From m.hohner at uwinnipeg.ca  Tue Aug 14 14:14:37 2007
From: m.hohner at uwinnipeg.ca (Michael Hohner)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:14:37 -0500
Subject: [Python Wpg] UWinnipeg PT Systems position
Message-ID: <46C1AABD020000FC00002BD3@ds1.uwinnipeg.ca>


Come work with Syd and I

    * #A94.07
    * Technology Support 4 (Linux Systems Developer)  
    * Library (Systems Unit) 
    * Closing Date: August 20, 2007 at 12:00 noon  
    * Detais http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/hr-ss-a94-07 

Cheers,

Michael


Michael Hohner,
Systems & Media Services Coordinator
University of Winnipeg Library

VOICE: (204) 786-9812
FAX: (204) 783-8910
EMAIL: m.hohner at uwinnipeg.ca
WEB: http://library.uwinnipeg.ca/




From high.res.mike at gmail.com  Wed Aug 15 05:56:36 2007
From: high.res.mike at gmail.com (Mike Pfaiffer)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:56:36 -0500
Subject: [Python Wpg] Meeting this month?
Message-ID: <46C2CDD4.5090506@gmail.com>

	So, is there a meeting this month? I figured I'd ask earlier so we 
could decide earlier.

				Later
				Mike



From syd at plug.ca  Fri Aug 17 11:59:02 2007
From: syd at plug.ca (Sydney Weidman)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:59:02 -0500
Subject: [Python Wpg] Recipe of the day: testing if x is a string (including
	unicode)
Message-ID: <1187366342.3451.14.camel@localhost.localdomain>

This is probably something I should have learned long ago, but I was
flipping through the first few pages of the Python Cookbook and
discovered this:

isinstance(x, str)

is False for unicode strings. Hmmm... probably should have known that.

I could test for both str and unicode:

isinstance(x, str) or isinstance(x, unicode)

but that seems awfully clumsy and uncharacteristically verbose for
Python.

Apparently, someone has thought of this :-)

The correct test is:

isinstance(x, basestring)

[GCC 4.0.2 20051125 (Red Hat 4.0.2-8)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> x = u'\u2020'
>>> isinstance(x,str)
False
>>> isinstance(x,unicode)
True
>>> isinstance(x,basestring)
True
>>>
>>> isinstance('normal string', basestring)
True
>>>

Thanks to Luther Blissett for recipe 1.3 of the Python Cookbook

Hope everyone is having a great summer.

P.S. Any topic suggestions for the 4th Wednesday in September (the
26th)?

- Syd




From stuartw at mts.net  Tue Aug 21 23:04:53 2007
From: stuartw at mts.net (Stuart Williams)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:04:53 -0500
Subject: [Python Wpg] Regarding ideas for our September meeting.
Message-ID: <18123.42965.522950.864609@gavel.swilliams.ca>

Regarding ideas for our September meeting, how about metaclasses
and/or decorators?  You know, a simple approachable topic to start us
out.

Another possibility would be to collaboratively plan a Python tutorial
for the October meeting.  I think for that to fly, though, we would
need people to actually spread the word for October's meeting.

Stuart.


From stuartw at mts.net  Wed Aug 22 16:24:51 2007
From: stuartw at mts.net (Stuart Williams)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:24:51 -0500
Subject: [Python Wpg] August meeting (tonight)
Message-ID: <db6e78040708221324ke2fab5dg9f70ade4e21b7b28@mail.gmail.com>

I only realized today that we're already at the fourth Wednesday of
the month.  If anyone is planning on showing up tonight speak up.  I'm
not.

For the new list members, don't lose heart, we do meet quite regularly
9 or 10 months of the year, we just haven't quite figured out yet what
to do during the summer months.


From sara_arenson at yahoo.ca  Wed Aug 22 17:46:10 2007
From: sara_arenson at yahoo.ca (Sara Arenson)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:46:10 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Python Wpg] August meeting (tonight)
In-Reply-To: <db6e78040708221324ke2fab5dg9f70ade4e21b7b28@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <308414.10927.qm@web90510.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


If we meet tonight, what time and place would it be? And is there anything in
particular planned?

Sara

--- Stuart Williams <stuartw at mts.net> wrote:

> I only realized today that we're already at the fourth Wednesday of
> the month.  If anyone is planning on showing up tonight speak up.  I'm
> not.
> 
> For the new list members, don't lose heart, we do meet quite regularly
> 9 or 10 months of the year, we just haven't quite figured out yet what
> to do during the summer months.
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From high.res.mike at gmail.com  Wed Aug 22 18:18:13 2007
From: high.res.mike at gmail.com (Mike Pfaiffer)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:18:13 -0500
Subject: [Python Wpg] August meeting (tonight)
In-Reply-To: <db6e78040708221324ke2fab5dg9f70ade4e21b7b28@mail.gmail.com>
References: <db6e78040708221324ke2fab5dg9f70ade4e21b7b28@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <46CCB625.50605@gmail.com>

Stuart Williams wrote:
> I only realized today that we're already at the fourth Wednesday of
> the month.  If anyone is planning on showing up tonight speak up.  I'm
> not.

	Snuck up on us. I was thinking it was next week. I guess I won't bother 
tonight. Other things are sneaking up on me this week.

> For the new list members, don't lose heart, we do meet quite regularly
> 9 or 10 months of the year, we just haven't quite figured out yet what
> to do during the summer months.

	Most other UGs don't bother meeting during the summer. Any meetings are 
usually at coffee shops and mostly social.

	Speaking of which... MWCS has their meetings on the first Tuesday of 
the month. Maybe someone would be interested in giving an intro to 
Python for half a dozen people some time during the year... The MUUG is 
on the second Tuesday and has had a presentation given to them about a 
year and a half ago. Maybe Syd can give us some details about the PLUG...

				Later
				Mike