From scott.scites at railcar88.com  Thu Jun  2 13:18:48 2011
From: scott.scites at railcar88.com (Scott Scites)
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 07:18:48 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] CentralOH Digest, Vol 50, Issue 1
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David,

Please see this url for details:  http://pythondojoe.appspot.com/

Feel free to join me at Cup O Joe's:)

Scott

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> I completed the following Learn Python the Hard Way
> exercises 14 (Prompting And Passing), 15 (Reading Files) and 16
> (Reading And Writing Files).
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> Next week we'll aim to get the following exercises completed:
> 17 More Files
> 18 Names, Variables, Code, Functions
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From mark at microenh.com  Fri Jun  3 06:01:42 2011
From: mark at microenh.com (Mark Erbaugh)
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 00:01:42 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] VIM / omnicompletion
Message-ID: <03104EE9-1DB7-4514-AAC7-35093C076524@microenh.com>

Could someone tell me (or point me to a web page) how to set up vim's omnicompletion to work with Python. I'm a relative newbie with vim.  I downloaded pythoncomplete.vim to my ~/.vim/ftplugin directory but when I do c-x, c-o while editing a .py file I get the message "omnifunc not set".  I've also tried putting this file in the ~/.vim/autoload directory.

I added the line set ofu=syntaxcomplete#Complete to my .vimrc file and now when I do c-x, c-o, I get a "Pattern not found" when it's obvious to me that the pattern should be found (i.e. the function was defined two lines above where I'm entering its name)

From eric at intellovations.com  Fri Jun  3 18:09:26 2011
From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr)
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 12:09:26 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] Don't forget to submit your PyOhio talk, panel,
	or tutorial proposal
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=oLDuGgf59-dCPh3o2_VivW0jXKA@mail.gmail.com>

All,

The deadline to submit PyOhio talk, panel, and tutorial proposals is TODAY.

We've given you a couple of ways you can submit your talks.  You can send an
email to cfp at pyohio.org with your proposal, as always,

--OR--

we have moved the PyOhio website to the PyCon code-base (but better) so you
can submit a talk just like you did for PyCon.  Just go here:
http://pyohio.org/proposal/submit/  (you'll need to register and create a
speaker profile first).


We are looking forward to your proposal, and with your help, will make this
PyOhio the best ever!


Have a great weekend,
Eric


P.S. Just between you and me (shhhh...) we know this was a short week with
Memorial Day and all.  If you need the weekend to finish your proposal,
that's ok.  Just get it in before Monday morning, ok?


P.P.S. Let me know if you run into any odd issues... this code will likely
be used for future conferences like DjangoCon and PyCon, but we are one of
the first :-).  You can also register to attend as well
http://pyohio.org/register/ (we'll make a big announcement next week...
consider this a *soft* launch).
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From pythondevdang at lazytwinacres.net  Fri Jun  3 21:51:46 2011
From: pythondevdang at lazytwinacres.net (Daniel 'Dang' Griffith)
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 15:51:46 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] PyCharm
Message-ID: <BANLkTinczCZN7VZ59as=4xxXod9UVxBO_w@mail.gmail.com>

Do any of y'all use the PyCharm IDE? I've used Notepad++ for quite a while,
and am moderately happy with it, but find myself wishing it had a little
more "awareness" of Python. I know there is a Python plugin for Eclipse, but
I've always found the Eclipse UI intimidating. I haven't looked seriously at
Komodo, only because of the price (it might be worth $300, but for that
much, I want something less language-specific, like SlickEdit or UltraEdit).

PyCharm is only $100 for an individual-developer license, and I think that's
pretty reasonable for what it seems to do. I haven't downloaded the demo; I
might do that this weekend.

But I'd rather hear feedback from any of you who have tried it, whether you
liked it or not. And if you did, what feature(s) did you particularly like
or dislike?

Thanks,
    --dang
p.s.
I still am in mourning for the loss of Premia/Borland/Inprise/Embarcadero's
CodeWright.
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From eric at intellovations.com  Fri Jun  3 22:03:19 2011
From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr)
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 16:03:19 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] PyCharm
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinczCZN7VZ59as=4xxXod9UVxBO_w@mail.gmail.com>
References: <BANLkTinczCZN7VZ59as=4xxXod9UVxBO_w@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <BANLkTimDtgHXjQTfsaQ6D8bbzt8jyvqhsQ@mail.gmail.com>

I've been a fan of WingIDE for many years.  WingIDE 101 is free, WingIDE
personal is $45, and WingIDE Pro (what I use) is $95 for hobbiest or student
use.

https://wingware.com/

<https://wingware.com/>-Eric


On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Daniel 'Dang' Griffith <
pythondevdang at lazytwinacres.net> wrote:

> Do any of y'all use the PyCharm IDE? I've used Notepad++ for quite a while,
> and am moderately happy with it, but find myself wishing it had a little
> more "awareness" of Python. I know there is a Python plugin for Eclipse, but
> I've always found the Eclipse UI intimidating. I haven't looked seriously at
> Komodo, only because of the price (it might be worth $300, but for that
> much, I want something less language-specific, like SlickEdit or UltraEdit).
>
> PyCharm is only $100 for an individual-developer license, and I think
> that's pretty reasonable for what it seems to do. I haven't downloaded the
> demo; I might do that this weekend.
>
> But I'd rather hear feedback from any of you who have tried it, whether you
> liked it or not. And if you did, what feature(s) did you particularly like
> or dislike?
>
> Thanks,
>     --dang
> p.s.
> I still am in mourning for the loss of Premia/Borland/Inprise/Embarcadero's
> CodeWright.
>
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From mark at microenh.com  Fri Jun  3 23:15:32 2011
From: mark at microenh.com (Mark Erbaugh)
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 17:15:32 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] PyCharm
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinczCZN7VZ59as=4xxXod9UVxBO_w@mail.gmail.com>
References: <BANLkTinczCZN7VZ59as=4xxXod9UVxBO_w@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <63F88498-09F0-42F8-8176-D2A08F4EE7E3@microenh.com>


On Jun 3, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Daniel 'Dang' Griffith wrote:

> Do any of y'all use the PyCharm IDE? I've used Notepad++ for quite a while, and am moderately happy with it, but find myself wishing it had a little more "awareness" of Python. I know there is a Python plugin for Eclipse, but I've always found the Eclipse UI intimidating. I haven't looked seriously at Komodo, only because of the price (it might be worth $300, but for that much, I want something less language-specific, like SlickEdit or UltraEdit).

