanent Vacation

[Peter Inglesby]

Hi folks,

You may already have seen that Guido is stepping back from his position as
Python's BDFL, and you can read more here
<https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2018-July/005664.html>.

I'm not sure anybody knows what this'll mean in practice, but I thought it
might be a good opportunity for us as the UK Python community to say thanks
to Guido for everything he's done.

Does anybody have any good ideas for how we could do this?

Peter.
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[python-uk] John Pinner Award 2018

[Peter Inglesby]

Hi folks,

Nominations for the 2018 John Pinner Award
<http://uk.python.org/john-pinner-award/> are open.

The John Pinner Award celebrates voluntary service to the Python community
in the UK, and recognises those who freely contribute their time and effort
for the good of the community.

Perhaps you can think of that person who quietly organises your local user
group, runs workshops, mentors others online, or creates educational
resources for others to re-use. It is the contributions of people like this
who we'd like to celebrate through this award.

Nominations close on 1st September, and recipients of the award will be
announced at PyCon UK <https://2018.pyconuk.org/> in September.

You can nominate any number of people and the nomination process is very
simple. Full details can be found here
<http://uk.python.org/john-pinner-award/>.

If you have any questions, let me know.

Peter.
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Re: [python-uk] C is it faster than numpy

[Peter Inglesby]

>
> Hope this was vaguely interesting...
>

I certainly learnt something, thanks for the time you put into the
explanation Michael!
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[python-uk] JOBS: Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

[Peter Inglesby]

Hi all,

At the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
<https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/> at Oxford University we're building core
data infrastructure for the NHS, and we're recruiting for a range of
software engineers, managers, and product managers.

There are links to job descriptions in this blog post
<https://benbc-tech-vacancies.bennettoxford.pages.dev/blog/2024/04/opensafely-software-engineering-vacancies/>.
Applications close at midday on 8th May.

Our main project is OpenSAFELY <https://www.opensafely.org/>, a platform to
let researchers access highly sensitive health data without ever being able
to see the data themselves.  We built this on a shoestring during the early
days of the pandemic (among other things it was used to investigate factors
associated with dying of covid, monitor the progress of the vaccine
rollout, and study vaccine efficiency).  We now have secure funding
<https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2023/11/the-future-of-opensafely-an-important-announcement-from-nhs-england-dhsc-and-the-bennett-institute-at-oxford/>
for several years to grow the platform.

We're a mixed team of software engineers, clinicians, and academics -- and
one of the best parts of the job is working so closely with our users.
While we have offices in Oxford, most of the tech team work remotely and we
regularly interact with our users online.

Some other good things?  The rest of the team are really decent, capable,
and interesting human beings, and we support each other and take each other
seriously.  We prioritise developer experience, and invest time reducing
friction in our work to allow us to move fast with confidence.  And our
work often appears in the press <https://www.opensafely.org/press/> --
which means this is the first job I've ever done where my family have some
idea what I do!

Some less good things?  Like all growing organisations we experience
growing pains as we become less startuppy, but we're constantly learning
and trying to improve.  University bureaucracy can sometimes slow things
down (our job descriptions were ready to go before Christmas...) but
day-to-day we're mostly shielded from that.  And we can't offer Silicon
Valley levels of pay -- but I can't imagine anywhere else that offers so
much interesting and important work in such a supportive (and fun)
environment.

If you'd like to know more, feel free to get in touch with me (
peter.ingle...@phc.ox.ac.uk -- beware that replying to this email will
reply to all subscribers!) or with Ben Butler-Cole, our director of
engineering (benjamin.butler-c...@phc.ox.ac.uk).

Thanks for reading!

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[python-uk] meetup.com

[Peter Bengtsson]

Simon wrote "So I'm going to stop using them. ;-)" 
about the fact that meetup.com is now charging for organising meetups.
How much is it? Can we not afford this? After all, their web app is
pretty good and we're all relatively rich people compared to our
brothers and sisters is Zambia :)
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Re: [python-uk] meetup.com

[Peter Bengtsson]

> > How much is it? Can we not afford this?
> 
> Well, I suppose we could - but why pay for something that you don't
> need to? A moin page should do everything we need. See
> http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/archives/001827.html for
> more.
> 
Fair enough. I'm just a bit of a fan of meetup.com's design :)
(By that I don't mean the graphical work)
Will subscribe to your wiki page.

> --
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> Simon B,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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Re: [python-uk] Turbogears

[Peter Bengtsson]

Doug,

I've read your blog and your replies here with great interest.
The points you make about understanding and progress are very interesting.
No wonder [some] people think Zope sucks because Acquisition is so
difficult to grok; but now after having understood its power I feel
this is one of Zope's best feature. The reason I didn't give up was
because I had a friend whom I trusted that I persist. If it wasn't for
him I would probably have avoided zope quite early.

I'm wondering Doug, what's your take on zope3 vs. TG?

On 1/25/06, Doug Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Simon Faulkner wrote:
> >>RoR and TG share the explict MVC model as a one-size-fits-all approach
> >>to web development, which may or may not be a bad thing depending on
> >>your application I guess.  TG does seem to provide everything you need
> >>to write a complex web application, and it does provide a huge amount of
> >>the scaffolding for you.
> >
> >
> > Ha! Just read (some of) your blog Doug and it puts a lot of stuff into
> > perspective - ty :-)
>
> I was trying to be more polite in a general email than I am on my blog
> :) For everyone else, Simon is referring to:
>
> http://adju.st/entry/web-frameworks-and-why-most-of-them-suck
>
> I think, where I slag off TG as well as almost everything else.
>
> > I think that a lot of my requirements are at the 'another todo' list (I
> > laughed at that one!)
>
> I just wrote a long response to this, and then decided it ought to be a
> blog entry instead, since I was planning one anyhow:
>
> http://adju.st/entry/sucky-web-frameworks-redux
>
> So consider that a reply to this :)
>
> > What ever I decide it's got to be better than Access...
>
> Oh yes.
>
> doug.
>
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Re: [python-uk] EP2006 timetable and reduced registration

[Peter Bengtsson]

Hi all CERN-goers-from-the-UK,

I haven't yet booked a Hostel. Hotel is too expensive and the CERN
Hostel is fully booked.
Any recommendations by any other from-UK goers about hostels? Are
there any groups to join to share rooms?

