From jeremydavis at jeremydavis.biz  Tue Sep  3 05:21:11 2013
From: jeremydavis at jeremydavis.biz (Jeremy Davis)
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 23:21:11 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] =?windows-1252?q?Update_-_All_Things_Open=99_Conference?=
	=?windows-1252?q?_-_Open_Source_in_the_Enterprise_-_Raleigh=2C_NC_?=
	=?windows-1252?q?-_Oct_23-24?=
Message-ID: <CACSroP3xCHXqpjun_5UyA51ue4bu196_juoJGVtECOxWDaTiVw@mail.gmail.com>

Hey just passing along updates. I believe this will be one of the most
*incredible* tech conferences we have ever seen come to this area.

More than 50 speakers from 20 states will participate in the All Things
Open conference. http://www.allthingsopen.org/why-you-should-attend.html

More speakers have been added http://www.allthingsopen.org/speakers.html

Please forward to any groups that may be interested.

Cheers!
Jeremy Davis
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From lgtateos at ncsu.edu  Wed Sep  4 23:10:45 2013
From: lgtateos at ncsu.edu (Laura Tateosian)
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 17:10:45 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] identity crisis
In-Reply-To: <52144127.9@unc.edu>
References: <52144127.9@unc.edu>
Message-ID: <5227A1D5.6060206@ncsu.edu>

I'd like to get the path of the current file, so that I can append the 
sys.path and then import user-defined modules based on relative paths.

sys.argv[0] can do this. But sometimes it returns just the file base 
name or an empty string, depending on how the script is run. The same 
goes for __file__

Is there a simple reliable approach for determining the full path file 
name of the script I'm inside?

Thanks,
Laura

From stevegambino at gmail.com  Thu Sep  5 00:10:34 2013
From: stevegambino at gmail.com (Steve Gambino)
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 18:10:34 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] identity crisis
In-Reply-To: <5227A1D5.6060206@ncsu.edu>
References: <52144127.9@unc.edu>
	<5227A1D5.6060206@ncsu.edu>
Message-ID: <CAEeiu_pSRhGD3fyaor6bxXY2PVXXgT83VoLFPjEM-G87sOaGjw@mail.gmail.com>

Laura,

import os
os.getcwd()  # will return the current working directory

Is that what you are looking for?
Steve





On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Laura Tateosian <lgtateos at ncsu.edu> wrote:

> I'd like to get the path of the current file, so that I can append the
> sys.path and then import user-defined modules based on relative paths.
>
> sys.argv[0] can do this. But sometimes it returns just the file base name
> or an empty string, depending on how the script is run. The same goes for
> __file__
>
> Is there a simple reliable approach for determining the full path file
> name of the script I'm inside?
>
> Thanks,
> Laura
> ______________________________**_________________
> TriZPUG mailing list
> TriZPUG at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/trizpug<https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug>
> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group
>
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From jstrick at mindspring.com  Thu Sep  5 01:01:09 2013
From: jstrick at mindspring.com (John Strickler)
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 19:01:09 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] identity crisis
In-Reply-To: <CAJBRif65wd=oFLDJqXHtn_zH=9p=hZA=JkYOv=Y73DjL2BB_zw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <52144127.9@unc.edu> <5227A1D5.6060206@ncsu.edu>
 <CAEeiu_pSRhGD3fyaor6bxXY2PVXXgT83VoLFPjEM-G87sOaGjw@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAJBRif65wd=oFLDJqXHtn_zH=9p=hZA=JkYOv=Y73DjL2BB_zw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAJBRif5O39BG48NNgmabn+YdY_E0PcuzraxJ8_RwhmMaqvwahQ@mail.gmail.com>

Replying to my own post, I want to clarify that what the OP needs is:

import os
full_path = os.path.abspath(__file__)

--John Strickler


On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:59 PM, John Strickler <jstrick at mindspring.com>wrote:

