QOTW: "I'll claim without proof that how mixed-type comparisons work
with Python classes is also beyond wizard prediction in all cases: the
implementation of comparison in Python is crushingly complicated."
-- Tim Peters
"Honest to God, if it doesn't have coloured cells all over the place, then
they [the engineers] kind of stare at you like rabbits caught in the
headlights of an oncoming car." -- Mark Carter
Discussion
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While syntax coloring sounds nice, Mark VandeWettering shows
negative issues of syntax coloring in editors.
<http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=slrnbh0p28.uj.wettering@keck.vandew ettering.net>
Aahz explains what threading is most often used for and why
Python usually doesn't have a scalability problem here.
<http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=bemhsb$dgn$1@panix3.panix.com>
Ian Bicking brings up Jason Orendorff's path module, starting a
discussion about a different Python interface to the filesystem.
<http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.1057651032.22842.python-list@python.org>
Bengt Richter and Peter Hansen use a helium-balloon metaphor while
explaining Python's object naming principle.
<http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3F0FD092.7D452008@engcorp.com>
Paul Rubin takes a negative-for-Python - but arguably sound - stance in
the Python versus PHP web-applications discussion.
<http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=7xisqagvjt.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com>
Raymond Hettinger intrigues with the first episode of a series of
mysterious Python puzzles.
<http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=UiOPa.3259$Y92.1224@nwrdny01.gnilin k.net>
Announcements
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Guido is moving to the US West Coast. His devotion to Python
continues.
<http://www.python.org/~guido>
Congratulations to ActiveAwards winners Mark Hammond, Uche Ogbuji,
Mike Olson, and Martin von Loewis.
<http://www.ActiveState.com/ActiveAwards>
PortalTransforms 1.0a1, part of Archetypes, a framework
for the development of new Content Types in Zope/CMF/Plone.
<http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/archetypes/>
wxPyPlot 1.1, an enhanced derivative version of wxPlotCanvas
to provide simple lightweight plotting in wxPython.
<http://www.cyberus.ca/~g_will/wxPython/wxpyplot.html>
Adept, a Declarative, Eval-based Program Tester. It is
an unit testing tool where you define test cases as tuples.
<http://csciwww.etsu.edu/phil/samples/adept.htm>
EmPy 3.0.3, a system for embedding Python expressions and
statements in template text.
<http://www.alcyone.com/pyos/empy/>
PyObjC 1.01, a bridge between Python and Objective-C that allows
full-featured Cocoa applications to be written in pure Python.
<http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/>
Vb2py 0.1, a toolkit to aid in the conversion of Visual Basic
projects to Python (using PythonCard).
<http://vb2py.sourceforge.net>
YAMI 2.1, a lightweight and portable infrastructure for
message-oriented network communication.
<http://www.maciejsobczak.com/prog/yami/>
PyQwt 3.7, a set of Python bindings for the Qwt C++ class library.
Qwt extends the Qt framework with widgets for scientific and
engineering applications.
<http://pyqwt.sourceforge.net/>
SpamBayes 1.0a4, a Bayesian anti-spam filter.
<http://spambayes.org/>
Spyce 1.3.11, a server-side language that supports simple and efficient
Python-based dynamic HTML generation.
<http://spyce.sourceforge.net/>
ReportLab toolkit 1.18, a dynamic PDF generating solution.
<http://www.reportlab.com/toolkit/>
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Everything 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
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 newly-revitalized newsgroup at least weekly.
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=d...ython.announce
Brett Cannon continues the marvelous tradition established by
Andrew Kuchling and Michael Hudson of 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[s] the interests of companies
that base their business on ... Python."
http://www.python-in-business.org
The Python Software Foundation has replaced the Python Consortium
as an independent nexus of activity
http://www.python.org/psf/
Cetus does much of the same
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html
Python FAQTS
http://python.faqts.com/
The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a
SourceForge reincarnation.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid...70&func=browse http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html
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