Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Aug 27)
Gabriel Genellina
python-url at phaseit.net
Mon Aug 27 12:36:50 CEST 2007
QOTW: "There is something to be said for Python's 'elitism' ;)" - Carsten
Haese
"While the discipline of TDD is good and useful, there's a time and place
for unstructured and informal experimentation too." - Steven D'Aprano
Issue tracker migration is complete - now at
http://bugs.python.org and based on Roundup.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/7cc2fc8f85b9e5cf/c582a66d35a03e7c
How to properly cleanup resources (don't rely on __del__ for this)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6f5784070d7b6b64/fee0c252b4311c1f
How to open a file using its associated application (multi-platform)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/4913652c4cce31a4/42c670204411f000
For number-crunching lawyers: does shuffle() produce a uniform
distribution()?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/48931f2f7ca7b49e/22fa264d9706d2d6
Replacing a method with another depending on the instance.
Bonus for language lawyers: the difference between functions and
methods, and how the descriptor protocol works in short.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/47cec38e789032be/832f0f648e6893a4#a1b7360e83905033
Sometimes -e.g. for benchmarking- one wants to purge the disk cache
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/1273b79934a3e3e9/0b4e52a7bfa4e922
Do some foolish things when creating a class, and you'll need
a Python guru to understand what really happened
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/4373307ef75d1278/a8610ba4e2f9d9ef
Learning Python using a book based on version 1.5: some people
say "OK", other say "No"
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/ffcccbdcae177ff/75b819d9c362b4ca
A small trick: how to generate short exception names
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/54c9b0f626b6a8fe/562c3a6eace389fd
A proposal for a new document markup language (a LaTeX competitor)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6b72f25206aacf7/7242c98c672a21e6
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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.
Just beginning with Python? This page is a great place to start:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers
The Python Papers aims to publish "the efforts of Python enthusiats":
http://pythonpapers.org/
The Python Magazine is a technical monthly devoted to Python:
http://pythonmagazine.com
Readers have recommended the "Planet" sites:
http://planetpython.org
http://planet.python.org
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/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
Many Python conferences around the world are in preparation.
Watch this space for links to them.
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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