Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 28)
Paul Prescod
paulp at ActiveState.com
Mon May 28 09:56:55 EDT 2001
If you need to build big strings quickly you'll be interested in
recent benchmarks on string concatenation versus list/array append
versus cStringIO:
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=890e86bf6037a5d7,2
Roughly once a year, someone notices that the theoretical worst-case
behavior of Python's lists (on some platforms) is worse than it
could be. This thread highlights the problem and possible solutions:
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&selm=3B0DED72.41317BCE%40accessone.com
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&selm=mailman.990777219.15397.python-list%40python.org
What's the status of the PSF? The relationship to ActiveState?
The Python license? Its relationship to the GPL? Answers to these
questions and many more:
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=7fceebdf3f902784,5
Supports of the lambda statement were out in full force this week:
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&selm=mailman.990635563.6483.python-list%40python.org
A recent thread discusses strategies for using Python in an
autoconf-based build process:
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=396681326a5473b3,13
There are multiple options for running Python on a hand-held
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=90972a58d88f8c92,6
Marc-Andre Lemburg reports that the Daily Python URL can be downloaded
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&selm=mailman.990698255.23655.python-list%40python.org
Rich Salz announces a sourceforge project and mailing list for Web
Services (SOAP, UDDI, etc.)
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&selm=17214de2.0105230851.341d56f5%40posting.google.com
Narval 1.0 has been released. "Narval is a framework (language +
interpreter + GUI/IDE) dedicated to the setting up of intelligent
personal assistants (IPAs)." Narval is GPLed.
http://www.logilab.org/narval
A recent thread discusses why recent versions of Red Hat ship with
an ancient version of Python.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=f041d7bbf9e13c24,12
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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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