Whats on Your Mind ?

Acharya Naren­dra Dev Col­lege (Uni­ver­sity of Delhi)
in asso­ci­a­tion with NRCFOSS*, Anna Uni­ver­sity Chen­nai organ­ises a Sem­i­nar
on
Free/Open Source Soft­ware (FOSS): Aware­ness and Possibilities

Date: 16th April 2010 Venue: Uni­ver­sity of Delhi South Cam­pus
Time: 9: 30 a.m to 4: 30 p.m Ben­ito Juarez Marg, New Delhi ­ 110 021

The sem­i­nar envis­ages to intro­duce par­tic­i­pants to myr­iad pos­si­bil­i­ties of FOSS in every­day
com­put­ing and acad­e­mia. Besides intro­duc­tory aware­ness of FOSS, hands­on ses­sions to include
soft­ware instal­la­tion and appli­ca­tions Par­tic­i­pa­tion is encour­aged from all dis­ci­plines with or with­out knowl­edge of FOSS Reg­is­tra­tion is free and on a first­come first­serve basis For reg­is­tra­tion con­tact Mr. Jatin Lamba at 26294542 or email us at workshop.andc@ gmail.com Last date of reg­is­tra­tion: 12th April 2010
Coor­di­na­tors: Savithri Singh (ANDC), San­jeev Singh (IIC, UDSC), C. N. Krish­nan (NRCFOSS)

*National Resource Cen­tre for Free/Open Source‘ Soft­ware (NRCFOSS) is a multi­institutional Project funded by
the Dept. of Inf. Tech., Min­istry of Comm. & Inf. Tech., Gov­ern­ment of India ­ http://nrcfoss.org.in/. This work­shop
is being organ­ised jointly with NRCFOSS at AU­KBC Research Cen­tre, Anna Uni­ver­sity Chennai –

http://nrcfoss.au­kbc.org.in/

When you use Python inter­ac­tively, it is fre­quently handy to have some stan­dard com­mands exe­cuted every time the inter­preter is started. You can do this by set­ting an envi­ron­ment vari­able named PYTHONSTARTUP to the name of a file con­tain­ing your start-up com­mands. This is sim­i­lar to the .pro­file fea­ture of the Unix shells.

This file is only read in inter­ac­tive ses­sions, not when Python reads com­mands from a script, and not when /dev/tty is given as the explicit source of com­mands (which oth­er­wise behaves like an inter­ac­tive ses­sion). It is exe­cuted in the same name­space where inter­ac­tive com­mands are exe­cuted, so that objects that it defines or imports can be used with­out qual­i­fi­ca­tion in the inter­ac­tive ses­sion. You can also change the prompts sys.ps1 and sys.ps2 in this file.

If you want to read an addi­tional start-up file from the cur­rent direc­tory, you can pro­gram this in the global start-up file using code like if os.path.isfile(‘.pythonrc.py’): execfile(‘.pythonrc.py’). If you want to use the startup file in a script, you must do this explic­itly in the script:

import os
file­name = os.environ.get(‘PYTHONSTARTUP’)
if file­name and os.path.isfile(filename):
execfile(filename)