Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 31)

[Mike Meyer]

QOTW: "The Python people also piped [up] to say 'everything's just fine
here' but then they always do.  I really must learn that language." --
Tim Bray  http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/03/24/XMLisOK

"[B]y choosing a lower level language, like C++, at the start of your
project, rather than a higher level one, like Python, you ARE optimizing
WAY prematurely."  Alex Martelli


Discussion:
    A discussion about patterns for dealing with separators in a data
    stream.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=slrnb7ruo9.4ip.mlh@furu.idi.ntnu.no

    A discussion on finding the differences between elements in a list.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=69413f9.0303241331.62f0295f@posting.google.com

    A question about keeping ints in a word leads to a discussion of machine
    architectures.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=Pine.GSO.4.44.0303242212570.25419-100000@amy10.Stanford.EDU
        
    A question about replacements for strings leads to a comparision of
    regular expressions and strings for a text processing task.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3E80CE1D.1000200@NOmyrealCAPSbox.com

    Skip Montanaro provides an example of using SpamBayes to classify
    things other than mail.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1048821167.17118.python-list@python.org

Announcements:
    EuroPython 2003 remains particularly receptive to talks on "Python
    in Business".
	http://www.europython.org/Talks/callFor

    fsmGenerate.py, a Finite State Machine generator for Python is now
    available.
        http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/fsmGenerate_howto.html

    Pyrex 0.6 is a language for writing Python extension modules that
    lets you mix operations on C and Python data.
        http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/

    wxPyPlot 1.0 Beta is a tool for producing simple plots with wxPython.
        http://www.cyberus.ca/~g_will/wxPython/wxpyplot.html

    SCons 0.12 is a build tool written in Python.
        http://www.scons.org/

    Easibox 0.1.5 is a python tool for building distribution archives.
        http://www.cabalamat.org/oss/easibox/intro.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

    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

    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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