PyLadies India embarked its journey

PyLadies India embarked its journey 20th June 2020 marked a new beginning for PyLadies in India. We had our first meetup. I started my journey with PyLadies in 2016 as an organizer of PyLadies Pune [http://anweshadas.in/coming-out-of-hibernation-pyladies-pune-chapter/]. It began with a personal itch of the lawyer who wanted…

PyLadies India June meetup

We, PyLadies, have started our journey for quite a sometime now. Every year since 2016, we are growing in numbers and chapters. Currently, we have eight active chapters and counting. The COVID pandemic has somehow stopped our course of having physical meetups. But on a brighter note, the situation has…

Looking at the process through psutil and Python

Lately I have been trying to improve my system administration skills. I needed to monitor some of the running processes. To do that I used psutil [https://psutil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/] module in Python. It is a cross platform module to parse the information about running process. It also…

Taking backup for znc instance in Python

IRC [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat] plays an invaluable role in the life of so many people, separated by so many miles. It has been the primary source of communication for the Free and Open Source community for decades, now. In my last post [http://anweshadas.in/…

February PyLadies Pune workshop

It was the time for “learning Python with harware” in February, 2020 with PyLadies in Pune. Coding in Python becomes fun when one can see the changes it makes in the hardware. Selecting a place for work is always a difficult task as any organizer. College Of Engineering Pune (COEP)…

Twitter from command line

Since the time I have started writing code, the toughest job for me is to be in peace with the black and green screen, the terminal. As it is being “The Thing” which keeps my lovely husband (ah ha, really?) from me. So as an initiative of my “peace making…

Is PyCon 2018 your first PyCon?

Is PyCon 2018 [https://twitter.com/pycon] your first PyCon? Then you must have had a sleepless night. You must be thinking “I will be lost in the gathering of 3500 people.” There should be a lot of mixed emotions and anticipation. Are you the only one who is thinking…

PyLadies at PyCon

In 2013, I was going through PyCon photos. The album was full of pictures of very serious looking geeks engrossed in their favorite back and green screen. Suddenly I saw the photos of people laughing, enjoying and joking . Many of them were women. Dazzled by the beautiful ladies, I asked…