Thanks for the heads up on a new IDE.  For years, I've used Eclipse with PyDev and think I've gotten pretty good with it.  I don't know if it's the time I spent with it or the small percentage of its features that I use, but I don't find it that intimidating and I'm able to get my work done relatively easily.

That being said, some of the COhPy folks are using vi (or vim) with various plugins and I'm starting to explore that.

Mark

From mark at microenh.com  Sun Jun  5 03:54:18 2011
From: mark at microenh.com (Mark Erbaugh)
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 21:54:18 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] Idle on Mac OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Message-ID: <EA4C2374-6B3A-4D04-9245-8E1C54592D0B@microenh.com>

When I'm experimenting with Python on Windows and Linux, I find the Idle IDE very useful. It's easy to quickly try things interactively. In fact, before moving on to more "advanced" development environments, I felt I was quite productive using Idle.  On the Mac it is a different story.  One thing, the version of Idle that is pre-installed is flaky. It would crash most times that I used it.  This really suprised me. Up to that time, the 'official' Python software had been very robust. Also, that experience didn't jibe well with my perception of the Mac as a very stable platform.  Recently, I found this post http://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/ that explains the problems and offers work-arounds. In a nutshell, the problem turns out to be incompatibilities with Python and the version of Tcl/Tk.  I upgraded to Python 2.7 which seems to solve the stability issues.

The other problem on the Mac was the default directory when Idle was launched. On Windows and Linux, if you use a context (right-click) menu to launch Idle with a file, the default directory (os.getcwd()) will be the directory containing the file which is usually what I want. On the Mac, the default directory seems to be my Documents (/Users/mark/Documents) directory, which makes navigating around files in the same directory as the initial file difficult. I did a little investigating and it looked like the behavior was due to the way AppleEvents are used in the launch process.

The first workaround I found was that I opened a terminal window in the directory with my Python file and launched Idle from the command line, the default directory is properly set.  While this works, having the terminal window around is ugly. The terminal window is dead while Idle is running.

The Python 2.7 that I installed comes with a Build Applet applet. These applets are designed to have files or directories (folders) dropped on them. I decided to write an applet that when a Python file is dropped on it, would open Idle with that file with the default directory set to the directory containing the file. If a folder is dropped on the applet, Idle is opened without a file, and with the default directory set to that folder.  While I was at it, I added some code from the activate_this.py script to set up a virtualenv.  Here's what I came up with:

> """
> Use the Python "Build Applet" Applet to conver this script to an applet.
> 
> Drag a .py file to the applet to launch Idle and open the file with
> the current directory set to the directory containing the file.
> 
> Drag a folder to the applet to launch Idle with the current directory
> set to that folder. Note: ignore the error.
> 
> Note: the Console shows a Python error: "Tried to setup shared memory more
> than once."  - seems benign.
> """
> 
> import sys
> import os
> 
> d = sys.argv[1]
> 
> if not os.path.isdir(d):
>     d = os.path.dirname(d)
> 
> base = None
> p1 = d
> while True:
>     p2 = os.path.join(p1, 'bin', 'activate')
>     if os.path.exists(p2):
>         base = p1
>         break
>     if p1 == '/':
>         break
>     p1 = os.path.dirname(p1)
> 
> if base:
>     # activate virtualenv
>     if sys.platform == 'win32':
>         site_packages = os.path.join(base, 'Lib', 'site-packages')
>     else:
>         site_packages = os.path.join(base, 'lib', 'python%s' % sys.version[:3], 'site-packages')
>     prev_sys_path = list(sys.path)
>     import site
>     site.addsitedir(site_packages)
>     sys.real_prefix = sys.prefix
>     sys.prefix = base
>     # Move the added items to the front of the path:
>     new_sys_path = []
>     for item in list(sys.path):
>         if item not in prev_sys_path:
>             new_sys_path.append(item)
>             sys.path.remove(item)
>     sys.path[:0] = new_sys_path
>         
> 
> os.chdir(d)
> # os.execl("/usr/local/bin/idle2.7", "")
> 
> # launch idle
> from idlelib import idle
> 


There are currently a couple of minor problems as noted in the docstring: Python writes a message to stderr (visible in the Mac's Console app), "Tried to set up shared memory more than once." and when you drop a folder on the applet, while it works as desired, there is a popup message "xxx is a directory". Both of these appear to be benign.

The scheme used to determing the virtualenv to activate is based on the way I set up my workspaces. I set up one workspace (top level directory) for each virtualenv. Inside that directory, I create a directory for each project using that virtualenv.  Thus, the virtualenv's bin, include and lib directories are sibling directories to the project's top level directory. To check for a virtualenv, I back up the directory path of the file os.path.dirname looking for a level at which I find a sibling bin directory that contains the activate file. If I find one, that's the virtualenv I activate. If I reach the top of the file system without finding one, I don't setup a virtualenv.

Comments are welcome.

Mark

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From eric at intellovations.com  Mon Jun  6 21:25:38 2011
From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 15:25:38 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] PyOhio talks
Message-ID: <BANLkTimrsH39-DL+VCR-Ke_47N40CV4w-Q@mail.gmail.com>

All,

I was both saddened and excited when I looked at the talks proposed
for PyOhio this year. ?I was excited, because there are names I don't
recognize and some excellent topics being proposed. ?That means
PyOhio's reach is growing, and there will definitely be some great
talks.