Peter

On 6/7/06, Michael Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Pythonistas!
>
> EuroPython 2006 is nearing and there is much good news!
>
> We have a very nice program of over 100 interesting talks (sorry that we
> had to reject some), see here for yourself:
>
> http://www.europython.org/timetable
>
> Also we have slots for 50 lightning (5 minute) talks so be sure to
> prepare one and register at the conference.
>
> We have also secured Alan Kay (the inventor of OO languages, Smalltalk,
> opencroquet.org etc.) as a key note speaker and are happy that Guido van
> Rossum will make it again!
>
> But best of all, the voluntary organisers have decided to give you
> another chance to register for a reduced fee -- but only until this
> weekend, so hurry and register:
>
> http://www.europython.org/sections/registration_issues
>
> If you have questions then mail to europython@python.org or come to
> #europython on irc.freenode.net.
>
> See you there, or in fact here:
>
> http://www.europython.org/venue.jpg
>
> Cheers,
> mwh & holger
> (on behalf of the EuroPython organizers)
>
> --
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>   ZAPHOD:  One huge spider.
> FORD:  Polite though.
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Re: [python-uk] London Python Planet

[Peter Bengtsson]

I'm based in london too. perhaps my rare musings could be added?
http://www.peterbe.com/rss.xml?oc=Python&oc=Zope

Simon Brunning wrote:
> A big thank you to Menno Smits and Remi Delon for setting up and
> hosting Planet London Python.
> 
> <http://londonpython.org.uk/>
> 

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Re: [python-uk] Reminder: London Python Meetup, Tuesday May the 6th

[Peter Bengtsson]

I can do a lighting talk on Grok as I just came back from Grokkerdam
even though I don't know everything there is to know about Grok I know
sufficient to show some hands on development.
I could show how to set up a project, add some templates, some tests
and a quick chat about the future of Grok.

2008/5/6 Simon Brunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Details here: http://tinyurl.com/3snu66
>
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Re: [python-uk] Reminder: London Python Code Dojo Tomorrow

[Peter Bengtsson]

I wouldn't mind carrying on with the tic-tac-toe code. Perhaps the
next thing we could work on is a wrapper that uses raw_input and print
to make the game playableish on the console. Advantage is that we're
building something on something we have built as a team. Frankly I
wouldn't mind seeing, as Tim pointed out, something of a spec. Nothing
formal but just a todo list so we don't have to guess what to build
next.

2009/10/16 Bruce Durling :
> 1st Thursday of the month works for me. Let me know when we have
> enough consensus to post a new announcement.
>
> I still think after tic-tac-toe we should do a series of dojos to
> build a event management site so we don't have to use
> eventwax/upcoming/meetup/etc. :-)
>
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[python-uk] Room sharing in Coventry, PyConUK 2011

[Peter Bengtsson]

Both the Ibis and Formula 1 are fully booked for the Saturday night. Anybody 
willing to share a 2-bed room? 
If you're paying from own pocket I can take the whole expense and claim it for 
the whole room (if that makes sense)

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Re: [python-uk] Room sharing in Coventry, PyConUK 2011

[Peter Bengtsson]

Thanks Joe! That worked. Also booked now.

On 21 September 2011 23:05, Joe  wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> I have booked into the Britannia Coventry (via LateRooms.com) earlier today
> (0.5 miles). They seem to still have rooms as do others nearby. I booked a
> twin room so if you're really stuck...
>
> Joe
>
> -Original Message-
> From: python-uk-bounces+joe.metcalfe=tiscali.co...@python.org
> [mailto:python-uk-bounces+joe.metcalfe=tiscali.co...@python.org] On Behalf
> Of Peter Bengtsson
> Sent: 21 September 2011 19:27
> To: UK Python Users
> Subject: [python-uk] Room sharing in Coventry, PyConUK 2011
>
> Both the Ibis and Formula 1 are fully booked for the Saturday night. Anybody
> willing to share a 2-bed room?
> If you're paying from own pocket I can take the whole expense and claim it
> for the whole room (if that makes sense)
>
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[python-uk] West Yorkshire Python Group Meeting in Leeds - Thursday 18:30 onwards

[Peter Russell]

===
 West Yorkshire Python User Group July Meeting
===

About the meeting
=

We'll be arriving at Old Broadcasting House from about 6:30 onwards
for coffee and vaguely Python related chat.  At 7:30 there is a talk,
which is expected to last for about half an hour.  After that we will
head to a pub for more geeky chat.

The meetings are always good fun, and everyone of any level of
experience or interest in Python is extremely welcome.  Bring a friend!

Talk: "Safe" - Peter Russell
----

Peter will be talking about Safe - an internal Python application used
at KPI Gold LLP for managing backups.

The talk will include:

* Why we wrote Safe
* How it works and what it does
* An overview of its architecture and design
* A digression into Python's with statement and context managers
* An embarrassing story, showing why it can make sense to have backups of
  your backups!

Experience Level:

 The talk should be suitable to anyone who knows a bit about Python.

Of Interest To:

  Looking at someone else's project is always interesting, but this
  talk should be of particular interest to anyone interested in real
  world uses of Python, or anyone wanting to learn more about
  Python's with statement and writing context managers.

About the Group
===

The West Yorkshire Python User Group (WYPy) have been meeting monthly
since 2007.  Our meetings are free, and usually include at least one
talk, as well as a trip to the pub.

Up to now we've not done anything to promote ourselves, but we're
becoming a bit thin on the ground.  Hence us spamming your mailing
list, we hope you don't mind!

We discuss our meetings on the Python Yorkshire and Humberside Google
Group http://groups.google.com/group/python-yorks-humber/ and you can
also follow us on Twitter at @WYPython.

Date and Time
=
Thursday 14 July.  From 6:30pm, talk at 7:30.  Pub afterwards.

Location


Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
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[python-uk] West Yorkshire Python Group Meeting - Thursday from 18:30 in Leeds

[Peter Russell]

===
 West Yorkshire Python User Group Meeting - Thurs. 11 Aug.
===

About the meeting
=

We'll be arriving at Old Broadcasting House from about 6:30 onwards
for coffee and vaguely Python related chat.  At 7:30 there is a talk,
which is expected to last for about half an hour.  After that we will
head to a pub for more geeky chat.

The meetings are always good fun, and everyone of any level of
experience or interest in Python is extremely welcome.  Bring a friend!

Talk: "Block World" - Simon Davy


Python and Ruby both are expressive, high level languages with many
advanced features. Most differences between them are syntactic rather
than semantic.  However one feature that Ruby has and Python lacks are
"blocks", and they are often touted as as one the best features of
Ruby the language.

In this talk, I'm going to introduce the Ruby block feature, which is
very useful but actually has some quite interesting semantics -
they're more than just anonymous functions. We'll look at the use
cases for blocks, and look at the idiomatic python solutions for those
use cases, where they exist. We'll finish of with a discussion of
whether blocks (as implemented in Ruby) would be a useful addition to
Python.

Experience Level:

 The talk should be suitable to anyone who knows a bit about Python or Ruby.

Of Interest To:

 This talk will be of particular interest to anywone who wants to
 compare Python with Ruby, or people interested in programming
 language design in general

Date and Time
=
Thursday 14 July.  From 6:30pm, talk at 7:30.  Pub afterwards.

Location


Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN

About the Group
===

The West Yorkshire Python User Group (WYPy) have been meeting monthly
since 2007.  Our meetings are free, and usually include at least one
talk, as well as a trip to the pub.

