... say around the end of June.
Cheers,
-- Wesley
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"A computer never does what you want... only what you tell it."
+wesley chun <http://google.com/+WesleyChun> : wescpy at gmail :
@wescpy<http://twitter.com/wescpy>
Python training & consulting : h
t. reach out to me directly with any questions and
let other folks know who may be interested.
best regards,
--wesley
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:07 PM, wesley chun wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I'll be doing another hardcore Python course this summer in the San
> Francisco area. If
around OSCON's timeframe.
Hope to meet some of you soon!
--Wesley Chun
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"A computer never does what you want... only what you tell it."
wesley chun : wescpy at gmail : @wescpy/+wescpy
Python training & consu
fwiw, i've given a related talk a couple of times on this subject, the
most recent of which was at EuroPython this summer:
http://ep2011.europython.eu/conference/talks/writing-books-using-python-open-source-software
the content includes a couple of the tools mentioned in this thread as
well as som
in recent news...
Python wins LinuxJournal's Readers' Choice Awards 2011 as Best
Programming Language:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/slideshow/readers-choice-2011?page=27
yee-haw!! it's even more amazing that Python has won this title 3
straight years. let's celebrate and get back to building great
** FINAL CALL **
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From: wesley chun
Date: Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:32 PM
Subject: ANN: Intro+Intermediate Python course, SF, Oct 18-20
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>>On Sep 30, 4:58 am, "lallous" wrote:
>>
>> Can anyone suggest a good book Python book for advancing from beginner level?
>> (I started with Learning Python 3rd ed)
>
> From: James Matthews
> Date: Wed Sep 30 18:47:58 CEST 2009
>
> I like core python programming and dive into python.
hi Elias,
ng out of
the gate. Daily hands-on labs will help hammer the concepts home.
Come join me, Wesley Chun, author of Prentice-Hall's bestseller "Core
Python Programming," for a comprehensive course coming up this Fall in
beautiful Northern California to get up-to-speed with Python as
qui
On Jul 31, 1:10 pm, kj wrote:
> I'm pretty new to Python, and I like a lot overall, but I find the
> documentation for Python rather poor, overall.
>
> I'm sure that Python experts don't have this problem:
kj,
welcome to Python! i'm sorry that you find the documentation lacking.
the one thing a
On Jul 7, 1:04 pm, kj wrote:
> I'm having a hard time coming up with a reasonable way to explain
> certain things to programming novices.
> :
> How do I explain to rank beginners (no programming experience at
> all) why x and y remain unchanged above, but not z?
> :
> What do you say to th
class!
cheers,
-wesley
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:45 PM, wesley chun wrote:
> Need to get up-to-speed with Python as quickly as possible? Come join
> me, Wesley Chun, author of Prentice-Hall's bestseller "Core Python
> Programming," for a comprehensive intro course comin
Need to get up-to-speed with Python as quickly as possible? Come join
me, Wesley Chun, author of Prentice-Hall's bestseller "Core Python
Programming," for a comprehensive intro course coming up this June in
beautiful Northern California! Please pass on this note to whomever
y
> when i call a method foo from another method func. can i access func context
> variables or locals() from foo
> so
> def func():
> i=10
> foo()
>
> in foo, can i access func's local variables
A. python has statically-nested scoping, so you can do it as long as you:
1. define foo() as an in
age --
From: wesley chun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:21 AM
Subject: [ANN] final 2008 Python courses, San Francisco
To: python-list@python.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need to get up-to-speed with Python as quickly as possible? Come join
me, Wesley Chun, author of Prentice-Hall
Need to get up-to-speed with Python as quickly as possible? Come join
me, Wesley Chun, author of Prentice-Hall's bestseller "Core Python
Programming," for another comprehensive intro course plus a 1-day
Internet programming course coming up in November in beautiful
Northern Cal
have you guys seen this on Slashdot yet? (i did a quick search in the
archives and haven't seen any posts yet so hopefully this isn't a
duplicate msg!)
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/08/06/16/1855209.shtml
this video is a visualization of the commits to the source base (and
made by who
*** my apologies... this training course is next month, not this Fall! ***
contact me privately off-list for further details. thanks!
> FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT
>
> Need to get up-to-speed with Python as quickly as possible? Come join
> me, Wesley Chun, author of Prentice-Hall's we
FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Need to get up-to-speed with Python as quickly as possible? Come join
me, Wesley Chun, author of Prentice-Hall's well-received "Core Python
Programming," for another comprehensive intro course next month in
beautiful Northern California! I look forward
http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/03/18/1633229.shtml
it was surprising and disappointing that Python was not mentioned
*anywhere* in that article but when someone replied, it sparked a long
thread of post-discussion.
