Mailman 3 January 2011 - python-uk

Next Cambridge & East Anglia Meeting: Tue 1st Feb
by Tony Ibbs Jan. 31, 2011

Jan. 31, 2011

As sent to the CamPUG google group: The next meeting will be a dojo meeting, Tuesday 1st February, 7.30pm at RealVNC (http://tinyurl.com/realvncoffices). Yes, that's in two days time. I'm very sorry for the late notice. Work and stuff. Meetings after that should be: * Tuesday 1st March, a talks meeting * Tuesday 5th April, a dojo meeting again * Tuesday 3rd May, another talks meeting I'd like to try to get back to the old way of asking for talks up front before a talks meeting, so if anyone has ideas for the March meeting, could you please post them any time from now. Thanks. And I'll try to announce in more time next time... Tibs

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PSF Sprints - Call For Applications
by Brian Curtin Jan. 27, 2011

Jan. 27, 2011

Hello UK Python Users! On behalf of the Python Software Foundation’s sponsored sprint group, I wanted to drop your group a quick note introducing us. If you’re already familiar with our sponsored sprints, you’ll be happy to know we made a few changes to help both sprint groups and Python even more. The PSF recently set aside funding to be distributed to groups who spend time contributing to the Python ecosystem, often in the form of development sprints. Our goal is to help you help Python, so whether it’s buying meals or renting meeting space for your all-day hackathon, we have a budget set aside to reimburse your expenses up to $300 USD (up from $250). If your goal is to make the Python world a better place, and you work on the problems facing Python today, we want to help you. We’re looking for groups of hackers that spend their time fixing and expanding the wide variety of Python interpreters, libraries, tools, and anything else affecting the community.We’re also looking for groups who want to help and get started but don’t have the resources to get together. Whether your group is separated by a train ride or lacking a shared space, we want to help you. On-boarding new contributors to open source Python projects is an especially important area that we’d like to work with.This means if you have a Python project and you want to sprint -- we want to help you.Some sprints we’ve sponsored include the porting of Genshi to Python 3, improvements to packaging (Distribute/distutils), and most recently, the PyPy winter sprint in Switzerland. If your group is interested in hosting a sprint, check out the full details of our call for applications at http://www.pythonsprints.com/cfa/ and contact us at sprints(a)python.org. Thanks for your time, and happy sprinting! Brian Curtin Jesse Noller http://www.pythonsprints.com/ <http://pythonsprints.com/>

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Library for (undirected) graphs in Python?
by Sebastian Komianos Jan. 26, 2011

Jan. 26, 2011

Good evening everyone, I am a newcomer to Python and I am using it for my dissertation (not a PhD, just a Bachelor! :)) project. I've reached the point where I need to create a few very basic undirected graphs. I spent the last hour or so searching online but have so far failed to find a library that works with Python 3. NetworkX (http://networkx.lanl.gov/index.html) looked great and is quite popular from what I've gathered but its drawing module is not Python 3 compatible. Which is a pity because all I wanted is some very very basic graphs. All the other libraries I've found so far either don't support drawing or are extremely complex for my needs. 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? Thank you very much for your time in advance, --- Sebastian Komianos http://about.me/sebkom http://twitter.com/sebkom

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Announcing February's London Python Code Dojo
by Nicholas Tollervey Jan. 26, 2011

Jan. 26, 2011

Folks, The next London Python code dojo will be next Thursday (3rd February) starting at 6:30pm for free pizza and beer. Last month's dojo was sold out within 24 hours so please book early to avoid disappointment. We’re aiming to continue with our quest to build a top-down dungeon / world in PyGame in preparation for Bruce's inter-language dojo sometime this summer. Tim Golden has kindly agreed to present a sort of review/sign-posting session of the code so far. No prior knowledge of PyGame or a coding dojo is required to attend this event – just an open and enthusiastic attitude! :-) Details here: https://ldnpydojo.eventwax.com/london-python-code-dojo-season-2-episode-6 (The usual place and time etc...) Remember to sign up so we know how much pizza and beer to order (thanks Fry-IT). Also O'Reilly have donated "XMPP: The Definitive Guide" (again) for the prize draw (I've already got a copy - it's a very interesting book with code examples in Python). See you there! Nicholas.