Our website is at http://wypy.org.uk .  We discuss our meetings on the
Python Yorkshire and Humberside Google Group
http://groups.google.com/group/python-yorks-humber/ and you can also
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[python-uk] West Yorkshire Python Group Meeting in Leeds - Thursday from 18:30

[Peter Russell]

===
 West Yorkshire Python User Group Meeting - Thursday. 8 September.
===

About the meeting
=

We'll be arriving at Old Broadcasting House from about 6:30 onwards
for coffee and vaguely Python related chat.  At 7:30 will be two
talks, which are expected to last for an hour or so.  After that we
will head to a pub for more geeky chat.

The meetings are always good fun, and everyone of any level of
experience or interest in Python is extremely welcome.  Bring a friend!

Talk: "Moving to Python 3" - Nick Efford


Nick will be talking about Python 3, covering the differences from
Python 2, and why he believes it's a better language.

Nick is a lecturer at the University of Leeds, and teaches programming
using Python, so he's bound to have some interesting perspectives on
this subject - it's definitely one not to miss!

Experience Level:
 The talk should be suitable for anyone with a little experience with
 Python.

Of Interest To:
 This talk will be of particular interest to anyone who is interested
 in using Python as a language for teaching, or anyone who is
 considering switching to Python 3.

Talk: "Using the SciPy toolset for interactive analysis" - Tony Simpson
---

Tony will be talking about his use of IPython, SciPy and MatplotLib
for interactive analysis of logfiles.

These tools have been developed in the scientific community for
analysing data and running computational simulations.  It will be
interesting to see how they can be applied to a different domain.

Experience Level:
 This talk should be suitable for everyone.

Of Interest To:
 This talk will be of particular interest to people who are
 interested in analysis and people who are interested in real world
 applications of Python.


Date and Time
=
Thursday 8 September.  From 6:30pm, talks at 7:30.  Pub afterwards.

Location


| Old Broadcasting House
| 148 Woodhouse Lane
| Leeds
| LS2 9EN

About the Group
===

The West Yorkshire Python User Group (WYPy) have been meeting monthly
since 2007.  Our meetings are free, and usually include at least one
talk, as well as a trip to the pub.

Our website is at http://wypy.org.uk .  We discuss our meetings on the
Python Yorkshire and Humberside Google Group
http://groups.google.com/group/python-yorks-humber/ and you can also
follow us on Twitter at @WYPython.
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[python-uk] West Yorkshire Python Group meeting in Leeds - Thursday from 6:30

[Peter Russell]

===
 West Yorkshire Python User Group Meeting - Thurs. 13 Oct.
===

About the meeting
=

We'll be arriving at Old Broadcasting House from about 6:30 onwards
for vaguely Python related chat.  At 7:30 will be two talks, which are
expected to last for about an hour.  After that we will head to a pub
for more geeky chat.  It is likely we will try to go to the North bar
to join the Ubuntu release party which is being held there.

The meetings are always good fun, and everyone of any level of
experience or interest in Python is extremely welcome.  Bring a friend!

Talk: "Testing in Python" - Peter Russell
-

Automated testing is now an important discipline in software
development.  In this talk Peter will be presenting some of his views
on how to test code written in Python, the virtues (or otherwise) of
test driven development as a methodology, and some of the tools
available for testing.

Experience Level:
A basic level of Python knowledge would be helpful.

Of Interest to:
This talk will not be a "how to test" tutorial, rather a personal
perspective on testing.  As such it should be of interest to
people who are experienced in unit, functional and integration
testing as well as people who are new to automated testing.

Talk: "Using the SciPy toolset for interactive analysis" - Tony Simpson
---

Tony will be talking about his use of IPython, SciPy and MatplotLib
for interactive analysis of logfiles.

These tools have been developed in the scientific community for
analysing data and running computational simulations. It will be
interesting to see how they can be applied to a different domain.

Experience Level:
This talk should be suitable for everyone.

Of Interest To:
This talk will be of particular interest to people who are
interested in analysis and people who are interested in real world
applications of Python.


Date and Time
=
Thursday 13 October.  From 6:30pm, talk at 7:30.  Pub afterwards.

Location


| Old Broadcasting House
| 148 Woodhouse Lane
| Leeds
| LS2 9EN

We will be holding the talks in the boardroom at the back of the
ground floor of the building.  If you arrive after 7:30 we may not
hear the doorbell, so please phone Peter on 07763 570 860.

About the Group
===

The West Yorkshire Python User Group (WYPy) have been meeting monthly
since 2007.  Our meetings are free, and usually include at least one
talk, as well as a trip to the pub.

Our website is at http://wypy.org.uk .  We discuss our meetings on the
Python Yorkshire and Humberside Google Group
http://groups.google.com/group/python-yorks-humber/ and you can also
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[python-uk] West Yorkshire Python Group meeting - Tomorrow!

[Peter Russell]

== West Yorkshire Python User Group Meeting - Thurs. 10 Nov. ==

Sorry for the late announcement this month!

= About the meeting =

We'll be arriving at Old Broadcasting House from about 6:30 onwards
for vaguely Python related chat. At 7:30 there will be a talk, which
is expected to last for about an half an hour. After that we will head
to a pub for more geeky chat.

The meetings are always good fun, and everyone of any level of
experience or interest in Python is extremely welcome. Bring a friend!

= Talk: "Testing in Python" - Peter Russell =

This talk was postponed last month due to lack of time.

Automated testing is now an important discipline in software
development. In this talk Peter will be presenting some of his views
on how to test code written in Python, the virtues (or otherwise) of
test driven development as a methodology, and some of the tools
available for testing.

Experience Level:A basic level of Python knowledge would be helpful.Of
Interest to:This talk will not be a "how to test" tutorial, rather a
personal perspective on testing. As such it should be of interest to
people who are experienced in unit, functional and integration testing
as well as people who are new to automated testing.

= Date and Time =

Thursday 10 November, from 6:30pm. Talk at 7:30. Pub afterwards.

= Location =

Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN

We will be holding the talks in the boardroom at the back of the
ground floor of the building. If you arrive after 7:30 we may not hear
the doorbell, so please phone Peter on 07763 570 860.

= About the Group =

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Re: [python-uk] London Dojo Idea: Module of the Month / Lightning Talks

[Peter Inglesby]

>
>
> I quite liked the semi-interactive (pseudo-interactive?) presentation
> shell from last time's default argument talk, in that it managed to
> replace slides with alternating printed code examples and running code
> (without the presenter touching the keyboard). {Was a link to that
> shared around?}
>
>
I've just put this on github: https://github.com/inglesp/prescons --
hopefully somebody will find this useful!  Let me know if you have any
suggestions or find any bugs.

(Also, I've not forgotten that I said I'd write up my lightening talk --
it's still on my TODO list.)
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[python-uk] Write-up of lightening talk

[Peter Inglesby]

As promised, I've (finally) written up my lightening talk on "using
Python's mutable default arguments for fun and profit" [1] from the last
London dojo.  Any comments or corrections welcome, and I'll try to answer
any questions that come up.