I was saddened because I didn't see very many proposals from Central
Ohio folks at all.

I know there is a lot of great Python developers here, a lot of
talent, and a lot of interesting ideas based on our COhPy talks and
discussions.

Don't forget, when you submit the abstract, you have two months to
polish the talk. ?And anyone is welcome to talk at our meetings to
bounce ideas, practice parts of talks, etc.

We'll leave the door open for a few more days to submit a talk:
http://pyohio.org/proposal/submit/

It would be really great to see a few more Central Ohio Python hackers
at the podium!


Best Regards,
Eric

From cbc at unc.edu  Tue Jun  7 07:30:59 2011
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 01:30:59 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] Seattle PyCamp 2011
Message-ID: <4DEDB793.5070903@unc.edu>

University of Washington Marketing and the Seattle Plone Gathering host 
the inaugural Seattle PyCamp 2011 at The Paul G. Allen Center for 
Computer Science & Engineering on Monday, August 29 through Friday, 
September 2, 2011.

Register today at http://trizpug.org/boot-camp/seapy11/

For beginners, this ultra-low-cost Python Boot Camp makes you productive 
so you can get your work done quickly. PyCamp emphasizes the features 
which make Python a simpler and more efficient language. Following along 
with example Python PushUps? speeds your learning process. Become a 
self-sufficient Python developer in just five days at PyCamp! PyCamp is 
conducted on the campus of the University of Washington in a state of 
the art high technology classroom.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway http://nccoos.org/Members/cbc
office: 3313 Venable Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599

From jep200404 at columbus.rr.com  Tue Jun  7 17:29:10 2011
From: jep200404 at columbus.rr.com (jep200404 at columbus.rr.com)
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 11:29:10 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] Austin
Message-ID: <20110607112910.2ef12f7e.jep200404@columbus.rr.com>

This is about what was mentioned at the last meeting. 

Wikipedia corroborates that Austin and Columbus are similar in 
populatin (both cities themselves metropolitan area). 

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin,_Texas
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus,_Ohio

Austin is bigger than just Dell

   http://www.edn.com/article/518150-Samsung_hiring_in_Austin.php
   http://www.edn.com/article/517608-Samsung_to_hire_300_engineers_technicians_in_Austin.php


From eric at intellovations.com  Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011
From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr)
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 17:54:30 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] Open Science App Competition (Possible hackathon
	subject)
In-Reply-To: <b2537e8b-c012-4724-a351-2456abd96696@l2g2000prg.googlegroups.com>
References: <b2537e8b-c012-4724-a351-2456abd96696@l2g2000prg.googlegroups.com>
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=3CrbMnLyRf2aCPB5eRh=h6+=Z1g@mail.gmail.com>

Forwarding from PGH Python group a post by Joshua Adelman:

---------- Forwarded message ----------

I just saw this on the Public Library of Science (PLoS) blog:

http://blogs.plos.org/plos/2011/06/build-an-app-that-makes-science-more-open/

and thought it might make an interesting subject for a PghPy coding
event. Both APIs have examples in python:

https://github.com/Mendeley/mendeley-oapi-example
http://api.plos.org/search-examples/plos_search.py

There are cash prizes involved which might incentivize the effort

From eric at intellovations.com  Wed Jun  8 00:49:25 2011
From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr)
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 18:49:25 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] PyOhio 2011 Registration now open
Message-ID: <BANLkTimVar+s-QDs=O-u5-3rOW+EewR1+A@mail.gmail.com>

All,

PyOhio 2011 registration is now officially open!

PyOhio is a two-day conference on July 30 and 31, 2011 at the Ohio
Union at the Ohio State University (same place as last year).  We have
some great sponsors this year, some great giveaways planned (official
announcements soon), and from the looks of the talk, tutorial, and
panel submissions, some awesome talks this year.  We will even have
T-Shirts this year!

As always, the conference is free, and we will provide coffee, tea,
pop, and snacks.  We might need to ask for T--Shirt money, but it will
be at-cost, and optional.  But I think a T-Shirt will be an awesome
souvenir for a great weekend!

Please register at http://www.pyohio.org and then click "Register".

I look forward to seeing you at PyOhio this year!!

Best Regards,
Eric

From scott.scites at railcar88.com  Wed Jun  8 06:44:50 2011
From: scott.scites at railcar88.com (Scott Scites)
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 00:44:50 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] Python DoJoe - Hacker Session Notes - 06-07-11
Message-ID: <BANLkTim2YbYL89u4gp=bZ5khMdK+X-pS-Q@mail.gmail.com>

I was surprised and glad to see Mark Erbaugh this morning at the DoJoe.
Instead of working on Learn Python the Hard Way exercises, Mark and I tried
to get Idle to work on his mac laptop.  We then installed NERDTree and
BufExplorer into his Vim setup.  We ran out of time while gitting PyDiction
setup.

Next week we may pair on personal projects using test driven development.
We'll see;)

Happy Hacking!
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From eric at intellovations.com  Thu Jun  9 16:21:23 2011
From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr)
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 10:21:23 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] COhPy meeting June 27
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=b36hjnK+2e61V+0tRfHNKFVWuOQ@mail.gmail.com>

What: Writing Games and Image Steganography in Python
When: Monday, June 27, 2011 6:30 PM

Where: TechColumbus
1275 Kinnear Rd
Columbus, OH 43212

Full meetup details and RSVP: http://meetu.ps/1VqMN

We have a double header for this meeting of the Central Ohio Python
Users Group...

Pete Carswell will walk through his proposed PyOhio tutorial on
writing games in Python, using Panda3D and other tools,

and

Miles Gronan will talk about image steganography: what is it, why
would someone want to use it, how could it be implemented in python.

Afterwards we'll find a place that doesn't close at 8pm (thanks,
Panera :-() for food, drink, and Python.

Don't forget to register for PyOhio if you haven't already!

