On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:57 AM, harrismh777 wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>> Possibly the best way to encourage Python deployment would be to
>> require it to run some internal script.
>
> Chris has a great idea here... but I think more along the lines of an app
> that benefits school admins
On 5/30/2011 6:15 PM, Irmen de Jong wrote:
Do you mean one of these os's, where Python (2) is not
working properly because the *defaultencoding* is set
to utf-8?
Huh? On all of my machines, including windows and Ubuntu 11.04,
sys.getdefaultencoding()
returns 'ascii'.
For me, WINXP, 2.7
>>>
Chris Angelico wrote:
Is it a waste of time to try to get school admins to put python in
> their school laptops?
No, absolutely no... Python advocacy is necessary in this venue !
Possibly the best way to encourage Python deployment would be to
require it to run some internal scr
On 30-5-2011 16:30, jmfauth wrote:
> On 30 mai, 13:09, hackingKK wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>
>> Even better, try convincing them to use Ubuntu instead of a virus
>> called Where I Never Do Operations With Safety, or WINDOWS for short.
>> That way Python will come by default and VB will be out of que
On 30 mai, 13:09, hackingKK wrote:
[...]
>
> Even better, try convincing them to use Ubuntu instead of a virus
> called Where I Never Do Operations With Safety, or WINDOWS for short.
> That way Python will come by default and VB will be out of question
> Happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.
Do you m
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:15 PM, John Thornton wrote:
> Hello
> Is it a waste of time to try to get school admins to put python in
> their school laptops?
Two halves to this question.
1) Would it be of value if the school admins were to put Python on the
school laptops?
2) If you ask the
I agree fully. Linux is better and safer. But they seem hellbent on getting
their students to use Windows. For laughs the kids in year 7 start off with
this on their school netbook:
Individual software packages
MS Office Professional 2010 $80.30
(Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, Publi
On 30/05/11 15:45, John Thornton wrote:
Hello
Is it a waste of time to try to get school admins to put
python in their school laptops?
OK. Here's the crib for the rest[!] of the world. Here in
Australia most secondary schools [that is kids from age approx 12-18]
have some sor