[1] http://inglesp.github.com/2012/03/24/mutable-default-arguments.html
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[python-uk] West Yorkshire Python Group Meeting - Thurs. 10 May - Leeds

[Peter Russell]

== West Yorkshire Python User Group Meeting - Thursday 10 May ==

= Talk: The Twisted Toolbox - Simon Davy =

There are many asynchronous networking libraries for Python, but
Twisted has been around the longest by far. Although it suffers from a
mixed reputation (some deserved, some not), it has one killer
capability that no other async framework has - it's protocol library.
Nearly all standard Internet protocols come implemented out-of-the-box
on twisted, and when you need it, it's just brilliant.

We will look at a simple in-memory SMTP and IMAP server written to
speed up acceptance test runs involving email. This will include
implementing Twisted SMTP and IMAP interfaces, as well as
Twisted.cred, the AUTHN/Z framework.

This talk will not assume any prior knowledge of Twisted, but will aim
to make the case that in this use case, Twisted is hard to beat.

= Date and Time=

Thursday 10 May, talk from 7:30pm.

If you want to arrive before the talk, the venue will be open from
about 6.30. We will be finished by 9, and we will be going to the pub
afterwards.

= Location =

Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN

We will be holding the talk in the boardroom at the back of the ground
floor of the building. If you arrive late we may not hear the
doorbell, so please phone Peter on 07763 570 860.

= About the Group =

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since 2007. Our meetings are free, and usually include at least one
talk, as well as a trip to the pub.

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[python-uk] West Yorkshire Python User Group Meeting - Thurs. 14 June - Leeds

[Peter Russell]

Sorry this is so late.

== West Yorkshire Python User Group Meeting - Thurs. 14 June ==

= Talk: Go From a Python Programmer's Perspective =

Go is a new language with a long pedigree. It was designed at Google
by Rob Pike (one of the designers of Unix) and Ken Thomson (one of the
designers of C). Go seems to be gaining traction as an environment for
developing simple, efficient applications.

Matt Goodall (@atomatt) will be introducing us to Go; showing us some
of the key aspects of the language and the runtime's concurrency
primitives by building a simple server application.

= Date and Time =

Thursday 14 May, talk from 7:30pm.

If you want to arrive before the talk, the venue will be open from
about 6.30. We will be finished by 9, and we will be going to the pub
afterwards.

= Location =

Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN

We will be holding the talk in the boardroom at the back of the ground
floor of the building. If you arrive late we may not hear the
doorbell, so please phone Peter on 07763 570 860.

= About the Group =

The West Yorkshire Python User Group (WYPy) have been meeting monthly
since 2007. Our meetings are free, and usually include at least one
talk, as well as a trip to the pub.

Our website is at http://wypy.org.uk . We discuss our meetings on the
Python Yorkshire and Humberside Google Group
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[python-uk] West Yorks. Python Group - Thurs. 13 December - Leeds

[Peter Russell]

== West Yorkshire Python User Group Meeting - Thurs. 13 December ==

= Talk: Simon Davy, Unit testing Django =

Django includes a test framework that is very convenient and widely
used. It includes test database set up, fixtures, and a convenient way
of calling your via Django's framework.

However, it is actually testing your application at integration level,
rather than at unit level. Integration tests are good, but so are unit
tests! (which test smaller areas and run faster).

In this talk we'll look at three different ways to use standard unit
testing techniques when testing django applications to write actual
unit tests.

== Date and Time ==

Thursday 13 December, talk from 7:30pm.

If you want to arrive before the talk, the venue will be open from
about 6.30. We will be finished by 9, and we will be going to the pub
afterwards.

== Location ==

We will be meeting at the offices of The Test People:

Albion Court
Albion Place
Leeds
West Yorkshire,
LS1 6JL


If you have trouble getting in, please call Peter on 07763570860.

== About the Group ==

The West Yorkshire Python User Group (WYPy) have been meeting monthly
since 2007. Our meetings are free, and usually include at least one
talk, as well as a trip to the pub.

Our website is at http://wypy.org.uk . We discuss our meetings on the
Python Yorkshire and Humberside Google
Grouphttp://groups.google.com/group/python-yorks-humber/ and you can
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[python-uk] West Yorks. Python Group - Thurs 14 March - Coding Session

[Peter Russell]

== West Yorkshire Python User Group Meeting - Thurs. 14 March ==

= Coding Session - Porting Restish to Python 3 =

This month we have decided to do some good for the world, by porting
Matt Goodall's web framework Restish to Python 3. Matt is a member of
the group, so we'll have all the context we could hope for.

You can find the source for Restish here[1] and the early work on
porting it to Python 3 here[2].

Don't worry if you're new to Python 3 (a lot of us are), or even to
Python, we'll muddle through and figure it out!

You should probably bring a laptop with Python 2.6 or higher and
Python 3.3 installed if you have one available.

[1] https://github.com/ish/restish [2]
https://github.com/warsaw/restish/tree/py33

= Date and Time =

Thursday 14 March, from 6:30pm.

We're starting earlier this month to give us a little more time. Don't
worry about turning up after the start, it's fully expected that some
people will be later.

= Location =

We will be meeting at the offices of The Test People:

Floor 3
Albion Court
Albion Place
Leeds
West Yorkshire,
LS1 6JL

You will need to call Peter on 07763570860 for access, as we can't
hear the buzzer at the door.

= About the Group =

The West Yorkshire Python User Group (WYPy) have been meeting monthly
since 2007. Our meetings are free, and usually include at least one
talk, as well as a trip to the pub.

Our website is at http://wypy.org.uk . We discuss our meetings on the
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[python-uk] EC1 Pyb Lunch

[Peter Inglesby]

With apologies to those who don't live/work London...

A handful of us are meeting for a pub lunch somewhere off the Clerkenwell
Road next Tuesday at 1pm.  If you'd like to join us, drop me a line and
I'll book a table.

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[python-uk] West Yorks. Python Group - Tomorrow - Thursday 11 January

[Peter Russell]

== West Yorkshire Python User Group Meeting - Thurs. 11 April ==

Sorry for the late announcement this month.

= PyCon US Review and social meeting =

We have no talk this month, so we're going to spend the evening
reviewing some of the talks at PyCon, and chatting about the news in
the Python world. We'll probably try to watch one of the talks.

= Date and Time =

Thursday 11 April. The venue will be open from about 6.30. We will be
finished by 9, and we will be going to the pub afterwards.

= Location =

We will be meeting at the offices of The Test People:

Floor 3
Albion Court
Albion Place
Leeds
West Yorkshire,
LS1 6JL

You will need to call Peter on 07763570860 for access, as we can't
hear the buzzer at the door.

= About the Group =

The West Yorkshire Python User Group (WYPy) have been meeting monthly
since 2007. Our meetings are free, and usually include at least one
talk, as well as a trip to the pub.

Our website is at http://wypy.org.uk . We discuss our meetings on the
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[python-uk] West. Yorks Python Group - Thurs. 9 May - Tornado

[Peter Russell]

== West Yorkshire Python User Group Meeting - Thurs. 9 May ==

= Invited Talk: Wes Mason - Stormy Webber - Tornado for everyone =

This month we have another invited guest speaker!

