Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 5)

[Cameron Laird]

QOTW:  "What is so nice about Python is that there are so many places
on the user/scripter/programmer/computer-scientist spectrum where you
can be and find Python to be a useful tool.  This makes it very easy to
build good collaborations between domain experts and 'real programmers'
where both sides can use the same language and neither feels constrained
or overwhelmed." - Roy Smith

"In this setting I'd say that Java is a win, though I wouldn't recom-
mend it in a setting where most people actually knew what they were
doing." - Stefan Axelsson


    "The next version of Python will have a 'statistics' module"
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=d913218a36d6317f

    Peter Hansen bests any of the deliberate April Fools' Day
    pranks with his "adverbial keywords" throw-away
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=8f108e196e1094cf

    Roger Binns tells at the executive level what Pythoneers should
    know about Java
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=99f40535ad1384c

    Frank Millman cleverly illustrates how much of a data store
    comes nearly for free with list comprehensions
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=107f7f0add2877db

    David Goodger gives a personal account of PyCon DC 2004
	http://starship.python.net/~goodger/pycon_dc_2004/

    Armin Rigo launches a thread on performance dense with strong
    emotions and confusions, but also deep questions about engineering
    choices.  Of course, any conversation that begins with attention
    to one of timbot's rewrites has a head start
        http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=d19db831cc569f21

    E ahora, en espanol:  las PFP (?) de Python, gracias a Facundo
    Batista
	http://www.python.org/doc/faq/es/

    The single most remarkable fact about Python GUI toolkits is 
    how many different ones truly give good value.  Even such apparent
    also-rans as pyXPCOM and PyGTK boast persuasive testimonials
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=1b399561311d8ddf

    How does one enumerate a lattice?  Thomas Heller, simon place,
    Josiah Carlson, and Stephen Horne demonstrate that even simple
    problems have better and worse solutions--particularly when
    list comprehensions and generators are available
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=f6232badea1ffff0


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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 newsgroup 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 (PSF) has replaced the Python
    Consortium as an independent nexus of activity.  It has official
    responsibility for Python's development and maintenance. 
        http://www.python.org/psf/
    Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation.
        http://www.python.org/psf/donate.html

    Cetus collects Python hyperlinks.
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html

    Python FAQTS
        http://python.faqts.com/

    The Cookbook is a collaborative effort to capture useful and
    interesting recipes.
	http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python

    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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