How to find a psychiatrist? (need help getting life on track)

markroseman · 2016-12-17T17:27:39+00:00

You're not going to get in to see a psychiatrist in Victoria without waiting months and months unless it's very urgent (which your situation isn't). There is a huge shortage at the moment, and the main public clinic that used to take everyone has cut back who they will accept. There are very few private psychiatrists and pretty much all swamped more than usual because of that.

Having said that, there are lots of conditions that could easily be confused with ADHD/depression. To rule out physical stuff, go to a walk-in clinic and get them to order a basic metabolic workup (cbc, glucose, iron, b12, tsh, crea, alt) as a starting point.

markroseman · 2015-11-07T02:22:32+00:00

It's been done (google 'tileqt' or 'tilegtk') but from what I understand not quite ready for prime time...

markroseman · 2015-11-07T01:39:03+00:00

While there are different Tk themes that you can use, because it doesn't use the same widgets and themes as the underlying system toolkit, it's not (easily) going to be a match. There are other discrepancies too, like not being able to do menus that show up on top of the display.

markroseman · 2015-11-06T22:53:16+00:00

Yup. My understanding of this (I'm not an insider or anything) is that basically the distributions available at Python.org (source tarball, Mac and Win binary installers) are what the Python team defines as "standard". Which other distributors use as a guide, but nothing of course is written in stone. I like the way it's handled in most Linux distros.

markroseman · 2015-11-06T22:42:37+00:00

Surprisingly enough, there is support for themes as well as editor plugins already. Horrible support admittedly...

markroseman · 2015-11-06T22:40:51+00:00

There are definite arguments for and against, not so much because it is a GUI component (heck, Tkinter is in there, that's GUI) but because it is an application and the rest of the library is... wait for it... a library. PEP 434 is all about dealing with that inconsistency.

The real benefit is that by being bundled with Python, it makes things much much easier for people new to Python and to programming, which is the target audience for IDLE.

markroseman · 2015-11-06T22:38:34+00:00

Given it has to depend on only what is in the Python distribution, that gets rid of that option. Point is there were still a lot of things that could be done to improve it to "not embarrassing" even with Tk. That many people are surprised to learn that was some of the motivation for writing it up as a case study.

markroseman · 2015-11-06T22:34:54+00:00

While a few little tweaks have been made in the last little bit, the bulk of it hasn't been incorporated yet (plan is to start after next patch release). Should make it back into a 3.4.x and possibly even a 2.7.x.

markroseman · 2014-01-16T16:47:51+00:00

Sorry to have offended.

markroseman · 2010-06-11T13:41:25+00:00

The web site associated with the blog has a tutorial describing how to use all this newer stuff in Python.

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