= About the Talk =

An introductory talk to building fast non-blocking async web services
with Tornado, especially relevant to Django, Flask, bottle, web.py,
Pyramid, Zope, Gevent, Twisted and every other web (or not) dev
interested in learning what makes Tornado special for such tasks.

This will be especially relevant to Django, Flask, bottle, web.py,
Pyramid, Zope, Gevent, Twisted and every other web (or not) dev
interested in learning what makes Tornado special for such tasks.

Bonus: advanced tips and tricks for migrating from current systems and
working with technologies such as WebSockets and Server Sent Events in
Tornado.

Bonus bonus: Tornado 3 and Python 3.4 style futures for less confusing async.

= About the Speaker =

Wes is a polyglot developer with over 15 years of experience
programming large scale networked applications.

He currently works as a product engineer for Server Density, curates
PHP Weekly from his sofa, releases lots of open source goodness via
the Internets, and lives in Yorkshire, England with wife and
mischievous 2 year old son.

Wes is @1stvamp on Twitter.

= Date and Time =

Thursday 11 April. Talk at 7.30. The venue will be open from about
6.30. We will be finished by 9, and we will be going to the pub
afterwards.

= Location =

We will be meeting at the offices of The Test People:

Floor 3
Albion Court
Albion Place
Leeds
West Yorkshire,
LS1 6JL

You will need to call Peter on 07763570860 for access, as we can't
hear the buzzer at the door.

= About the Group =

The West Yorkshire Python User Group (WYPy) have been meeting monthly
since 2007. Our meetings are free, and usually include at least one
talk, as well as a trip to the pub.

Our website is at http://wypy.org.uk . We discuss our meetings on the
Python Yorkshire and Humberside Google Group
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Re: [python-uk] Suggestions / best practices for deployment

[Peter Inglesby]

> 
> It's REALLY useful to have a small set of "functional tests" which can
> be run in a live web app.  For example, for an online purchase
> process, you might have a selenium test which steps right through a
> purchase using a known "only for tests" account or credit card number.
> And it's an absolute lifesaver to have a bunch of CSS/JS URLs you hit
> to verify a 200, so you don't go live with half your javascript
> missing due to some static/media mixup in a settings file.
> 
> Once you have something like this, you can quickly check that your
> deployment (whether to UAT, staging or live) actually worked.
> 
> I don't know what this kind of testing is called though ;-)
> 

Sounds like "smoke testing" to me.
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[python-uk] FlashHacks

[Peter Inglesby]

Hi Python UK,

I hope it's appropriate to give a little plug here to something I've been
working on recently.

At OpenCorporates [0], we've been working on a platform for running bots to
scrape and structure public data data. We're launching it by setting a
target to get 10 million data points about companies into OpenCorporates in
the next 10 days.

If you feel like trying it out -- you can write scrapers in Python -- or
giving non-codey feedback, the campaign homepage [1] links to lists of
scrapers that we've suggested, and the tool itself with documentation lives
here [2].

If there is a dataset you think we should we should be scraping, or you
have any other ideas or feedback for #FlashHacks, please let me know,
preferably via our mailing list [3] but just email me otherwise.

Do get in touch!

Peter

[0] http://opencorporates.com
[1] http://missions.opencorporates.com
[2] http://turbot.opencorporates.com
[3] http://turbot.opencorporates.com/docs/support
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Re: [python-uk] hexagonal Django

[Peter Inglesby]

> I'm starting my week-long exercise on trying it out on a slice of our
existing Django monster. I'll report back.

Echoes of Captain Oates here?

Anyway, reviving an old thread: Brandon Rhodes talks provides a
straightforward and accessible summary of "The Clean Architecture" in a
recent talk[0] and it's the least wanky discussion of this kind that I've
come across.  His main point is that things with side effects (particularly
calling external services) should be isolated in "procedural glue" code,
while the processing of data -- the business logic -- should happen in pure
functional code.  This leads to a better focus on the structure of the data
you're dealing with, which in turn leads to more comprehensible and
maintainable code.

Thoughts?

[0] http://www.pyvideo.org/video/2840/the-clean-architecture-in-python


On 13 December 2012 11:28, Jonathan Hartley  wrote:

> Thanks everyone. I've been enlightened, encouraged and forewarned by the
> responses to my initial question. (and thanks for the Rich Hickey talk, I
> hadn't seen that one)
>
> I absolutely empathise with the warnings to avoid needlessly creating
> extra layers or plumbing.
>
> I have a colleague who says many of the projects where he used to work at
> Microsoft Research used this pattern, and while he liked it overall, if he
> had to find fault, they found it to cause duplication of sorts, in things
> like the persistence component mapping fields of the business objects into
> database-compatible types. Hence adding a field meant both changing the
> core business object, and changing the persistence component to incorporate
> the extra field, and also the plumbing between the two.
>
> I also heed the advice to beware shoehorning problems into a single
> one-size-fits-all solution.
>
> I also liked people who brought up particular thorny areas with Django in
> particular, such as the admin views.
>
> However, I'm hopeful that, in my particular case at least, the interfaces
> and extra layers will be close to trivial, and any disadvantages may be
> outweighed by extracting my database/network code from my business logic.
>
> I'm starting my week-long exercise on trying it out on a slice of our
> existing Django monster. I'll report back.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
>
> On 10/12/2012 19:02, Chris Withers wrote:
>
>> Yeah, what he said :-)
>>
>> (joking aside, John has summed this all up very nicely...)
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 06/12/2012 00:57, John Lee wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Jonathan Hartley wrote:
>>>
>>>  The last few weeks I've been thinking about the architectural pattern
 known as Clean, Onion, Hexagonal, or Ports'n'Adaptors
 
 (http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2012/08/13/the-
 clean-architecture.html).
 I'm curious if many people are applying it in the Django world?

 I haven't, yet, but I'm thinking of refactoring a vertical slice of
 our monster Django app into this style, and I'd love to hear if you
 think it's crazy / brilliant / obvious / old-hat, etc.

>>>
>>> I have to confess I've only very lightly skimmed the article (which
>>> looks like it says some sensible things), but that's not going to stop
>>> me pontificating in over-general terms and posting a video that I liked:
>>>
>>> The best programmers I've worked with have a knack to ruthlessly pick
>>> the simplest possible abstractions to fit the job in hand. They never
>>> stop thinking to settle on any one-size-fits-all programming style. The
>>> problem with those two statements I just made is that everybody can read
>>> them and think that they agree with them. What *I* mean by simple is
>>> close to what Rich Hickey means in the first part of this talk (though I
>>> don't know enough to decide what I think about how he goes on to defend
>>> Clojure and its design principles in those terms):
>>>
>>> http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
>>>
>>>
>>> (BTW, it's a shame to hear him give security as an example of a
>>> separable concern, because it isn't one)
>>>
>>> The best code, you look at the functionality, then the code, and think
>>> "where is all the code?" and "how did such simplistic code happen to
>>> implement exactly what was needed?". That's different from the "OMG,
>>> what is all this stuff for" feeling you get from over-engineered or just
>>> badly-factored code. The best code is easy to change in the sense that
>>> changes in functionality require commensurate coding effort, and it's
>>> clear what code would have to change. But it is also hard to change, in
>>> the sense that any change that leaves the behaviour the same would
>>> clearly make it worse -- including adding or removing abstraction.
>>>
>>> I'd agree with Andy that not fighting too many battles with your
>>> framework has a lot to be said for it (and that it's maybe more
>>> important to nail basic coding practices of the kind you'd find in Code
>>> Comp

