[Chicago] Python Project Night and Office Hours this week

[Randy Baxley]

At the risk of creating another troll like me I would suggest posting on
the Chicago Linux group, FreeGeek Chicago, somthing FLOSS and
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/ask except really mayb look at the
last one first and see if you answer is already there.

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com>
wrote:

> Changing the subject so much this isn't even the right list.
> Some people here might know, but most will not be interested.
> You should post this on a Linux list.
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Lewit, Douglas <d-lewit at neiu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Changing the subject a little bit, is anyone out there familiar with
>> Ubuntu?  Sheila, you work for Canonical, right?  So maybe you can answer
>> this question.  I was creating a backup.  I thought my destination folder
>> was my external hard-drive but it wasn't.  My destination folder was a
>> folder in Home called "deja-dup".  When I looked inside deja-dup I found a
>> couple hundred tar.gz files, and I'm assuming those are compressed files
>> corresponding to my backup.  Is it SAFE to just copy those files to my
>> external hard-drive and then just delete the entire deja-dup folder?  Or
>> should I just leave the deja-dup folder alone?
>>
>> Backups in Mac are so much easier.  I love the Time Machine program that
>> Macs use.  Time Machine really takes all the headaches out of doing a
>> backup.  I think backing up files in Linux is definitely a more complicated
>> process.  However, I kind of like Linux because of its builtin package
>> manager, and I have also noticed that Linux has more up-to-date
>> interpreters.  My Mac for example has Ruby 2.0.0, but my Ubuntu computer
>> has Ruby 2.1.2.  I've noticed the same for Perl and Python.  Mac's Perl and
>> Python interpreters are always slightly out of date.  It appears that the
>> various Linux teams try harder to make sure that their OS's contain more
>> current interpreters.
>>
>> Well.... anyhow, if anyone can provide some advice on doing a safe,
>> effective backup in Ubuntu that would be great.  I could use some guidance.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Douglas.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Joshua Herman <zitterbewegung at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I wasn't saying you shouldn't go to the python meet up I was saying how
>>> I work through regular expressions.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 6:35 PM Lewit, Douglas <d-lewit at neiu.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey Joshua,
>>>>
>>>> Those are all good ideas, but sometimes it's fun to get ideas and
>>>> examples from other programmers.  That way I can "kill" two birds with one
>>>> stone: 1) Learn Python, and 2) Meet some great new friends!
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Joshua Herman <
>>>> zitterbewegung at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The way I try to program regexs is half the time I google the desired
>>>>> result and use that since it may have been tested before and just use it.
>>>>> The other times I would basically create test cases in a tool that Carl
>>>>> mentioned and I generally have the regex examples cheat sheet open.
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:03 PM sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Here is a nice UI for experimenting
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://regexr.com
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> neat
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I usually end up using a tool like that if I can't figure out why  my
>>>>>> expression isn't working as expected.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> oh and for the python part of this, when I have a particularly hairy
>>>>>> expression, I like the re.VERBOSE option so I can do multiline definitions
>>>>>> with comments.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
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