Re: [BangPypers] List guidelines (was: [JOB] - Yahoo!)

2011-09-14 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Senthil Kumaran wrote: > > I hear from others (BRUG, BarCamp Bangalore) that first time posters who > > send recruitment mails are simply rejected. That sounds like a sane > > policy to me. > > No. First time posters are welcome. Spammers are not. > Our policy at

Re: [BangPypers] About pypy and bangpypers

2011-09-14 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Ramakrishna Reddy writes: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > >> >> I'm asking because I'm interested. I'd like to see how I can package >> pypy for Belenix someday, and I want to pair with various python >> programmers and understand how people think about a platform wh

Re: [BangPypers] About pypy and bangpypers

2011-09-14 Thread Ramakrishna Reddy
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > > I'm asking because I'm interested. I'd like to see how I can package > pypy for Belenix someday, and I want to pair with various python > programmers and understand how people think about a platform when > considering it for use. Fedor

Re: [BangPypers] List guidelines

2011-09-14 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > Fair enough. > > I don't think we'll ever arrive at an agreement about politeness and > decorum so I'll personally stick to the common denominator and stay > formal. > I'd say we should bring down this "formal" stuff a bit. > -- > ~nou

Re: [BangPypers] List guidelines

2011-09-14 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Anand Balachandran Pillai writes: [...] > If we get to a stage where we are really swamped by non-Pythonic > JOB posting robots, we can incrementally take a better stand. > No need for worrying about hypothetical scenarios now. > Show some flexibility. [...] Fair enough. I don't think w

Re: [BangPypers] About pypy and bangpypers

2011-09-14 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Sriram Narayanan writes: > On 9/14/11, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > >> >> I was hoping to resurrect this after PyCon India this weekend. I'm eager >> to get it going. >> > > Sounds good. I'll begin preparation for the meetup. For me, getting > pypy to work will be a bit special, since I'll need to "p

[BangPypers] URGENT: problem using Pyserial in Python

2011-09-14 Thread Jayneil Dalal
Dear Sir/Madam, I am currently trying to develop a GUI for serial communication based on Python. Following are my specs: OS:Linux( Ubuntu 11.04) Python version: 3.1.3 Pyserial version: 2.5 I did the following in IDLE : 1)import serial 2)import time 3)ser=serial.Serial() 4)ser.port="/dev/ttyS0" N

Re: [BangPypers] About pypy and bangpypers

2011-09-14 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > On 9/14/11, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > > > > I was hoping to resurrect this after PyCon India this weekend. I'm eager > > to get it going. > Same here. Looking fwd to meet up on this after Pycon India. > > > > Sounds good. I'll begin pr

Re: [BangPypers] List guidelines

2011-09-14 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Senthil Kumaran wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > > Am I the only one who thinks this is backward? > > No, definitely not. But you seem to be giving undue importance to this > discussion by creating hypothetical scenarios. I thin

Re: [BangPypers] List guidelines (was: [JOB] - Yahoo!)

2011-09-14 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah wrote: > On 14 September 2011 18:10, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > My thoughts, > > This is Python mailing list. The mails should be wither around the topic. > If a recruiter sends a mail for job XYZ which explicitly not invites people > with p

Re: [BangPypers] About pypy and bangpypers

2011-09-14 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On 9/14/11, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > I was hoping to resurrect this after PyCon India this weekend. I'm eager > to get it going. > Sounds good. I'll begin preparation for the meetup. For me, getting pypy to work will be a bit special, since I'll need to "port" it to run with what ever's availab

Re: [BangPypers] About pypy and bangpypers

2011-09-14 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Sriram Narayanan writes: > All: > > Some weeks ago, there was some discussion of a meetup to figure out > what we could do with pypy. Have any list members conducted any > investigations on that ? > > I'm asking because I'm interested. I'd like to see how I can package > pypy for Belenix someday,

[BangPypers] About pypy and bangpypers

2011-09-14 Thread Sriram Narayanan
All: Some weeks ago, there was some discussion of a meetup to figure out what we could do with pypy. Have any list members conducted any investigations on that ? I'm asking because I'm interested. I'd like to see how I can package pypy for Belenix someday, and I want to pair with various python p

Re: [BangPypers] List guidelines

2011-09-14 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On 9/14/11, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Senthil Kumaran writes: > >> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> >>> Am I the only one who thinks this is backward? >> >> No, definitely not. But you seem to be giving undue importance to this >> discussion by creating hypothetical scenar

Re: [BangPypers] List guidelines

2011-09-14 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Senthil Kumaran writes: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > >> Am I the only one who thinks this is backward? > > No, definitely not. But you seem to be giving undue importance to this > discussion by creating hypothetical scenarios. I think, we can > tolerate some mistak

Re: [BangPypers] List guidelines

2011-09-14 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Am I the only one who thinks this is backward? No, definitely not. But you seem to be giving undue importance to this discussion by creating hypothetical scenarios. I think, we can tolerate some mistakes and just stay focused. -- Senthi

[BangPypers] wx.TreeCtrl !

2011-09-14 Thread aßlเίlαslเ
Hi, need help to create a wx.TreeCtrl that can list all my memory Drive with all the folder in a hierarchical Tree structure, and can multiple folders can be selected to do task like copy/paste/delete need help on wx as how to go abt it... -- aßlเίlαslเ _

Re: [BangPypers] List guidelines

2011-09-14 Thread Shekhar Tiwatne
On Wednesday 14 September 2011 07:05 PM, Umar Shah wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: Umar Shah writes: [...] People who are interested in just python jobs as most of guys here would be cant easily filter out non python ones. [...] So, random headhunters/recrui

Re: [BangPypers] List guidelines

2011-09-14 Thread Umar Shah
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Umar Shah writes: > > [...] > > > People who are interested in just python jobs as most of guys here > > would be cant easily filter out non python ones. > > [...] > > So, random headhunters/recruiters are free to use this list to post for

Re: [BangPypers] List guidelines

2011-09-14 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 06:47:58PM +0530, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > So, job postings not at all related to Python are fine as long as > they're prefixed with [JOB]? I thought the question was for Python jobs. If the question is for any job, then no. We may not expect irrelevant jobs to be posted her

Re: [BangPypers] List guidelines (was: [JOB] - Yahoo!)

