Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 1)
Skip Montanaro
skip at pobox.com
Thu Nov 1 10:17:07 EST 2001
QOTWs: "Maybe the next slogan for the 10th International Python
Conference should be 'Python has nothing to hide.'" F Basegmez
"... [F]or now at least the cost-effective way to deal with that
(in any language) is good testing. Your code will be tested either
way, it's just a question of whether it is done by you or your
customers." Dave Brueck
"With the launch of Windows XP, there's no better time to think about
upgrading your system memory." ZiffDavis-transported advertisement
"Python ... finds itself used as a work horse or even a race horse.
Neither type of horse belongs in the glue factory." Paul Rubin
Emile van Sebille unearths an interesting Python Eggs page at
http://www.rimbault.net/python/
Emile also writes a workalike for the ReXX translate() function:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a0ffa6d492327146
Dave Brueck presents useful software development guidelines in
response to a question about using Python in a commercial, team
environment. Paul Rubin gets a quote-of-the-week nod from the
timbot as well.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=673bf7e4b4a0ec1d
Python's introspective interactivity is waaaaaayyy cool.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2e24faedfe88aa4c
Drew Csillag announces the release of SkunkWeb 3.1.3.
http://skunkweb.sourceforge.net/
OSE is a generic application framework suitable for constructing
general purpose applications, distributed systems and web based
services.
http://ose.sourceforge.net
Martin von Loewis shows how to use random.shuffle to select items
at random from a list.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=37fda6c40067f7a
Two threads run about escaping strings for use in SQL statements:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=859eb6fb477658ca
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a5c057fededcb6
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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 continued Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition
of summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every
other week, into July 2001. Any volunteers to re-start this
valuable series?
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/
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://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html
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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