> os.getcwd() only reports the current working directory of the script. If
> the script is launched from somewhere else, it reports the "somewhere
> else". That is, if you cd to /tmp, and run /some/where/else/myapp.py,
> getcwd() returns "/tmp", which won't help with Laura's problem.
>
> I can't make __file__ have a null string on my Linux box, but for all
> other cases you can use os.path.abspath(), which will provide the full path
> given a relative path.
>
> --John Strickler
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Steve Gambino <stevegambino at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Laura,
>>
>> import os
>> os.getcwd()  # will return the current working directory
>>
>> Is that what you are looking for?
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Laura Tateosian <lgtateos at ncsu.edu>wrote:
>>
>>> I'd like to get the path of the current file, so that I can append the
>>> sys.path and then import user-defined modules based on relative paths.
>>>
>>> sys.argv[0] can do this. But sometimes it returns just the file base
>>> name or an empty string, depending on how the script is run. The same goes
>>> for __file__
>>>
>>> Is there a simple reliable approach for determining the full path file
>>> name of the script I'm inside?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Laura
>>> ______________________________**_________________
>>> TriZPUG mailing list
>>> TriZPUG at python.org
>>> https://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/trizpug<https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug>
>>> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group
>>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> TriZPUG mailing list
>> TriZPUG at python.org
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
>> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group
>>
>
>
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From jstrick at mindspring.com  Thu Sep  5 00:59:22 2013
From: jstrick at mindspring.com (John Strickler)
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 18:59:22 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] identity crisis
In-Reply-To: <CAEeiu_pSRhGD3fyaor6bxXY2PVXXgT83VoLFPjEM-G87sOaGjw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <52144127.9@unc.edu> <5227A1D5.6060206@ncsu.edu>
 <CAEeiu_pSRhGD3fyaor6bxXY2PVXXgT83VoLFPjEM-G87sOaGjw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAJBRif65wd=oFLDJqXHtn_zH=9p=hZA=JkYOv=Y73DjL2BB_zw@mail.gmail.com>

os.getcwd() only reports the current working directory of the script. If
the script is launched from somewhere else, it reports the "somewhere
else". That is, if you cd to /tmp, and run /some/where/else/myapp.py,
getcwd() returns "/tmp", which won't help with Laura's problem.

I can't make __file__ have a null string on my Linux box, but for all other
cases you can use os.path.abspath(), which will provide the full path given
a relative path.

--John Strickler



On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Steve Gambino <stevegambino at gmail.com>wrote:

> Laura,
>
> import os
> os.getcwd()  # will return the current working directory
>
> Is that what you are looking for?
> Steve
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Laura Tateosian <lgtateos at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to get the path of the current file, so that I can append the
>> sys.path and then import user-defined modules based on relative paths.
>>
>> sys.argv[0] can do this. But sometimes it returns just the file base name
>> or an empty string, depending on how the script is run. The same goes for
>> __file__
>>
>> Is there a simple reliable approach for determining the full path file
>> name of the script I'm inside?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Laura
>> ______________________________**_________________
>> TriZPUG mailing list
>> TriZPUG at python.org
>> https://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/trizpug<https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug>
>> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> TriZPUG mailing list
> TriZPUG at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group
>
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From philip at semanchuk.com  Thu Sep  5 01:50:15 2013
From: philip at semanchuk.com (Philip Semanchuk)
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 19:50:15 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] identity crisis
In-Reply-To: <CAEeiu_pSRhGD3fyaor6bxXY2PVXXgT83VoLFPjEM-G87sOaGjw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <52144127.9@unc.edu> <5227A1D5.6060206@ncsu.edu>
 <CAEeiu_pSRhGD3fyaor6bxXY2PVXXgT83VoLFPjEM-G87sOaGjw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <BD4F1F11-062B-481D-877C-54CF6E2F3A5F@semanchuk.com>


On Sep 4, 2013, at 6:10 PM, Steve Gambino wrote:

> Laura,
> 
> import os
> os.getcwd()  # will return the current working directory

This is kind of off-topic, but I assumed that os.getcwd() was always safe to call until I recently burned myself. Check this out --

>>> import os
>>> import tempfile
>>> tempdir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
>>> os.chdir(tempdir)
>>> os.rmdir(tempdir)
>>> os.getcwd()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>>>

The real-world scenario for this is that my Web app was building a zip file on the fly in a temp directory in response to a Web request and then deleting the temp directory as the last step in its processing. The next bit of code that called os.getcwd() got clobbered with the OSError. (In my case it was when I first imported matplotlib, and it took me a while to figure out what was "wrong" with matplotlib.)

