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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 22)

QOTW: "[W]riting C code is typically the least time-consuming part of
any language feature." Tim Peters

"Best way to discourage visual basic knock offs, is to try and use visual
basic, in my opinion." Eddie Parker
You can use no-cost compilers to build extensions for 2.4
under Windows in a reasonably standard way.
http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/mstoolkit/

Ipython's so desirable people (all but) abandon zsh and allied *sh.
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...1831549887c79e

Comp.lang.python has been talking about decorators for months.
A C++ perspective through templates (notice Diez B. Roggisch's
example of how C++ creates pain) leads back to decorators and
generics.
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...2717900f2a9312

Is there value in lighter-weight syntax checking than, say,
pycheck provides? In any case, Ian Bicking shows that it's
at hand now.
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...ef717078406f39

Exceptions are IMPORTANT. Peter Hansen, Roy Smith, Andrew Dalke, and
others help those coming from outside Python to think clearly about
exceptions.
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...be282f14e5d437

Python defines signal-handling in a way that makes correct behavior
relatively easy to maintain. Tim Peters explains that painful
experience has taught the wisdom of this approach (and avoidance of
HP-UX "features", incidentally). Along the way, he gives stylistic
advice on threads, queuing, ...
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...6763f5f3d9823f
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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.

comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be
sure to scan this newsgroup 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

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.

*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:
http://www.ddj.com/topics/pythonurl/
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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