[prog] Fwd: [Courses] [Python] About Python Course

[Sue Stones]

This message was sent to the Python course that is no longer running.  I 
thought it might be of interest to people on this list , so Anand has asked 
me to forward the message.

I haven't looked at the program yet so I can make no comments on it.

sue

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Subject: [Courses] [Python] About Python Course
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 12:15:24 +0530
From: anand b pillai <abpillai at lycos.com>
To: courses at linuxchix.org

Hi All!

 I am a python hobbyist programmer. You can find my python page mentioned in
 the Personal Pages category of the python programming  language in most
 search engine directories. I am a programmer based in Bangalore, India.

 I was following the thread in your website about the python course. It
 happens that I am developing a program in pure python which can be used as
 to grab webpages from the internet.(What they call as "web-spiders" or
 "robots"). The program is in the beta stage but is quite usable for geeks.
 (like you :-)). Since I needed somebody to test it apart from me and my
 friends, I was wondering whether to post the source code in my website, if
 you people agree to use it for grabbing, say python documentation/books from
 the internet.

 The program and source code will be under GNU GPL so that anyone can use and
 modify at will as long as they keep the original copyright. The program uses
 only standard modules in the python library, so you people can just download
 the source and use it, to say "off-the-shelf".

 This would be a great help for me in getting the program tested, and also
 for you in learning the intricacies of python language by seeing a real
 working app. It will be a command-line program with no GUI intricacies.
 Right now it works based on the settings in a config file, but I can add
 command-line options if needed.

Please let me know the group's decision. You can visit my homepage at
 http://members.fortunecity.com/anandpillai. I shall post the latest code
 with some documentation on my website as soon as I get your (positive)
 reply. :-)

All the best for the all chix at linuxchix.org! :-)

Best Regards,

Anand B Pillai

PS: I am re-sending the original message with [Python] in the subject line as
 your webmaster Terri suggested.


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