Happy Pythoning,
Philip


> 
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Laura Tateosian <lgtateos at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to get the path of the current file, so that I can append the
>> sys.path and then import user-defined modules based on relative paths.
>> 
>> sys.argv[0] can do this. But sometimes it returns just the file base name
>> or an empty string, depending on how the script is run. The same goes for
>> __file__
>> 
>> Is there a simple reliable approach for determining the full path file
>> name of the script I'm inside?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Laura
>> ______________________________**_________________
>> TriZPUG mailing list
>> TriZPUG at python.org
>> https://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/trizpug<https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug>
>> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group
>> 
> _______________________________________________
> TriZPUG mailing list
> TriZPUG at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group


From lgtateos at ncsu.edu  Thu Sep  5 16:47:52 2013
From: lgtateos at ncsu.edu (Laura Tateosian)
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 10:47:52 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] identity crisis solved
In-Reply-To: <BD4F1F11-062B-481D-877C-54CF6E2F3A5F@semanchuk.com>
References: <52144127.9@unc.edu> <5227A1D5.6060206@ncsu.edu>
 <CAEeiu_pSRhGD3fyaor6bxXY2PVXXgT83VoLFPjEM-G87sOaGjw@mail.gmail.com>
 <BD4F1F11-062B-481D-877C-54CF6E2F3A5F@semanchuk.com>
Message-ID: <52289998.40002@ncsu.edu>

Thanks to all.  abspath will do the trick!

On 9/4/2013 7:50 PM, Philip Semanchuk wrote:
> On Sep 4, 2013, at 6:10 PM, Steve Gambino wrote:
>
>> Laura,
>>
>> import os
>> os.getcwd()  # will return the current working directory
> This is kind of off-topic, but I assumed that os.getcwd() was always safe to call until I recently burned myself. Check this out --
>
>>>> import os
>>>> import tempfile
>>>> tempdir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
>>>> os.chdir(tempdir)
>>>> os.rmdir(tempdir)
>>>> os.getcwd()
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> The real-world scenario for this is that my Web app was building a zip file on the fly in a temp directory in response to a Web request and then deleting the temp directory as the last step in its processing. The next bit of code that called os.getcwd() got clobbered with the OSError. (In my case it was when I first imported matplotlib, and it took me a while to figure out what was "wrong" with matplotlib.)
>
> Happy Pythoning,
> Philip
>
>
>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Laura Tateosian <lgtateos at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd like to get the path of the current file, so that I can append the
>>> sys.path and then import user-defined modules based on relative paths.
>>>
>>> sys.argv[0] can do this. But sometimes it returns just the file base name
>>> or an empty string, depending on how the script is run. The same goes for
>>> __file__
>>>
>>> Is there a simple reliable approach for determining the full path file
>>> name of the script I'm inside?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Laura
>>> ______________________________**_________________
>>> TriZPUG mailing list
>>> TriZPUG at python.org
>>> https://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/trizpug<https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug>
>>> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> TriZPUG mailing list
>> TriZPUG at python.org
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
>> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group
> _______________________________________________
> TriZPUG mailing list
> TriZPUG at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group


From kgrandis at gmail.com  Tue Sep 10 17:47:55 2013
From: kgrandis at gmail.com (Kurt Grandis)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:47:55 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Learn to Code Volunteers
Message-ID: <CAEbsGXsUt-htiyAGjfjEG1eUn2+2E=BQV13_ZoCHcMocLrQLfg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Folks,

We will be running a Learn to Code event at SparkCon this week (Friday and
Sunday). This is an event geared towards individuals ages 12+ with little
to no programming experience. Attendees will learn the basics of computer
programming and explore Python using Raspberry Pis.

A few volunteers have had to cancel and I wanted to see if anyone would be
able to pitch in and help us out. If you're subscribed to this list and
have fired up a Python interpreter you're qualified. Volunteers will
basically walk around, assist attendees if they have any questions, and
help make sure everyone gets attention. If you can only make one event that
is fine; they are two separate events.

If you can volunteer for either event (definitely looking for Friday help
at the moment) please send me an email off the list and I'll loop you in.

Thanks!
Kurt

Friday, 9/13 9am - 3pm
Sunday, 9/15 9am - 3pm

CAM Raleigh
409 W Martin St  Raleigh, NC 27603
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From eric.leary at gmail.com  Tue Sep 10 18:28:26 2013
From: eric.leary at gmail.com (Eric Leary)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:28:26 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Learn to Code Volunteers
In-Reply-To: <CAEbsGXsUt-htiyAGjfjEG1eUn2+2E=BQV13_ZoCHcMocLrQLfg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAEbsGXsUt-htiyAGjfjEG1eUn2+2E=BQV13_ZoCHcMocLrQLfg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CABWRpxAWJOEitwEd5pK_jCBEc1DfkiRRhn6TvyhF1-t4CV6dOA@mail.gmail.com>

I am interested in helping with this.  I can't commit to the whole shift on
Friday, and I need to do some calendaring before I can commit.  Likely it
would be 12:00 - 3:00 if I can move things at all.

