From mark at microenh.com Thu Jul 1 19:53:57 2010 From: mark at microenh.com (Mark Erbaugh) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 13:53:57 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] sys.path and utility routines Message-ID: <6422B4EF-ED1A-4667-9CA9-BD54081B5D7E@microenh.com> I'm developing a Python application using the Eclipse IDE with PyDev. I have developed some routines that I think will be useful in other applications, so I place them in a separate PyDev project. PyDev allows me to add this other project to the PYTHONPATH of my application project so that all I need to do is import my utility package. Where is the best place to put my utility package when running outside of Eclipse? To keep things together, it seems like a good choice would be inside the src folder of the application. When I run my application outside of Eclipse / PyDev, what's the best way to get my utility package into sys.path? Ideally, I'd like to have code that runs the same inside PyDev where the utility is in another PyDev project and outside of Eclipse where the utility somewhere else. Mark From miles.groman at gmail.com Fri Jul 2 15:55:43 2010 From: miles.groman at gmail.com (m g) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 09:55:43 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] sys.path and utility routines In-Reply-To: <6422B4EF-ED1A-4667-9CA9-BD54081B5D7E@microenh.com> References: <6422B4EF-ED1A-4667-9CA9-BD54081B5D7E@microenh.com> Message-ID: Hi Mark, Do you use anything like virtualenv? You could just install your code into your virtual environment From mark at microenh.com Fri Jul 2 16:41:11 2010 From: mark at microenh.com (Mark Erbaugh) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:41:11 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] sys.path and utility routines In-Reply-To: References: <6422B4EF-ED1A-4667-9CA9-BD54081B5D7E@microenh.com> Message-ID: <72B63145-3D1B-4DB8-8C5A-CA3A75B4EE94@microenh.com> On Jul 2, 2010, at 9:55 AM, m g wrote: > Do you use anything like virtualenv? You could just install your code > into your virtual environment Miles, No, I'm not using virtualenv, but since you mentioned it, I checked it out. Thanks for the tip. It's a package to keep in mine. Mark From miles.groman at gmail.com Fri Jul 2 17:17:47 2010 From: miles.groman at gmail.com (m g) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 11:17:47 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] sys.path and utility routines In-Reply-To: <72B63145-3D1B-4DB8-8C5A-CA3A75B4EE94@microenh.com> References: <6422B4EF-ED1A-4667-9CA9-BD54081B5D7E@microenh.com> <72B63145-3D1B-4DB8-8C5A-CA3A75B4EE94@microenh.com> Message-ID: A lesser option, one that using virtualenv would side step, is to just place the code somewhere in sys.path (programatically or manually). This is typically frowned upon because it pollutes your installation. Also, its not really a good idea to go behind your package managers back. Personally, on a new box, I install virtualenv, and then just create environments in $HOME, maintaining a clean site-packages directory. I would be interested in hearing how others manage this. From wam at cisco.com Fri Jul 2 18:14:30 2010 From: wam at cisco.com (William McVey) Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:14:30 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] sys.path and utility routines In-Reply-To: <72B63145-3D1B-4DB8-8C5A-CA3A75B4EE94@microenh.com> References: <6422B4EF-ED1A-4667-9CA9-BD54081B5D7E@microenh.com> <72B63145-3D1B-4DB8-8C5A-CA3A75B4EE94@microenh.com> Message-ID: <1278087270.6417.13.camel@goldfinger> On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 10:41 -0400, Mark Erbaugh wrote: > No, I'm not using virtualenv, but since you mentioned it, I checked it out. Thanks for the tip. It's a package to keep in mine. Virtualenv totally rocks. I do all of my development in (and targetting) various virtualenvs dedicated to particular projects I'm working on. Along with pip making (and fulfilling) frozen requirements files for me, it's also how I manage my deployments as well. If you do start using virtualenv (at least under Linux and/or cygwin), I highly recommend virtualenvwrapper (http://www.doughellmann.com/projects/virtualenvwrapper/), a set of shell aliases/functions to help in organizing and using multiple environments. If you are developing under native Windows, you may want to check out env.py (http://bitbucket.org/jdriscoll/envdotpy/wiki/Home) -- William From eric at intellovations.com Thu Jul 8 15:22:25 2010 From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 09:22:25 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] Android sprint at PyOhio Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Catherine Devlin Hopefully you've already heard about PyOhio's Contribu-palooza (http://www.pyohio.org/Contribute), where we remove all your excuses not to sprint on Python core code. Now PyOhio also features a sprint-style workshop on the Android Scripting Environment.? Participants will get to work on their own scripts to hack their Android phones the easy way: with Python.? Tell all your phone-loving friends! See http://www.pyohio.org/Sprints2010 