Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 3)

[Cameron Laird]

QOTW:  praise than which there is no higher:  "I like the Python Cookbook,
edited by Alex Martelli and David Ascher.  I keep that one in my bathroom."
        Terry Carroll

"[W]e needed something more complex and expensive because the response to
any IT problem is to spend more money making things more complex."
        Robert X. Cringely on voting machines
	http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20031204.html


    Everyone who tries to automate Excel fusses over the mystery of its
    constants.  Chetan Gadgil shows how simple the right approach is
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.147.1077776771.8594.python-list%40python.org

    Does the Stackless Sprint fit on your calendar?
        http://www.stackless.com/sprint/

    Jon Udell accurately describes how The Enterprise should 
    think of Python.
	http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/02/27/09FEmsnetdynamic_1.html?s=feature

    Premshree Pillai explains his use of makeExe
        http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/20247
    ... and offers an introductory set of slides for
    beginners 
	http://premshree.resource-locator.com/python-seminar-210204/slides/pySlide1.jpg.htm
    ... while Magnus Lie Hetland details use of Numarray
    for time-series management, centering on discretization
	http://hetland.org/python/disc-with-numarray

    It's scary how much people are doing in Python.  You can
    have Python Server Pages
	http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=155823
        http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2004/02/26/python_server_pages.html
    TwistedSNMP (!)
	http://twistedsnmp.sourceforge.net/
    a new unit-tester
	http://blog.colorstudy.com/ianb/weblog/2004/02/27.html#P63
    Serious Science
	http://dirac.cnrs-orleans.fr/nMOLDYN/
	http://dirac.cnrs-orleans.fr/DomainFinder/
    and much more ...

    Despite Python's nominal preference for clear winners, a
    basic style question about retrieval of simple configuration
    information yields an intriguing range of answsers
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=ee45f14ec478ad9

    2004, and people are still writing new newsreaders.  XPN's
    attractions include its portability, Gnomishness, and Python
    scriptability
	http://sf.net/projects/xpn


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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 (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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