Sunday I will commit to the whole time. gulp. If you find you are staffed
strong and want to counter with a three hour shift out of that, would be
cool.

Eric Leary
919-260-7744   txt and voc




On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Kurt Grandis <kgrandis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> We will be running a Learn to Code event at SparkCon this week (Friday and
> Sunday). This is an event geared towards individuals ages 12+ with little
> to no programming experience. Attendees will learn the basics of computer
> programming and explore Python using Raspberry Pis.
>
> A few volunteers have had to cancel and I wanted to see if anyone would be
> able to pitch in and help us out. If you're subscribed to this list and
> have fired up a Python interpreter you're qualified. Volunteers will
> basically walk around, assist attendees if they have any questions, and
> help make sure everyone gets attention. If you can only make one event that
> is fine; they are two separate events.
>
> If you can volunteer for either event (definitely looking for Friday help
> at the moment) please send me an email off the list and I'll loop you in.
>
> Thanks!
> Kurt
>
> Friday, 9/13 9am - 3pm
> Sunday, 9/15 9am - 3pm
>
> CAM Raleigh
> 409 W Martin St  Raleigh, NC 27603
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> TriZPUG mailing list
> TriZPUG at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group
>



-- 
Science is the establishment of expectations.  Art is the manipulation of
expectations. Justice is the fulfillment of expectations.  Expectations are
patterns of mind.
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From perciballie at gmail.com  Tue Sep 10 20:00:02 2013
From: perciballie at gmail.com (Emily Perciballi)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:00:02 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Learn to Code Volunteers
In-Reply-To: <CAEbsGXsUt-htiyAGjfjEG1eUn2+2E=BQV13_ZoCHcMocLrQLfg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAEbsGXsUt-htiyAGjfjEG1eUn2+2E=BQV13_ZoCHcMocLrQLfg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAAY5EiLkZfNUzjE4SNtgsXAKY3OMfQh2YEmm4s+AoWJp5wBpqg@mail.gmail.com>

Where is the event?

Emily Perciballi


On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Kurt Grandis <kgrandis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> We will be running a Learn to Code event at SparkCon this week (Friday and
> Sunday). This is an event geared towards individuals ages 12+ with little
> to no programming experience. Attendees will learn the basics of computer
> programming and explore Python using Raspberry Pis.
>
> A few volunteers have had to cancel and I wanted to see if anyone would be
> able to pitch in and help us out. If you're subscribed to this list and
> have fired up a Python interpreter you're qualified. Volunteers will
> basically walk around, assist attendees if they have any questions, and
> help make sure everyone gets attention. If you can only make one event that
> is fine; they are two separate events.
>
> If you can volunteer for either event (definitely looking for Friday help
> at the moment) please send me an email off the list and I'll loop you in.
>
> Thanks!
> Kurt
>
> Friday, 9/13 9am - 3pm
> Sunday, 9/15 9am - 3pm
>
> CAM Raleigh
> 409 W Martin St  Raleigh, NC 27603
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> TriZPUG mailing list
> TriZPUG at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group
>
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From lgtateos at ncsu.edu  Tue Sep 10 20:06:49 2013
From: lgtateos at ncsu.edu (Laura Tateosian)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:06:49 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Learn to Code Volunteers
In-Reply-To: <CAAY5EiLkZfNUzjE4SNtgsXAKY3OMfQh2YEmm4s+AoWJp5wBpqg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAEbsGXsUt-htiyAGjfjEG1eUn2+2E=BQV13_ZoCHcMocLrQLfg@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAAY5EiLkZfNUzjE4SNtgsXAKY3OMfQh2YEmm4s+AoWJp5wBpqg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <522F5FB9.80201@ncsu.edu>

It sounds like fun.  I could volunteer some time on Sunday morning 9-11:30am

--Laura Tateosian


PS: Emily... it looks like it's at
CAM Raleigh
409 W Martin St  Raleigh, NC 27603

(scroll down to the bottom of Kurt's email)


Laura Tateosian
Research Assistant Professor
Center for Earth Observation
North Carolina State University
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~lgtateos/