There's plenty more going on in PyOhio preparations, too. - Registration is open: http://www.pyohio.org/Registration - please register! - Our talks (http://www.pyohio.org/2010/Talks?action=show&redirect=Talks) and tutorials (http://www.pyohio.org/2010/Tutorials?action=show&redirect=Tutorials) are posted. - Swag sponsors O'Reilly, No Starch, and Packt are sending some great books registered attendees can win. Less than a month to go - we're looking forward to seeing you there! -- - Catherine http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/ *** PyOhio 2010 * July 31 - Aug 1 * Columbus, OH * pyohio.org *** From eric at intellovations.com Fri Jul 9 18:48:27 2010 From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:48:27 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] Python Evangelism 101 Message-ID: The videos from SciPy 2010 are up. One of the best talks was a lightning talk (that ended up at 15 minutes) was by Peter Wang of Enthought about Python evangelism. http://www.archive.org/details/Scipy2010-PeterWang-PythonEvangelism101 It's a fun talk, but summarizes nicely why we love Python (and how to share that love with others). Best Regards, Eric From catherine.devlin at gmail.com Fri Jul 16 12:04:32 2010 From: catherine.devlin at gmail.com (Catherine Devlin) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:04:32 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] hotel advice for PyOhio, please Message-ID: Hey, Columbus folks - our hotel advice at http://www.pyohio.org/Columbus is kind of sparse. We had a specific request for suggestions for a "decent cheap hotel close to the site", and I didn't know what to say - I'm rolling the dice on the Red Roof in Worthington but have no idea whether it's decent, and anyway, it's not that close. Suggestions? Thanks! -- - Catherine http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/ *** PyOhio 2010 * July 31 - Aug 1 * Columbus, OH * pyohio.org *** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eric at intellovations.com Fri Jul 16 15:09:30 2010 From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:09:30 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] PyOhio blog badge and flyer In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: We are just 15 DAYS from the start of PyOhio!? But, tragically, some Python users and potential Python users could miss this once-in-a-year dose of Python goodness through simple ignorance... unless you help. (insert image montage of sad-eyed geeks here, with mournful background music) A blog badge is an easy way to remind people in your circle... a flyer is a wonderful thing to print out and hand around or post.? Grab them from: http://pyohio.blogspot.com/2010/07/pyohio-2010-blog-badges-and-flyer.html -- - Catherine http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/ *** PyOhio 2010 * July 31 - Aug 1 * Columbus, OH * pyohio.org *** From yyc at seety.org Fri Jul 16 15:24:39 2010 From: yyc at seety.org (Yung-Yu Chen) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:24:39 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] hotel advice for PyOhio, please In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The redroof inn at Ackerman Rd. should be closer than the one suggested by your dice. It is one block closer to OU than the Holiday Inn Express ;) You can take COTA #18 to OU if you want. RRI at Ackerman is OK at lease three years ago. A couple of my friends stayed there. Another choice could be Varsity Inn North/South http://www.varsityinn.com/columbus-accommodations.htm . yyc On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 06:04, Catherine Devlin wrote: > Hey, Columbus folks - our hotel advice at http://www.pyohio.org/Columbusis kind of sparse. We had a specific request for suggestions for a "decent > cheap hotel close to the site", and I didn't know what to say - I'm > rolling the dice on the Red Roof in Worthington but have no idea whether > it's decent, and anyway, it's not that close. > > Suggestions? Thanks! > > -- > - Catherine > http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/ > *** PyOhio 2010 * July 31 - Aug 1 * Columbus, OH * pyohio.org *** > > _______________________________________________ > CentralOH mailing list > CentralOH at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/centraloh > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amonroe at columbus.rr.com Sat Jul 17 09:56:25 2010 From: amonroe at columbus.rr.com (R. Alan Monroe) Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:56:25 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] hotel advice for PyOhio, please In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <77-1868053649.20100717035625@columbus.rr.com> Don't forget that 315 has all those lane closures & detours between campus & downtown. Alan From eric at intellovations.com Mon Jul 26 03:53:38 2010 From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:53:38 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] COhPy Meeting Monday Message-ID: All, For anyone attending the COhPy meeting, bring your laptops! There will be plenty of time to try out Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programs for yourself. Just