Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 26)

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Cameron Laird

QOTW: "This wouldn't be the first place where my fondness for things that
work has gotten me into trouble ..." -- Nick Vargish, on Python

"Typing is cheap. Thinking is expensive." Roy Smith


Computer Associates International Inc. ... well, it's not clear
*what* it's doing, apart from publicity, but one possible
outcome is that thoroughly Pythonic Plone will suddenly become
welcome in The Enterprise
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1599309,00.asp
http://plone.org/foundation/announcement
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040524/nym203_1.html

IBM now employs distinguished Pythoneer Mark Pilgrim
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/03/01/blue

Fernando Perez writes penetratingly on Python as a substitute for,
say, bash for daily work
http://www.scipy.net/pipermail/ipython-user/2004-April/000275.html

Jacek Generowicz not only asks for agreement that "compiling
dynamics languages ... can give significant speedups", but
presents evidence for the proposition
http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=d2348b3083caf371

"There Ain't No Such Thing As Plain Text" engages the passion of Paul
Prescod, Roger Binns, and other experienced Pythoneers
http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=161304412c3dd9a8

Riverbank Computing announces PyQt v3.12
http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/index.php

The next General Assembly of the Python Business Forum will
be on 9 June 2004 in Goteborg, at the end of EuroPython 2004
http://www.python-in-business.org
http://www.europython.org/conferences/epc2004/pressreleases/update20040519

Kent Johsnon illustrates why Python's callbacks are better than
Java inner classes
http://www.pycs.net/users/0000323/weblog/2004/05/19.html#P46

Greg Wilson gives his vision of extensibility
http://www.third-bit.com/~gvwilson/xmlprog.html


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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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K

Kevin Dahlhausen

Cameron and the other authors:

Just wanted to thank you guys for putting together the Python-URL.
It's something I look forward to each week and it also serves a
greater purpose by helping to tie the python community together.
 

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