[python-uk] Cryptopals study group

[Peter Inglesby]

Hi all,

You may have heard of the Matasano Crypto Challenges
<http://cryptopals.com/>, a series of challenges designed to help people
learn about cryptography, through the breaking of cryptographic systems.
>From their website:

"This is a different way to learn about crypto than taking a class or
reading a book. We give you problems to solve. They're derived from
weaknesses in real-world systems and modern cryptographic constructions. We
give you enough info to learn about the underlying crypto concepts
yourself. When you're finished, you'll not only have learned a good deal
about how cryptosystems are built, but you'll also understand how they're
attacked."

I'm planning to tackle these over the next few weeks and months (in Python,
naturally) but to ensure that I follow through with this
turkey-curry-and-port-induced bravado, I was wondering whether others would
be interested in joining me.  We could tackle one problem set a month,
attempting the problems individually, and then discussing our solutions and
any difficulties via some as-yet-undecided medium -- perhaps IRC or
Hangouts or just plain old email.

So: if you're interested, drop me a line, and we can try to work something
out.

Cheers,

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

[Peter Inglesby]

It seems like several of the arguments for keeping the current behaviour
are that it's amusing when somebody gets it wrong.  As somebody who once
accidentally reply-alled criticism of my supervisor to my entire department
at university, I'm not sure that it always is amusing, and so I'm in favour
of changing the behaviour.

On 4 February 2015 at 15:26, Michael  wrote:

> Accidental replies are the spice of life.
>
> The only downside of the reply-to header is the fact that people randomly
> complain about it every other year or two, resulting in 20 arguments in
> favour, 20 arguments against, then a discussion about how voting for or
> against it might be a good idea, and in the majority of cases most people
> going "meh, can't be bothered", and a minority deciding that voting is a
> good idea, and then sometimes they remove it but most often they don't.
>
> On the upside, they poke a bit of life into things, resulting in the
> original poster going "oh, why did I bother? They're just talking about
> reply-to rather than our fussball table!"
>
> :-D
>
>
> Michael.
>
> On 4 February 2015 at 14:16, Andy Robinson  wrote:
>
>> I'm one of the list admins.  There are a couple of others.  Happy to
>> make a change if a significant majority feel that way.
>>
>> However, sometimes accidental replies are the only thing keeping the
>> list alive ;-)
>>
>> On 4 February 2015 at 14:12, Sven Marnach  wrote:
>> > Maybe we could just get rid of the pointless "Reply-To" header?  It can
>> be
>> > disabled by a list admin on the Mailman admin page.
>> >
>> > I get the impression that at least one person per month falls victim to
>> it.
>> > The reverse, people accidentally answering just to the sender instead
>> of the
>> > whole list, seems better than people accidentally sending private
>> emails to
>> > everyone.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Sven
>> >
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>>
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Re: [python-uk] Pycon '15 - website update?

[Peter Inglesby]

Hi Steve, hi everyone,

There'll be an announcement on this list soon!  But the important details:
the conference will again be in Coventry, and will run from 18th-21st
September.

Cheers,

Peter.

On 3 March 2015 at 08:26, Stestagg  wrote:

> Hi
>
> It's been pointed out that google searching for pycon uk takes you to a
> site that talks about 2014.
>
> This is a bit confusing, as it states early bird tickets are available
> from 1st March
>
> Is anyone able to change this? Or remove the booking info?
>
> Any updates on '15?
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve
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[python-uk] Sponsorship liaison for PyCon UK

[Peter Inglesby]

Hello world!

The PyCon UK committee is looking for a volunteer to oversee liaison with
sponsors for this year's conference.

In particular, we're looking for somebody to keep track of our
relationships with sponsors, and to ensure that sponsors' needs are looked
after before and during the conference.

If you're interested in helping out, please get in touch with us at
pyconuk-...@python.org.

Thanks,

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

[Peter Inglesby]

>
> What purpose does DJUGL serve? great question. Would really be interested
> to see what the community thinks?
>
> Given that it's always a sellout (when it's properly advertised!) I think
this is a question that answers itself.

>From my perspective, I've always enjoyed meeting and learning from other
people who use Django, and DJUGL has provided a great opportunity for that
-- so thanks Jon and everyone else who's been involved in the past.
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Re: [python-uk] Anyone needs a Python/Django backend developer in London?

[Peter Inglesby]

I think this is a great place for people (particularly people like Andrea,
who's an active contributor to the UK Python community) to share that
they're looking for work.  It's certainly been used for that in the past,
and I don't think Andrea needs to apologise for anything.

On 26 May 2015 at 13:00, a.gra...@gmail.com  wrote:

> Hi Erika,
>
> I'm sorry if you think my message was off topic, but I first searched
> in the old messages before posting and I found this
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-uk/2014-March/003293.html
> Unless the rules have changed in the mean time, it looks like people
> were happy to see these kind of messages.
>
> Again, if I disturbed anyone, sorry.
>
> Cheers.
>
>
> On 26 May 2015 at 12:55, Erika Pellegrino  wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm afraid this is the wrong place ... here we share ideas ... not jobs.
> >
> > erika
> >
> > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:18 AM, a.gra...@gmail.com  >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> I am currently looking for a job as Python/Django backend developer in
> >> London (I also consider remote working).
> >>
> >> My main technical skill is using Python/Django (in particular Django
> >> Rest Framework) to implement RESTful APIs and to integrate with third
> >> party API services.
> >>
> >> You can find more about my skills and past experiences here
> >> http://www.andreagrandi.it/curriculum/
> >> In case anyone is interested, please reply in private.
> >>
> >> Thank you so much for your attention and I hope I didn't disturb
> >> anyone with this message.
> >>
> >> Cheers.
> >>
> >> --
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> >> Website: http://www.andreagrandi.it
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[python-uk] PyCon UK 2016: Save the Date

[Peter Inglesby]

Some advanced warning:  PyCon UK 2016 will take place at Cardiff City Hall
from Friday 16th to Monday 19th September, with some additional workshops
happening on Thursday 15th.

The conference will be formally announced, including details of tickets,
financial aid, and the Call For Proposals, in mid-March.

Follow us on Twitter (@PyConUK) for the latest news.

Cheers,

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[python-uk] PyCon UK 2016

[Peter Inglesby]

Hi everyone,

I’m delighted to announce the launch of PyCon UK 2016
<http://2016.pyconuk.org/>!

The conference will run from 15th-19th September at Cardiff City Hall
<http://www.cardiffcityhall.com/>, with a programme of talks, workshops,
and other events aimed at the whole Python community.

