Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 28)

J

John J Lee

QOTW: "The site that I worked on spent TWO MILLION U.S. DOLLARS on its web
server hardware. OK, it used Java servlets that are even slower than Python,
but you have to understand that there's a point after which you can no longer
pretend that hardware is free." -- Paul Rubin

"Monte Carlo sampling is no way to understand code." -- Gordon McMillan


Martin v. Loewis clarifies what entities might "compete" with Python
http://www.google.com/[email protected]

Peter Otten determines to find the simplest way of automatically
assigning instance attributes from an argument list
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

Is application-level configuration worth its own "advanced ... parser
and validator"? Is working with*out* tconfpy any more sensible? Give
thanks to Tim Daneliuk
http://www.tundraware.com/Software/tconfpy/

A question from a Delphi user about getters and setters in Python
elicits a good set of URLs on properties
http://groups.google.com/groups?&[email protected]

The long-awaited SciPy 0.3 arrives
http://groups.google.com/groups?&[email protected]

Alan Kennedy bravely works through a concrete example of management
of Word-as-XML
http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=fa888d67a6991cfd

Python 2.4 is on its way
http://python.org/peps/pep-0320.html

Francois Pinard believes he improves on Guido's main() model
http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=f94d0e366becbbca

Michael Hudson Thinks Like a Pythonista about stacklessness,
bytecodehacks, and more
http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/hacks/

Ero Carrera's pydot interface to the graphviz graph visualization
library (the "nodes and edges" kind of graph) is addictive
http://dkbza.org/pydot.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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John J. Lee

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.... and 50% Cameron Laird (don't think I've ever used the word
'elicit' ;-)


John
 

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