2011-09-14 Thread Sreekanth S Rameshaiah
On 14 September 2011 18:10, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: My thoughts, This is Python mailing list. The mails should be wither around the topic. If a recruiter sends a mail for job XYZ which explicitly not invites people with python skils to apply, this list should treat it as spam. If some asks a Jav

Re: [BangPypers] List guidelines

2011-09-14 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Umar Shah writes: [...] > People who are interested in just python jobs as most of guys here > would be cant easily filter out non python ones. [...] So, random headhunters/recruiters are free to use this list to post for any job postings but the onus is on the list members to filter out the P

Re: [BangPypers] List guidelines

2011-09-14 Thread Umar Shah
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Senthil Kumaran writes: > > > [...] > > > My recollection from history is, it needs to be prefixed with [JOB] > > and jobs are not considered spam by many. I think, prefixing with JOB > > can help also people to filter them to spam folder,

Re: [BangPypers] List guidelines

2011-09-14 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Senthil Kumaran writes: [...] > My recollection from history is, it needs to be prefixed with [JOB] > and jobs are not considered spam by many. I think, prefixing with JOB > can help also people to filter them to spam folder, if they prefer it > that way. So, job postings not at all related to

Re: [BangPypers] List guidelines

2011-09-14 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 06:27:10PM +0530, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Senthil Kumaran writes: > > If there is a mistake, correct it. Don't ridicule. > > Absolutely no light hearted jabs. Total shrink wrapped politeness would > make for a very dull corporate atmosphere. I don't like it myself but if >

Re: [BangPypers] List guidelines (was: [JOB] - Yahoo!)

2011-09-14 Thread Ramakrishna Reddy
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > This is obviously dividing the list into camps and that's not healthy. Nothing wrong in one expressing their opinion, I would not take it as unhealthy or it would divide camps. Its an open mailing list. OTOH People being open about their

Re: [BangPypers] List guidelines

2011-09-14 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Senthil Kumaran writes: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 06:10:14PM +0530, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> What is the official stance of the list owners on this kind of post? It >> would be good to know and state it so that this kind of thing is avoided >> again. > > If there is a mistake, correct it. Don't r

Re: [BangPypers] List guidelines (was: [JOB] - Yahoo!)

2011-09-14 Thread Umar Shah
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Senthil Kumaran wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 06:10:14PM +0530, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > What is the official stance of the list owners on this kind of post? It > > would be good to know and state it so that this kind of thing is avoided > > again. > > If there

Re: [BangPypers] List guidelines (was: [JOB] - Yahoo!)

2011-09-14 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 06:10:14PM +0530, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > What is the official stance of the list owners on this kind of post? It > would be good to know and state it so that this kind of thing is avoided > again. If there is a mistake, correct it. Don't ridicule. > > I hear from others

Re: [BangPypers] [JOB] - Yahoo!

2011-09-14 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 05:30:04PM +0530, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: > On 13-Sep-2011, at 9:40 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: > > > FWIW, I didn't have an opinion on the OT job posting because I didn't > > read it. But I must add that, it would be hypocritical to *not* poke > > fun at companies, especi

[BangPypers] List guidelines (was: [JOB] - Yahoo!)

2011-09-14 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
This is obviously dividing the list into camps and that's not healthy. What is the official stance of the list owners on this kind of post? It would be good to know and state it so that this kind of thing is avoided again. I hear from others (BRUG, BarCamp Bangalore) that first time posters who

Re: [BangPypers] [JOB] - Yahoo!

2011-09-14 Thread Venkatraman S
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Baishampayan Ghose wrote: > +1 Trillion to Roshan (of which a few Billions are just for the style). > Roshan is otherwise known as as 'Wally' ...Scott Adams inspiration. Hic! -V ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@py

Re: [BangPypers] [JOB] - Yahoo!

2011-09-14 Thread Baishampayan Ghose
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: > +1. Censoring opinion does no one any good. I'm with Noufal and Roshan on > this thread. > > Public criticism can help companies get unstuck *really fast*, as I learnt > about Y! last month in a separate incident. If, as in this case,

Re: [BangPypers] [JOB] - Yahoo!

2011-09-14 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 13-Sep-2011, at 9:40 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: > FWIW, I didn't have an opinion on the OT job posting because I didn't > read it. But I must add that, it would be hypocritical to *not* poke > fun at companies, especially bumbling, incompetent, soon to be extinct > lumbering dinosaurs, (that do

[BangPypers] Python mechanize Change the Location of Google search

2011-09-14 Thread Saju M
I want to open Google search page and Change the Location link in the left hand nav of Google) from the users current location to a different location, then return the results of the updated search. I done following coding. Issue is, Left side Change Location form of google is javacript driven, So

Re: [BangPypers] [JOB] - Yahoo!

2011-09-14 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Sudheer Satyanarayana < sudhee...@sudheer.net> wrote: > > Noufal has already replied to this. My response is to those parts that > weren't addressed. > >> Cut the heat. >> > Sorry? I do not understand what heat you are referring to. Dont take it personally. It wa