RSVP here: http://meetu.ps/1VqMN

See you there!
Eric

From mark at microenh.com  Fri Jun 10 14:37:58 2011
From: mark at microenh.com (Mark Erbaugh)
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:37:58 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] virtualenv best practices for version control
Message-ID: <247D321D-E3B8-484E-BF4B-461946BFCBCA@microenh.com>

If I have several non-related Python projects that use the same virtualenv setup should I create a separate virtualenv for each?  The obvious advantage is that if I need to update the virtualenv for just one of the projects, that change wouldn't affect the other projects. One disadvantage is setting up multiple identical virtualenvs.

Is it possible to duplicate a virtualenv without rebuilding from scratch?  It looks like a several of the scripts in the bin directory have the top level directory hardcoded.

What's the best way to keep track of the virtualenv setup when using version control on a project?  Ideally, I'd like to be able to check out the project and not have to worry about recreating the virtualenv. I suppose if there were only one project in a virtualenv, I could check the entire virtualenv into version control, but this still has the problem that it needs to be checked out into the same top level directory.

If you do re-create a virtualenv when you work on an old project, should you be concerned about not being able to find the same version of a library online?  Do you include the library installers in version control, just in case?

Thanks,
Mark

From ransom1982 at gmail.com  Fri Jun 10 19:04:52 2011
From: ransom1982 at gmail.com (Matthew Talbert)
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:04:52 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] virtualenv best practices for version control
In-Reply-To: <247D321D-E3B8-484E-BF4B-461946BFCBCA@microenh.com>
References: <247D321D-E3B8-484E-BF4B-461946BFCBCA@microenh.com>
Message-ID: <BANLkTimoDXKvbzdNwK4G8sVU=ncT8r+6+g@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Mark Erbaugh <mark at microenh.com> wrote:
> If I have several non-related Python projects that use the same virtualenv setup should I create a separate virtualenv for each? ?The obvious advantage is that if I need to update the virtualenv for just one of the projects, that change wouldn't affect the other projects. One disadvantage is setting up multiple identical virtualenvs.
>
> Is it possible to duplicate a virtualenv without rebuilding from scratch? ?It looks like a several of the scripts in the bin directory have the top level directory hardcoded.
>
> What's the best way to keep track of the virtualenv setup when using version control on a project? ?Ideally, I'd like to be able to check out the project and not have to worry about recreating the virtualenv. I suppose if there were only one project in a virtualenv, I could check the entire virtualenv into version control, but this still has the problem that it needs to be checked out into the same top level directory.
>
> If you do re-create a virtualenv when you work on an old project, should you be concerned about not being able to find the same version of a library online? ?Do you include the library installers in version control, just in case?

We use Fabric to automate setting up a virtualenv. This is
particularly helpful when working on the same project with multiple
developers. You can add a file "requirements.txt" or something similar
that is used to install certain libraries (and even specific
versions).

Here's a relevant portion of our fabfile.py:

def create_virtualenv():
    local('virtualenv venv')

And a requirements.txt can look something like this:

django==1.2.5
django-tagging
-e git+git://github.com/django-mptt/django-mptt.git#egg=django-mptt
feincms==1.2.2
-e svn+http://django-photologue.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/#egg=django-photologue
south
django-tastypie

I believe that requirements.txt is the default filename used by
virtualenv when it creates a new virtualenv, so if you don't want to
mess with Fabric, just adding this requirements.txt to your repo
should be sufficient, then you can just create the virtualenv with
"virtualenv [name]".

Matthew

From mark at microenh.com  Fri Jun 10 20:10:23 2011
From: mark at microenh.com (Mark Erbaugh)
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:10:23 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] virtualenv best practices for version control
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimoDXKvbzdNwK4G8sVU=ncT8r+6+g@mail.gmail.com>
References: <247D321D-E3B8-484E-BF4B-461946BFCBCA@microenh.com>
	<BANLkTimoDXKvbzdNwK4G8sVU=ncT8r+6+g@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <837FEFC5-EC88-420B-B890-6CBB4F8F5FF9@microenh.com>


On Jun 10, 2011, at 1:04 PM, Matthew Talbert wrote:

> I believe that requirements.txt is the default filename used by
> virtualenv when it creates a new virtualenv, so if you don't want to
> mess with Fabric, just adding this requirements.txt to your repo
> should be sufficient, then you can just create the virtualenv with
> "virtualenv [name]".


Matthew,

Thanks.  Where do you place requirements.txt?  I tried creating a folder for the new virtualenv and putting requirements.txt in that folder and then virtualenv [folder]. It created the virtualenv in that folder, but didn't load in the libraries from requirements.txt.  What I did find that worked was once the virtualenv was created and activated to do pip install -r requirements.txt. That loaded the libraries.

Mark

From mark at microenh.com  Fri Jun 10 20:20:49 2011
From: mark at microenh.com (Mark Erbaugh)
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:20:49 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] =?iso-8859-1?q?Expert_Python_Programming_by_Ziad=E9?=
Message-ID: <22230C19-EEFD-41DC-AC03-266EC4DC8BAF@microenh.com>

Has anyone worked through the development of package templates as described in Chapter 5? Some of the details are sketchy (to me, anyways).  He lists some of the files and then lists a directory structure. Some of the files listed aren't detailed, so I made my best guess at their contents.

He then says to run python setup.py develop to install the template.  I do that, and the command completes, just like in the book with the message "Finished processing dependencies for pbp.skels==0.1.0". If I do a pip freeze, pbp.skels==0.1.0 is listed.

However, when I do paster create --list-templates, only the two original templates (basic_package and paste_deploy) are listed, the pbp-package that I suposedly added is not listed.

The text mentions that the templates can be installed with easy_install pbp.skels. That works and installs pbp.skels==0.2.4 and paster create --list-templates shows the added templates (note: this was installed into a different virtualenv).

The book is dangling some tantalizing Python carrots that I'd like to use, but seems to come up a bit short on getting me up to speed on understanding or using them.

