Mailman 3 April 2013 - python-uk

Python developer role / Bank of America - Reconciliations Team, Canary Wharf, London
by Fadhley, Salim April 18, 2013

April 18, 2013

We are currently recruiting Python developers to join the Quartz Reconciliations team. Quartz is a company-wide project to consolidate business systems into a single Python-based platform. Quartz provides grid-computing, storage, a consistent developer environment, and financial/UI APIs. The Reconciliations team is responsible for building tools which help teams within the organization improve the quality and consistency of data across a large number of financial systems. We are looking for candidates with the aptitude to grapple with the complexity of the ever-growing Quartz platform. We are looking for experienced Python developers who can act as Python mentors to other developers and provide leadership in design, development, testing and delivery of Python code. Successful candidates will play a role in the full development cycle of our products, working within an Agile (Scrum) development process. Our primary development language is Python, however skills in other technologies such as relational and document-oriented databases may be beneficial. We are interested in meeting candidates from all backgrounds (not just finance), with a broad technological knowledge. We value knowledge in aspects of computing and technology which do not have a direct application on our project. Requirements * Previous experience as a senior Python developer * Fluency in the Python language + Standard libraries * Experience in test-driven development Contact Info: * Contact: Salim Fadhley / Stephen Brown * E-mail contact: salim.fadhley(a)baml.com / stephen.d.brown(a)baml.com * Other Contact Info: t. 0207 9951134 / 0207 9961845 * No telecommuting * No headhunters! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments, is for the intended recipient(s) only, may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or proprietary and subject to important terms and conditions available at http://www.bankofamerica.com/emaildisclaimer. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message.

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Re: [python-uk] Londoners - interested by a pyramid meetup?
by Rachid Belaid April 16, 2013

April 16, 2013

Hi James, Great to see somebody else interested. About the date, I was thinking of doing it 2 weeks after the django (soon) and python meetup ( 18 April) . First to not clashing with them with date and secondly to be able to talk with some peoples there who could be interested by pyramid but maybe are not use it yet. So I was thinking more about something happening in the week : 29th April - 3rd May ... Personally, I will like to not rush the first meetup to be able to have people to prepare few short talks for newcomers. What do you think? If you guys want to make it more as a drink for the first time then I m ok with that, I'm already glad that we have a number of people interested. Over the weekend I will look at setting up the meetup and propose some talks idea (I have already shit loads in mind). Let me know your feedback and what you expect from a Pyramid meetup On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:30 PM, James Gardner <james(a)3aims.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm one of the original Pylons authors and wrote the Pylons book, but I > never agreed particularly with the decision to merge the effort with the > Zope crowd to create Pyramid. I'd be very interested in meeting other > Pylons/Pyramid developers in London too, partly just to see how Pyramid is > getting on, but also to gauge interest in another project I've been using > in production for a while that I never released publicly (so as to avoid > stepping on toes) but which takes a more service-oriented approach that > I've found very useful and that developers who have a codebase written in > the original Pylons might find useful too. > > @Rachid - will you organise a date for a meet up? How about next Wednesday > 10th April? > > Cheers, > > James > > > > > On 4 Apr 2013, at 10:47, Matt Hamilton <matth(a)netsight.co.uk> wrote: > > ...and it was written by some of the original brains behind Zope. So it > has a lot of experiences learnt from the good and bad things from the Zope > world. Eg if you want to (but you don't have to) you can use ZPT, the ZODB, > and ZCML with Pyramid natively. Conversely you could use Mako, SqlAlchemy > etc if that is more appropriate. You can dispatch via routes and regex > matches on URLs or you can do object traversal. Whichever works for you. > > As with two years ago in San Francisco, there will be a dedicated Pyramid > track at the Plone Conference in Brazil later this year. > > -Matt > > On 3 Apr 2013, at 08:21 PM, Rachid Belaid <rachid.belaid(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > For extra info, pyramid was previously called repoze.bfg > <http://bfg.repoze.org/> but they decided with guys of pylons to merge > their effort into a new branded version called pyramid... > > It s not a battery included framework as Django but for me that's the > benefit of it when you try to build so type of web product. > > Some links about pyramid key features: > http://www.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/about > > But mainly pyramid is a not opinionated frameworks which don't expect you > to use any specific structure, session engine , orm, or template language > but let you make your choice and extend it to fit your need. > > > > > On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Simon Yarde <simonyarde(a)me.com> wrote: > >> The Pylons team were responsible for Pylons (the older web framework) >> which is still maintained and active, whilst many people have now moved >> over to Pyramid, the newer web framework also developed by the Pylons team. >> >> This is what you need: >> >> http://docs.pylonsproject.org/en/latest/docs/pyramid.html >> >> I spend about a year evaluating and developing with Pyramid >> (commercially) but eventually moved to a bespoke web framework solution — >> but this was less to do with Pyramid and more to do with needing not to be >> tied into *any* framework. >> >> S >> >> On 3 Apr 2013, at 17:26, Jon Ribbens wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 11:23:17AM +0100, Rachid Belaid wrote: >> >> In the last year, I have been doing more and more [1]pyramid project >> and >> >> adding this framework to my Flask, Django toolbelt. >> >> I have no idea if there is any others pyramid fan or people doing >> some >> >> [2]pyramid in London or even people interested into learning it. >> > >> > I must admit I've never heard of it; and after visiting the web site >> > I still have no real idea what it is. The site appears to be >> > advertising two different (competing?) web frameworks, of which >> > "Pylons" appears to be the name of the older software but also the >> > name of the newer project? The only paragraph of content on the >> > front page says "Pylons" three times but it appears that "Pylons" >> > is not the thing you should download? This appears a bit bonkers. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > python-uk mailing list >> > python-uk(a)python.org >> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >> >> Simon Yarde >> >> 07525 063 134 >> simonyarde(a)me.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> python-uk mailing list >> python-uk(a)python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >> > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk(a)python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk(a)python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > > >

