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List Advisory

Chris Calloway — 2008-05-16T17:22:11

TriZPUGlians: This is to inform you that soon you will be subscribed to our new python.org email list. Python.net has been dying a slow painful death for some time now and there has been work behind the scenes to get our list moved to python.org for many months. That time has now come. When you are subscribed to the new list, you will be getting a welcome message. It will describe the list purposes, policies, email addresses, and URLs. Your email address subscription is the only thing that will carry over to the new list. That means you will need to set yourself a new email list password. There will be a description in your subscribe email about how to do that. Also, if you receive the list via daily digest or have your subscription set to "no email," you will need to reset that as well *after* setting a new password. Of course, if your subscription is set to "no email," then you won't see this message either. :) There are three of you who are "private" members of this list. That is, we don't know who you are because you chose to keep your subscriptions "private" from the other list of members. So, I guess those three of you are own your own to find a way to resubscribe. I bet the front page of http://trizpug.org might hold a clue how to do that. :) I would like to ask that you send no more emails to triangle-zpug-w9fvoj/KL/tYD4wyRYr9MO4UqaaL+JwI< at >public.gmane.org Our co-founder Tom Bryan of python.net is working with Brad Knowles of python.org to get our list archives moved over to python.org. If you have any questions, you can refer them directly to me, cbc the at sign unc the dot mark edu, instead of this list. Before you do, I ask that you read this email again closely and consider if it is a really important questions first, so I don't get a hundred or so emails to answer personally. Finally, huge gynormous thanks to Tom Bryan, who has run the TriZPUG email list for six years. We will have three owners of the new list, myself, Mark Biggers, and Rob Lineberger. If you are a regular long-standing participant at TriZPUG meetings and also would like to be a list owner, just ping me about it.

scope in nested function calls

Joseph Mack NA3T — 2008-05-11T17:20:30

I've just moved a piece of code out of a long function into another (lower nested) function and I'd like the lower nested function to still access (write to) variables in the calling function. I'm doing this for readability and so that I can test a couple of different versions of the lower nested function by commenting out calls in the calling function. Here's an example piece of code ------------------------------- #! /usr/bin/python def foo(): print "foo: bar_value %d" %bar_value def bar(): bar_value=1 print "bar: bar_value %d" %bar_value foo() #main() bar() --------- the output is # ./test_scope.py bar: bar_value 1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "./test_scope.py", line 12, in ? bar() File "./test_scope.py", line 9, in bar foo() File "./test_scope.py", line 4, in foo print "foo: bar_value %d" %bar_value NameError: global name 'bar_value' is not defined ------------- I can't use "global bar_value" inside foo(), since bar_value isn't global. bar_value isn't local, enclosed, global or built-in (AFAIK). Is there a way to write to variables in a calling function? (If I have to pass all variables as parameters, I'd rather leave the code inside the original function). Thanks Joe

Quick IRC Cheat Sheet

Josh Johnson — 2008-05-08T13:12:57

Plone Job Opportunity at CPC (Carolina Pop. Center,UNC)

Josh Johnson — 2008-05-08T13:00:36

My organization, CPC, is looking for a full time, temporary python programmer: Details: http://www.cpc.unc.edu/aboutcpc/employment?wid=4179&func=viewSubmission&sid=4007 There's a strong emphasis on plone and other web tech. Experience in an academic environment, and experience with knowledge management and/or distance learning are a plus. Adaptability is key. I'm not personally responsible for filling this position. If you have questions, or want to apply, see the contact info on the post :) Feel free to pass the url along to anybody else you may know that might be interested. Thanks! JJ

wing ide on 64 bit debian

jim white — 2008-05-07T18:29:58

I have started to use Wing IDE Personal, but it doesn't install on our Debian AMD64 server. Is there a way to get it to run on a 64-bit Linux install? Jim White

we're Jammin: Weds 2008-05-07 from 18:00 to 20:30

Mark R. Biggers — 2008-05-05T12:18:45

Hello fellow trizpug'ers: Details on the next Plone Jam -- *this* Wednesday: http://trizpug.org/Members/biggers/feb-08-jam1/view See you there, I hope! thank you, ----mark

Python voted Favorite Scripting Language in Linux Journal June 2008 issue!

Robert Geiger — 2008-05-01T19:27:39

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Python (28.9%) PHP (21.7%) bash (19.8%) Perl (17%) rg

Bootcamparama

Chris Calloway — 2008-05-01T14:30:54

hey, gang! i just got off the phone with joel burton. we have our classroom reservations in the super-posh school of pharmacy videoconference auditoriums. and registration for plone boot camp, advanced plone boot camp, and pycamp will be opening next week! get ready for a massive brain infusion in august. also, i just noticed that for the second time in two months, the trizpug.org process was manually shutdown. I just brought it back up in case you were missing it and too shy to say anything about it. but i'll be taking steps to insure that doesn't happen again. sorry.

