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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jul 20)

QOTW: "Discussing goto statements and Microsoft together is like mixing
dynamite and gasoline." - DH

'"Spaghetti" doesn't quite describe it. I've settled on "Lovecraftian":
reading the code, you can't help but get the impression of writhing
tentacles and impossible angles.' - Robert Kern
Highlight of the week; Jython 2.2a1:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...3b6b2e10d8a490

Nearly-highlight of the week; Simon Willison introduces Django, the
web framework for perfectionists with deadlines:
http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2005/07/17/django

But Jeff Shell remains more impressed with Subway:
http://griddlenoise.blogspot.com/200...off-rails.html

CherryPy-2.1.0-beta released:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...8f2e97ab515891

With all this web framework activity, what are people using?
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...bdf6b93e1704d3

Bob Ippolito wonders; what happened to YAML?
http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/20...pened-to-yaml/

MKoool (!) is looking for the simplest way of stripping non-printable
characters from text:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...d6fdc3c9148725

Discovering WSGI and XSLT as middleware
http://www.decafbad.com/blog/2005/07..._as_middleware

Is there any worthwhile Python certification available? Is there any
worthwhile certification at all?
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...dc79507ca4567d

Microsoft's very own Python scripts:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...n/pyindex.mspx

Another notable release; python-dateutil 1.0:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...0f044f1a3c8959
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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.

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/P...grammersWeblog
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=d...ython.announce

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/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_usub...python%20patch

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?...ShowStatus=all
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

The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com.
ed****@pythonjournal.com and ed****@pythonjournal.cognizor.com
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=d...python&num=100
http://groups.google.com/groups?meta....lang.python.*

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