Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 4)

Mon Dec 4 20:12:02 CET 2006

QOTW:  "We of all people should understand Worse Is Better. And I forgot
to mention a little flash in the pan called Python, for which Tkinter (2+2
left as an exercise) is the GUI of choice." - Ken Tilton (on comp.lang.lisp,
perhaps stretching the meaning of "of choice" somewhat)
    http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/4d4945fb2706fc24

"It isn't that mobile platforms speak a different language to the web:
they're perfectly capable of running AJAX software, from Python to JavaScript
to full-blown Java and Flash." - Andrew Orlowski, The Register, "The mobile
web: in praise of conv ... divergence"
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/30/opera_mini_web/

Still, comp.lang.python manages to score a less than on-topic quote of
the week:  "> If you compare eclipse to VS, it is not that memory hungry.
And if you compare Saturn to Jupiter, it's not that big." -- sjdevnull
responding to hg
    http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/13d0b24029b6e753

    A provisional PyCon schedule has been made available with three... no,
    four lightning talk sessions:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/browse_frm/thread/7fd3fc7fbe4f7100
        http://pycon.blogspot.com/2006/12/abundance-of-lightning-talks.html

    Python's "benevolent dictator" himself gave a talk recently, as
    previously mentioned in Python-URL!, and Niall Kennedy summarises the
    content for those not in attendance:
        http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2006/11/google-mondrian.html

    Fof us who skimmed PEP 263 and thought that only "emacs-style" 
    comments were allowed when telling Python about source file encodings, a 
    careful re-reading is advised. Examples for vim users are provided in the 
    context of a source code tidier, PythonTidy:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/c62220ff0f4cb30a

    Ravi Teja spells out communications architectures and mechanisms in the 
    context of CORBA:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/3f056c5c87279aca

    The One Laptop Per Child developers and testers briefly consider Python 
    development environments (in the context of things Alan Kay presented at 
    EuroPython 2006):
        http://mailman.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2006-November/003176.html

    ... while the "Python in education" special interest group mulls over
    the notion of a "view source" button for running programs:
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2006-November/007418.html

    E..and the best way to try the latest Python-related developments
    in the OLPC project:
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2006-December/007441.html

    Reconstructor is an Ubuntu Linux Live CD creator written in Python and 
    licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL):
        http://reconstructor.aperantis.com/

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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/PythonProgrammersWeblog
        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=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce

    Python411 indexes "podcasts ... to help people learn Python ..."
    Updates appear more-than-weekly:
        http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html

    Steve Bethard continues the marvelous tradition early borne by
    Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson, Brett Cannon, Tony Meyer, and Tim
    Lesher 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/python/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_usubject=weekly%20python%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?ShowMatch=python&ShowStatus=all
    The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a
    SourceForge reincarnation.
        http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse
	http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0042/

    The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com.
    editor at pythonjournal.com and editor at 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=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100
        http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python.*

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