[Fwd: [Usergroups] World Plone Day]

Chris Calloway — 2008-04-30T16:52:05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Usergroups] World Plone Day Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:24:22 -0300 From: Roberto Allende public.gmane.org> To: usergroups-G3yHMj00SlOLbbK5bonKug< at >public.gmane.org Hello Members of the Plone evangelism mailing list are working to organize a World Plone Day. The idea is to invite to the members of the Plone community and User Groups to give (at least) an introductory talk in their community, and do the same all over the world. The suggested date is november 7th. Right now we're looking for ploners interested to join the initiative, so we're asking to add their city in http://www.openplans.org/projects/plone-marketing/world-plone-day We believe that's a very simple idea and it could get a huge impact in Plone promotion. If you need support to organize the talks or want to get deeply involved on the initiative, feel free to join the evangelism group: http://www.nabble.com/Evangelism-f24086.html Also, if you've any suggestion or comment don't hesitate to write us!. Kind Regards r0ver

[Fwd: ANN: Last chance! Re: Plone Conference 2008 Planning Survey Reminder]

Chris Calloway — 2008-04-30T13:12:04

Alex copied this to TriZPUG. But I didn't see it come across the wire. So please pardon any duplicate messages. Also, last day for New Orleans Plone Symposium early bird registration and special hotel rate is next Wednesday. -cbc -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Sprints] ANN: Last chance! Re: Plone Conference 2008 Planning Survey Reminder Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:14:57 +0000 (UTC) From: Alex Clark public.gmane.org> Organization: ACLARK.NET, LLC To: sprints-G3yHMj00SlOLbbK5bonKug< at >public.gmane.org CC: environmental-G3yHMj00SlOLbbK5bonKug< at >public.gmane.org, zpugdc-cfLucR93umavyjhrL8CkPg< at >public.gmane.org, scientific-G3yHMj00SlOLbbK5bonKug< at >public.gmane.org, enterprise-G3yHMj00SlOLbbK5bonKug< at >public.gmane.org, eduplone-general-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f< at >public.gmane.org, plone-docs-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f< at >public.gmane.org, sprints-G3yHMj00SlOLbbK5bonKug< at >public.gmane.org, triangle-zpug-w9fvoj/KL/tYD4wyRYr9MNHuzzzSOjJt< at >public.gmane.org, plone-developers-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f< at >public.gmane.org, plone-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f< at >public.gmane.org, plone-blogging-AQ2JdjIqcwT+DjiumDGGwti2O/JbrIOy< at >public.gmane.org, educational-G3yHMj00SlOLbbK5bonKug< at >public.gmane.org, collective-versioning-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f< at >public.gmane.org, zope-CWUwpEBWKX0< at >public.gmane.org, marketing-committee-G3yHMj00SlOLbbK5bonKug< at >public.gmane.org, plonenet-G3yHMj00SlOLbbK5bonKug< at >public.gmane.org, usergroups-G3yHMj00SlOLbbK5bonKug< at >public.gmane.org, zope-dev-CWUwpEBWKX0< at >public.gmane.org, framework-team-G3yHMj00SlOLbbK5bonKug< at >public.gmane.org, plone-i18n-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f< at >public.gmane.org, collective-commerce-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f< at >public.gmane.org, collective-calendaring-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f< at >public.gmane.org, archetypes-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f< at >public.gmane.org, zugod-announce-yBiN6GUkUQKKcLvQ8mt9K4e4f4J1MGUdnKs2IOyhHvI< at >public.gmane.org, ngo-G3yHMj00SlOLbbK5bonKug< at >public.gmane.org, plone-design-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f< at >public.gmane.org, grok-dev-CWUwpEBWKX0< at >public.gmane.org, archetypes-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f< at >public.gmane.org, product-developers-G3yHMj00SlOLbbK5bonKug< at >public.gmane.org, plone-announce-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f< at >public.gmane.org, multimedia-VBidyh1UHu/znGa7hsO9yNi2O/JbrIOy< at >public.gmane.org References: public.gmane.org> Hi all, (Final apologies for the cross posting!) This is your last chance to affect the outcome of the 2008 Plone Conference in Washington DC USA (aside from presenting and/or attending of course ;-) *PLEASE NOTE* You do not have to plan to attend the conference to take the survey. We'd like to get feedback from as many Plonistas as possible (and we've got 233 so far ;-) So please help us plan the Best. Plone Conference. Ever. by taking the survey located at: http://tinyurl.com/4hxr8o We will officially close submissions tomorrow night (Wednesday) at 11:59 PM EDT. Thanks, Alex Clark (ZPUGDC, http://zpugdc.org) On 2008-04-28, Matt Bowen public.gmane.org> wrote:

