Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Aug 25)

[Raymond Hettinger]

QOTW:  "You're only overlooking the consequences of an infinite amount of
information <wink>." -- Tim Peters on why the bitwise-not operator is
equivalent to -(n+1).

"Perl, Python, Ruby and Tcl are the four dynamic programming languages that
get the most publicity as open source projects, and I think they have a lot
more in common than they differ." -- Guido van Rossum


Discussion
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    Andrew Dalke makes the case not all language specialties need to be
    subsumed into Python:
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=MOX1b.1042%24Jh2.797@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net>

    Michele Simionato posts an example where Python and Pysco run twice
    as fast as optimized C:
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3f48e825.858271679@news.blueyonder.co.uk>

    Guido speaks.  Steve Holden's interview of him touches on his move
    to the Left Coast, along with much else.
        <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2003/08/14/gvr_interview.html>

    Jimmy Retzlaff:  why and when it is possible for Psyco to run faster
    that optimized C:
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1061514047.29739.python-list@python.org>

    Erik Lechak proposes a novel mapping class using regular expressions
    to match keys.
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5390a590a6a3f8bd>

    Erik Max Francis explains why the % formatting operator must have
    the same precendence as the % remainder operator.
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3F42AB2F.97C25A43@alcyone.com>

Releases
--------
    Pmw 1.2, Python megawidgets for Tkinter.
        <http://pmw.sourceforge.net/>

    cxOracle, a Python extension module for accessing Oracle.
        <http://starship.python.net/crew/atuining>

    BlackAdder V1.0.0, a Windows/Linus application development environment
    for Python and Qt with a debugger, IDE, and GUI designer.
        <http://www.rygannon.com>

    SC-Track Roundup 0.6.0, an issue tracking system.
        <http://roundup.sourceforge.net/>

    Soprano 0.003, a GUI (wxpython) network scanner written in python for
    scanning a selected range of ip addresses and retrieving info about
    the host.
        <http://sourceforge.net/projects/soprano/>

    SCons 0.92, a build/make tool written in Python.  
        <http://www.scons.org/>

    Snakelets 1.3, a simple threaded web application server built to
    demonstrate how dynamical web pages are built.
        <http://snakelets.sourceforge.net>

========================================================================
Everything Python-related 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://www.python.org/dev/summary/

    The Python Package Index catalogues packages.
        http://www.python.org/pypi/

    The somewhat older Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects references
    to all sorts of 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 Business Forum "further[s] the interests of companies
    that base their business on ... Python."
	http://www.python-in-business.org

    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

    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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