Category Archives: Python

PyCon AU runs

Posted on June 30, 2013 by Graeme

Last year I organised casual morning runs at PyCon AU 2012 and it worked well; various people joined in for different runs across the four days of the conference and sprints. We saw some great parts of Hobart and had some … Continue reading →

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Notes from MPUG, June 2013

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Graeme

The Melbourne Python User Group met this evening. Apart from the talk on Python one-liners (see my previous post), we covered a range of other topics, including: Lamson, a Python SMTP server that has a lot in common with web … Continue reading →

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Notes from MPUG, June 2013: “Python one-liners” talk

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Graeme

Python one-liners The Python interpreter command line arguments Three useful command line arguments for Python one-liners: graeme@psylocke:~/Projects/Presentations/MPUG_Jun2013$ python -h usage: python [option] … [-c cmd | -m mod | file | -] [arg] … Options and arguments (and corresponding environment … Continue reading →

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Notes from MPUG, May 2013

Posted on May 31, 2013 by Graeme

The Melbourne Python User Group had a good turn out for the May meeting with about 30 people coming along for a night of talks followed by discussion over pizza and beer. Talk 1: Ansible Javier Candeira walked us through … Continue reading →

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Notes from MPUG, March 2013

Posted on March 31, 2013 by Graeme

The March Melbourne Python Users Group meeting had three speakers and a whole of interesting chats over pizza and beer afterwards. Stewart Hines is the author of Picklets. The Picklet Builder app uses Django with a Google AppEngine backend on managing … Continue reading →

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Notes from MPUG, December 2012 – part 2, as well as January & February 2013!

Posted on February 10, 2013 by Graeme

Firstly some housekeeping: there’s no MPUG meeting this month. The next meeting will be on March 4, 6pm at Inspire 9. The February meeting was moved to January 28 to avoid a clash with Tim Berners-Lee visiting town. Unfortunately the … Continue reading →

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Notes from MPUG, December 2012 – part 1

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Graeme

We had about twenty people at the last Melbourne Python User Group meeting for 2012, celebrating with six litres of mulled wine, five dozen fruit mince pies, four speakers speaking and a partridge in a pear tree. Nathan Faggian and … Continue reading →

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(No) notes from MPUG, November 2012

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Graeme

I missed the November meeting of the Melbourne Python Users Group as I was holidaying on Flinders Island, so there’s no notes! Word on the street is that the group got to try out the new meeting room at Inspire … Continue reading →

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Notes from MPUG, October 2012

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Graeme

Twenty people came to the MPUG meeting at Inspire 9 this month for an evening of Python and pizza. PyCon AU 2013 The dates for PyCon AU 2013 have been set: July 6 – 7, 2013, which will coincide with … Continue reading →

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Notes from MPUG, September 2012

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Graeme

These are my notes from last week’s Melbourne Python Users Group meeting at Inspire 9. We had a great turnout, probably due to the combination of last month’s PyCon AU and Richard’s guest spot on Byte Into It the week … Continue reading →

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