Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Oct 14)

Mon Oct 14 10:20:58 EDT 2002

QOTW:  "Really, though, the GPL simply says, 'If you want to use our stuff
you have to make your stuff available on the same terms.' It always amuses
me to read people calling the FSF 'fascist' when they don't like the
restrictions the GPL places on usage."  Steve Holden
    http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=r9Vo9.50570%24cG.46763%40fe04

"You could actually leave out the code, change the title to 'The Python
Philosophy' and still have a really valuable book."  Doug Fort, on the
*... Cookbook*

"[I]f grid computing is really just about freeing up unused computer
cycles and saving money, whay are so many hardware vendors encouraging
it?"  Robert McMillan           

Articles
    Alex Martelli recommends Twisted to asyncore/Medusa users:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=XfJo9.22420%24Fz.656913%40news1.tin.it

    Edward K. Ream posts his Amazon review of _The Python Cookbook_
    (he gives it 5 of 5 stars):
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=VFxp9.17764%24PS1.1995264%40kent.svc.tds.net

Threads
    Anton Vredegoor asks about how to use GPL code without being bound
    by the license, and receives a variety of well thought out
    answers:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.1034549898.1741.python-list%40python.org

    Andrew Koenig asks a stylistic question about "concrete classes"
    -- classes that are merely static containers for data -- and
    receives a variety of interesting solutions, some including
    metaclasses:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=83elaui6md.fsf%40panacea.canonical.org

    Manuel M. Garcia brings up issues about a particular type of
    sorting task, and whether the decorate-sort-undecorate pattern is
    applicable:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=683equ4m09devfuqnp49r1a2b4fbu54om9%404ax.com

    A question by Doug Fort about implementing a directory walking
    tool using a generator sparks an interesting discussion about
    generators and recursive functions:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=Pine.GSO.4.21.0210130849040.122-100000%40supreme.pcug.org.au

    Will Stuyvesant's question about realtime systems in Python leads
    to a useful discussion of what a realtime system is and how it
    relates to Python:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.1034559558.32499.python-list%40python.org

Software
    Guido van Rossum announces the release of Python 2.2.2b1:
        http://www.python.org/2.2.2/

    Quixote, a Python Web applications framework, releases version
    0.5.1:
        http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/quixote/

    Doug Fort releases version 0.1.1 of FixedPoint, an implementation
    of fixed point objects which grew out of a posting by Tim Peters:
        http://fixedpoint.sourceforge.net/

    Twisted Matrix Laboratories delivers a release candidate for their
    1.0 Developer Platform:
        http://www.twistedmatrix.com/

    Edward K. Ream announces version 3.7 of Leo, a programmer's
    editor, a literate tool, and a data organizer and outliner, using
    Python and Tcl/Tk.
        http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/

    Dave Abrahams announces the first release of the version 2
    Boost.Python library, which enables interoperability between C++
    and Python:
        http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/index.html

    HitMe! is a Python/PyGTK application designed for faciliating
    speed reading:
        http://o.k.pl/~michal/hitme/

    Python/Tk Empire Interface (PTkEI), a cross-platform client for
    classic Empire, reaches version 1.16.0:
        http://www.lfmm.org/ptkei/

Meetings
     The Sydney Australia Python Interest Group has a meeting
     scheduled for October 21 at the University of Technology, Sydney:
         http://pig.slug.org.au/

Resources
    The Wiki edition of Paul Boddie's Python Web Frameworks Overview
    provides an overview of Web development and templating systems:
        http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/WebProgramming

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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

    Brett Cannon continues the marvelous tradition established by 
    Andrew Kuchling and Michael Hudson 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.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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