Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Aug 23)

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Jack Diederich

QOTW: "Because there's no chance that the original request is sane." - Georg
Brandl (responding to a question involving a Banana)

"this is one of your last chances to test the new code in 2.5 before the final
release. *Please* try this release out and let us know about any problems you
find" - Anthony Baxter, Python Release Manager


sum() is for numbers. It doesn't work with strings for your protection.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/e782a88bf5b2f911/

Parsing valid email addresses is hard.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/dfb305247edd7c6c/

Q: How do I make my code python 3000 compatible?
A: Wait for python 3000.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/8aee8423747c094d/

The C++ STL can't match python's speed in some applications.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/94fed9a76015a5e4/

David Wahler is no longer out of the office.
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=David+Wahler+out+of+office

Releases of Note
Python 2.5 Release Candidate 1
See
http://www.python.org/2.5/

byteplay - a python bytecode assembler/disassembler
http://wiki.python.org/moin/ByteplayDoc

ratfun-2.3 Polynomials and Ration Function library
http://calcrpnpy.sourceforge.net/ratfun.html

PyYAML-3.04 YAML parser and emitter for Python
http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAML

Upcoming Community Events
Plone Conference 2006, October 25-27 (Seattle, Washington)
http://plone.org/events/conferences/seattle-2006

Open Source Developers Conference Dec 5-8 (Melbourne, Australia)
http://www.osdc.com.au/


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Everything Python-related you want is probably one or two clicks away in
these pages:

Python.org's Python Language Website is the traditional
center of Pythonia
http://www.python.org
Notice especially the master FAQ
http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html

PythonWare complements the digest you're reading with the
marvelous daily python url
http://www.pythonware.com/daily
Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler that specializes in (new)
World-Wide Web articles related to Python.
http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html
While cosmetically similar, Mygale and the Daily Python-URL
are utterly different in their technologies and generally in
their results.

For far, FAR more Python reading than any one mind should
absorb, much of it quite interesting, several pages index
much of the universe of Pybloggers.
http://lowlife.jp/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/PythonProgrammersWeblog
http://www.planetpython.org/
http://mechanicalcat.net/pyblagg.html

comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be
sure to scan this newsgroup weekly.
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce

Python411 indexes "podcasts ... to help people learn Python ..."
Updates appear more-than-weekly:
http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html

Steve Bethard, Tim Lesher, and Tony Meyer continue the marvelous
tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson and Brett
Cannon of intelligently summarizing action on the python-dev mailing
list once every other week.
http://www.python.org/dev/summary/

The Python Package Index catalogues packages.
http://www.python.org/pypi/

The somewhat older Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects references
to all sorts of Python resources.
http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/

Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group
mailing lists
http://www.python.org/sigs/

Python Success Stories--from air-traffic control to on-line
match-making--can inspire you or decision-makers to whom you're
subject with a vision of what the language makes practical.
http://www.pythonology.com/python/success

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has replaced the Python
Consortium as an independent nexus of activity. It has official
responsibility for Python's development and maintenance.
http://www.python.org/psf/
Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation.
http://www.python.org/psf/donate.html

Kurt B. Kaiser publishes a weekly report on faults and patches.
http://www.google.com/groups?as_usubject=weekly python patch

Although unmaintained since 2002, the Cetus collection of Python
hyperlinks retains a few gems.
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html

Python FAQTS
http://python.faqts.com/

The Cookbook is a collaborative effort to capture useful and
interesting recipes.
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python

Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available are
http://www.python.org/channews.rdf
http://bootleg-rss.g-blog.net/pythonware_com_daily.pcgi
http://python.de/backend.php
For more, see
http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?ShowMatch=python&ShowStatus=all
The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a
SourceForge reincarnation.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0042/

The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com.
(e-mail address removed) and (e-mail address removed)
welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding
of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work.

del.icio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
It already aggregates quite a bit of Python intelligence.
http://del.icio.us/tag/python

*Py: the Journal of the Python Language*
http://www.pyzine.com

Archive probing tricks of the trade:
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100
http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site=groups&group=comp.lang.python.*

Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
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http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html (dormant)
or
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python
There is *not* an RSS for "Python-URL!"--at least not yet. Arguments
for and against are occasionally entertained.


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G

Georg Brandl

Jack said:
QOTW: "Because there's no chance that the original request is sane." - Georg
Brandl (responding to a question involving a Banana)

Looks like I'm trying to fulfil my bot duties from time to time ;)
"this is one of your last chances to test the new code in 2.5 before the final
release. *Please* try this release out and let us know about any problems you
find" - Anthony Baxter, Python Release Manager


sum() is for numbers. It doesn't work with strings for your protection.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/e782a88bf5b2f911/

Parsing valid email addresses is hard.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/dfb305247edd7c6c/

Q: How do I make my code python 3000 compatible?
A: Wait for python 3000.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/8aee8423747c094d/

The C++ STL can't match python's speed in some applications.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/94fed9a76015a5e4/

David Wahler is no longer out of the office.
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=David+Wahler+out+of+office

Thanks for pointing that out, Jack ;)

Georg
 

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