Re: [BangPypers] Why do indians copy?

2009-10-18 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
Python actually happening on this list. As for my fragile ego, thanks for your concern, but it won't be good riddance for a long time to come I am afraid. Jayanth z0ltan > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Srijayanth Sridhar > wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 15,

Re: [BangPypers] Why do indians copy?

2009-10-15 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Thursday 15 Oct 2009 3:52:39 pm Srijayanth Sridhar wrote: > > I brought up the same topic a few months ago I think. Basically if you go > > to the Ruby forums > > no real programmer goes to forums - they use

Re: [BangPypers] Why do indians copy?

2009-10-15 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
I brought up the same topic a few months ago I think. Basically if you go to the Ruby forums you'll find that on an average, there's at least one Indian person a day who asks for solutions. A lot has to do with context and the way the education system works. There is no active fostering of individu

Re: [BangPypers] Python at Schools

2009-09-30 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
Not sure how many people here were taught Logo as their first language. I was, and most people regard it as a toy language because most teachers focus exclusively on the graphical aspects of the language. However, few know that Logo was inspired by Lisp and can handle fairly decent logical stuff to

Re: [BangPypers] hardware access using python

2009-09-04 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Bharat Pathak wrote: > Dear Friends, > > Where can I get information on how to access serial > and parallel port in python? > > I have tried pyserial and pyparallel package. but it in > turn looks for "java communications" and jython I guess. >

Re: [BangPypers] Using dogtail to test/automate gtk apps

2009-07-29 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
2009 at 6:53 AM, Nagappan Alagappan wrote: > Hello Jayanth, > > If you are using latest distribution, you can see all the accessible > information through Accerciser application. > > Thanks > Nagappan > > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Srijayanth Sridhar > wrote

Re: [BangPypers] Using dogtail to test/automate gtk apps

2009-07-29 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
ith LDTP [1] ? Its being used by > GNOME automation project [2], Ubuntu, VMware, Palm Source. > > [1] - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org > [2] - http://mago.ubuntu.com > > Thanks > Nagappan > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Srijayanth Sridhar > wrote: > >> Hello,

[BangPypers] Using dogtail to test/automate gtk apps

2009-07-29 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
Hello, I am trying to use dogtail to make a demonstration about automating tests for certain gtk applications we develop. I managed to get a fair bit of it working but I am having a hard time getting dogtail to send events to certain types of widgets, primarily the EventBox widget. I've googled a

Re: [BangPypers] Testing for documentation as a release criterion

2009-06-18 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Vishal wrote: > If you run PyLint on any Python file...it gives you documentation > percentage of functions, methods, class, modules in your code tree. > it prints that out as a table. if you can scrap that info from the > resulting file...that should help as well

[BangPypers] Testing for documentation as a release criterion

2009-06-18 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
Hello, I am currently thinking about enforcing the following standard for a small demo project that might evolve into something larger pending approval(which was why the request for training programmes). Every module, every class and every function should have documentation. To enforce this, I wr

Re: [BangPypers] which is better solution of the question

2009-06-17 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > > If you don't like s[::-1], then the closest would be > > ''.join([item for item in reversed(s)]), but that ain't close enough :) > I don't hate it enough to not use it. I am just saying it from a perspective of readability I suppose. C

Re: [BangPypers] which is better solution of the question

2009-06-17 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai < abpil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Anand Chitipothu > wrote: > >> > >> > Don't use sorted(..., reverse=True). Instead reverse the list in place >> > by using reverse slicing of l[-1::-1], which is about 1

Re: [BangPypers] Good Python training in blr

2009-06-16 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:02 AM, jayasimha makineni < jayasimha.makin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Kenneth, > > You have been hitting the nail on its head repeatedly. I enjoy watching > (reading) that. > > Let us train more programmers who can truly be *programmers*. Python is > perhaps the best vehicl

[BangPypers] Good Python training in blr

2009-06-15 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
Hello, Are there any good python training programs in Bangalore? Can anybody point me in the right direction? This isn't for me, its for colleagues who might need to learn Python for an upcoming project. Thank you, Jayanth ___ BangPypers mailing list B

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > 2009/6/12 Srijayanth Sridhar : > > As we speak: > > > > http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/339092 > > > > Jayanth > > Don't blame the poor chap here. Blame microsoft f

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Pradeep Gowda wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:43 AM, vid wrote: > > hmm kindly define "real name"[0], "real identity" with respect to > > the online world. If the owner of had used > > "Manmohan Singh" or "Rita Rai" instead of "testing123 test", would you

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
> > I have worked with many people who are very reluctant to post to a forum > asking for help. They will spend a whole day trying to figure out the > issue all by themselves. It became so bad that we had to institute a 30 > minutes rule (if you can't solve an issue in 30 minutes - seek help) to >

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
> > > Anyway, this kind of questions are normally seen with devs who are > just starting off and doesn't have either the curiosity or the time to > devote some time to look at the issues, before asking for help. > Most of the time they can be correct with a gentle nudge in the righ > direction

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Jeff Rush wrote: > Mandar Gokhale wrote: > > Okay, that was really hilarious. But I still believe the issue is not > > confined to Indian developers but *stupid* developers from everywhere. > > It definitely is not confined to Indian developers - I see it from > d

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Mandar Gokhale wrote: > Okay, that was really hilarious. But I still believe the issue is not > confined to Indian developers but *stupid* developers from everywhere. Maybe > the sheer size of the software industry in India as well as the nature of a > lot of work

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
As we speak: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/339092 Jayanth On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Srijayanth Sridhar wrote: > the problem is that our education systems teaches tools and not concepts. >> And >> industry also wants people who can use tools a

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
> > the problem is that our education systems teaches tools and not concepts. > And > industry also wants people who can use tools and cannot think for > themselves. > Remember that most of our so-called IT industry does not produce software, > but > just writes code. > While I agree that the prob

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
> > Just a slightly unrelated question here...doesn't the industry follow > .NET and Java more than Python/Perl as well? (I've heard this said by > several people in the States as well.) So maybe a change in the industry > mindset would help.. > > True, but my larger point was about their unwi

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Friday 12 June 2009 12:34:18 Srijayanth Sridhar wrote: > > wrt my earlier question, the following blog is a nice writeup. I realize > > its Ruby, but the general principles of posting on a newsgroup/forum > a

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
Hello, wrt my earlier question, the following blog is a nice writeup. I realize its Ruby, but the general principles of posting on a newsgroup/forum apply. http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/posts/jamesbritt/and_your_Mom_too.html Thank you, Jayanth On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Srijayanth

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-11 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
Yeah, I second your thoughts on incompetence. My company's conducting interviews of freshers, and you'll be amazed at the answers I get for "What is a hash table?". One bright bulb answered it with "It is a hash function table". My standard opening interview question is to ask them to write a simpl

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-11 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
. Jayanth On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Pradeep Gowda wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Sridhar > Ratnakumar wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Srijayanth Sridhar > wrote: > > > I don't know the reasons either, but would like to know too. > >

Re: [BangPypers] Regarding 2 XML Files Comparision using Python

2009-06-04 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
Hello, My name is Jayanth. I am new to BangPypers and Python in general. I have been working on Ruby however so I am not lost or anything. I wanted to point out that on ruby-lang several posters from India seem to have no concept of how to phrase questions. They also lack the basic curiosity to t