Comments wanted: Proposed change to install layout

There is a proposal on Python-dev right now (championed by me) to harmonize the install layout for Python between platforms. This change would be most noticeable on Windows. Specifically, using Python 3.3 or above: 1) the 'Scripts' directory would change to 'bin'; 2) python.exe would move to th

Help influence which tutorials are given at PyCon 2011

PyCon is made up of a number of different parts, each with its own goals. For the talks presented during the conference portion of PyCon, we go for both breadth and quality. There are enough different sessions and different tracks that each person can customize their PyCon experience according

PyCon is coming! Tomorrow, Feb. 10 is the last day for pre-conference rates

PyCon is coming! Tomorrow (February 10th) is the last day for pre-conference rates. You can register for PyCon online at: Register while it is still Feb. 10th somewhere in the world and rest easy in the knowledge that within 10 days you will enjoying the comp

The END (of PyCon early bird registration) is NEAR!

Today is the last day of registration for PyCon 2010 at the early bird rate. Registration at the early bird rate is still good as long as it is January 6 somewhere in the world. Register now! - https://us.pycon.org/2010/register/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

PyCon Early Bird is Ending Soon!

Do you have a year-end hole in your training budget? Or will the improved economy let you finally attend a work conference? Come to sunny and warm Atlanta in February for PyCon 2010. Early bird registration ends on January 6. Register: https://us.pycon.org/2010/register/ See the talks: http://us.

Graph library recommendations for large graphs

I am working on a project that will require building and querying large graph objects (initially 8M nodes, 30-40M edges; eventually 40M nodes, 100M edges). NetworkX seems to be the most popular, but I am concerned that a dict representation for nodes would use too much memory -- my initial test

Survey: Does your company use Python? Do you know a company that uses Python?

This is a survey to find as many companies using Python as we can. You can see the survey below: You don't need to work at the company to add it to this list! We will filter for duplicates. The answers to

Extracting text from html

Hello all, Does anyone know of a good tool to get a minimally-formatted text document out of an html document? Something along the lines of what you would get with a lynx -dump, but in Python. I have lxml installed, so I can roll my own if I need to. However, this seemed like the sort of thi

Re: guessing file type

Seldon wrote: Hello, I need to determine programmatically a file type from its content/extension (much like the "file" UNIX command line utility) I searched for a suitable Python library module, with little luck. Do you know something useful ? Python-magic (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytho

Re: Searching for pyvm

Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: > I'm looking for the sources to pyvm, a python virtual machine > implementation which can run Python 2.4 bytecode. The tarball for pyvm returns a 404, but you can still get the code to pyvm by getting archive.org's copy: http://web.archive.org/web/20061012230953/http:

Re: 2.6, 3.0, and truly independent intepreters

Jesse Noller wrote: > Even luminaries such as Brian Goetz and many, many others have pointed > out that threading, as it exists today is fundamentally difficult to > get right. Ergo the "renaissance" (read: echo chamber) towards > Erlang-style concurrency. I think this is slightly missing what An

Re: Billing system written in python

AC Perdon wrote: I was thinking of using django but Im more looking in to a ready made billing system that I will just do some tweaking and fine tunning to meet our need. like jbilling. Look at Fivedash (fivedash.com), it may be what you need. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python

Re: Pycon disappointment

Bruce, I can't speak to your issues with the normal sessions, but your bad experience with the lightning talks was my fault. And, in apologizing to you, I hope that all the others on this thread who have expressed similar sentiments hear me too. Ultimately, we miscalculated in certain respects

Re: Is there any python lib for NAT transversal?

Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: > Divmod Vertex is such a library (it does a few other things as well), but > it is not nearly complete and has little documentation. Can you comment on the differences and similarities between Q2Q and Jingle? They appear to be targeting similar problems. Thanks, Van

Re: [PyCON-Organizers] Next PyCon Organizers' Meeting Tuesday, 11 September

Laura Creighton wrote: > Does this mean that if you do not have a google account, and do not > want one, there is no way to join the meeting? No. Any jabber/xmpp account will do fine. Google is just the highest-profile provider of jabber accounts. There is a list of other account providers on

Re: Trying to find zip codes/rest example

Terry Reedy wrote: > No, but does the localflavor entry on > http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/docs/add_ons.txt?rev=5118 > help? (found with Google) Thanks, but no. A friend asked for advice about implementing a password-checking interface; I remembered that the method describe

Trying to find zip codes/rest example

discussion. Does anybody remember this demo and where I might be able to find it? Thanks, VanL -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Intellectual Property Talk at PyCon

Robert Kern wrote: > I don't have any suggestions for other material to cover, but I'd like to > express my interest in keeping this in your agenda. This is an issue that > crops > up again and again with ill-informed opinions all around. Thanks for the feedback. +1 for discussing GPL incorpor

Intellectual Property Talk at PyCon

I will be presenting a talk at PyCon, "The Absolute Minimum an Open Source Developer Needs to Know About Intellectual Property." I want to tailor this talk so that it is interesting to as many attendees as possible. I am familiar with a lot of the internal divisions in the Free Software/Open S

Tuple Question

Hello, Why is this? >>> class MyTuple(tuple): ... def __getitem__(self, name): ... return tuple.__getitem__(self, name) ... >>> data = (1,2,3,4,5) >>> t = MyTuple(data) >>> t[0] Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? File "", line 3, in __getitem__ TypeError: descr