QOTW: "Confronting the Martellibot is like flirting with an encyclopedia,
I'd rather not do it myself, but I respect those who do, because it
produces knowledge." -- Anton Vredegoor
"Python and Java are not diametrically opposed religions that must fight
to the death in jihad, despite the existence of loonies favoring exactly
that. They solve different problems; sometimes in similar ways, sometimes
not." -- Mark Hughes
Discussion
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Michael Chermside explains what assignment in Python means, and how
this conflicts with a proposed change of the assignment 'operator'.
<http://groups.google.com/gr************************************************ *@python.org>
Bengt Richter adds another twist to this discussion about overloading
the assignment operator (which is a statement, really).
<http://groups.google.com/gr*************************@216.39.172.122>
Geoff Howland discusses issues related to the use of Python
executables for source code secrecy, instead of speed increase.
<http://groups.google.com/gr***********************************************@ 4ax.com>
Erik Max Francis explains the difference in output of printing an
element as part of a list and printing the element itself.
<http://groups.google.com/gr******************************@alcyone.com>
Mirko Zeibig shows that "bound method" objects can be used for
callback functions, or "functors".
<http://groups.google.com/gr***************************************@zeibig.n et>
Erwin Andreasen explains that buffering is why a python script with
multiple threads can seem to execute the same 'print' multiple times.
<http://groups.google.com/gr***************************@andreasen.org>
David Bolen adds insight to the question "when is unit-testing bad?",
regarding elements that we think are hard to unit-test.
<http://groups.google.com/gr**************************@fitlinxx.com>
Bengt Richter shows how to use zip to transpose a list to get a
list of columns (apparently inspired by a Martellibot post).
<http://groups.google.com/gr*************************@216.39.172.122>
Tkinspect is a kind of debugger that allows one to diagnose a Tkinter
process "from the outside".
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/tkinspect>
Announcements
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Python 2.3beta2, the second beta release of Python 2.3.
<http://www.python.org/2.3/>
Pyro 3.3 beta, an advanced and powerful Distributed Object
Technology system written entirely in Python.
<http://pyro.sourceforge.net/>
4Suite 1.0a3, a comprehensive platform for XML and RDF processing,
with base libraries and a server framework.
<ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/4Suite/>
DNSpython 1.0.0, a DNS toolkit for Python.
<http://www.dnspython.org/>
Eric 3.2, a full featured Python IDE that is written in PyQt using the
QScintilla editor widget.
<http://www.die-offenbachs.de/detlev/eric3.html>
PyKota 1.12, a complete Print Quota and Accounting Software Solution
for CUPS and LPRng.
<http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/PyKota/action_Presentation>
PyQt 3.7, a comprehensive set of Python bindings for Trolltech's
Qt GUI toolkit.
<http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/>
PyRex 0.8.1, a language for writing Python extension modules.
<http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/>
SQLObject 0.4, SQLObject is an object-relational mapper supporting
Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite.
<http://sqlobject.org>
Scratchy 0.6, an Apache log parser and HTML report generator.
<http://scratchy.sourceforge.net/>
Announcements
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PyRex 0.8, a language for writing Python extension modules.
<http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/>
M2Crypto 0.11, a crypto and SSL toolkit for Python.
<http://www.post1.com/home/ngps/m2>
PythonCAD 8th release, a CAD package written in Python.
<http://www.pythoncad.org/>
DocUtils 0.3, a system for processing plaintext documentation
(reStructuredText markup).
<http://docutils.sourceforge.net/>
Scratchy 0.4, an Apache log parser and HTML report generator.
<http://scratchy.sourceforge.net/>
ClientForm 0.0.10 and 0.1.3a, a Python module for handling
HTML forms on the client.
<http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientForm/>
SCons 0.90, a software construction tool (build tool, or make tool).
<http://www.scons.org/>
Twisted 1.0.6, an event-driven networking framework for server
and client applications.
<http://www.twistedmatrix.com/>
David Mertz, our own Lulu, presents Twisted to a wider audience.
<http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-twist1.html>
TTFQuery 0.2.4, builds on the FontTools module to allow you
to query TTF font-files for metadata and glyph outlines.
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/ttfquery/>
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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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