Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Oct 27)

[Cameron Laird]

QOTW:  "Rule of thumb: if you can't find it, it's in section 2 of the
library docs."  John J. Lee
    http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=87he1wxfxs.fsf%40pobox.com

"Monte Carlo sampling is no way to understand code."  Gordon McMillan
    http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=90C65699Dgmcmhypernetcom%40199.171.54.194


    Alan Kennedy introduces use of HTML-embedded Python as a scripting
    plugin with the Windows Scripting Host for Internet Explorer.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3F96A776.24E09AF0%40hotmail.com

    What if the next step beyond Python isn't functional languages, 
    but ... Python!?
	http://blog.colorstudy.com/ianb/weblog/2003/10/21.html#P17
	http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/emeijer/PermaLink.aspx/30391acc-49e2-4365-ad1d-2d287ef64460
	http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/157034
	http://zephyrfalcon.org/weblog/arch_d7_2003_10_04.html#e362

    List comprehensions and generators are now old enough to have 
    their own offspring.  PEP 289 explains how expressive, if oc-
    casionally "heavy", their intelligent mating can be.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=84724f50ccf344e5

    PythonDoc's important.  You particularly need to know, "What's new
    in 2.0" (look for the section under that title).
	http://effbot.org/zone/pythondoc.htm

    Joe Marshall reports aspects from exceedingly interesting 
    experiments in bouncing between Python, Matlab, .NET (!), Scheme,
    Common Lisp, C++.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=smliu2w3.fsf%40ccs.neu.edu
	
    The Cookbook's active ferment continues to bubble up novel treats. 
    Alex Martelli provides curried functions that beat the corresponding
    closures in performance.
	http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/229472

    Francis Avila shows how to think about an advanced regular
    expression problem (but note the typo a follow-up corrects).
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=vpe7egpsru87b%40corp.supernews.com

    The Twisted distribution is packed full of treasures.  Peter 
    Hansen mentions the example of LivePage, which unites Flash on one
    end with Python on the other, through links of at least a dozen
    different dramatically-buzzworded technologies.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3F96EBB9.42631EF%40engcorp.com

    Enthusiast Andy Sy explains why Python trounces C++ and Java
    for GL-oriented high-performance cross-platform development.
    Note his comments about GTK+ vs. Qt.
	http://lists.free.net.ph/pipermail/compsci/2003-October/001510.html

    Command-line MacOS X work introduces a few magic words even for
    those familiar with the Unix of its ancestors.  Russell E. Owen
    shows how these apply to PYTHONPATH assignment.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=ee115826716a5710

    One handy way to print content under Windows is to bring it up
    in an instance of Internet Explorer (for example), and let IE
    take responsibility for talking to the printer.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=hgBmb.13761%249E1.66547%40attbi_s52

    Can Python calculate network addresses and related quantities?  Sure.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.49.1066923215.702.python-list%40python.org


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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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