-- wesley
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"Core Python P
> > You're mixing two completely different approaches of building a
> > property. If that code is actually in the book like that, that's a typo
> > that you should mention to the author.
> > :
> > The recipe you're referring to uses a magical function that returns a
> > dictionary of getter f
> > 6-11 Conversion.
> > (a) Create a program that will convert from an integer to an
> > Internet Protocol (IP) address in the four-octet format of WWW.XXX.YYY.ZZZ
> > (b) Update your program to be able to do the vice verse of the above.
>
> I think it's is asking to convert a 32-bit int to th
$1295/pp for the intro course and $495/ for the 1-day course (but $395
if you take the intro course too).
http://cyberwebconsulting.com (click "Python Training") for more details
-wesley
On 8/23/07, Jeff Pang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sounds good.How about the costs for those lessons?thanks.
Folks, I'd like to announce my final Python courses for 2007:
Need to get up-to-speed with Python as quickly as possible? Come join
me, Wesley Chun, author of Prentice-Hall's well-received "Core Python
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Northern C
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: 23 Mar 2007 06:20:15 -0700
>
> Core Python Programming is mostly theory and very little code. It's
> good for reference and digging deeper into the language...
let me clarify here that mike's statement refers to the total number
of large applications in the book.
I'll be giving a variety of Python courses this Spring. Daytime
courses are for visitors and locals who need Python training in the
shortest amount of time possible via consecutive workdays. Python is
certainly gaining momentum as our February course filled up
completely! Although I had planned
On Mar 20, 8:33 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mar 20, 1:56 am, Tina I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I am trying to screen scrape some stock data from yahoo, so I am
> > > trying to use urllib2 to retrieve the html and beautiful soup for the
> > > parsing.
>
> You can do this fairly easily. I
On Mar 8, 7:06 pm, Tommy Nordgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could some kind soul please recommend a few textbooks on Python 2.5
> and it's class library?
it's not necessary to have a 2.5 book that can introduce you to the
modules of the Python Standard Library (not all modules are [or have]
cl
Robert Hicks wrote:
> I would get "Core Python Programming" by Wesley Chun. It covers just
> about everything under the sun and includes version 2.5.
Robert, thanks for the plug. if the OP wants to learn more about my
book and its philosophy, feel free to check out my commen
apologies to all... this is the Intro course, not Advanced as the orig
subject line stated, and it takes place Feb 7-9, 2007.
On 1/12/07, wesley chun wrote:
> FINAL REMINDER... we still have some seats left!
>
> What: (Intensive) Intro to Python
> When: February 7-9, 2007
FINAL REMINDER... we still have some seats left!
What: (Intensive) Intro to Python
When: February 7-9, 2007
Where: San Francisco (SFO/San Bruno), CA, USA
Web:http://cyberwebconsulting.com (click "Python Training" link)
Need to get up-to-speed with Python as quickly as possible? Come join
(mostly off-topic)
vertu makes a $310,000US cell phone which has rubies on it. i thought
it was quite interesting that they have a "cheaper" phone ($115,000)
called Python which *doesn't* have rubies:
http://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/biz2/cellphone
better order yours now since only 26 will be ma
reminder that we have a "lite" meeting this thursday evening at
Google. it is a meet-n-greet event, almost a "long random access"
session where folks introduce themselves, mingle/network, discuss
common interests, and get to know one another in the community. we may
discuss any number of current t
the silicon valley-san francisco bay area python users group meets at
the Googleplex once a month in mountain view, CA.
more info and directions available at http://baypiggies.net
-- Forwarded message --
From: Dennis Reinhardt
Date: Nov 2, 2006 9:03 PM
To: Python <[EMAIL PROTECTED
> has anybody got any experience opening and manilpulating excel
> spreedsheets via python? it seems pythoncom allows this to happen
i posted a couple of snippets along with others in this earlier thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/a7ed60067ca5a8d4
the
(warning: LONG reply)
thanks to those above for the kind remarks. tackling comments
and questions, not quite in chronological order. :-)
> Who would you say the book is aimed at? Advanced programmers?
this book is targeted towards technical professionals already
literate in another high-level
> From: Tom Plunket
> Date: Tues, Oct 17 2006 6:34 pm
>
> You've got a lot of sleep calls in there- did you find that things
> behaved erratically without them? I haven't done any Office
> automation with Python, but my DevStudio stuff has always worked a
> treat without the sleep calls.
sorry,
Final REMINDER:
Tonight, the Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay Area Python users group
meets at Google in Mountain View from 7:30-9p.
the featured speaker is Alex Martelli, author of O'Reilly's Python in
a Nutshell and editor of the Python Cookbook(s). the topic is Python
2.5.
for more info and
> just a small OT question coming from a linux openoffice
> system...