On 9/10/2013 2:00 PM, Emily Perciballi wrote:
> Where is the event?
>
> Emily Perciballi
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Kurt Grandis <kgrandis at gmail.com 
> <mailto:kgrandis at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Folks,
>
>     We will be running a Learn to Code event at SparkCon this week
>     (Friday and Sunday). This is an event geared towards individuals
>     ages 12+ with little to no programming experience. Attendees will
>     learn the basics of computer programming and explore Python using
>     Raspberry Pis.
>
>     A few volunteers have had to cancel and I wanted to see if anyone
>     would be able to pitch in and help us out. If you're subscribed to
>     this list and have fired up a Python interpreter you're qualified.
>     Volunteers will basically walk around, assist attendees if they
>     have any questions, and help make sure everyone gets attention. If
>     you can only make one event that is fine; they are two separate
>     events.
>
>     If you can volunteer for either event (definitely looking for
>     Friday help at the moment) please send me an email off the list
>     and I'll loop you in.
>
>     Thanks!
>     Kurt
>
>     Friday, 9/13 9am - 3pm
>     Sunday, 9/15 9am - 3pm
>
>     CAM Raleigh
>     409 W Martin St  Raleigh, NC 27603
>
>
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     TriZPUG mailing list
>     TriZPUG at python.org <mailto:TriZPUG at python.org>
>     https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
>     http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> TriZPUG mailing list
> TriZPUG at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group

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From francois.dion at gmail.com  Mon Sep 16 18:09:06 2013
From: francois.dion at gmail.com (Francois Dion)
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:09:06 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Looking for a speaker for PYPTUG
Message-ID: <CAOLi1KCDPKHQrauNrkMQfwT9BrmBYt9phS1VdweQgW4THzos2Q@mail.gmail.com>

For this month, september 30th. It's in Winston Salem, at WFU, 5:30pm. Let
me know asap. Perfect opportunity to do a preliminary run of your PyCon or
PyCarolina talk or whatever, or a talk you've already done at tripython or
charpy.

Francois
--
www.pyptug.org  -  raspberry-python.blogspot.com  -  @f_dion
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From cbc at unc.edu  Thu Sep 19 22:17:10 2013
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:17:10 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Raleigh Project Night Venue Change for October Only
Message-ID: <523B5BC6.3030101@unc.edu>

We'll be having a project night in Raleigh at 6pm Tuesday October 1. But 
there is a venue change for this month only, even though it is still at 
NCSU. Rob Ladd has graciously offered the conference room at the North 
Carolina Cooperative Extension Information Technology office. Thanks, 
Rob, and we'll be back at WebAssign for Raleigh Project Night in November.

What: Raleigh Project Night
When: Tuesday, October 1, 6pm
Where: NCSU Extension Information Technology
        Conference Room 106
        512 Brickhaven Drive
        Raleigh, NC
Map: http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/maps/people/rcladd

-- 
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 lukedary at gmail.com  Mon Sep 23 17:30:09 2013
From: lukedary at gmail.com (Luke Dary)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 11:30:09 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] =?iso-8859-1?q?DevFestNC_2013_-_D=EDa_de_los_Datos_=28D?=
	=?iso-8859-1?q?ay_of_the_Data=29?=
Message-ID: <CAL5itvgjZqkNfNqSXKzwdJGyt1BVMDC-SC_aa-wmNbMfo0+0ug@mail.gmail.com>

I am pleased to announce the availability of tickets for the first GDG
Research Triangle
<https://plus.google.com/u/0/105162452149208177718/>DevFest on
Saturday, November 2nd, 2013. Doors will open a little after
8am, and the conference starts at 9am.

Google+ Event Page<https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/105162452149208177718/events/cts6a17j7vcu7aiau38nbq8loa8>

Etix Ticket Page<http://www.etix.com/ticket/online/homePageSearch.do?method=showPerformanceDetail&performance_id=1747915>

Your ticket for the day includes snacks, lunch, a T-shirt, and entries into
prize drawings. Sessions will cover web development, mobile development,
and tech community building. Space will be provided throughout the day for
participants to share projects, showcase products, or pitch ideas.

DevFestNC 2013 is focused on sharing knowledge, projects, and products that
utilize the vast amount of data available today. Producing and consuming
data is a hot topic here in the Triangle with increased interest in things
like Open Data and public APIs.

There are still slots available for speakers if you or someone you know has
a presentation they would like to give. Fill out the
form<http://goo.gl/g8Qu07>or contact +Luke
Dary <https://plus.google.com/u/0/103200760827460238230/>.


Directions to the venue - The Solution
Center<http://thesolutioncenter.com/Directions.html>


NOTE: The G+ event is for scheduling and sharing purposes and acceptance of
the event invitation is not meant to imply official tickets or registration
to DevFestNC, if you plan to attend in person please purchase a ticket
through our local vendor [url=http://www.etix.com]Etix[/url] (click the
ticket link or go to their website and search for "devfest") or sign up and
be approved to present a session.
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From cbc at unc.edu  Mon Sep 23 18:29:07 2013
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:29:07 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] PyCon 2014 Registration is Open
Message-ID: <52406C53.4040906@unc.edu>

I want to make sure that everyone here knows that PyCon 2014 
registration is now open:

https://us.pycon.org/2014/registration/

It was a soft launch two days ago with no announcement.