Mark



From mark at microenh.com  Fri Jun 10 22:11:17 2011
From: mark at microenh.com (Mark Erbaugh)
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:11:17 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH]
 =?iso-8859-1?q?Expert_Python_Programming_by_Ziad=E9?=
In-Reply-To: <22230C19-EEFD-41DC-AC03-266EC4DC8BAF@microenh.com>
References: <22230C19-EEFD-41DC-AC03-266EC4DC8BAF@microenh.com>
Message-ID: <D8A9B5FE-954A-44C6-89A6-343158F0778B@microenh.com>


On Jun 10, 2011, at 2:20 PM, Mark Erbaugh wrote:

> Has anyone worked through the development of package templates as described in Chapter 5? Some of the details are sketchy (to me, anyways).  He lists some of the files and then lists a directory structure. Some of the files listed aren't detailed, so I made my best guess at their contents.
> 
> He then says to run python setup.py develop to install the template.  I do that, and the command completes, just like in the book with the message "Finished processing dependencies for pbp.skels==0.1.0". If I do a pip freeze, pbp.skels==0.1.0 is listed.
> 
> However, when I do paster create --list-templates, only the two original templates (basic_package and paste_deploy) are listed, the pbp-package that I suposedly added is not listed.
> 
> The text mentions that the templates can be installed with easy_install pbp.skels. That works and installs pbp.skels==0.2.4 and paster create --list-templates shows the added templates (note: this was installed into a different virtualenv).
> 
> The book is dangling some tantalizing Python carrots that I'd like to use, but seems to come up a bit short on getting me up to speed on understanding or using them.

Found my problem. A typo in one of the setup.py files

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From mark at microenh.com  Sat Jun 11 02:59:53 2011
From: mark at microenh.com (Mark Erbaugh)
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:59:53 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] Expert Python Programming Chapter 6
Message-ID: <2826C980-97DA-4177-8FFF-6DE2BA0EA9BF@microenh.com>

Has anyone been able to get the Atomisator packages set up and running nosetests as per the book?  I've tried with Python2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 on the Mac and Python 2.6 on Ubuntu Linux.  I've tried using the template creating package (pbp.skels) described in the book (0.1.0) as well as a newer one (0.2.40) downloaded from the web (easy_install pbp.skels)

I can create the atomisator.parser package following the instructions but can't get nosetest to run the doctest in the README.txt file.

Here's the output of pip freeze showing the libraries and versions installed in the virtualenv:

Cheetah==2.4.4
Markdown==2.0.3
Paste==1.7.5.1
PasteDeploy==1.5.0
PasteScript==1.7.3
atomisator.parser==0.1.0
nose==1.0.0
pbp.skels==0.2.4
wsgiref==0.1.2
zope.exceptions==3.6.1
zope.interface==3.6.3
zope.testing==3.10.2

When doing python setup.py develop to install the atomisator.parser package, I notice a warning that test_requires (mentioned in setup.py) is an uknown distribution option.

Mark

From mark at microenh.com  Sat Jun 11 13:18:53 2011
From: mark at microenh.com (Mark Erbaugh)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 07:18:53 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] Expert Python Programming Chapter 6
In-Reply-To: <2826C980-97DA-4177-8FFF-6DE2BA0EA9BF@microenh.com>
References: <2826C980-97DA-4177-8FFF-6DE2BA0EA9BF@microenh.com>
Message-ID: <6F8F3864-85E1-4765-B506-8F39A893F0CA@microenh.com>


On Jun 10, 2011, at 8:59 PM, Mark Erbaugh wrote:

> Has anyone been able to get the Atomisator packages set up and running nosetests as per the book?  I've tried with Python2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 on the Mac and Python 2.6 on Ubuntu Linux.  I've tried using the template creating package (pbp.skels) described in the book (0.1.0) as well as a newer one (0.2.40) downloaded from the web (easy_install pbp.skels)
> 
> I can create the atomisator.parser package following the instructions but can't get nosetest to run the doctest in the README.txt file.
> 
> Here's the output of pip freeze showing the libraries and versions installed in the virtualenv:
> 
> Cheetah==2.4.4
> Markdown==2.0.3
> Paste==1.7.5.1
> PasteDeploy==1.5.0
> PasteScript==1.7.3
> atomisator.parser==0.1.0
> nose==1.0.0
> pbp.skels==0.2.4
> wsgiref==0.1.2
> zope.exceptions==3.6.1
> zope.interface==3.6.3
> zope.testing==3.10.2
> 
> When doing python setup.py develop to install the atomisator.parser package, I notice a warning that test_requires (mentioned in setup.py) is an uknown distribution option.
> 

Well, I've figured part of this out.  In the book, the command to run the nosetests is:

nosetests --doctest-extendion=.txt

But I found that to get it to run the doctest, I had to include --with-doctest on the command line as well.

There are also a couple of discrepancies in the test runner output that I get versus what's in the book:

1) The doctest given has several lines, all of which will fail initially. In the book, the test runner output only reports the first failure.  On my machine, all the failures are reported.  I tried using the nosetest -x option that stops after the error or failure, but that doesn't seem to change my output.

2) The doctest uses the ellipsis (...) to match some ignored output. When I run the test, the output isn't ignored and the test runner reports a failure to match the output.  I've not worked with doctests before, but it looks like the doctest.ELLIPSIS option needs to be specified. When using nose as a test runner, where does one specify doctest options?

Could some of the discrepancies I've seen be related to me using a newer version of nose (the book was published in 2009)?

