Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 24)

Mon Nov 24 12:19:16 EST 2003

QOTW:  "Oddly enough it is in Python that I have had the most fun
programming.  It is in Python that I find myself not only the most
expressive but the most elegant in my programming.  In Python my code
is the clearest and most concise.  I don't for one instant feel
constrained by Python.  I feel liberated by it." -- Steve Lamb

"After a few hours with Python, I was already better at object-oriented
Python than I ever was at object-oriented Perl." -- Tuang

    Alex Panayotopoulos stumbles over 'one of the most popular FAQs' when
    initializing instance variables.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=Pine.LNX.4.44.0311211202450.12175-100000@jaws.inf.ed.ac.uk

    Derek Fountain gets help from Erik Max Francis understanding the except
    clause.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3fbdb857$0$1727$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net.au

    Chris Gray seeks info on proxy servers written in Python.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=Pine.GSO.4.58.0311181001040.21147@library.uwaterloo.ca

    Thomas Weholt asks if it is at all possible to use python on
    cellular/mobile phones and Mark Hahn says yes.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=rCsvb.294$n31.5237@news2.e.nsc.no

    Neal Norwitz updates PyChecker to Version 0.8.13, a tool for finding
    bugs in Python source code similar to lint.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.862.1069211336.702.python-list@python.org

    Ian Bicking announces NPyLogo 0.1, the first public release.  PyLogo
    interprets the Logo language, an education Lisp-like language best known
    for its turtle graphics.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.855.1069193794.702.python-list@python.org

    Bryan J Gudorf releases Python Database Objects (PDO) 1.2.0.  PDO
    provides an object oriented API, similar to that of ADO or JDBC, to
    python developers.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.781.1069052156.702.python-list@python.org

    Robin Becker asks if there will be an alternative to rotor now that it
    is being deprecated, leading to a spirited discussion of encryption
    versus obfustication.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=b2BHKIAKJiu$Ew0g@jessikat.fsnet.co.uk

    Bob van der Poel is looking for internal data structure advice prompting
    Rony Steelandt to ask if Bob is writing an open source Band in a Box or
    Jammer product.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3fbe4e63_1@dns.sd54.bc.ca

    Tom Verbeure wants to examine sample code or existing open source
    projects that make heavy use of unit testing.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=e4804e26.0311170910.5ab9c208@posting.google.com

    Pierre Denis releases Unum 4.0 beta, a Python module which allows you to
    work with units like volts, hours, meter-per-second or dollars-per-spam
    allowing you can play with true quantities instead of simple numbers.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3fb7dbfd$0$241$4d4efb8e@news.be.uu.net

    Tim Churches asks to verify a GPL licensing question.  As always, it's
    easier asked than answered.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.981.1069465429.702.python-list@python.org

    Tim Peters follows up to Jeff Davis' puzzler on exponentiation
    algorithms.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=pan.2003.11.23.11.39.26.29737@nospam.com

    MetalOne asks about functional style techniques in Python.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=92c59a2c.0311171648.6360213d@posting.google.com

    Newbie Andy Koch gets links to websites that have code of programs
    written in Python.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=VZvub.13922$Kb3.975852@twister.southeast.rr.com

    Hung Jung wants to know the origin of the term "First-class object".
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=8ef9bea6.0311171335.356a7af6@posting.google.com

    Brian Lloyd announces the release of Zope 2.7.0 beta 3.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1069184229.22119.clpa-moderators@python.org

    Prabhu Ramachandran announces MayaVi Data Visualizer version 1.3, a
    scientific data visualizer written in Python and using the Visualization
    Toolkit (VTK) for graphics.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1069184226.21996.clpa-moderators@python.org

    The martellibot appears to have been off-line most of the week, and
    therefore perhaps missed this...  or is this the explanation... :)
        http://www.greatbridgelinks.com/GBLArchives/YankeesWin.html

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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
    marvelous 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 intelligently 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/

    Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available are
	http://www.python.org/channews.rdf
	http://bootleg-rss.g-blog.net/pythonware_com_daily.pcgi
	http://python.de/backend.php
    For more, see
	http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?ShowMatch=python&ShowStatus=all
    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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