2008 New Orleans Plone Symposium

Chris Calloway — 2008-04-28T14:32:02

I'm forwarding the following from Enfold Systems: Mark your calendars for June 2-6, 2008! We are reaching out to inform you that the New Orleans Plone Symposium, hosted by Enfold Systems, is being held from June 2-6 this year. We are expecting 100 - 125 persons at the event. Detailed Schedule: June 2-3: Plone Bootcamp training sessions June 4-5: Symposium sessions June 6: Follow-up Plone strategic planning workshop Where: New Orleans, Louisiana, at the Astor Crowne Plaza Highlights So Far: - The Plone Founders — Alan Runyan and Alexander Limi - Chris Rose — Pulitzer prize news correspondent keynoting - Nightly events for the community to gather and network - Lectures by core Plone software developers including Joel Burton, Kapil Thangavelu, Chris McDonough, Sidnei da Silva and many, many more... For more information, please see: http://plone.org/events/regional/nola08/ - REGISTER NOW! Hotel and registration discounts expire May 6th. Hotel Reservations: You can book your hotel by calling the Astor Crowne Plaza at: Ph: +1 866-750-4202. Remember to say you are with the "Plone Symposium" to get the $139 USD rate per night. Register now for the SYMPOSIUM at: http://plonesymposium.eventbrite.com/ Register now for the TRAINING at: http://plonebootcamps.com/courses/nola-plone3 If you are interested in speaking at the symposium, please contact Alan Runyan at alan< at >enfoldsystems.com. If you are interested in sponsoring the symposium, please visit: http://plone.org/events/regional/nola08/sponsorship We look forward to seeing you there! Enfold Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ triangle-zpug mailing list triangle-zpug< at >starship.python.net http://starship.python.net/mailman/listinfo/triangle-zpug

Online GAP Data Explorer Tool

jim white — 2008-04-25T17:32:59

Here is the website I have developed for the NCSU zoology dept. http://www5.basic.ncsu.edu/ You can request a passcode or use gapusers/123456. The site uses PHP instead of Python, but did use Python for some of the data preparation. Jim

Online GAP Data Explorer Tool

jim white — 2008-04-25T18:22:32

ipython blog

Chris Calloway — 2008-04-25T16:41:10

New blog for IPython developers: http://ipython0.wordpress.com/ Carried on Planet Python: http://planet.python.org/

Python Bug Days

Chris Calloway — 2008-04-24T16:17:04

Want to get under the hood of Python? The next worldwide Python Bug Days are coming up Mother's Day weekend: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonBugDay Give Mom the gift of a code patch!

Take the Plone Conference 2008 Planning Survey!

Chris Calloway — 2008-04-24T19:40:12

http://tinyurl.com/4hxr8o

Meeting Thursday

Chris Calloway — 2008-04-23T20:48:28

Reminder: http://trizpug.org/Members/psmith/apr-08-mtg TriZPUG April 2008 Meeting: Scientific Python - Remote Sensing and Ecological Modeling Josh Gray, a doctoral candidate in the UNC Department of Geography, will describe a NASA funded ecological investigation which explores methods of scaling up eddy covariance flux tower estimates of various ecological parameters, especially those related to carbon and water cycling, to regional scales. Various remotely sensed images are employed in a novel model which estimates evapotranspiration for the Eno River Watershed in Durham and Orange Counties. Originally the workflow was entirely Matlab based. This user has found that the Python combination of numpy, pylab, and gdal has provided a full replacement and increased efficiency and portability. For more information, visit http://trizpug.org/Members/psmith/capstrat-directions/ What Meeting When 2008-04-24 from 19:00 to 21:00 Where Capstrat, 1201 Edwards Mill Road, Suite 102, Raleigh Name Paul Smith Contact Email psmith-pedFb6v5FmtWk0Htik3J/w< at >public.gmane.org Contact Phone (919) 805-9212

[Fwd: [Plone-developers] New Orleans PloneSymposium Call for Speakers]

