Re: [python-uk] urllib latency

2010-12-21 Thread John J Lee
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010, Matt Hamilton wrote: [...] And then re-running the tests from the same python prompt that was open just before I wrote that email and I now have the 100ms delay back again... yet not still in ab. Quitting and starting a new python process and I still have the delay. I gue

Re: [python-uk] Tell us what you did with Python this year....

2010-12-21 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
On 21 December 2010 18:09, Michael Foord wrote: > > > On 21 December 2010 14:56, Jonathan Hartley wrote: >> >> On 21/12/2010 14:45, Michael Foord wrote: >>> >>> my favourites being contextlib.ContextDecorator >> >> I didn't know that had your fingerprints on it! Nice one - I love this and >> use

Re: [python-uk] Tell us what you did with Python this year....

2010-12-21 Thread Michael Foord
On 21 December 2010 17:10, Javier Llopis wrote: > > As an attempt to generate some content and balance out the "jobs" > > discussion > > > > Why don't a few people here tell us what they got up to this year? > > Neat projects at work, things you learned about Python in 2010, things > > you've

Re: [python-uk] Tell us what you did with Python this year....

2010-12-21 Thread Michael Foord
On 21 December 2010 14:56, Jonathan Hartley wrote: > On 21/12/2010 14:45, Michael Foord wrote: > >> my favourites being contextlib.ContextDecorator >> > > I didn't know that had your fingerprints on it! Nice one - I love this and > use it all the time. > > It came out of the pattern used in mock

Re: [python-uk] Tell us what you did with Python this year....

2010-12-21 Thread John Chandler
On 21/12/2010 15:33, Jonathan Hartley wrote: > a wargame Hey. What sort of game? 2d? Turn-based? Hex tiles? Or what? And are you using Pygame or pyglet or something else? It's using PyGame. 2D, solitaire, turn-based, irregular area maps (sort of like Hearts of Iron II), with a bit of politics

Re: [python-uk] Tell us what you did with Python this year....

2010-12-21 Thread Javier Llopis
> As an attempt to generate some content and balance out the "jobs" > discussion > > Why don't a few people here tell us what they got up to this year? > Neat projects at work, things you learned about Python in 2010, things > you've been playing with I have automated an ill-thought proces

[python-uk] More (nearly OT) Jobs

2010-12-21 Thread Doug Winter
These aren't really off topic since we do everything in Python, so a lot of Python is involved. They aren't coder jobs though ;) We're looking for SysAdmins: http://www.isotoma.com/vacancies/system-administrators And we're looking for a Head of QA: http://www.isotoma.com/vacancies/head-of-qual

Re: [python-uk] Tell us what you did with Python this year....

2010-12-21 Thread Jonathan Hartley
> a wargame Hey. What sort of game? 2d? Turn-based? Hex tiles? Or what? And are you using Pygame or pyglet or something else? On 21/12/2010 15:25, John Chandler wrote: On 20/12/2010 12:18, Andy Robinson wrote: Why don't a few people here tell us what they got up to this year? Neat projects

Re: [python-uk] Tell us what you did with Python this year....

2010-12-21 Thread John Chandler
On 20/12/2010 12:18, Andy Robinson wrote: Why don't a few people here tell us what they got up to this year? Neat projects at work, things you learned about Python in 2010, things you've been playing with It's been an interesting year in Python for me. The London dojos have been fantastic -

Re: [python-uk] Tell us what you did with Python this year....

2010-12-21 Thread Jonathan Hartley
On 21/12/2010 14:45, Michael Foord wrote: my favourites being contextlib.ContextDecorator I didn't know that had your fingerprints on it! Nice one - I love this and use it all the time. Jonathan -- Jonathan Hartley Made of meat. http://tartley.com tart...@tartley.com +44 773

Re: [python-uk] Tell us what you did with Python this year....