More details are on the conference website <http://2016.pyconuk.org/>,
where you can buy a ticket <http://2016.pyconuk.org/tickets/> or submit a
proposal <http://2016.pyconuk.org/cfp/> for a talk or a workshop.

We have worked hard to ensure the conference is more affordable than recent
years. Tickets start at £96 for the weekend, and we are offering financial
assistance <http://2016.pyconuk.org/financial-aid/> to help people who
would struggle to afford a ticket or other expenses.

The website’s code is on GitHub
<https://github.com/pyconuk/2016.pyconuk.org>. If you find any problems,
please submit an issue or a pull request.

If you run a local user group, please share this email with your members.

We look forward to seeing you in Cardiff in September!

~ Peter, on behalf of the PyCon UK Committee
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[python-uk] PyCon UK update

[Peter Inglesby]

Hi everyone,

Some PyCon UK updates:

   - The Call for Proposals <http://2016.pyconuk.org/cfp/> closes tomorrow,
   and it's not too late to submit your proposal for a talk or workshop.
   Don't forget that we're offering speaker mentorship
   <http://2016.pyconuk.org/speaker-mentors/>.  We're particularly keen to
   hear from first-time speakers and people from under-represented groups.
   - Also closing tomorrow is the first tranche of applications for
our financial
   assistance <http://2016.pyconuk.org/financial-aid/> programme.
   - Tickets <http://2016.pyconuk.org/tickets/> are selling steadily, so
   make sure you don't miss out.  Tickets for the whole conference start at
   £96.
   - The children's day <http://2016.pyconuk.org/kids/> returns.  Bring
   your children on the Saturday for a fun-packed day of activities and
   workshops, to learn all about getting the most out of the world with Python.
   - Do you know any teachers who might be interested in learning more
   about Python?  We're running conference-within-a-conference for teachers
   <http://2016.pyconuk.org/teachers/>, and we're offering bursaries
   <http://2016.pyconuk.org/teachers/bursaries/> to cover the cost of
   supply cover.


You'll find more details about the whole conference on our website
<http://2016.pyconuk.org/>.

If you've got any questions, please get in touch with the committee via
pyconuk-enquir...@python.org.

All the best,

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[python-uk] Fwd: News about Rob Collins

[Peter Inglesby]

Hi all,

Please see the forwarded message below for some news about Rob Collins --
I'm afraid it's not good news.  Rob has been a member of the Python
community in the UK for a very long time, and is a regular at PyCon UK.

When John Pinner was ill, Rob organised a card-signing for John at PyCon
UK, and I would like us to do the same for Rob.  If you have any messages
of support or reminiscences that you would like to share with Rob, please
send them to me by the end of Saturday.  The PyCon UK committee will
collate them and we'll send them on to Ann.

Thanks,

Peter.


-- Forwarded message --
From: Anthon van der Neut 
Date: 26 July 2016 at 12:21
Subject: News about Rob Collins
To: EuroPython Society Board , Harry Percival <
hj...@cantab.net>, bo...@python.org, Peter Inglesby <
peter.ingle...@gmail.com>


L.S.

I wrote to Rob Collins, because he was a fixture for me at EuroPython
doing the massages, collecting money for the PSF, and because I missed
him this year. I asked around if anybody knew why he was not there and
since nobody knew, decided to write him. Unfortunately the news I got
back from his wife Ann is not so good, see below.

Please forward this information within the Python community as Ann asked
in her reply. I am not sure if we should necessarily coordinate
responses, but I would like to ask anyone writing to Rob (through Ann)
to **explicitly state that you don't expect an answer**, so that those
(e)mails become a support for Rob and Ann without being a possible
burden for Ann, who might feel guilty if she cannot find the time to
answer in such a stressful time.

Regards
Anthon



 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Re: EuroPython 2016
Date:   Tue, 26 Jul 2016 11:49:26 +0100
From:   Rob Collins 
To: Anthon van der Neut 



Hello Anthon, this is Rob's wife Ann here.

That's really kind of you to message Rob, especially regarding the
massages! He was excited to raise money for the Python Foundation doing
the massages, and encouraging others to do them too. I'm so glad Harry
organized some massage this year!

Rob is currently in hospital. He was diagnosed with a Glioblastoma
Multiforme, essentially brain tumours, inoperable, quickly fatal, and
rather a shock to us all. The diagnosis was further complicated by a
major bleed from the tumours, resulting in a massive stroke. Rob can't
move his right side at all, and has problems swallowing, and has until
this week only been able to communicate by grunting. At last he is
beginning to make words, but any concentrated effort wears him out very
quickly- but it is wonderful to hear him speaking a little again. We are
getting a room ready at home for him to return to, with hospital bed,
hoist, wheelchair, and carers. He is desperate to come home, and we all
want to spend his last few weeks with him here.

Please do pass this news within the Python community as you need to.
Thanks again for sending your message! Hope you enjoyed EuroPython. I
came with Rob to Florence when it was held there, and had a wonderful
time visiting the sights, and then took Rob to the Boboli Gardens when
the conference ended and he had a couple of days of holiday before we
flew home. I also came to the Saturday evening meal last year at PyCon
UK, and it was good to put faces to the names I'd heard Rob mention before.

Best wishes to you, Ann

On 24 July 2016 at 21:28, Anthon van der Neut mailto:a...@europython.eu>> wrote:

Dear Rob,

I don't know if you remember me, but I missed you at EuroPython this
year. I had seen you there every time I went to EuroPython (several
times since 2006) and PyCon UK (a few times in 00's).

At the social event Harry (who did the lightning talks last year, in the
absense of Harald) organized the massage and I realised I had not seen
you yet. I asked around if you are OK, but nobody could give me any
information.

I just wanted to let you know that I like to think your absence was
because you had even better things to do than go to EuroPython, and that
I hope to see you again at a future event.

Regards
Anthon van der Neut
Boardmember/Treasurer EuroPython Society
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Re: [python-uk] File upload with 'requests' package

[Peter Flood]

Are you uploading to S3? 100 Continue is pretty obscure, it's sent by 
the server _before_ the client has sent the body, lots of clients don't 
expect that and handle it badly. See 
https://github.com/boto/boto/issues/2207



On 02/12/2016 16:10, Florian BERBAR wrote:

Good evening everyone,

I try to post a file (100MB) on a Web form with python3 and the 
'requests' package.


This is my implementation :

--BOF- 



#!/usr/local/bin/python3 -u

importrequests

email="u...@srv.fr"

try:
   res = requests.post('http://server/Upload/upload.php',
   files={'aFile': open('/tmp/test.zip','rb')},
   data={'email': email, 'submitFile': 'Envoyer le fichier'})

exceptrequests.exceptions.Timeout:
print('timeout')

print(res.content)

--EOF-

This code semas to be correct, but it return a *ConnectionResetError: 
[Errno 104] Connection reset by peer*


The same upload with curl work perfectly with this command :

curl --form aFile=@"/tmp/test.zip"--form email="u...@srv.fr"--form 
submitFile="Envoyer le fichier"http://server/Upload/upload.php


Thanks to the advance

Florian


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[python-uk] Announcing uk.python.org

[Peter Inglesby]

Hi all,

I'm delighted to announce uk.python.org, a new website that brings together
news and events from the Python community in the UK.  We're also sending
out a monthly newsletter, which you can sign up to via the website.