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TLPG Tech Talks (Thursday 18th)
by Kris Saxton April 12, 2013

April 12, 2013

Hi all, Next Thursday's TLPG Tech Talks is all set and will feature three speakers. As well as me presenting about the Salt (saltstack.com) server automation framework, Paul Brian will be speaking about the dangers of using frameworks at all (too late for me obviously). Finally, Emil Vaughan will be talking about his adventures with cython. Paul and I will be deciding the framework question by way of a food fight. Full details here: http://www.meetup.com/The-London-Python-Group-TLPG/events/113443782/ Hopefully see some of you there. Best, Kris -- Kris Saxton e: kris(a)automationlogic.com t: @KrisSaxton

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West Yorks. Python Group - Tomorrow - Thursday 11 January
by Peter Russell April 10, 2013

April 10, 2013

== West Yorkshire Python User Group Meeting - Thurs. 11 April == Sorry for the late announcement this month. = PyCon US Review and social meeting = We have no talk this month, so we're going to spend the evening reviewing some of the talks at PyCon, and chatting about the news in the Python world. We'll probably try to watch one of the talks. = Date and Time = Thursday 11 April. The venue will be open from about 6.30. We will be finished by 9, and we will be going to the pub afterwards. = Location = We will be meeting at the offices of The Test People: Floor 3 Albion Court Albion Place Leeds West Yorkshire, LS1 6JL You will need to call Peter on 07763570860 for access, as we can't hear the buzzer at the door. = About the Group = The West Yorkshire Python User Group (WYPy) have been meeting monthly since 2007. Our meetings are free, and usually include at least one talk, as well as a trip to the pub. Our website is at http://wypy.org.uk . We discuss our meetings on the Python Yorkshire and Humberside Google Group http://groups.google.com/group/python-yorks-humber/ and you can also follow us on Twitter at @WYPython.

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Advice on decorator grammar
by Simon Yarde April 8, 2013

April 8, 2013

Hi All I've not posted to this list before. Hello! I have a question about decorators and have failed to devise a search that has thrown up any history of discussion on this particular matter. Does the following seem like something that 'should' work? Or is anyone aware of a source of documentation that explains historically why the following syntax might not be allowed? I hope this sort of conundrum/discussion-point is appropriate to this forum; I'm not on python-dev and this is obviously not a bug. So.. Decorator grammar is this: decorator: '@' dotted_name [ '(' [arglist] ')' ] NEWLINE The grammar prevents this: >>> class MyDecorator: ... def decorator_method(): ... pass ... >>> @MyDecorator().decorator_method() File "<stdin>", line 1 @MyDecorator().decorator_method() ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax But is possible to achieve the desired effect by assigning the class instance to variable: >>> mydecorator = MyDecorator() ... @mydecorator.decorator_method ... def f(): My initial thoughts were that the syntax provided a neat way to provide a configurable decorator class instance with a number of alternative decorator-function generating methods, rather than just the usual __call__. S

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Londoners - interested by a pyramid meetup?
by Rachid Belaid April 4, 2013

April 4, 2013

Hi folks, In the last year, I have been doing more and more pyramid<http://www.pylonsproject.org/>project and adding this framework to my Flask, Django toolbelt. I have no idea if there is any others pyramid fan or people doing some pyramid <http://www.pylonsproject.org/>in London or even people interested into learning it. I m have been thinking about kicking off a Pyramid meetup but I'm curious to see if there any body interested first. R. -- Rach Belaid

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