Chris Calloway — 2008-04-16T22:19:20

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Plone-developers] New Orleans Plone Symposium Call for Speakers Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:58:11 -0500 From: Alan Runyan public.gmane.org> To: plone-developers-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f< at >public.gmane.org Call for Presentations of the June Plone Symposium We are now ready for presentation submissions for the Plone Symposium. The Plone Symposium is heavily focused on technical useful tidbits and best practices of Python/Zope/Plone development. The goal for the Symposium is for to cover relevant topics for consultants, systems administrators, and developers. It is the perfect venue for prospects to engage the Plone community because of its intimate setting and core developer to attendee ratio. Some suggestions for talks for the Symposium: zope.interface / Adapters Eggs / VirtualEnv Buildout Lowering the bar for entry Integrating 3rd party applications Indexing / Events Content mirroring / Entransit RDBMS integration ZODB / RelStorage / zeoraid Consulting projects with Plone R&D and Consulting Plone in the Windows environment Making dynamic scalable sites with Plone Each presentation should be 30-45 minutes. Speaker should be intimately familar with subject matter. We recommend 5-10 minutes of Q&A section of presentation so audience members are allowed to ask questions. Speakers will have conference fee's waived and will get a tshirt. Please send title, abstract of presentation to alan-/awGbKECNgO/3pe1ocb+s1+aB/EL+xL/< at >public.gmane.org Look forward to seeing you at the symposium in New Orleans! Learn more about the Symposium at: http://plone.org/events/regional/nola08 cheers, alan runyan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Plone-developers mailing list Plone-developers-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f< at >public.gmane.org https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-developers

TriZPUG involvement in PloneCon Sprint

Chris Calloway — 2008-04-15T23:35:14

TriZPUG has been invited by ZPUGDC to manage the sprints at PloneCon 2008 in DC. The sprints occur Oct 11-13 (the conference is Oct 8-10). I think that invitation involves: a) finding out who wants to sprint on what b) apportioning available room space to those sprint topics c) publicizing those room space assignments d) calling a daily report out for each topic Nate Aune has usually been the ringmaster of the daily report outs in the past. I will encourage him to continue in that role. He's good at it. He relishes it. I'd like to ask a few questions: 1) Who anticipates going to PloneCon in Washington, DC, this fall? 2) If so, do you anticipate staying for sprints? 3) If you are, have you ever been to a PloneCon sprint before? 4) Do you think TriZPUG should accept this invitation? (I think I've already been volunteered for the task anyway. I'm just trying to find out how alone I'm going to be.) I assume TriZPUG is going to have a big presence at PloneCon this year due to it being only a five hour drive away. What would you think of TriZPUG being a bottom tier sponsor again (like we did in 2006)? I think we have the funds.

PyCamp concurrent with Plone Boot Camp

Chris Calloway — 2008-04-15T23:41:25

As you know, we have two weeks of Plone Boot Camps scheduled this year: http://trizpug.org/boot-camp/pbc4/ And about weekly I get asked when are we (TriZPUG) going to have PyCamp again. (I get very tired just thinking about it.) I haven't asked Joel Burton about this yet because I want to get your feelings. But what would you think about having a PyCamp concurrent with Plone Boot Camp? Either week? Which? Or both? Basically, I can't find another time on the UNC calendar this year which would permit it other than the same time as Plone Boot Camp. Who would come to PyCamp? Would you? Have most of you who would go already been and it's a spent idea?

NOTICE: Meeting day change

Chris Calloway — 2008-04-15T21:12:41

There were no objections and one positive response after a month long feedback period to switch TriZPUG monthly meetings to Thursday. Plus, Paul is able to host on Thursday next week but not Tuesday. So, shotgun, our next meeting will be on fourth Thursday, April 24, at Capstrat in Raleigh: http://trizpug.org/Members/psmith/apr-08-mtg http://trizpug.org/Members/psmith/capstrat-directions/ The following program has been posted on our site for several weeks: "TriZPUG April 2008 Meeting: Scientific Python - Remote Sensing and Ecological Modeling Josh Gray, a doctoral candidate in the UNC Department of Geography, will describe a NASA funded ecological investigation which explores methods of scaling up eddy covariance flux tower estimates of various ecological parameters, especially those related to carbon and water cycling, to regional scales. Various remotely sensed images are employed in a novel model which estimates evapotranspiration for the Eno River Watershed in Durham and Orange Counties. Originally the workflow was entirely Matlab based. This user has found that the Python combination of numpy, pylab, and gdal has provided a full replacement and increased efficiency and portability." If you have something you'd like to talk about, bring it. Tell us what you've been doing with Python or what you've discovered about Python. Show and tell. No tip too small. We can have as many lightning talks as you'd like to stick around for. Don't ask for permission. Just announce it or bring it on. We operate on the shotgun rules for meetings. Call shotgun! Shotgun: To compliment Josh's talk, if there is time, I may tell you about what I've done recently with pylab (this is follow up to the Sodar processing code I showed you last fall): http://nccoos.org/platforms/sodar/ and/or what I've done recently with pydap (example with NWS METAR data): http://whewell.marine.unc.edu/dods/nws_metar/proc_data/latest_v2.0/ Both of the above run in virtualenvs with their own linkage to private Fortrans, etc. The pydap DODS server uses pyNGL (Python NCAR Graphics Library) from the Earth System Grid: http://www.pyngl.ucar.edu/ http://www.earthsystemgrid.org/