Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Oct 25)

[Cameron Laird]

QOTW: "[M]uch of the sample Python code in the world represents
relatively good programming practices." -- Tim Roberts
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

"[C]hoosing a language based on the speed of its implementations is the
ultimate _premature_ optimization, of course." -- Alex Martelli
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1gl6fnk.m1zq7z1fm0nhbN%[email protected]


Andreas Kostyrka summarizes the design judgment behind
Python's locking.
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

Not only has the logging module become an apparent moral
imperative, but explaining its ease seems on the same path.
Ville Vainio and others do their part.
http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=10bba0a04f732ecf

Andrew Clover knows how to deal with expat's limitations in
confronting DBCS encodings. You'll want this if you deal with
oriental writing systems.
http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=ece30b7ac22a07ca

Web production is collaborative. This has consequences.
Alex Martelli makes the design ones clear. Max M and others
argue the range of applicability of "templating".
http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=e04c0e3a94f5dbea

Python can compose functions in single lines, when pushed.
http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=70faaff2eafa600f

Rather than fret about schedules, compatibility, and so on,
Jeremy Bowers' response to the puzzle of Tile upgrades is
simply to use them.
http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=7470b5487e0132f8

Python even connects to the real world. That's the experience,
at least, of the folks at Engenuity Corporation and Phaseit on
the verge of sponsoring an Agile Control Forum. "Control" here
has to do with physical objects--things that move.
http://www.engcorp.com/acf/AcfAnnouncement


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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.*

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http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python


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[Alan Kennedy]

[Cameron Laird]

> Andreas Kostyrka summarizes the design judgment behind
> Python's locking.
>

http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

I've got to say that I found Luis P Caamano's contribution to that
thread far more enlightening. It gives the best historical perspective
on the GIL that I've ever read.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-October/245412.html

regards,

 

[Peter Hansen]

[Cameron Laird]

Andreas Kostyrka summarizes the design judgment behind
Python's locking.

http://groups.google.com/[email protected]


I've got to say that I found Luis P Caamano's contribution to that
thread far more enlightening. It gives the best historical perspective
on the GIL that I've ever read.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-October/245412.html

"Historical"? You mean the part that begins with his statement
'''I speculate that the GIL "problem" might have grown to its current
state because CPython grew in parallel with thread programming. '''

Speculation is always an interesting way to study history. <wink>

-Peter

 

[Cameron Laird]

[Cameron Laird]

Andreas Kostyrka summarizes the design judgment behind
Python's locking.

http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

I've got to say that I found Luis P Caamano's contribution to that
thread far more enlightening. It gives the best historical perspective
on the GIL that I've ever read.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-October/245412.html

"Historical"? You mean the part that begins with his statement
'''I speculate that the GIL "problem" might have grown to its current
state because CPython grew in parallel with thread programming. '''

Speculation is always an interesting way to study history. <wink>

-Peter

Yes, well, but apart from that, Alan is soooooo right to mention his
impression. We're Usenet here, folks, and it thrills me when people
take "Python-URL!" not as an authority, but rather as a starting point
for productive discussion. Thank you, Alan, for pointing out Mr.
Caamano's follow-up, for it indeed merits attention.