If you know you are going, you want to go ahead and register. First the 
early bird rate is tied to the number of registrations received, not any 
particular deadline. Second, there are 500 fewer tickets available this 
year than last year. This year's registration is capped at 2000 
attendees. And third, the tickets sold out last year over a month in 
advance with even with more tickets available and a less appealing 
venue. The venue for this year is simply incredible. I met the local 
organizing team at PyCon CA and they are also very on the ball people.

And, of course, Caktus is one of the leading sponsors!

-- 
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 cbc at unc.edu  Mon Sep 23 19:38:50 2013
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:38:50 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Special All Things Open Ticket Giveaway at This Week's
	Meeting
Message-ID: <52407CAA.4010404@unc.edu>

If you come to this week's TriPython meeting, you will have a chance to 
win a free ticket to the upcoming All Things Open conference:

http://www.allthingsopen.org/

What if you don't win but still want to go? No problem. TriPythoneers 
get a ten percent discount! Just use the discount code "pythongroup" 
when registering.

Thank you Todd Lewis and All Things Open for this gift and opportunity.

-- 
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 cbc at unc.edu  Mon Sep 23 19:46:22 2013
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:46:22 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] PyTennessee
Message-ID: <52407E6E.20404@unc.edu>

The chair of the PyTennessee conference, Jason Myers, invites you to 
submit an talk and/or attend PyTN, Feburary 22-23 in Nashville. For more 
information see http://www.pytennessee.org and @pytennessee.

-- 
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 cbc at unc.edu  Mon Sep 23 20:31:37 2013
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:31:37 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] TriPython September 2013 Meeting: Web2Py
In-Reply-To: <521BE67B.1010601@unc.edu>
References: <521BE67B.1010601@unc.edu>
Message-ID: <52408909.6030805@unc.edu>

On 8/26/2013 7:36 PM, Chris Calloway wrote:
> When: Thursday September 26 7pm
> Where: Bull City Coworking, 112 S. Duke St., Suite 6, Durham
>
> http://trizpug.org/Members/cbc/sept-13-mtg

This is to remind you of this week's meeting, our first at Bull City 
Coworking, and to inform you that due a death in the family, the speaker 
and topic for this month's meeting has changed. Thanks to a last minute 
catch by Jim Allman, we are going to have this most excellent meeting:

Join us as Jim Allman of Interrobang Digital Media gives a quick tour of 
web2py, the open source, full-stack web framework for building modular 
and portable web apps. We'll take a quick tour of its features, 
technology, history, and community. Then we'll look under the hood of a 
fairly simple web2py app, a browser for phylogenetic trees from the Open 
Tree of Life project. Along the way, we'll look at web2py's plugin 
architecture and how to integrate Twitter Bootstrap for a modern, 
responsive user interface. Lightning talks, 5 to 10 minutes 
extemporaneous expositions on a topic of interest to you, something you 
recently learned, kind of like a show and tell, are always welcome as 
well. We'll be meeting for the first time at Bull City Coworking. Please 
see the parking instructions on the BCC website. A wide variety of 
possibilities for the after-meeting are within steps of BCC.

To thank Jim for his rescue of our meeting this month, Jim wins a free 
ticket to the All Things Open conference courtesy of Todd Lewis. Thanks 
Jim and thanks Todd. We also have another ticket to give away at the 
meeting!

http://www.allthingsopen.org/

-- 
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 mhrivnak at hrivnak.org  Wed Sep 25 15:46:29 2013
From: mhrivnak at hrivnak.org (Hrivnak, Michael)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:46:29 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] PyCharm 3.0 free edition
Message-ID: <CAH49X+cjPZsqqS=Fexd+wJrrVr4176rgrLyALviu=bUOKVvQ5g@mail.gmail.com>

PyCharm 3.0 is out and includes a free community edition! I've been using
this IDE for over a year now and really love it. On first glance, it seems
that the pro (paid) edition is mostly about integration with specific
frameworks and other languages, but retains all of the core IDE features.
So I suspect the free edition could be very useful to a lot of people.

http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/

Michael
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From cbc at unc.edu  Fri Sep 27 21:14:54 2013
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:14:54 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Python Packaging
Message-ID: <5245D92E.4000106@unc.edu>

Mark Biggers let me know last night that he will be working at a Meals 
on Wheels food truck rodeo today (Fri Sept 27) from 4-8pm at the 
Carrboro Farmer's Market. If you are around, drop on by:

http://www.chcmow.org/food-truck-rodeo-sept-27th-2013/

Thank you, Jim Allman, for a great presentation last night about Web2Py.

