Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 17)
Quinn Dunkan
quinn at yak.ugcs.caltech.edu
Mon Sep 17 10:40:29 EDT 2001
QOTW: "One of my happiest recent moments was finally coming up
with a *simple* way to do away with the durned Singleton
design-pattern ... and finding out that all it takes is
adding *one* simple statement to __init__ ..." [Alex Martelli]
and "I wanted to open an OpenGL window in PythonWin.
Apparently this hadn't ever been done before ... The next
morning I had received a patch and had a seamless working
solution. In fact, I simply cut-and-pasted a C++ OpenGL
spinning cube sample into my python code ... and it worked!"
[Ken Seehof]
Yes, it's c.l.py's turn to have the giant "what does .NET mean
for the future of our language" discussion. Here's the original
question and answer that started it off:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3B997A5E.6010801%40bigpond.net.au
Jon puts code up for critical review. Andrew Dalke's response
is a detailed and informative example of how a Python programmer
might sort out awkward code:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=9nj0tk%24v2o%241%40slb2.atl.mindspring.net
Here's a nice summary of various python modules for 3D graphics:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=wk66aju614.fsf%40lee-morgan.net
Python has a number of modules for object persistence. Shelve
vs. Pickle vs. ZODB:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.1000499358.27006.python-list%40python.org
Alex commits a "brief" and nearly Python-orthogonal tirade about
what multi-dispatch is good for:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=9nksof021p1%40enews3.newsguy.com
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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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