Thanks,
Mark




From mark at microenh.com  Sat Jun 11 13:35:24 2011
From: mark at microenh.com (Mark Erbaugh)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 07:35:24 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] Namespace package structure
Message-ID: <658FD455-4D30-4127-87F6-9EAFB3B94115@microenh.com>

Yet another question from "Expert Python Programming"

One of the things discussed in the book is namespace packages.  The book gives a link to setuptools documentation at

http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#namespace-packages

that includes the following statement:

> You must NOT include any other code and data in a namespace package's __init__.py. Even though it may appear to work during development, or when projects are installed as .egg files, it will not work when the projects are installed using "system" packaging tools -- in such cases the __init__.py files will not be installed, let alone executed.
> 

Yet, in the book, the author shows adding code to the __init__.py file at the deepest level of the package.  The namespace package created is atomisator.parser and the __init__.py file in question is atomisator/parser/__init__.py.  I have a couple of questions about this.

Is it good practice to add code to the __init__.py file?  This is done because the api is used like: from atomisator.parser import parse. My tendency would have been to have a separate module, (i.e. parse.py) and then use from atomisator.parser.parse import parse. 

Do the lowest level __init__.py file need the "magic" startup code to create a namespace package?  From the setuptools documentation:

> These __init__.py files must contain the line:
> 
> __import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)
> You must include the declare_namespace() line in the __init__.py of every project that has contents for the namespace package in question, in order to ensure that the namespace will be declared regardless of which project's copy of __init__.py is loaded first. If the first loaded __init__.py doesn't declare it, it will never be declared, because no other copies will ever be loaded!)
> 

Thanks

Mark,

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From ransom1982 at gmail.com  Sat Jun 11 01:30:26 2011
From: ransom1982 at gmail.com (Matthew Talbert)
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:30:26 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] virtualenv best practices for version control
In-Reply-To: <837FEFC5-EC88-420B-B890-6CBB4F8F5FF9@microenh.com>
References: <247D321D-E3B8-484E-BF4B-461946BFCBCA@microenh.com>
	<BANLkTimoDXKvbzdNwK4G8sVU=ncT8r+6+g@mail.gmail.com>
	<837FEFC5-EC88-420B-B890-6CBB4F8F5FF9@microenh.com>
Message-ID: <BANLkTikBk5UzKNYcpx9FZ_TEn4d3Bini+g@mail.gmail.com>

> Thanks. ?Where do you place requirements.txt? ?I tried creating a folder for the new virtualenv and putting requirements.txt in that folder and then virtualenv [folder]. It created the virtualenv in that folder, but didn't load in the libraries from requirements.txt. ?What I did find that worked was once the virtualenv was created and activated to do pip install -r requirements.txt. That loaded the libraries.

That's correct. After looking more closely what we do, we essentially
do the same thing. I was a bit unfamiliar with our own process....

Matthew

From mark at microenh.com  Tue Jun 14 02:55:22 2011
From: mark at microenh.com (Mark Erbaugh)
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:55:22 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] easy_install find_links
Message-ID: <B12E9BF8-7252-435A-9989-5DCB23A628FA@microenh.com>

I'm still working on the procedures for setting up a repeatable development environment.

I'm trying to combine the instructions in Chapter 4 of "Foundations of Agile Python Development" by Jeff Younker with virtualenv, which he doesn't discuss.

I've created a setup.py file that properly downloads and installs needed library files (in my case, reportlab 2.5 and webpy 0.3), but I'm running into a problem getting setup to look for local copies of these files.

I've downloaded the appropriate files to a directory named thirdparty at the same level as setup.py and setup.cfg.  I've added find_links=thirdparty to the [easy_install] section of setup.cfg, but when I run python setup.py develop, it still looks to pypi and reads the installers from the web. At least that's what I think is going on - in the output I see:

> Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/web.py/
> Reading http://webpy.org/


But if I install the packages manually with easy_install --find_links thirdparty 'reportlab==2.5' it happily installs from my local directory.

FWIW, I'm also installing a library that only exists locally and for that one, I see no evidence of looking for it online (in fact, if it weren't available locally the search would fail) and it does get successfully installed.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Mark
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From mark at microenh.com  Tue Jun 14 03:19:55 2011
From: mark at microenh.com (Mark Erbaugh)
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:19:55 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] easy_install find_links
In-Reply-To: <B12E9BF8-7252-435A-9989-5DCB23A628FA@microenh.com>
References: <B12E9BF8-7252-435A-9989-5DCB23A628FA@microenh.com>
Message-ID: <704469AA-3D84-4F50-846C-63F31835C4B8@microenh.com>


On Jun 13, 2011, at 8:55 PM, Mark Erbaugh wrote:

> I'm still working on the procedures for setting up a repeatable development environment.
> 
> I'm trying to combine the instructions in Chapter 4 of "Foundations of Agile Python Development" by Jeff Younker with virtualenv, which he doesn't discuss.
> 
> I've created a setup.py file that properly downloads and installs needed library files (in my case, reportlab 2.5 and webpy 0.3), but I'm running into a problem getting setup to look for local copies of these files.
> 
> I've downloaded the appropriate files to a directory named thirdparty at the same level as setup.py and setup.cfg.  I've added find_links=thirdparty to the [easy_install] section of setup.cfg, but when I run python setup.py develop, it still looks to pypi and reads the installers from the web. At least that's what I think is going on - in the output I see:
> 
>> Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/web.py/
>> Reading http://webpy.org/
> 
> 
> But if I install the packages manually with easy_install --find_links thirdparty 'reportlab==2.5' it happily installs from my local directory.
> 
> FWIW, I'm also installing a library that only exists locally and for that one, I see no evidence of looking for it online (in fact, if it weren't available locally the search would fail) and it does get successfully installed.

Okay, I've done some more testing.  It doesn't look like easy_install is actually downloading* the reportlab and web.py packages so it is using the local copies. But the question is why is it even bothering to look elsewhere when a suitable package is found locally? Here's the appropriate lines from setup.py

>     install_requires = [ 
>         'reportlab==2.5',
>         'web.py==0.3',
>         'pdfrw==0.1',
>         ],  

And here's a directory listing of thirdparty:

> -rw-r--r--  1 mark  admin    12691 Jun 13 19:44 pdfrw-0.1.tar.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 mark  admin  1917306 Jun 13 19:04 reportlab-2.5.tar.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 mark  admin    88043 Dec  9  2008 web.py-0.3.tar.gz


pdfrw is a locally created package that isn't on the web AFAIK and I get no message about looking at pypi for it.

