Re: [python-uk] Travelling to EuroPython 2015 by boat?

2015-03-24 Thread Harry Percival
Did you know that if you take the UK, and you remove all of Scotland, Northern Ireland, and England, you get left with an area the size of Wales? On 24 March 2015 at 00:54, Jon Ribbens wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 04:54:08PM +, Daniele Procida wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015, Jon Ribbens

Re: [python-uk] Travelling to EuroPython 2015 by boat?

2015-03-24 Thread Martin Campbell
Relevant xckd https://xkcd.com/703/ From: Harry Percival Reply-To: "hj...@cantab.net", UK Python Users Date: Tuesday, 24 March 2015 09:16 To: UK Python Users Subject: Re: [python-uk] Travelling to EuroPython 2015 by boat? Did you know that if you take the UK, and you r

[python-uk] RaspberryPi related request for help

2015-03-24 Thread Nicholas H.Tollervey
Hi, The RaspberryPi Education team (i.e. Carrie Anne - cc'd) is having a problem getting a Python 3 version of smbus to work. The following links pretty much sum up the problem. http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-i2c/msg08427.html http://procrastinative.ninja/2014/07/21/smbus-for-python34-on-rasp

Re: [python-uk] RaspberryPi related request for help

2015-03-24 Thread Andrew Farrell
Hi Carrie, Would a solution that involves conda , a cross-platform package manager mostly used in the scientific python community be usable by the team, or would installing that be a non-starter? If it would be useful, I can take a crack at it this weekend.

Re: [python-uk] RaspberryPi related request for help

2015-03-24 Thread Steve Holden
Hi Andrew, That's an interesting idea. If you aren't already considering it, I'd recommend minoconda3 to keep network traffic and build times down - as you are doubtless aware Anaconda can be pretty heavyweight, whereas miniconda is leaner, using load-on-demand. I know that the guys at Continu

Re: [python-uk] RaspberryPi related request for help

2015-03-24 Thread Tim Golden
On 24/03/2015 17:04, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: The RaspberryPi Education team (i.e. Carrie Anne - cc'd) is having a problem getting a Python 3 version of smbus to work. Why not post as well to the much more widely-read python-list? TJG ___ python-u

Re: [python-uk] RaspberryPi related request for help

2015-03-24 Thread Andrew Farrell
Hi Steve, That is in fact what I was planning on doing. I ought to have disclosed that I actually work for Continuum Analytics, though I'd probably be trying this out as just as a personal weekend project. I'll also be trying this on QEMU on OSx