Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 9)
Skip Montanaro
skip at pobox.com
Fri Nov 9 12:21:19 EST 2001
My oh my! Do we ever have ideas about teaching Python to kids!
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b78ddb54d75bd5ad
Jive Dadson wonders about how "set in stone" Python's features
are, which eventually gives Barry Warsaw a reason to show how the
new __slots__ feature can be used to avoid some common typos:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3BE4DF39.AE0A8EAA%40ix.netcom.com
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=ba3d3s305x.fsf%40anthem.wooz.org
Is Stackless Python DEAD? Should it be added to the core? This
thread is surely to be continued:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=597402650b88d48a
Achim Domma wants to have his indexing cake and to eat it too.
Several people show how:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f949f9a6bf120a24
Nospam Fred wonders why it takes his program so long to exit.
This, naturally, leads to a discussion of malloc/free performance
and to the use of PyMalloc as an alternate allocator for Python
objects:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=89782a3d14447d9f
Dave Cole has a new version of his fast CSV file reader:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=m37kt4cv8z.fsf%40ferret.object-craft.com.au
This will bulk you up. No, wait, watch out for that rock! A new
version of PySteroids has been released. (And you wondered if
games could be written in Python!)
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7ad5efc98af53c24
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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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http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python
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