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

[Peter Otten]

QOTW: "It seems to me that in many respects Python is a programmer's
programming language." - Arthur

"My code did NOT have any leaks in it! :-D That's almost a miraculous
occurrence when programming in C." - Kamilche


    Did you know the zip() trick? Christopher T King explains the effect
    of preceding a function argument with an asterisk to Garett.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=bab2fa27521fc8c5
    
    Thomas Reichelt gets introduced to the role PEPs play in Python's
    development process.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=2kfjf7F1nk33U1%40uni-berlin.de
        http://www.python.org/peps/
    
    Edward Loper learns how to pickle subclasses of dict.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.386.1088879785.27577.python-list%40python.org
    
    Peter Knoerrich finds Python's comparison operators too forgiving.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=b781682a.0406280806.4bb5e341%40posting.google.com
    
    Every now and then a programmer has to dream up something that does
    not solve the problem at hand. While the more down-to-earth posters
    ponder the effects of type inference on the Python experience, Ville
    Vainio won't stop short of "Pythonic Nirvana".
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=2kn746F4ci1vU1%40uni-berlin.de
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=du7brj2mpg9.fsf%40mozart.cc.tut.fi
    
    Duncan Booth shows Carlo v. Dango how amazingly few lines it takes to
    find all classes in the code currently running in the interpreter.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=Xns95198170760DFduncanrcpcouk%40127.0.0.1
    
    Your favourite site has vanished? David Fraser posts a script that
    digs into the internet archive.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=6313cd2d013c4b40
    
    Quixote, the most Python-centered web framework, reaches version 1.0.
    Neil Schemenauer: "It's been 4 years and one month exactly since
    Andrew checked in the first bits of code. I guess time flies when you
    are having fun."
        http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/quixote/
    
    While any old script should run on current python, the reverse is not
    true. How important is Python 1.5 compatibility? Erik Max Francis
    wants to know it.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=40E092A9.43C2CDDF%40alcyone.com
    

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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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