Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Aug 6)
Quinn Dunkan
quinn at retch.ugcs.caltech.edu
Mon Aug 6 15:16:06 EDT 2001
News:
Pythonia loses a great man, Frank Willison:
http://www.oreilly.com/news/frank_0701.html
Laura Lewin reports on OSCON 2001:
http://python.oreilly.com/news/pythondispatch_0701.html
python-dev thrashes out such adult subjects as XML-RPC, SOAP,
WebDAV, Unicode, ...
http://www.kuchling.com/python/dev/2001-07-2.html
A Blast from the past: The SpecTcl GUI builder receives bug
fixes after a three year hiatus. The amazing thing about
SpecTcl is that it supports the generation of not only Tcl/Tk
code but also Python, Perl and Ruby. See the announcement in
comp.lang.tcl.announce, and the SpecTcl web page:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a5a3af4ee11811c5,1
http://spectcl.sourceforge.net
Language use:
Sheila King wants to know how to create her own exceptions and how
the standard exceptions module works. Guido agrees that the process
is underdocumented:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f7eb260855462b01
Tim Peters describes a declarative approach to highly stateful
interactions:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5d48c07e920090cb,10&start=8
Steve Holden posts code to query databases and cache the results:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b17d869a6fb8078c
Steve Majewski observes that "nested generators [are] the python
equivalent of unix pipe cmds" (as the Haskell people are fond of
observing about their lazy lists) and posts useful higher-order
generator functions:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=83ff3eda8092576b
Random philosophy:
Tim Daneliuk posts an essay on where python fits in the language
world (and how World Domination is imminent):
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=78329468eb992b31,9
Language evolution:
Guido solicits feedback on the new type/class unification features:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a8dc15aab8832a6b,68&start=0
Later in the thread, the topic of how to spell the first argument
of a class method (which will be a class, not an instance of a
class) arises:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a8dc15aab8832a6b,68&start=15
... and of course everyone has their own ideas:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a8dc15aab8832a6b,68&start=53
`x in type' is suggested as a way to write `isinstance(x, type)'.
Guido is initially favorable but after a few more posts it doesn't
seem like such a great idea after all:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c6b6e3a1d89f66fe,84&start=20
Along the way, Tim demonstrates a pretty twisted way to search
nested tuples:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c6b6e3a1d89f66fe,84&start=78
A discussion of generators and infinite sequences provokes ideas
for various extensions to the list comprehension:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=416451df1c2964fd,15&start=0
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f4b144c05c1c12c2,26&start=0
The integer division flamewar seems to have settled down for the
moment. It seems likely that the new behaviour (int / int -> float)
will be in the __future__ of 2.2 and become the default in a few
years at version 3.
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Everything 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
daily python url
http://www.pythonware.com/daily
comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be
sure to scan this newly-revitalized newsgroup at least weekly.
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce
Michael Hudson continues Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition
of summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every
other week.
http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/summaries/
http://www.amk.ca/python/dev
The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collect 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 Software Foundation has replaced the Python Consortium
as an independent nexus of activity
http://www.python.org/psf/
Cetus does much of the same
http://www.cetus-links.de/oo_python.html
Python FAQTS
http://python.faqts.com/
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 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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