Re: [Tutor] Real world experience

2014-05-12 Thread C Smith
I think that is going to be my new wallpaper. On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Martin A. Brown wrote: > > Hello, > > 10 Pick one favorite specific topic, any topic (XML parsing; Unix > process handling; databases). The topic matters for you. > Learn it deeply. Keep learning it. The

Re: [Tutor] Finding Hostname-IP DNS mappings and if machine is dead or alive

2014-05-12 Thread Alex Kleider
On 2014-05-12 16:36, Danny Yoo wrote: For command line processing, look into argparse: https://docs.python.org/2/howto/argparse.html#id1 Although the above is the standard library recommended solution, I would recommend you try docopt instead. http://docopt.org/ https://github.com/docopt

Re: [Tutor] Real world experience

2014-05-12 Thread Martin A. Brown
Hello, 10 Pick one favorite specific topic, any topic (XML parsing; Unix process handling; databases). The topic matters for you. Learn it deeply. Keep learning it. The topic matters less for others (unless it is specifically within the computer science discipline).

Re: [Tutor] Real world experience

2014-05-12 Thread C Smith
Freeside is more makers. I haven't gone but have known people that have. You might find some arduino supposedly, but not much coding otherwise and you have to pay membership fees. It is more social than technical, I think. And your car will probably be broken into. I will check out the python-atlan

Re: [Tutor] Real world experience

2014-05-12 Thread Danny Yoo
>>I don't know where you're geographically located, but if you are close >>to Hacker Dojo, they're good people. > > That looks pretty amazing. I am in Atlanta, but I may take a bus out > there just to check it out. I lived in LA for a little while and > venice beach, santa monica, and the desert-y

Re: [Tutor] Finding Hostname-IP DNS mappings and if machine is dead or alive

2014-05-12 Thread Danny Yoo
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 2:44 PM, KIRAN D.S. wrote: > Hi, > > I have a UNIX shell script that: > a. lists out the Hostname-IP DNS mappings > b. checks whether the machine is pingable, and prints "dead" or "alive" > depending on status. There will be a few things you'll want to look at. In parti

Re: [Tutor] Finding Hostname-IP DNS mappings and if machine is dead or alive

2014-05-12 Thread Emile van Sebille
How far have you gotten? Post your code to show us where you're at and we can point you in the right direction. Emile On 5/12/2014 2:44 PM, KIRAN D.S. wrote: Hi, I have a UNIX shell script that: a. lists out the Hostname-IP DNS mappings b. checks whether the machine is pingable, and print

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2014-05-12 Thread Chris Acreman
From: munazah zaidi Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2014 10:50 AM To: tutor@python.org Subject: [Tutor] (no subject) i want help Could you be a little more vague? ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https:

[Tutor] Finding Hostname-IP DNS mappings and if machine is dead or alive

2014-05-12 Thread KIRAN D.S.
Hi, I have a UNIX shell script that: a.  lists out the Hostname-IP DNS mappings b.  checks whether the machine is pingable, and prints "dead" or "alive" depending on status. I want to write this program in Python but am struggling.  Can someone help please ? Here's my script and output run ===

Re: [Tutor] Real world experience

2014-05-12 Thread C Smith
Thanks to everyone. >> practice. That programming doesn't have to be a solitary thing needs >> to be strongly emphasized, because the media likes to exaggerate, >Yes, This can't be stressed too much. Industrial coding is a team activity not >a solo process. This is particularly good advice for

Re: [Tutor] Real world experience

2014-05-12 Thread Alan Gauld
On 12/05/14 18:47, Danny Yoo wrote: practice. That programming doesn't have to be a solitary thing needs to be strongly emphasized, because the media likes to exaggerate, Yes, This can't be stressed too much. Industrial coding is a team activity not a solo process. In fact one well known a

Re: [Tutor] Real world experience

2014-05-12 Thread leam hall
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Danny Yoo wrote: > >> I have never known anyone that works in this industry. > > Just as a side comment: there are probably several folks on this > mailing list whose job description would match "working in industry". > One big step is "program for someone else".

Re: [Tutor] Real world experience

2014-05-12 Thread Danny Yoo
>> I have never known anyone that works in this industry. Just as a side comment: there are probably several folks on this mailing list whose job description would match "working in industry". > You could be expected to work as pat of a team - anything from 4 to 400 > other developers. That will

Re: [Tutor] Help with Python

2014-05-12 Thread jitendra gupta
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[Tutor] Please give a sensible subject (was (no subject))

2014-05-12 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 11/05/2014 16:50, munazah zaidi wrote: i want help http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://www.sscce.org/ -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and ma

Re: [Tutor] Real world experience

2014-05-12 Thread Alan Gauld
On 12/05/14 01:12, C Smith wrote: I have never known anyone that works in this industry. I got one job transforming xml (should have used xslt, ended up using sed and python regex scripts) where the guy asked me how much I wanted and I threw 200 bucks out there because I could get a room for two

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2014-05-12 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 08:50:15PM +0500, munazah zaidi wrote: > i want help Obviously. What would you like help about? We cannot read your mind. -- Steven ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2014-05-12 Thread Alan Gauld
On 11/05/14 16:50, munazah zaidi wrote: i want help 3 and -3 are square roots of 9. Did that help? If not, you will need to be a lot more specific about what kind of help you want. -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangaul

[Tutor] (no subject)

2014-05-12 Thread munazah zaidi
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