Thanks to Robert Petrusz for the awesome new meeting space. Robert wants 
you to know that he's opening a similar space in Raleigh and you can get 
in on the ground floor. Members in either Raleigh or Durham will have 
full access to both facilities. Sign up for announcements and tell your 
friends:

http://bullpenraleigh.launchrock.com/

Thanks to Todd Lewis and All Thing Open for our door prize. Our winners 
were Anyi Li and Jim Allman. It was Anyi's first TriPython meeting! As a 
reminder, you can get a ten percent discount on your registration for 
the upcoming All Things Open conference in Raleigh by using the discount 
code "pythongroup" at:

http://www.allthingsopen.org/
http://www.allthingsopen.org/register.html

Last night we heard a lightning talk from Erik Rose about Peep:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/peep/0.8
https://github.com/erikrose/peep

Peep is part of the Python Packaging Authority's (PYPA) push to revamp 
Python packaging practices yet again. This coincides with the recent 
release of pip 1.4.x, which is backwards incompatible with previous 
versions of pip in order to facilitate some much needed changes to Pypi, 
the Python Package Index (http://pypi.python.org), and merging the 
distribute fork back into setuptools.

Rather than me explain all this to you, I'd like to direct you to a 
couple of sources of information. One is a talk by PYPA chair Nick 
Coghlan's talk in July at PyCon Australia. This is about as 
authoritative of a round up of the issues as you can find:

http://pyvideo.org/video/2197/nobody-expects-the-python-packaging-authority

Second, the PYPA has just published a fantastic user guide that has 
specifics on everthing Nick is talking about in the video above:

http://python-packaging-user-guide.readthedocs.org

I highly suggest that you watch/read both. We're all going to need to 
know this going forward.

Finally, I know you are just dying for this opportunity:

http://wraltechwire.com/google-to-showcase-its-glass-wearable-computers-in-durham/12931651/

-- 
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 jbw2003 at earthlink.net  Sun Sep 29 20:54:44 2013
From: jbw2003 at earthlink.net (Jim White)
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:54:44 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] application deployment
Message-ID: <52487774.4020302@earthlink.net>

Hi,

I took the web programming class  this summer and have written my first 
web app using Flask. It works great using the development server, but am 
having problems with deployment. I tried mod_wsgi and that worked on one 
server but got segmentation faults on another.

Next I have moved to wsgiref. I have written a startup script to run in 
the /etc/init.d directory of my server and can start and stop using the 
service command. The problem I have is that my service stops when I 
close the shell.

Would appreciate any suggestions for writing a linux startup script to 
run wsgiref or otherwise a good way to get my program running as a service.

Thanks,
Jim
-- 
James B. White
Cary, NC
H: 919-380-9615
M: 919-698-1765
White Coding and Maps <http://whitecodingandmaps.com/>
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From tobias at caktusgroup.com  Sun Sep 29 21:22:58 2013
From: tobias at caktusgroup.com (Tobias McNulty)
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 15:22:58 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] application deployment
In-Reply-To: <52487774.4020302@earthlink.net>
References: <52487774.4020302@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <CAMGFDKRoqa65J0t8+28a0yYVea61Xni5UNmPHs4uk1OE53rT=g@mail.gmail.com>

We're big fans of supervisord [1] at Caktus and use it nearly all of our
deployments.  In our case, we use it to run Gunicorn [2] and any related
services needed for our apps, but it should work just as well for any WSGI
server that you might want to run.  It installs easily on most Linux
distributions and has a flexible, compact syntax for specifying how to run
a service (at least when compared to an old fashioned init script).  As an
added bonus, it's even written in Python.

