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Jack Diederich
QOTW: "Regexps are a brittle tool, best tolerated in small doses." - Tim Peters
"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability" - Edsger W. Dijkstra
eval(repr(var)) sometimes works for serialization but don't count on it.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/71b54c23162ffcd9/
More than you ever wanted to know about the types of regular expression
engines and their history.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/cd20b4cabc6fe26/
Folks discuss their favorite libraries that make multiple and parallel
processing easier.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/ba9fe6b206e6beca/
Could python be changed to have no reserved keywords? How about we make
the color of a variable change its meaning? A romp through PL/I, FORTRAN,
and Color Forth.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/cb0eae075930228a/
Text editors for writing python. Emacs and vi sit this one out and no
flame war erupts.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/4aff7ef699633bf9/
The string 'in' operator implementation is different between 2.4 and 2.5
(in 2.5 it got faster)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/114846082ffdb5d8/
For small databases almost any will do. Here are suggestions.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/5614505bc1f62986/
Releases of Note
Python 2.5 Release Candidate 2 - This is your last chance to contribute
feedback before 2.5 Final.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d2b9d202a1dbaa4e/
XPN 0.6.5 - Multi-platform newsreader written in Python and GTK.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/9366f96b404dc9c9/
CoreBio 0.4 - a Python library for bioinformatics and computational biology
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f28a8245087d589d/
Leo 4.4.1.1 - Leo is a text editor, project manager, and more
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/63a7a53e83b0fa9e/
Upcoming Community Events
Plone Conference 2006, October 25-27 (Seattle, Washington)
http://plone.org/events/conferences/seattle-2006
Open Source Developers Conference December 5-8 (Melbourne, Australia)
http://www.osdc.com.au/
PyCon 2007, February 23-25 (Dallas, TX)
http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/HomePage
RuPy 2007, April 7-8 (Poznan, Poland)
http://rupy.wmid.amu.edu.pl/
========================================================================
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.
For far, FAR more Python reading than any one mind should
absorb, much of it quite interesting, several pages index
much of the universe of Pybloggers.
http://lowlife.jp/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/PythonProgrammersWeblog
http://www.planetpython.org/
http://mechanicalcat.net/pyblagg.html
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
Python411 indexes "podcasts ... to help people learn Python ..."
Updates appear more-than-weekly:
http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html
Steve Bethard, Tim Lesher, and Tony Meyer continue the marvelous
tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson and Brett
Cannon 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/
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/python/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
Although unmaintained since 2002, the Cetus collection of Python
hyperlinks retains a few gems.
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://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0042/
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.
del.icio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
It already aggregates quite a bit of Python intelligence.
http://del.icio.us/tag/python
*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/topic/python/ (requires subscription)
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=python-url+group:comp.lang.python*&start=0&scoring=d&
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
There is *not* an RSS for "Python-URL!"--at least not yet. Arguments
for and against are occasionally entertained.
Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.
E-mail to <[email protected]> should get through.
To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning
(approximately), ask <[email protected]> to subscribe. Mention
"Python-URL!". Write to the same address to unsubscribe.
-- The Python-URL! Team--
Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and
sponsor the "Python-URL!" project.
"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability" - Edsger W. Dijkstra
eval(repr(var)) sometimes works for serialization but don't count on it.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/71b54c23162ffcd9/
More than you ever wanted to know about the types of regular expression
engines and their history.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/cd20b4cabc6fe26/
Folks discuss their favorite libraries that make multiple and parallel
processing easier.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/ba9fe6b206e6beca/
Could python be changed to have no reserved keywords? How about we make
the color of a variable change its meaning? A romp through PL/I, FORTRAN,
and Color Forth.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/cb0eae075930228a/
Text editors for writing python. Emacs and vi sit this one out and no
flame war erupts.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/4aff7ef699633bf9/
The string 'in' operator implementation is different between 2.4 and 2.5
(in 2.5 it got faster)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/114846082ffdb5d8/
For small databases almost any will do. Here are suggestions.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/5614505bc1f62986/
Releases of Note
Python 2.5 Release Candidate 2 - This is your last chance to contribute
feedback before 2.5 Final.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d2b9d202a1dbaa4e/
XPN 0.6.5 - Multi-platform newsreader written in Python and GTK.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/9366f96b404dc9c9/
CoreBio 0.4 - a Python library for bioinformatics and computational biology
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f28a8245087d589d/
Leo 4.4.1.1 - Leo is a text editor, project manager, and more
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/63a7a53e83b0fa9e/
Upcoming Community Events
Plone Conference 2006, October 25-27 (Seattle, Washington)
http://plone.org/events/conferences/seattle-2006
Open Source Developers Conference December 5-8 (Melbourne, Australia)
http://www.osdc.com.au/
PyCon 2007, February 23-25 (Dallas, TX)
http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/HomePage
RuPy 2007, April 7-8 (Poznan, Poland)
http://rupy.wmid.amu.edu.pl/
========================================================================
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.
For far, FAR more Python reading than any one mind should
absorb, much of it quite interesting, several pages index
much of the universe of Pybloggers.
http://lowlife.jp/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/PythonProgrammersWeblog
http://www.planetpython.org/
http://mechanicalcat.net/pyblagg.html
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
Python411 indexes "podcasts ... to help people learn Python ..."
Updates appear more-than-weekly:
http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html
Steve Bethard, Tim Lesher, and Tony Meyer continue the marvelous
tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson and Brett
Cannon 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/
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/python/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
Although unmaintained since 2002, the Cetus collection of Python
hyperlinks retains a few gems.
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://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0042/
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.
del.icio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
It already aggregates quite a bit of Python intelligence.
http://del.icio.us/tag/python
*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/topic/python/ (requires subscription)
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=python-url+group:comp.lang.python*&start=0&scoring=d&
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
There is *not* an RSS for "Python-URL!"--at least not yet. Arguments
for and against are occasionally entertained.
Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.
E-mail to <[email protected]> should get through.
To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning
(approximately), ask <[email protected]> to subscribe. Mention
"Python-URL!". Write to the same address to unsubscribe.
-- The Python-URL! Team--
Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and
sponsor the "Python-URL!" project.