README: Python-URL! - the weekly guide to Python resources (Aug 30)
David Ascher
da at ski.org
Mon Aug 30 05:36:01 EDT 1999
Highly biased highlights from the O'Reilly conference:
Tom Christiansen joins Guido and a few other Pythonistas for beer
and random trivia (does || or && bind tighter in C?). A jovial
time was had by all, and nothing caught on fire.
There were more folks looking for Python programmers than Python
programmers looking for a job! The future's so bright, we gotta
wear shades.
eGroups CTO Scott Hassan says that they pump 30 million emails a
day with Python without breaking a sweat, and expect to scale up
to 200-300 million personalized emails per day. Big numbers for a
'slow' language!
When Adam Feuer was asked whether he was having fun, he replied:
"I'm having a blast -- I've been using Python for six months, and
I feel like I'm having an affair with the language!"
http://www.linuxslides.com/
http://www.vwtapes.com/cgi-local/vwcart.pl?page=/oreilly/99/python.html
Having the old fogies out of the way spurred activity on the
newsgroup:
One old fogie remained: Fredrik Lundh "parses arbitrary python
expressions" he doesn't trust
http://x32.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=506369193 and Bernhard Herzog
shows how to sneak in statements
http://x29.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=506541895
Arpad Kiss provides one minimal example of how COM can
be useful by retrieving document properties into a Py-
thon process
http://x46.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=508285498
David Niergarth "unmangles" a Win* "long name", but
only with difficulty. No better solutions appear
http://x27.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=510820469
Colin J Williams describes Hans Nowak's page of
"snippets" as "clean and well-organized"
http://www.hvision.nl/~ivnowa/snippets/
Karl Putland retrieves a collection through COM
http://x24.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=505637404
Charles G Waldman carefully illuminates several alternative
ways to shuffle cards
http://x38.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=513914923
Nihilist Tim Peters, once again misremembering which is the
"dismal science", counters that "even the best possible al-
gorithm ... is terrible"
http://x37.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=514317775
Other poetry from the same thread: Mersenne Twister, tears-
in-the-rain, Chi-squares, /dev/random
People seem to argue a lot about nothing, specifically:
The necessesity of pass statements in empty blocks, and whether
returning None is a trap. Some of the more useful posts:
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=516955938
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=518128657
More usefully, some etymological truths are laid bare,
specifically regarding nautical techniques thanks to Fredrik
Henbjork the fisherman
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=515457138
and Tim Peters and Kent Polk argue about who the real mathematical
geniuses are
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=518132556
In a blast from the past, what used to be Ted Nelson's Xanadu is
bared to all, and some might be surprised to know what languages
it's written in:
http://www.udanax.com/
=========================================================================
Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages:
Python.org's Python Language Website is the center of Pythonia
http://www.python.org
Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group
mailing lists http://www.python.org/sigs/
Python Consortium emerges as an independent nexus of activity
http://www.python.org/consortium
Python To-Do List anticipates some of Python's future direction
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/todo.py
Python Journal is at work on its second issue
http://www.pythonjournal.com
Links2Go is a new semi-automated link collection; it's impressive
what AI can generate
http://www.links2go.com/search?search=python
Archive probing trick of the trade:
http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=&DBS=2&ST=PS&defaultOp=AND&LNG=ALL&format=threaded&showsort=date&maxhits=100&groups=comp.lang.python
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