QOTW: "The best use for a bug report on comp.lang.pytho n is as an object
lesson for your grandchildren: 40 years from now you can search the archives
for it, and tell the little darlings 'see? if I had only put that on
SourceForge instead, the bug would have been fixed by now'." -- Tim Peters
[on the subject of a tree datastructure that consisting of dicts]
"I thought we made dictionaries out of trees... Are you trying to reverse
entropy? " -- Bob Gailer
Discussion
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It was an entertaining week on comp.lang.pytho n. Have a look at these links:
Graham Fawcett is one of the people proposing nice new Python slogans.
<http://groups.google.c om/gr************* *************** *************** ******@python.o rg>
Michael Sparks has ideas about what we should do to 'displace java',
which somehow also involves SCO ;-)
<http://groups.google.c om/gr************* *************** *************** ******@python.o rg>
Theodor Rash has a warning for us in a discussion about Python vs. C#.
Some people may agree that it is appropriate, others may find that
a few interesting points are actually being discussed...
<http://groups.google.c om/gr************* **************@ newsgate.kjn.la n>
Thankfully, serious discussion took place as well ;-)
Is the tilde operator ~ acting weird as a bitwise not operation?
Tim Peters explains that it doesn't.
<http://groups.google.c om/gr************* *************** *************** ******@python.o rg>
Related to this, an old (but handy) function to print numbers in binary:
<http://groups.google.c om/gr************* *************** ****@meatring.c s.utexas.edu>
The age-old 8-queen-problem sticks up its head again. Bengt Richter
is on the loose with several interesting variatons.
<http://groups.google.c om/gr************* ************@21 6.39.172.122>
For those that have some free time left this summer, Raymond Hettinger
suggests some interesting reading material, somewhere in Python's
standard library source code.
<http://groups.google.c om/gr************* *************** *@nwrdny03.gnil ink.net>
Alex Martelli provides the 'real' powerset function. Interesting
thread about the new sets module by the way.
<http://groups.google.c om/gr************* ***********@ene ws1.newsguy.com >
Gerhard Haering shows that it is very easy to run Python off a Windows
network share, instead of a local directory on your own harddisk.
<http://groups.google.c om/gr************* *************** *************** ******@python.o rg>
Andrew Dalke and Aahz take __call__ apart. Calling stuff in Python is
rather complicated under the hood, it seems... or isn't it?
<http://groups.google.c om/gr************* ************@sl b2.atl.mindspri ng.net>
Releases
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Pyro 3.3, an advanced and powerful Distributed Object Technology system
written entirely in Python, and designed to be very easy to use.
<http://pyro.sourceforg e.net/>
ClientCookie 0.4.4a and ClientForm 0.1.7b, modules for handling
cookies and HTML forms on the client side (useful for simulating
a browser).
<http://wwwsearch.sourc eforge.net/>
dnspython 1.1.0, a DNS toolkit.
<http://www.dnspython.o rg/>
eGenix mx packages: mx BASE 2.0.5 (various utilities including
mxDateTime), mx Experimental 0.8.0 (experimental tools),
mxODBC 2.0.6 (ODBC connectivity).
<http://www.egenix.com/files/python/>
yawPyCrypto 0.1.1, a facade for the PyCrypto library.
Flatten 0.2, a serialization library with a secure pickling algorithm,
especially well suited for network transport of data.
<http://yawpycrypto.sou rceforge.net>
KirbyBase 1.3, a simple, pure-python, flat-file database mgmt system.
<http://www.netpromi.co m/kirbybase.html>
SCons 0.91 beta, a software construction tool (build tool, or make tool)
written in Python.
<http://www.scons.org/>
PyTables 0.7.1, a hierarchical database package to organize and
manipulate scientific data tables as well as Numeric and numarray
data objects that reside on disk.
<http://pytables.source forge.net/>
Retic 0.1, an EAI Server written in Python. It permits to build adaptors
(data flows) with three types of components : sources, pipes and sinks.
<http://retic.sourcefor ge.net/>
=============== =============== =============== =============== ============
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
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.pytho n.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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