Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 20)

[Steven Taschuk]

QOTW:  "OOP can save you from debugging software to the same extent that
COBOL can remove the need for programmers."      -- Mark Carter

"A real system has no top."  -- Bertrand Meyer


Discussion:
    Alex Martelli explains why a 'synchronized' keyword (such as in
    Java) would not be Pythonic.
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?th=9976ac4bc56189c2#link3>

    Recommendations for other programming languages which a Python
    programmer might enjoy learning.
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?th=6fe20dff44da41e6>

    Anthony Baxter wants to know if you're making strange use of
    distutils.
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b3d8c1e0a1b1784e>

Announcements:
    The Second Annual European Python and Zope Conference is to be
    held in Charleroi, Belgium on June 25-27, 2003.
        <http://www.europython.org/>

    The deadline for Python 11 - OSCON 2003 early bird registration is
    May 23rd, 2003.  The conference will be held July 7-11, 2003 in
    Portland, Oregon, USA.
        <http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2003/>

    ActiveState's accepting nominations for Pythoneer of the year
    (approximately) and more.
	<http://activestate.com/Corporate/Communications/Releases/Press1052761374.html>

    Matplotlib 0.2: A pure python plotting library designed to bring
    publication quality plotting to python with a syntax familiar to
    matlab users.
        <http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/>

    McMillan Installer version 5b5: An easy way to deploy Python apps
    to systems without Python installed (or with incompatible Pythons
    installed).
        <http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/installer_dnld.html>

    mxODBC Zope Database Adapter 1.0.6: Allows you to easily connect
    your Zope installation to just about any database backend.
        <http://www.egenix.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  
    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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