* If I remove the package from the thirdparty directory, in addition to the two Reading ... lines above, I get a line that says Downloading ...  If the package is there, I don't get the Downloading ... line.

Thanks,
Mark
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From mark at microenh.com  Tue Jun 14 22:46:19 2011
From: mark at microenh.com (Mark Erbaugh)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:46:19 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] Travel Times
Message-ID: <F374DE1D-E1BB-41F3-8389-B1A76F56E765@microenh.com>

Is anyone using Python tools to calculate travel times between addresses in an application.  If so, which one(s)?  In particular, is anyone doing anything with Open Street Maps?

Thanks,
Mark

From jep200404 at columbus.rr.com  Tue Jun 14 23:01:54 2011
From: jep200404 at columbus.rr.com (jep200404 at columbus.rr.com)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:01:54 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] Open Street Maps: Steve Roggenkamp's Presentation
 on Open Source Graphical Information Systems
In-Reply-To: <F374DE1D-E1BB-41F3-8389-B1A76F56E765@microenh.com>
References: <F374DE1D-E1BB-41F3-8389-B1A76F56E765@microenh.com>
Message-ID: <20110614170154.17b25c87.jep200404@columbus.rr.com>

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:46:19 -0400, Mark Erbaugh <mark at microenh.com> wrote:

> Is anyone using Python tools to calculate travel times between 
> addresses in an application.  If so, which one(s)?  
> In particular, is anyone doing anything with Open Street Maps?	

Steve Roggenkamp gave a presentation on Open Source Graphical 
Information Systems which included Open Street Maps 
at the April COLUG meeting. 

   http://www.colug.net/notes/20110427/colug-gis-20110427.pdf


From mark at microenh.com  Wed Jun 15 05:07:48 2011
From: mark at microenh.com (Mark Erbaugh)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:07:48 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] Open Street Maps: Steve Roggenkamp's Presentation
	on Open Source Graphical Information Systems
In-Reply-To: <20110614170154.17b25c87.jep200404@columbus.rr.com>
References: <F374DE1D-E1BB-41F3-8389-B1A76F56E765@microenh.com>
	<20110614170154.17b25c87.jep200404@columbus.rr.com>
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On Jun 14, 2011, at 5:01 PM, jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:46:19 -0400, Mark Erbaugh <mark at microenh.com> wrote:
> 
>> Is anyone using Python tools to calculate travel times between 
>> addresses in an application.  If so, which one(s)?  
>> In particular, is anyone doing anything with Open Street Maps?	
> 
> Steve Roggenkamp gave a presentation on Open Source Graphical 
> Information Systems which included Open Street Maps 
> at the April COLUG meeting. 
> 
>   http://www.colug.net/notes/20110427/colug-gis-20110427.pdf
> 
> _______________________________________________
> CentralOH mailing list
> CentralOH at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/centraloh


Thanks.

From mark at microenh.com  Thu Jun 16 15:32:22 2011
From: mark at microenh.com (Mark Erbaugh)
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:32:22 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] Namespace packages with Nose test runner
Message-ID: <96D455FB-0836-4A7E-B406-CC2A9E27AC6A@microenh.com>

I'm having trouble getting nosetests to find my unittests, or finding the namespace'd package code to be tested.  I'm working from code adapted from "Expert Python Programming" by Ziade.

This is the atomisator project. The initial namespace package is atomisator.parser.  This is on a Mac. Here's the relevant directory structure:

project
+-packages (directory)
   +-atomisator.parser (directory)
      +-atomisator (directory)
         +-__init__.py (namespace version)
         +-setup.py
         +-setup.cfg
         +-parser (directory)
           +-__init__.py
           +-test (directory)
             +-test.py
             		

The __init__.py file in the atomisator directory contains the "magic" code for namespace packages:

# See http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#namespace-packages
try:
    __import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)
except ImportError:
    from pkgutil import extend_path
    __path__ = extend_path(__path__, __name__)

If I run nosetests fro the parent (project) directory, it doesn't find the tests in the atomisator.parser/atomisator/parser/test folder. I think this is because __init__.py files are missing from the packages and packages/atomisator.parser directories. If I place __init__.py files there, the tests fail with an ImportError: "No module named atomisator". I've tried both empty __init__.py files as well as ones with the "magic" code above.

I can get the nosetests to run if I launch nosetests with -w packages/atomisator.parser (-w sets the source directory), but only if there are no __init__.py files in packages and packages/atomisator.parser.

If I launch a python interpretor in the project directory, it can successfully import the atomisator.parser package.

The atomisator.parser package was installed using python setup.py develop (which puts a symlink in the local site-packages directory).

The easiest thing that I have found that works is to cd to the packages/atomisator.parser directory (or further into atomisator or atomisator/parser) and run nosetests from there.

I'm obviously trying lots of things here (virtualenv, namespace packages, nosetests, setuptools) and I'm not clear on all the ramifications of all, but I do have something that I can work with.

I know others have mentioned virtualenvwrapper and fabric. Is it time to add another package to the mix?

Thoughts, suggestions?

Thanks,
Mark
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From jdenzin.lists at eyedarts.net  Fri Jun 17 02:59:43 2011
From: jdenzin.lists at eyedarts.net (Jason Denzin)
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:59:43 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] Potential Web Development Work
Message-ID: <BANLkTinQ1mBM--whamz0=WbiynjRzE53pg@mail.gmail.com>

This might interest some of you:

Attention Columbus web developers!

COHHIO (Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio) needs a website
re-design! Cohhio.org is currently an overgrown (500+ pages) html/css
website. Here?s what we?re looking for:

?  Migration of current content over to a relatively common CMS and the
ability to manage it ourselves.

