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Free/Open Source Software (FOSS): Awareness and Possibilities

April 3, 2010 Event, FOSS, workshop No comments

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/

PYTHONSTARTUP == .profile

June 4, 2009 python, tips No comments

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)