Re: [python-uk] What trends should we watch Python during 2017..?

2016-12-10 Thread Cory Benfield (Lukasa)
> On 9 Dec 2016, at 21:27, John Lee wrote: > > When you say "investigating new methods", do you mean new-to-the-world, or > new-to-practitioners (or to some subset of practitioners, or some ecosystem)? > If the former, do you have citations? I don't think of Python as a CS > research langua

Re: [python-uk] Announcing the Yorkshire Inquisition

2016-12-07 Thread Cory Benfield (Lukasa)
> On 7 Dec 2016, at 16:09, Steve Holden wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Cory Benfield (Lukasa) <mailto:lukas...@gmail.com>> wrote: > and as we know, only Sith deal in absolutes > > Are you absolutely sure about that? Don’t ask me,

Re: [python-uk] Announcing the Yorkshire Inquisition

2016-12-07 Thread Cory Benfield (Lukasa)
> On 7 Dec 2016, at 14:15, Daniel Pope wrote: > > Idle thought: can the code of conduct be violated by accurately quoting Time > Person-of-the-Year Donald Trump? I’d say that depending on the context of the quote and the specific content, certainly. For example, if you were using Time Perso

Re: [python-uk] What trends should we watch Python during 2017..?

2016-12-07 Thread Cory Benfield (Lukasa)
> On 7 Dec 2016, at 11:24, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > > Care to add anything else..? What about technical things to watch out > for..? Will Larry complete his Gilectomey..? For my part, I think there’s a lot of really interesting work going on in the asynchronous networking space in Python,

Re: [python-uk] 2 Principle Engineer roles in London up to £95k

2016-12-07 Thread Cory Benfield (Lukasa)
> On 7 Dec 2016, at 10:31, Richard Smith wrote: > > What was rude about it? We should expect recruitment agents to do a little > work to gain our trust. There are far too many bad agents in the world who > think it's acceptable to cold-call, spam, bully, edit CVs, fake candidates > and many u

Re: [python-uk] File upload with 'requests' package

2016-12-02 Thread Cory Benfield (Lukasa)
I don’t think 100-Continue will be the issue here: Requests just ignores it. What’s likely happening here is that the remote server is sending a 400 Client Error, but Requests doesn’t see it because it’s busy uploading the data and eventually the server gets mad and kills the connection to stop

Re: [python-uk] No activity on #python-unregistered irc channel?

2015-12-08 Thread Cory Benfield (Lukasa)
> On 8 Dec 2015, at 13:40, gvim wrote: > > I'm new to Python and recently asked a couple of questions on the > #python-unregistered irc channel. Despite nearly 1200 logged-in users I > didn't get a reply to any of my questions and there also didn't seem to be > any activity. Am I missing some

Re: [python-uk] Call for London based volunteers - Wednesday 9th December

2015-12-03 Thread Cory Benfield (Lukasa)
> On 3 Dec 2015, at 09:17, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > tl;dr - This is important. Help teachers. Get a micro:bit. 4pm-ish > Wednesday 9th December at the BCS in London. > > Best wishes, > > Nicholas. I think I can probably make this, and I’d be delighted to help out. I can

Re: [python-uk] Open Sourcing MicroPython on the BBC micro:bit

2015-10-20 Thread Cory Benfield (Lukasa)
Dear all, Please don’t click on Nick’s link directly and up vote from there: Hacker News will see that as vote spamming and will remove the link. Instead, please go to the ‘New’ page of Hacker News and vote it up from there. Cory > On 20 Oct 2015, at 08:50, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > > Hi

Re: [python-uk] Nicholas Tollervey winner of PSF Community Service Award

2015-06-24 Thread Cory Benfield
Hurrah! Congratulations Nicholas, it’s thoroughly deserved! Cory > On 24 Jun 2015, at 14:31, Naomi Ceder wrote: > > As a member of the PSF board of directors it gives me great pleasure to > report that our own Nicholas Tollervey has been awarded the PSF's Community > Service Award for Q2, 201

Re: [python-uk] Congratulations Carrie Anne and Naomi

2015-06-02 Thread Cory Benfield
> On 2 Jun 2015, at 08:35, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > > My mistake. I should actually read *and understand* my bloody email. ;-) > > N. > Eh, understanding is overrated. Congratulations to our newly minted UK board members! I’m sure you’ll carry out your duties with excellence. =) __