?  Ability for employees to upload content with approval from one content
overseer

?  A clean organized feel to the information we want to share.

?  Our current ability to take donations online

?  Our current calendar

?  Social networking feeds

?  Web stats

?  Remain hosted by wiredtree.com


Please include references.


Please email Douglas Argue at douglasargue at cohhio dot org for more
information about submitting a quote for this work.
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From scott.scites at railcar88.com  Tue Jun 28 01:33:20 2011
From: scott.scites at railcar88.com (Scott Scites)
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:33:20 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] Python DoJoe Update
Message-ID: <BANLkTinYMQ8+bq9k+A-eM=mvzg+=FKyqrQ@mail.gmail.com>

The last two weeks at the Python DoJoe Mark Erbaugh and I have been pair
programming.  More specifically, we've been writing unit tests for our
individual projects.

FYI: Tomorrow morning I will not be at the Python DoJoe.

I'll see you next week.  Happy hacking!

Scott Scites
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From mark at microenh.com  Tue Jun 28 03:32:16 2011
From: mark at microenh.com (Mark Erbaugh)
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:32:16 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] Python DoJoe Update
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinYMQ8+bq9k+A-eM=mvzg+=FKyqrQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <BANLkTinYMQ8+bq9k+A-eM=mvzg+=FKyqrQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <93795FEE-8D5A-4CBD-899F-673FE49295A4@microenh.com>


On Jun 27, 2011, at 7:33 PM, Scott Scites wrote:

> The last two weeks at the Python DoJoe Mark Erbaugh and I have been pair programming.  More specifically, we've been writing unit tests for our individual projects.
> 
> FYI: Tomorrow morning I will not be at the Python DoJoe.
> 
> I'll see you next week.  Happy hacking!
> 

Since Scott isn't there and recently it's just been the two of us, unless I hear from someone else planning on being there, I'll skip tomorrow as well.

Mark Erbaugh


From brian.curtin at gmail.com  Wed Jun 29 05:12:04 2011
From: brian.curtin at gmail.com (Brian Curtin)
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:12:04 -0500
Subject: [CentralOH] Python User Group International Survey
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=g0f0oj5eQpqBNqNbJina5o1jNYg@mail.gmail.com>

The PSF is happy to launch today an international survey of Python user
group organizers to help it better serve the large and ever-expanding
international Python user community.

The survey contains questions on user group organization, events,
demographics, and growth. There are some questions with numerical
answers, and while your best guess is fine, you may find it helpful to
gather some statistics on your user group membership before starting
the survey (example statistics include the number of active members
and the size and topics for recent user group events).

We expect this survey to take around 30 minutes to complete. We
appreciate your time and honesty in answering these questions.

The PSF blog post announcing the survey:
http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/06/tell-us-about-your-user-group.html

The survey was written by Jessica McKellar (http://jesstess.com),
organizer for the Boston Python Meetup
(http://meetup.bostonpython.com), and Jesse Noller
(http://jessenoller.com/), PSF board member and PyCon chair with input
and feedback from survey specialists and others.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BWLG8SZ

The survey was pretested with a handful of user group organizers, and
their answers were phenomenal. Organizers have tons to say about these
topics, and we hope to get a lot of great, actionable data for
strengthening the relationship between the PSF and Python user groups
out of this effort.

Outreach, education, diversity and community building are critical for
Python as a community, and the Foundation - this data should greatly
assist in our targeting our resources and furthering the mission of
the Foundation in all ways.

Thank you

The Python Software Foundation
Jessica McKellar
Jesse Noller
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From eric at intellovations.com  Wed Jun 29 18:35:12 2011
From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr)
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:35:12 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] Bejeweled clone in Python with source
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=n2XoioCL3aF6HoUr5g2naPQFq-A@mail.gmail.com>

All,

I ran across this today, and since games have been on my mind since
Pete's intro to game programming in Python talk on Monday, I thought
I'd share.

It's a Bejeweled clone written in Python and using PyGame, with source:

http://inventwithpython.com/blog/2011/06/24/new-game-source-code-gemgem-a-bejeweled-clone/

He wrote it specifically to be easy to read and understand the source.
 He's the guy that did http://inventwithpython.com/  I bought a hard
copy of the book to support his cause.  It's also a great website for
Python and games.

Best Regards,
Eric

From eric at intellovations.com  Wed Jun 29 16:41:10 2011
From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr)
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:41:10 -0400
Subject: [CentralOH] PyOhio Deadlines and Schedule
Message-ID: <BANLkTimoXRcht1qzj+HD_kL4Hz1tU+CNvg@mail.gmail.com>

All,

If you haven't registered for PyOhio 2011, please do soon at
http://pyohio.org/register/ !

We'll need your t-shirt order preferences before ***July 7***.  Also,
by registering, we can more accurately predict how much coffee,
drinks, and snacks to order.

If you have any doubts about the conference, we've just posted the
draft schedule.  There are a lot of great talks planned!  Check it out
here:  http://pyohio.org/schedule/

If anyone is staying at a hotel, we have negotiated rates at two of
the best nearby hotels.  However, you'll have to make your reservation
SOON:

There's no official PyOhio hotel, nor any that PyOhio is bound to by a
binding contract, so stay wherever you please without guilt.  We have
arranged discounts for these two. See http://pyohio.org/Venue/

The Blackwell, an on-campus luxury hotel, is offering a limited number
of rooms at $109 (plus tax and valet parking). Ask for the PyOhio room
rate (or enter "PyOhio" in the discount code online). The Blackwell is
approximately 1 mile's walk from the Ohio Union. Reserve by July 7 to
get this rate!

The Holiday Inn Express & Suites OSU at 3045 Olentangy River Rd., is
offering a rate of $119.99.  Ask for the "PYOHIO" block.  You must
reserve by July 5 to get the special rate.
http://www.stayholidayosu.com

Any questions?  Please don't hesitate to ask me!

Best Regards,
Eric Floehr
PyOhio 2011