If you run a regular meetup, are putting on an event that you'd like us to
publicise, or have other news you'd like to share, please let me know!

All the best,

Peter.
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[python-uk] Launching PyCon UK

[Peter Inglesby]

Hi everyone,

I'm delighted to announce that tickets for PyCon UK 2017 are now on sale
from our website <http://2017.pyconuk.org/>.  Our Call for Participation
<http://2017.pyconuk.org/cfp/> is also open, and we've started taking
applications for financial assistance
<http://2017.pyconuk.org/financial-assistance/>.

The conference will be at Cardiff City Hall Thursday 26th to Monday 30th
October, and we hope that we'll see many of you there.

There'll be plenty more announcements over the coming weeks, so keep an eye
out on the UK Python News mailing list <http://uk.python.org/>.

Please share this with your friends and colleagues, and if you have any
questions, get in touch <http://2017.pyconuk.org/contact/>.

Finally, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the PyCon UK Committee
for the work they've already done, and all those who will contribute to the
conference.

~ Peter Inglesby
PyCon UK 2017 Chair
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[python-uk] The UK Python Association

[Peter Inglesby]

Hi all,

The PyCon UK committee have recently registered the the UK Python
Association
<http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityFramework.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1173471>
as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charitable_incorporated_organisation> with
the Charity Commission.

The UKPA is a membership organisation, and in the first instance, anybody
who attends PyCon UK 2017 is entitled to membership. For now, membership
entitles you to vote to elect the organisation's trustees. You can indicate
that you would like to join the UKPA when you buy a ticket for the
conference <http://2017.pyconuk.org/tickets/>, or if you already have a
ticket, when you fill out your profile <https://hq.pyconuk.org/profile/>.

We are looking to elect up to six trustees for the UKPA at the first AGM on
the Saturday of the conference. The trustees will be responsible for the
charity's management and administration, and will be responsible for
appointing a chair for PyCon UK 2018.

If you would like to put yourself forward for election as trustee, please
complete the nomination form <https://hq.pyconuk.org/ukpa/nominations/new/>
by Thursday 12th October.

You can read more about the decision-making behind the formation of the
UKPA here <http://2017.pyconuk.org/ukpa/>.  If you have any questions,
please get in touch with the trustees: trust...@uk.python.org.

I'd like to thank Owen Campbell for the hard work to make this happen.

All the best,

Peter
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Re: [python-uk] Discount code for PyCon PL to Python community in UK

[Peter Inglesby]

Hi all,

Here's a message from our friends in the Polish Python community about a
discount code for PyCon PL <https://pl.pycon.org/2017/index_en.html> at the
end of August.  I've been to PyCon PL a couple of times and have had a very
enjoyable experience.  If you get the chance to go, you should!

Cheers,

Peter



Hi

I would be grateful if you could pass the below code to Python community in
UK.

The discount code is:
UKPYC7

You enter it in "Discount code" field and then when you click PAYMENT
button it will subtract 60 EUR (or 240 PLN) for each of the attendees
you are registering (incorrect code won't allow you to pass to the
next screen). If you encounter any problems just feel free to contact
us - we'll do the best we can to help you. The registration system is
our own Python webapp and under development, so there might still be
some bugs ;-)

Best regards,
Filip

PS. The above code applies only to people from United Kingdom, so you
shouldn't pass it to people from other countries - they will have
their own discount codes.
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[python-uk] PyCon UK 2017 practicalities

[Peter Inglesby]

Hi all,

Here's a version of an email with some conference practicalities that we've
just sent to all ticket holders.  (Not a ticket holder?  Get your ticket
here <http://2017.pyconuk.org/tickets/>!)


*Hotels*

We understand that some Cardiff hotels are getting booked up over the
conference
weekend.  We have put together a list of hotels in central
<http://2017.pyconuk.org/accommodation/>Cardiff
<http://2017.pyconuk.org/accommodation/>, and if you have not already
booked a room, we encourage you to do so soon!


*Accessibility, childcare, and dietary requirements*

It is important to us that the conference is inclusive of the whole
community.  If you have any particular accessibility, childcare, or dietary
requirements, please let us know by filling in your profile
<https://hq.pyconuk.org/profile/> when you buy your ticket.

You can read more about our approach to diversity, accessibility, and
inclusion <http://2017.pyconuk.org/diversity-accessibility-inclusion/> on
our website.


*Conference programme*

This evening we announced details of our keynote speakers
<http://uk.python.org/news/2017/08/23/pyconuk-keynotes-announced/>, and
we'll be announcing the full programme soon.

If you submitted a proposal to our Call for Participation, or an
application for financial assistance, you should hear from us by the end of
the weekend.


*Staying in touch*

You can keep up with the latest from the conference committee by
subscribing to UK Python News <http://uk.python.org/>, and following us on
Twitter <https://twitter.com/PyConUK>.


We hope to see many of you in Cardiff in October!

~ Peter Inglesby
PyCon UK 2017 Chair
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[python-uk] PyCon UK accommodation

[Peter Inglesby]

Hi everyone,

There are rumours that a heavyweight boxing match may be taking place in
Cardiff on the Saturday of PyCon UK, and so accommodation in the city has
been snapped up much more quickly this year than usual.

If you're coming to the conference, *you should book your accommodation now*.
Don’t delay any further!  If you leave it too late, you may find that there
is no more affordable accommodation available.

We have set up a wiki
 for
people to arrange sharing of rooms or rentals, or for anybody in Cardiff to
offer a room in their home.  (We can offer a free conference ticket to
anybody in Cardiff who can put up visitors in their home.)

Please see the accommodation page  on
our website for more details.

To help you plan when to come to the conference, we have also released
a provisional
list  of the talks and workshops that
are happening each day.

All the best

~ The PyCon UK Committee
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[python-uk] PyCon UK 2017: schedule, and last chance to get tickets

[Peter Inglesby]

Hi all,

On behalf of the PyCon UK committee, I'm delighted to announce the full
schedule for PyCon UK 2017 <http://2017.pyconuk.org/schedule/>!

We're hosting a huge number of talks, workshops, and other sessions.
Speakers are coming from all over the world to share their experiments,
discoveries, problems, solutions, achievements, failures, and other
adventures.

There are lots of sessions aimed at beginners and people new to Python, as
well as lots more advanced content.

And we're particularly pleased to have whole tracks dedicated to education
and to data science.

If you don't have your ticket yet, you'll need to get one now
<http://2017.pyconuk.org/tickets/>!  Ticket sales close at the end of
Monday 9th October.

You can keep up to date with conference news by following us on Twitter
<https://twitter.com/PyConUK>, or subscribing to our monthly newsletter
<http://uk.python.org/>.

Thanks!

Peter
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