make sure you have installed Pyevolve 0.6rc1 prior to the meeting. You can get it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyevolve/files/ Though not required, you can get some neat graphs if you have installed: 1. Matplotlib (http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/) 2. Pydot (http://code.google.com/p/pydot/) 3. VPython (http://vpython.org/) If you are running linux this packages are likely to be in the repository. On Ubuntu, they are python-matplotlib, python-pydot, and python-visual, respectively. Also, feel free to bring a simple problem to solve. Something with simple inputs and outputs where the function relating the inputs and outputs is unknown or non-linear will work great. My example will be taking today's high temperature and tomorrow's average high and using them to evolve a function that predicts tomorrow's high temperature better than either alone. I have temperature data for Columbus for the last 5 years that will be used to evaluate. See you Monday! Eric From yanovich.1 at osu.edu Tue Jul 27 01:12:23 2010 From: yanovich.1 at osu.edu (Michael S. Yanovich) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:12:23 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] PyOhio Sprints Message-ID: <4C4E1657.2090406@osu.edu> Hello, Last year before PyOhio, there were coding sprints the Friday night. I was looking at the sprinting page for this year's PyOhio and I didn't see any sprinting going on the night before. I was wondering if anyone would be interested on sprinting that night? Michael -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 5600 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: From morgan.goose at gmail.com Tue Jul 27 13:47:07 2010 From: morgan.goose at gmail.com (Morgan Goose) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:47:07 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] PyOhio Sprints In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20100727114707.GD27242@grumpy.morgan-dyn-o-saur.com> I know I'd love to get into some sprints. I work on Fabric, and have some side projects, and would be more than willing to hack on other things. What is everyone interested in doing? goose > > Hello, > > Last year before PyOhio, there were coding sprints the Friday night. I > was looking at the sprinting page for this year's PyOhio and I didn't > see any sprinting going on the night before. I was wondering if anyone > would be interested on sprinting that night? > > Michael > From eric at intellovations.com Tue Jul 27 20:15:37 2010 From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:15:37 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] Python and Entrepreneurship Forum at PyOhio Message-ID: All, One of the talks at PyOhio this year will be a panel discussion about Python, entrepreneurship, and tech startups. If you have dreamed about starting your own technology company, or are in one now, it should be a great discussion on the challenges and opportunities of building a tech company. Of course, Python and other dynamic languages play a big role at each of the panelists' companies, and we'll talk about that role. It should be an interesting conversation. Could you please take a minute and visit the Google Moderator app at the following link and add any questions you'd like to see asked by the moderator, and to vote on existing questions? http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=14f5f On the panel will be: -- A co-founder of internet retailer The Alternative Energy Store, that was on the Inc. 500 list in 2006. -- A co-founder of OnShift.com, a Cleveland-area angel-funded startup, that was recently named "Best Emerging Company" by Northeast Ohio Software Association. -- Founder of Atlantix Engineering, an electronic design consultancy focused on power electronics, motion control, and FPGAs. -- Director of Engineering for Jumpbox.com, a virtual appliance startup, and founder of a scientific cloud computing startup. It should be a great discussion with your help and input! Thank you! See you there! -Eric From eric at intellovations.com Tue Jul 27 20:29:31 2010 From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:29:31 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] PyOhio Volunteers Message-ID: All, As mentioned at last night's meeting, PyOhio is this weekend, and we still are in need of a few helpers. Specifically, we need one or two more session chairs, and a number of registration-table volunteers. Session chairs introduce the speakers and help with anything the speaker needs. Registration-table volunteers help register people, and point them in the right direction. If you are interested, you can edit the wiki page at: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyOhio/Staff (Or if you are uncomfortable with that, just send me an email). I look forward to seeing you there! Best Regards, Eric From eric at intellovations.com Thu Jul 29 18:53:34 2010 From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:53:34 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] Python and Entrepreneurship Forum at PyOhio In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Wow! We've had a lot more questions and votes in