2010-12-21 Thread Michael Foord
Hello all, I started the year working for a German firm writing web applications with Django on the server and Silverlight on the front end. The front end application (about 20 000 lines) was written entirely in IronPython and running in the browser. Communication with django was almost exclu

Re: [python-uk] Tell us what you did with Python this year....

2010-12-21 Thread meitham
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Andy Robinson wrote: > Why don't a few people here tell us what they got up to this year? > Neat projects at work, things you learned about Python in 2010, things > you've been playing with I have worked this year on a web based data quality system written en

Re: [python-uk] Tell us what you did with Python this year....

2010-12-21 Thread Nicholas Tollervey
Hi Guys, Obviously I went to lots of London Python dojos... It's nice to see that the format is being used for other languages too (I know of at least Clojure and Scala dojos and plans for an Erlang one). We managed to finish our adventure game and plans are afoot for a new Pygame based project (s

Re: [python-uk] Tell us what you did with Python this year....

2010-12-21 Thread Alexander Harrowell
I've been parsing government data with BeautifulSoup and Scraperwiki, and working on visualising it with NetworkX and Matplotlib. -- The only thing worse than e-mail disclaimers...is people who send e-mail to lists complaining about them signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed m

Re: [python-uk] Tell us what you did with Python this year....

2010-12-21 Thread Jonathan Hartley
On 20/12/2010 16:51, Matt Hamilton wrote: On 20 Dec 2010, at 15:41, Jonathan Hartley wrote: clients with extremely large spreadsheets (which take hours to recalculate on Excel) *shudder* But that is what makes what you have done even more amazing :) I'm pretty sure spreadsheets of that level

Re: [python-uk] Tell us what you did with Python this year....

2010-12-21 Thread Kev Dwyer
I haven't done much python this year, but had a great time at Europython and the London dojo. As I speak, a couple of days using jython for websphere automation awaits... On 21 December 2010 12:22, Matthew Turnbull wrote: > For a while now I've been interested in sports / games 'ratings' > syste

Re: [python-uk] urllib latency

2010-12-21 Thread Jon Ribbens
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:39:23AM +, Matt Hamilton wrote: > And then re-running the tests from the same python prompt that was > open just before I wrote that email and I now have the 100ms delay > back again... yet not still in ab. Quitting and starting a new > python process and I still have

Re: [python-uk] Tell us what you did with Python this year....

2010-12-21 Thread Matthew Turnbull
For a while now I've been interested in sports / games 'ratings' systems. Some years back I collected results from weekly football games and wanted a way to score individual players from team score results (the teams change each week) - ultimately I wanted to help pick balanced teams). This year I

Re: [python-uk] Tell us what you did with Python this year....

2010-12-21 Thread René Dudfield
Hey ya, Enjoyed many London python dojos... and learnt a number of little tips from there, and met a bunch of london python people. That was probably the highlight of 2010 python involvement for me. Started writing a shit JavaScript interpreter (very early stages). ** Wrote a minimal new content

Re: [python-uk] urllib latency

2010-12-21 Thread Matt Hamilton
On 21 Dec 2010, at 10:29, Matt Hamilton wrote: > I then have a similar issue for the request I mentioned in this thread, that > happens to be cached by varnish. If I then disable delayed acks on the OSX > box running the python tests, that speeds up again and I lose the 100ms extra > latency a

Re: [python-uk] Tell us what you did with Python this year....

2010-12-21 Thread Tim Golden
Bit of this year and last... We have a 3rd-party COTS Helpdesk system with a woeful desktop interface and a naive [and that's being charitable] email ingest mechanism. All the data's stored in a SQL Server and is fairly clearly two different apps bolted together... A few years ago I knocked up a

Re: [python-uk] urllib latency

2010-12-21 Thread Matt Hamilton
On 20 Dec 2010, at 16:26, Doug Winter wrote: > Matt Hamilton wrote: >> I'm off to go dig in the urllib code and see if I can see anything >> there. I'm wondering if urllib is taking some time to process the >> data after it receives it before doing anything. >> >> This is on OSX, but I'm going t