Re: [python-uk] A paper about Python 2 to Python 3 transitioning

2018-06-20 Thread Nick Murdoch
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 10:57:11AM +0100, Russel Winder wrote: > Has anyone else seen this? Anyone any thoughts about it? > > https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~malloy/publications/papers/esem2017/paper.pdf I think the biggest assumption here is that existing projects both need to use new features ad

Re: [python-uk] PyCon UK 2017 videos

2017-11-01 Thread Nick Murdoch
On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 05:52:38PM +0100, David Boddie wrote: > I see that videos for PyCon UK 2017 are now appearing on the PyCon UK > YouTube channel: > > https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChA9XP_feY1-1oSy2L7acog > > Thanks to all involved for making them available. > > For those that were at t

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

2016-12-07 Thread Nick Murdoch
On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 10:57:51AM +, Kaitlyn Tierney wrote: > I think this is exchange is clear proof that the list requires a Code of > Conduct. Does the list-owner agree, and if so, can we discuss a process for > enacting one to move this conversation in a more productive direction? +1 >

Re: [python-uk] Reading list

2013-06-26 Thread Nick Murdoch
The official Python tutorial itself is pretty great. I learned the language (fresh out of Uni having studied Java) solely from it: http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/ For completely beginner programmers it perhaps skips over a few things that wouldn't be obvious, but for experienced coders

Re: [python-uk] Suggestions / best practices for deployment

2013-05-15 Thread Nick Murdoch
A very quick rundown of my process: * Custom script to build and send to a packages server: - deleting things like Cythoned files and generated .so files which setup.py likes to try to avoid recompiling even if you want it to. - setup.py build_ext - setup.py sdist -d dist.$TEMP - scp

Re: [python-uk] Advice on decorator grammar

2013-04-04 Thread Nick Murdoch
Hi Simon, It might be of use to you to know that the decorator syntax is actually a syntactic shortcut for a longer way of writing the same thing. For instance, @mydecorator def foo(a, b): pass is identical to def foo(a, b): pass foo = mydecorator(foo) If you wanted to only apply th

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

2010-12-20 Thread Nick Murdoch
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 04:58:07PM +, Alec Battles wrote: > > I seem to remember that 'file' in Linux detects encodings, but it's > also a matter of calling it by the exact same name... > Any encoding detection will be heuristics; I've personally found the chardet library really useful when