Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Oct 11)

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Ville Vainio

QOTW: "As revealed by PSU Research Paper 'UU788', the real reason is a side
effect of the nanovirus encroaching into non-whitespace, as first proposed
by 'UU355' and then earlier proven (twice, as it turned out) by 'UU6 9'.
The only defence is t*^$Z:%Z* NO CARRIER" - Richie Hindle. He appears to have
survived the... unfortunate incident.

"What do I have to say to get into the QOTW?" - Dan Python, who finally
realized that Dan Perl is not going to cut it as a name.


Johannes Eble is looking for software te help replace Matlab with
Python. Respondents recommend the combination of SciPy and IPython.
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

Irmen de Jong is looking for a way to make an object temporarily
read-only. Alex Martelli comes up with a clever,
obvious-when-you-have-seen-it approach of changing the class of
the live object.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1gl6bdp.rudxqrkoby1zN%[email protected]

Global interpreter lock of CPython and multi-CPU scalability are
a recurrent theme in comp.lang.python. The current concern involves
the upcoming availability and popularity of multicore CPUs.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=6db3f637.0410042045.2171ad5f40posting.google.com

PySQLite, the python interface to the SQLite embedded relational
database, hits 1.0.
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

Carlos Ribeiro provides Erik Johnson a simple explanation of the
mechanics behind class and function definitions - a simple matter
that confuses many, especially people who think Python has such
things as 'declarations'.
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

Alex Martelli shows how we should use the plain objects returned by
object() as sentinels.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=1glatop.p9hsopf3b9m4N%[email protected]

Robin Becker needs to determine whether an object is a sequence.
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

Boo 0.4.3, the Python-like language for .NET/Mono CLR, is out.
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]


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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

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/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

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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Cameron Laird

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