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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 4)

QOTW: "Don't be too sure that it's compatible for the indefinite future. XML
is just as future-proof as any other format." - Sybren Stuvel

"Submitting a proposed change or fix [of the Python docs] is easier and
quicker than arguing about it on c.l.py and it seems to get pretty quickly
to the actual document maintainers." - Kent Johnson

Still struggling with recursion? comp.lang.python is newbie-friendly:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....b54d0ca1?tvc=1

An interview with Michael Foord, author of MovablePython, is the
latest entry in the Python411 series intended to help you learn
Python and learn about Python:
http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html

PyInstaller advances Gordon McMillan's earlier and widely-used
work on Python installation:
http://pyinstaller.hpcf.upr.edu/cgi-bin/trac.cgi

"If PL/SQL is your only programming language, your Oracle work
may suffer." In her introductory article Catherine Devlin
demonstrates the power of Python from the perspective of a database
user:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub...on-oracle.html
http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/...-addendum.html

Getting hold of subclasses is easy with new-style classes:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....be567f4ff121f9

Once you learn about the secret of iter()'s second parameter,
many use cases of a while-loop in C can be better expressed with
a for-loop in Python:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....13dd4975?tvc=1

The Python 2.4.3 bugfix release is available:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....a2ad5d99db34ec

================================================== ======================
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

Although unmaintained since 2002, the Cetus collection of Python
hyperlinks retains a few gems.
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.*

Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
http://www.ddj.com/topic/python/ (requires subscription)
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups...t=0&scoring=d&
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
There is *not* an RSS for "Python-URL!"--at least not yet. Arguments
for and against are occasionally entertained.
Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.
E-mail to <Py********@phaseit.net> should get through.

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Apr 4 '06 #1
2 1271

Peter Otten wrote:
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


Thanks, very nice summary.

One thing, the peps moved:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0042/

Apr 4 '06 #2
In article <11**********************@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
gene tani <ge*******@gmail.com> wrote:

Peter Otten wrote:
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


Thanks, very nice summary.

One thing, the peps moved:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0042/


Thanks for the correction--and thanks to those who relocated this
part of Pythonia away from well-meaning-but-oh-so-fallible SFistan.
Apr 6 '06 #3

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