>
> Does there exist something similar for powerpoint? Would be
> nice, if anybody can direct me to more examples...
fabian,
see below for a PP example. you mentioned you were coming from a
linux OOo system... are you trying
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Tues, Oct 10 2006 2:08 pm
>
> I'm a Python newbie, and I'm just getting to the wonders of COM
> programming.
welcome to Python!! i too, have (recently) been interested in COM
programming, so much so that i added some material on Microsoft Office
(Win32 COM Clien
Come join us in beautiful Northern California for another rigorous
Python training event taught by software engineer, "Core Python
Programming" author, and technical instructor, Wesley Chun. This
course will take place in San Bruno right near the San Francisco
International Airport at th
> Following a discussion with an associate at work about various ways to
build strings from variables in python, I'd like to hear your opinions
and preferred methods.
from the performance standpoint, i believe that #4 (list join) from
scott is the fastest. #1 (string formatting) is next preferred
as fredrik and others have mentioned, '%%' in a format string gives
you the single '%' in the string as desired.
however, in your specific application (database), it's best to avoid
using Python's string formatting unless that is the default provided
by your database adapter for the reasons that c
as others have said, that project provides a working interface to OOo
(OpenOffice 2 on Ubuntu Breezy and Dapper). i've made several posts
to this regard over the summer here on CLP. i was mostly using it to
"mess around" with documents in StarWriter.
cheers,
-- wesley
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> From: "OKB (not okblacke)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 04:04:02 GMT
>
>> - at yahoo, we developed yahoo!mail in python (and some C++)
>> - at synarc, i wrote software for doctors in python (and some C)
>> - at ironport, most everything is in python (and some C, PyRex)
>
> T
> "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > as a side note, the ints that are cached (for current versions of
> > Python) are in range(-1, 100)... is this documented somewhere?
> Not true for at least 2.4 and 2.5. The cached range has expanded
oops, apologies to all... it really *is* subject t
as a side note, the ints that are cached (for current versions of
Python) are in range(-1, 100)... is this documented somewhere? i know
it's subject to change. and as already mentioned, you probably
wouldn't use "is" this way in real code... i know you are just
reinforcing your learning of the dif
since 1997, i've been pretty much working full-time in Python:
- at yahoo, we developed yahoo!mail in python (and some C++)
- at synarc, i wrote software for doctors in python (and some C)
- at ironport, most everything is in python (and some C, PyRex). we
have a million lines in python (http://www
> From: Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sat, Sep 23 2006 12:03 pm
>
>> i cover through 2.5, but also include stuff that have
>> already been slated for 2.6 and 2.7.
>
> and what would that be? target versions in the PEP:s are usually just
> wild guesses...
true, and it's obviously a *b
> From: "Rrajal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, Sep 18 2006 9:50 am
> Subject: Re: Help
> Groups: comp.lang.python
>
> Hi there, I am new in this subject so could you please tell
> me from where I can get help (or good e-book) of python?
do you have some kind of programming background? if so,
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> crystalattice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> From: "Sebastian Bassi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> Date: Thurs, Aug 31 2006 7:51 am
>>> Subject: Re: Timeline for Python?
>>> Groups: comp.lang.python
>>>
>>> I am working on a Python book, since it could be completed
in parallel to Mark's week-long Python seminar (Nov 6-10), we are
offering an alternative session focusing only on advanced topics. it is
3-days long (Nov 8-10) and will be held in San Francisco.
course description:
http://roadkill.com/~wesc/cyberweb/pp2dsc.html
general information:
http://cyberw
well received after speaking with some
(OSCON) conference attendees who saw the rough draft last week at
the convention bookstore.
hope this helps!
-wesley
> From: John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tues, Aug 1 2006 6:48 am
>
> wesley chun wrote:
>> if yo
gene tani wrote:
> IOANNIS MANOLOUDIS wrote:
> > I want to learn python.
> > I plan to buy a book. I always find printed material more convenient than
> > reading on-line tutorials.
> > I don't know PERL or any other scripting language. I only know some BASH
> > programming. I am looking for a book
e-as-VB syntax which allows
> for shorter development time and improved group collaboration.
>
> Need to get up-to-speed with Python as quickly as possible? Come join
> us in beautiful Northern California the week before Labor Day. We are
> proud to announce another rigorous Python training e
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