Python SIG for Healthcare IT

2011-03-11 Thread Brad Allen
For those seeking to work with Python-based tools in the healthcare IT industry, this SIG ("special interest group") can provide a forum to discuss challenges and hopefully foster knowledge sharing and tools development. Relevant topics include tools for working with healthcare standard data format

Re: method to intercept string formatting % operations

2010-02-05 Thread Brad Allen
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > Anyway why would you want to use the tuple form ? it's beaten in every > aspect by the dictionary form. I'm subclassing a namedtuple, and adding some additional functionality such as __getitem__, __setitem__, so that the namedtuple a

Re: [dfwPython] A Few More Forrester Survey Questions

2007-05-18 Thread Brad Allen
At 10:22 AM -0500 5/18/07, Jeff Rush wrote: >I'm down to the wire here on answering the Forrester survey but am stumped on >a few questions I hope someone can help me out with. > >1) What -existing- examples of the use of Python to create social >web applications are there? These include chat,

Re: [python-advocacy] A Pythonic Way to Measure and Improve Your Programming Skills?

2007-03-10 Thread Brad Allen
At 9:10 AM -0800 3/10/07, Michael Bernstein wrote: >On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 10:01 -0600, Brad Allen wrote: > >> When I discussed this problem with Michael Bernstein at PyCon he suggested >> the idea of creating a "chroot jail" for each web session which could run >

Re: [python-advocacy] A Pythonic Way to Measure and Improve Your Programming Skills?

2007-03-10 Thread Brad Allen
At 6:05 AM -0600 3/9/07, Jeff Rush wrote: >Prior to PyCon I'd been thinking about some kind of campaign, service or >documents, that I call "So you think you know Python...". My initial idea was >for use by Python programmers, who are honest with themselves, to have a way >to measure their knowled

PyCon 2007: What talks/tutorials/panels do you want to see?

2006-09-30 Thread Brad Allen
This thread is for posting ideas and general brainstorming about what kinds of talks folks would be interested in seeing at PyCon 2007. The idea is to inspire volunteer speakers to propose talks that they might not otherwise realize would be popular, and to give PyCon organizers a whiff of fresh co

Re: does anybody earn a living programming in python?

2006-09-30 Thread Brad Allen
I'll attest that we have a shortage of Python developers in the Dallas area; in the DFW Python user group (dfwpython.org) we occasionally encounter local employers who have trouble finding local Python developers who can take on new work. Most of the group members are already employed, so the stand

Re: Pythondocs.info : collaborative Python documentation project

2006-09-17 Thread Brad Allen
A.M. Kuchling wrote: > However, this code isn't used at the moment because I have no idea > what to do about version controlling the links. Do we just use the > current links whenever the HTML is generated? Make a copy of the list > and commit them into SVN, so the links cease to be updated but

Re: Pythondocs.info : collaborative Python documentation project

2006-09-17 Thread Brad Allen
Kay Schluehr wrote: > Personally, I never found the Python docs particular bad. It is > rewarding to write good documentation because documentation has > different aspects i.e. introductory/tutorial, exhaustive/manual and > design documentation aspects. Not to mention cookbook recipes. > > I also

Python getting some positive attention at digg.com

2006-09-17 Thread Brad Allen
This made it to the front page of digg.com yesterday, and is now up to 597 diggs. It has some discussion among folks who are trying to decide which language to learn next...if any of you Pythonistas have digg accounts, you might want to chime in. http://digg.com/programming/Python_Programming_for_

Re: Pythondocs.info : collaborative Python documentation project

2006-09-17 Thread Brad Allen
Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote: > On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:30:56 -0700, Robert Hicks wrote: > > > That said...the Python docs are open source. Just start going through > > them and adding examples. > > ASPN (activestate) is a good place for examples... Yes, but that requires a separate search and depe

Re: Pythondocs.info : collaborative Python documentation project

2006-09-16 Thread Brad Allen
Here is an idea for improving Python official documentation: Provide a tab-based interface for each entry, with the overview/summary at the top-level, with a row of tabs underneath: 1. Official documentation, with commentary posted at the bottom (ala Django documentation) 2. Exampl