the past few days, thank you! If you haven't submitted a question or voted for your favorite questions to be asked at the Python and Entrepreneurship forum at PyOhio this weekend, please do! It's at: http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=14f5f See you there! Eric On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Eric Floehr wrote: > All, > > One of the talks at PyOhio this year will be a panel discussion about > Python, entrepreneurship, and tech startups. > > If you have dreamed about starting your own technology company, or are > in one now, it should be a great discussion on the challenges and > opportunities of building a tech company. ?Of course, Python and other > dynamic languages play a big role at each of the panelists' companies, > and we'll talk about that role. ?It should be an interesting > conversation. > > Could you please take a minute and visit the Google Moderator app at > the following link and add any questions you'd like to see asked by > the moderator, and to vote on existing questions? > > http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=14f5f > > > On the panel will be: > > -- A co-founder of internet retailer The Alternative Energy Store, > that was on the Inc. 500 list in 2006. > -- A co-founder of OnShift.com, a Cleveland-area angel-funded startup, > that was recently named "Best Emerging Company" by Northeast Ohio > Software Association. > -- Founder of Atlantix Engineering, an electronic design consultancy > focused on power electronics, motion control, and FPGAs. > -- Director of Engineering for Jumpbox.com, a virtual appliance > startup, and founder of a scientific cloud computing startup. > > > It should be a great discussion with your help and input! ?Thank you! > > See you there! > -Eric > From yanovich.1 at osu.edu Sat Jul 31 01:10:31 2010 From: yanovich.1 at osu.edu (Michael S. Yanovich) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:10:31 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] Un-official PyOhio Sprint At Thompson Library Room 057. Message-ID: <4C535BE7.1020603@osu.edu> Hello, As a last minute thing I wanted to have a sprint the night before PyOhio to kick everything off to a great start. I tried to gain support earlier but I didn't many responses. However, if anyone is interested, I am having an un-official PyOhio sprint at the Thompson Library (Main Library) on The Ohio State University campus room 057. It's going to go from now until the place closes which is 10:00pm. So if anyone is in the area and would like to do some coding, feel free to show up! Michael Yanovich -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 5600 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: From yanovich.1 at osu.edu Sat Jul 31 01:54:32 2010 From: yanovich.1 at osu.edu (Michael S. Yanovich) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:54:32 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] [PyOhio] Un-official PyOhio Sprint At Thompson Library Room 057. In-Reply-To: References: <4C535BE7.1020603@osu.edu> Message-ID: <4C536638.6070603@osu.edu> I'm personally working on a fork of phenny_osu called Jenny that can play Uno on IRC. There are 3 of us here. One is working on Fabric ( Fabric is a Python library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks. ) But we are pretty much open to anything. Michael Yanovich On 07/30/2010 07:46 PM, David Stanek wrote: > What are you sprinting on? > > On 7/30/10, Michael S. Yanovich wrote: >> Hello, >> >> As a last minute thing I wanted to have a sprint the night before PyOhio >> to kick everything off to a great start. I tried to gain support earlier >> but I didn't many responses. However, if anyone is interested, I am >> having an un-official PyOhio sprint at the Thompson Library (Main >> Library) on The Ohio State University campus room 057. It's going to go >> from now until the place closes which is 10:00pm. So if anyone is in the >> area and would like to do some coding, feel free to show up! >> >> Michael Yanovich >> >> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 5600 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: From dstanek at dstanek.com Sat Jul 31 01:46:04 2010 From: dstanek at dstanek.com (David Stanek) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:46:04 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] [PyOhio] Un-official PyOhio Sprint At Thompson Library Room 057. In-Reply-To: <4C535BE7.1020603@osu.edu> References: <4C535BE7.1020603@osu.edu> Message-ID: What are you sprinting on? On 7/30/10, Michael S. Yanovich wrote: > Hello, > > As a last minute thing I wanted to have a sprint the night before PyOhio > to kick everything off to a great start. I tried to gain support earlier > but I didn't many responses. However, if anyone is interested, I am > having an un-official PyOhio sprint at the Thompson Library (Main > Library) on The Ohio State University campus room 057. It's going to go > from now until the place closes which is 10:00pm. So if anyone is in the > area and would like to do some coding, feel free to show up! > > Michael Yanovich > > -- Sent from my mobile device David blog: http://www.traceback.org twitter: http://twitter.com/dstanek