Good luck!
Tobias

[1] http://supervisord.org/
[2] http://gunicorn.org/


On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Jim White <jbw2003 at earthlink.net> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> I took the web programming class  this summer and have written my first
> web app using Flask. It works great using the development server, but am
> having problems with deployment. I tried mod_wsgi and that worked on one
> server but got segmentation faults on another.
>
> Next I have moved to wsgiref. I have written a startup script to run in
> the /etc/init.d directory of my server and can start and stop using the
> service command. The problem I have is that my service stops when I close
> the shell.
>
> Would appreciate any suggestions for writing a linux startup script to run
> wsgiref or otherwise a good way to get my program running as a service.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
> --
> James B. White
> Cary, NC
> H: 919-380-9615
> M: 919-698-1765
> White Coding and Maps <http://whitecodingandmaps.com/>
>
> _______________________________________________
> TriZPUG mailing list
> TriZPUG at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group
>



-- 
Tobias McNulty, Managing Member
Caktus Consulting Group, LLC
http://www.caktusgroup.com
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From sampath.usa at gmail.com  Mon Sep 30 18:31:18 2013
From: sampath.usa at gmail.com (Ramesh Sampath)
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:31:18 -0500
Subject: [TriZPUG] application deployment
In-Reply-To: <52487774.4020302@earthlink.net>
References: <52487774.4020302@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <CA+d_BdgL+AByscUzq0rQ+atXwOCkEorKxymWGv4Nn=Y8pJVi7g@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Jim,

I use webfaction.com to deploy my Flask apps and it works great for me.  I
created a mod_wsgi application, then deployed Flask and called my
application from the wsgi.py file that webfaction creates when I create the
application.  If you want a more automated script, you can check the
instructions on this (*
http://community.webfaction.com/questions/12718/installing-flask)*
*
*
I don't know enough about deployment to maintain the server, but webfaction
provides me enough control via SSH that I am happy with.  I create my
projects locally, use github to server and then clone the repository in
webfaction app.  This workflow works for me on my simple projects.

You can also install Django or Pyramid applications in webfactions, if
that's something you want to test it out.  The beauty is all of them are
deployed in specific folders with their own separate Apache / nginx config
files.  That way one app cannot mess up the setting of another applcation.

I think webfaction offers some discounts - use CFE1 (for 1 month free),
CFE12 for 50% off 12 months.

I have been thinking about writing a blog post about my experience
deploying Flask on webfaction, but have not gotten around to it.  Will let
this group know once I have it together.  Hope this helps.
*
*


On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Jim White <jbw2003 at earthlink.net> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> I took the web programming class  this summer and have written my first
> web app using Flask. It works great using the development server, but am
> having problems with deployment. I tried mod_wsgi and that worked on one
> server but got segmentation faults on another.
>
> Next I have moved to wsgiref. I have written a startup script to run in
> the /etc/init.d directory of my server and can start and stop using the
> service command. The problem I have is that my service stops when I close
> the shell.
>
> Would appreciate any suggestions for writing a linux startup script to run
> wsgiref or otherwise a good way to get my program running as a service.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
> --
> James B. White
> Cary, NC
> H: 919-380-9615
> M: 919-698-1765
> White Coding and Maps <http://whitecodingandmaps.com/>
>
> _______________________________________________
> TriZPUG mailing list
> TriZPUG at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group
>
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From cbc at unc.edu  Mon Sep 30 20:45:19 2013
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:45:19 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] application deployment
In-Reply-To: <CAMGFDKRoqa65J0t8+28a0yYVea61Xni5UNmPHs4uk1OE53rT=g@mail.gmail.com>
References: <52487774.4020302@earthlink.net>
 <CAMGFDKRoqa65J0t8+28a0yYVea61Xni5UNmPHs4uk1OE53rT=g@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <5249C6BF.8090804@unc.edu>

On 9/29/2013 3:22 PM, Tobias McNulty wrote:
> We're big fans of supervisord [1]

First released at the TriPython hosted BBQ Sprint.

-- 
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 cbc at unc.edu  Mon Sep 30 22:50:23 2013
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 16:50:23 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Reminder: Raleigh Project Night Venue Change for October
	Only
In-Reply-To: <523B5BC6.3030101@unc.edu>
References: <523B5BC6.3030101@unc.edu>
Message-ID: <5249E40F.8050108@unc.edu>

Remember, Raleigh Project Night is temporarily at a difference location 
tomorrow (Tuesday) night:

On 9/19/2013 4:17 PM, Chris Calloway wrote:
> We'll be having a project night in Raleigh at 6pm Tuesday October 1. But
> there is a venue change for this month only, even though it is still at
> NCSU. Rob Ladd has graciously offered the conference room at the North
> Carolina Cooperative Extension Information Technology office. Thanks,
> Rob, and we'll be back at WebAssign for Raleigh Project Night in November.
>
> What: Raleigh Project Night
> When: Tuesday, October 1, 6pm
> Where: NCSU Extension Information Technology
>         Conference Room 106
>         512 Brickhaven Drive
>         Raleigh, NC
> Map: http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/maps/people/rcladd
>

-- 
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