Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 30)
Dean Goodmanson
ponderor at lycos.com
Tue Apr 30 11:10:50 EDT 2002
QOTW: "you really can't change anything without breaking something for
someone." -Tim Peters
"Later I will show a way to declare the types strongly and statically
enough to satisfy the most ardent Java or C# masochist." -Paul Prescod
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/04/24/google.html
"BTW, this is one thing I love about the Python community. Ask a
stupid question and you get good and helpful answers." -Chris Spencer
NotImplemented vs. NotImplementedError
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/100707.html
Makin' like a beaver
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/101115.html
Floating point frustrations revisited for x.00000000000000000n'th time:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/100619.html
SHA-based encryption function in Python discussed
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/100314.html
List begun to provide logic programming and constraint-propagation features in Python:
http://www.logilab.org/python-logic/
Context sensitive help for prefered string notation
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/100151.html
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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
Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler that specializes in (new)
World-Wide Web articles related to Python.
http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html
While cosmetically similar, Mygale and the Daily Python-URL
are utterly different in their technologies and generally in
their results.
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.org/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
The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com.
editor at pythonjournal.com and editor at pythonjournal.cognizor.com
welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding
of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work.
*Py: the Journal of the Python Language*
http://www.pyzine.com
Links2Go is a new semi-automated link collection; it's impressive
what AI can generate
http://www.links2go.com/search?search=python
Tenth International Python Conference
http://www.python10.org
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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