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Python Sheffield Jan 25th
by Daley Chetwynd Jan. 23, 2011

Jan. 23, 2011

Hi all, The first Python Sheffield meeting is this Tuesday (Jan 25th) at the GIST Lab, Sheffield: http://thegisthub.net/groups/gistlab/ Doors open at the GIST Lab at 18:30 and the meeting will run from 19:00 - 21:00. We now have 16 people registered for the meeting. If you'd like to join us, please register for free at: http://pythonsheffield.eventbrite.com We're also looking for speakers for future meetings, so if you'd like to talk on something Python-related and you can make it over to Sheffield, please get in touch. Thanks, Daley Chetwynd -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service

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london-dojos group
by Bruce Durling Jan. 14, 2011

Jan. 14, 2011

Fellow Pythonistas and Dojoans, As mentioned at the London Python Dojo last night another list has been set up to discuss inter-dojo events so that we don't spam this list with problems interfacing haskell to xmpp. The URL for the list is: http://groups.google.com/group/london-dojos cheers, Bruce

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New Python Sheffield group
by Daley Chetwynd Jan. 14, 2011

Jan. 14, 2011

Hi all, I'm starting up a new Python group in Sheffield. It will meet on the final Tuesday of every month at the GIST Lab in Sheffield: http://thegisthub.net/groups/gistlab/ The first meeting is on Tues Jan 25th 2011. Doors open at the GIST Lab at 18:30, then the meeting will run from 19:00 - 21:00. We currently have 11 people registered for the first meeting. Registration can be done for free at: http://pythonsheffield.eventbrite.com I've set up the Twitter account @pysheff and the Google group: http://groups.google.com/group/python-sheffield If you're in the Sheffield area then you're more than welcome to attend. If you know Python users in Sheffield then please pass the word on. :) Thanks, Daley Chetwynd -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service

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Python Ireland
by John Pinner Jan. 13, 2011

Jan. 13, 2011

I have a message from Vicky Lee: "I am happy to say that we will be hosting PyCon Ireland 2011 in Dublin, it will be on Sat 8th Oct and Sun 9th Oct" http://www.python.ie Best wishes, John --

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Merging DOM trees
by Matt Hamilton Jan. 6, 2011

Jan. 6, 2011

Hi All, Anyone know if there is a simple built-in way in which to overlay one XML DOM tree on top of another? Other than traversing both and creating nodes on the target DOM that existing in the source? I'm currently using minidom, but could use something else... this is for a silly little script though, so don't really want to go through compiling some big esoteric XML library if I don't have to. e.g. Dom A: <A> <C>foo</C> <C>bar</C> </A> overlaid on: <A> <D>baz</D> </A> would give: <A> <C>foo</C> <C>bar</C> <D>baz</D> </A> -Matt -- Matt Hamilton matth(a)netsight.co.uk Netsight Internet Solutions, Ltd. Business Vision on the Internet http://www.netsight.co.uk +44 (0)117 9090901 Web Design | Zope/Plone Development and Consulting | Co-location | Hosting

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Next Cambridge & East Anglia Meeting: Tue 11th January 2011
by Tony Ibbs Jan. 5, 2011

Jan. 5, 2011

As announced on the CamPUG Google Group: Hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year. The next meeting will be a talks meeting, Tuesday 11th January, 7.30pm at RealVNC (http://tinyurl.com/realvncoffices). Unfortunately I shan't be able to make it, as I shall be on a train coming back from Manchester (I'd rather be at the meeting). Meetings after that should be: * Tuesday 1st February, a dojo meeting. * Tuesday 1st March, another talks meeting * Tuesday 5th April, a dojo meeting again Tibs

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