Re: [python-uk] FlogTheDogs.com : computer and programming related gear (plus site)

2012-08-29 Thread Alec Battles
> "n miles from me" becomes less helpful in London at 5 or 10 miles or so, > because travel time depends on direction as well as distance. I guess the > situation is similar elsewhere. > > I imagine there are services out there that provide geospatially indexed > travel time. It wouldn't have to

Re: [python-uk] saturday london python dojos?

2012-01-31 Thread Alec Battles
> While all are very good ideas, there is still clearly a need for a second > London python dojo since tickets fly in just a few hours after the > announcement. yeah, that's what i was asking, ie -- 'does anyone else wish there were saturday/sunday *python dojos* in london? am i the only one in th

[python-uk] saturday london python dojos?

2012-01-30 Thread Alec Battles
i've been to the london python dojo once. i quite liked it. but weekday evenings are not exactly the best time for me. am i the only one in this situation? and would anyone else be interested in this? ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http

Re: [python-uk] Library for (undirected) graphs in Python?

2011-01-24 Thread Alec Battles
> Now, maybe the solution is to use Python 2.6 instead. Before starting > working on my project I knew nothing about Python, which is one of the > reasons I chose it over, say, Java, and thought that the 3rd version is the > way to go. Is it not? afaik, the main difference is the assert statement.

Re: [python-uk] Introducing CKAN (Open Knowledge Foundation)

2010-12-25 Thread Alec Battles
> Hi Martin, > >> sorry - didn't mean to post to the whole list! > > Well, maybe there are others interested too, but if not I'll stop > replying on list as well. I've only ever noticed this distinction matter on stuffy academic lists. Alec ___ python-u

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

2010-12-20 Thread Alec Battles
>> I seem to remember that 'file' in Linux detects encodings, but it's >> also a matter of calling it by the exact same name... > > There is no foolproof way of detecting encoding unfortunately - you just > need to know what it is before you read the file. That's interesting. I wonder if there's a

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

2010-12-20 Thread Alec Battles
>> Unicode >> interoperability is a pain, though, and I find it depressing to work >> with in Python2.x, because it never seems to behave predictably. I >> still have no idea why tokenizing Hungarian text and tokenizing German >> text are not fundamentally the same operation > > I have no idea why

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

2010-12-20 Thread Alec Battles
> 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'm having a mad day but will try

Re: [python-uk] Fantastic Open Source Positrons Available

2010-11-03 Thread Alec Battles
Agreed. On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Jon Ribbens wrote: > If you know of an open source of positrons, I think you should let > (a) NEST and (b) the Nobel Prize Committee know immediately! > ___ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > http:/

Re: [python-uk] processing input from multiple files

2010-10-15 Thread Alec Battles
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:53 PM, John Pinner wrote: > Hi, > > On 14 October 2010 10:43, Tim Golden wrote: >> On 14/10/2010 10:34, Christopher Steele wrote: >>> >>> I've been trying to decode a series of observations from multiple files >>> (each file is a different time) and put each type of obse