Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jun 2)

[Cameron Laird]

QOTW: "You can use subclassing to extend the interface of objects, and
to reuse implementation. But you should avoid using it JUST to reuse
implementation." -- Chad Netzer

"Never access the same external resource from multiple threads." -- Aahz"


Andrew Kuchling's making the first Python Bug Day possible
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/PythonBugDay

Will Steve Menard take JPype beyond what JPE has achieved?
http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=45d2249e5e13383

Now pysh joins IPython as a sort of rival to bash
http://unixnaut.com/skills/Languages/python/pysh.html

Seo Sanghyeon puts a lot of work into indexing Pypackages
http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=df31f7c3980def0d

The latest Zope book is in German
http://zope.org/Members/galileopress/zope-book-26

Michele Simionato illustrates Python's itertool-related chop(),
a far different thing than Perl's standard library member
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-May/222673.html

Jeff Epler begins to make explicit an important distinction that
most experienced developers have so internalized that they
consistently fail to articulate it to beginners: what exactly
the shell does beyond undecorated process management
http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=41a52d145b14c86

Phil Frost sketches an interesting success at exploiting Python
as an operating system (!)
http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=fe75856bba4e09ad


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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.

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

Brett Cannon continues the marvelous tradition established by
Andrew Kuchling and Michael Hudson 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/

The Python Business Forum "further the interests of companies
that base their business on ... Python."
http://www.python-in-business.org

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

Cetus collects Python hyperlinks.
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://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html

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.

*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:
http://www.ddj.com/topics/pythonurl/
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


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[Michele Simionato]

Michele Simionato illustrates Python's itertool-related chop(),
a far different thing than Perl's standard library member
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-May/222673.html

FWIW, I didn't know Perl had a 'chop'. I took the name from Chicken, a
Scheme implementation I like a lot.

Michele Simionato

 

[Cameron Laird]

FWIW, I didn't know Perl had a 'chop'. I took the name from Chicken, a
Scheme implementation I like a lot.

Michele Simionato

I want to make clear that I wasn't criticizing. While
I didn't know about Chicken, I've come across "chop"
before in the sense of "segment a sequence"; I thought
it was entirely legitimate. HOWEVER, a lot of Pythoneers
and especially Python newcomers are familiar with Perl,
and I thought it important to make *that* distinction
explicit.