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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 3)

QOTW: "...I want to reserve .var for the "with" statement (a la VB)."
--Guido van Rossum

"...at some point in the future Python *will* grow (optional) type
declarations for all sorts of things (arguments, local variables,
instanc e variables)."
--Guido van Rossum
The developer list responds to a request for Master Thesis ideas with a
multitude of python wish lists.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pyt...ead.html#39763

Marc-Andre Lemburg offers what must be the definitive answer on
accessing a MS Access database from linux, and suggests switching to
MS Desktop Engine.
http://groups.google.com/gr*********...***@python.org

Jerome Alet releases PyPlet adding speech to IRC.
http://groups.google.com/gr*********...relogiciel.com

Trent Mick and Martin v. L=F6wis provide hints to Mauro Cicognini and
Bernhard Mulder on getting python running on Win64 systems.
http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...terbusiness.it
http://groups.google.com/gr********************************@newssvr29.news. pro digy.com

Ian McConnell gets advice on approaches to distributed processing of
images.
http://groups.google.com/gr*********...it.demon.co.uk

Boost python is alive and well on Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/c++...read.html#6054

Just van Rossum tells that there's an iChat channel called "MacPython"
now. Hit cmd-G in iChat and type the channel name.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pyt...read.html#9183

Facundo Batista wants a monetary data type (Yea!) and after being
directed to decimal.py, he solicits comments on a proposed PEP.
http://groups.google.com/gr*********...***@python.org

Twisted 1.1.0: an event-driven networking framework for server and client
applications.
http://groups.google.com/gr*********...***@python.org

Python for .NET: a near-seamless integration of Python with the .NET
common language runtime, takes a step forward with the release of
version 1.0 beta1
http://www.zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/

ReSTedit v0.3: a GUI tool for editing and interactively exploring texts
in the ReStructuredText format
http://python.net/~gherman/ReSTedit.html

Robin Dunn reveals that there is a wxWindows Software Foundation being
formed with Mitch Kapor as chairman.
http://www.wxwindows.org/sf/index.htm

Gerson Kurz releases pyfromc, an example of using an embedded python
interpreter in c++.
http://p-nand-q.com/python/pyfromc.html

PEP 289 is accepted, and will introduce generator expressions as a high
performance, memory efficient generalization of list comprehensions and
generators.
http://python.org/peps/pep-0289.html

Ian Bicking releases SQLObject 0.5, an Object-Relational Mapper (ORM),
wrapping your database tables in easy-to-use Python classes.
http://sqlobject.org/
================================================== ======================
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.

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 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/

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/

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.

*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.*

Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
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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
Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.
E-mail to <Py********@phaseit.net> should get through.

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Jul 18 '05 #1
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In article <vq************@corp.supernews.com>, Emile van Sebille wrote:
QOTW: "...I want to reserve .var for the "with" statement (a la VB)."
--Guido van Rossum


I saw this, too! Is this a joke? It seems to contradict the FAQ entry:
http://www.python.org/doc/faq/genera...ther-languages

It does seem like the .dot .prefix would disambiguate the variable scope as
long as it is used consistently, but I must say it was a surprise to read
this...

--
..:[ dave benjamin (ramenboy) -:- www.ramenfest.com -:- www.3dex.com ]:.
: d r i n k i n g l i f e o u t o f t h e c o n t a i n e r :
Jul 18 '05 #2

"Dave Benjamin" <ra***@lackingtalent.com> wrote in message
news:slrnbqcu85.u0o.ra***@lackingtalent.com...
In article <vq************@corp.supernews.com>, Emile van Sebille wrote:
QOTW: "...I want to reserve .var for the "with" statement (a la VB)."
--Guido van Rossum
I saw this, too! Is this a joke? It seems to contradict the FAQ entry:

http://www.python.org/doc/faq/genera...ther-languages
It does seem like the .dot .prefix would disambiguate the variable scope as long as it is used consistently, but I must say it was a surprise to read
this...
Aparently Guido has a number of directions he'd like to take Python,
and some kind of *optional* typing is on the list. That's no secret,
I've seen references to it a number of times.

Every few months, someone brings up a 'with' statement. The FAQ
points out a number of problems with it, however, if you're willing
to give up some dynamism and insert the needed type declarations,
then it's not only eminently doable, but (if done right) would help
demonstrate program correctness.

John Roth

--
.:[ dave benjamin (ramenboy) -:- www.ramenfest.com -:- www.3dex.com ]:.
: d r i n k i n g l i f e o u t o f t h e c o n t a i n e r :

Jul 18 '05 #3
Robin Becker <ro***@jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
In article <04**************@jessikat.fsnet.co.uk>, Robin Becker
<ro***@jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> writes
In article <vq************@corp.supernews.com>, Emile van Sebille
<py********@phaseit.net> writes

for some reason these supplied google links are failing for me. Is there
some way to get the right urls?
Marc-Andre Lemburg offers what must be the definitive answer on
accessing a MS Access database from linux, and suggests switching to
MS Desktop Engine.
http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...7539482.702.py

t
ho******@python.org

Jerome Alet releases PyPlet adding speech to IRC.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...29.19.383092@l

i
brelogiciel.com

......

I guess it's the 3D that's causing me pain although the fold doesn't
help.


Replace the '=3D' string with a bare '=' (equals sign) and the URL should
work for you.

--
Robin Munn
rm***@pobox.com
Jul 18 '05 #4

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