Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 14)

[Cameron Laird]

SCOTW ["Snappy comeback ..."]:  In response to a misguided plea, "where can
I find Paris Hilton video?", timbot answers:  "comp.lang.perl.misc".

QOTW:  "Class definitions should *NOT* be nested."  -- Aahz
    http://groups.google.com/groups?th=6dad6bdcf632d347


    The editor bets that the most important Pythoneering right
    now has to do with mobile telephones.  While there's still
    no coherent treatment of what's going on there, Douglas 
    Rushkoff at least describes the landscape
	http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=100443&ref=479264

    Perhaps the big accomplishment of the week was to sharpen
    understanding of what reload() does.  This has particular
    relevance for those exploiting IDEs
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=cab8326fe3e8a81b

    Timothy C Delaney provides a tough-minded recipe for 
    development of reliable Python code
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=3f09e968c6a9e37e

    Gorny's BTK makes it easy to do ugly low-level networking
    in Python
	http://home.student.utwente.nl/g.v.berg/btk/

    Paul McGuire helpfully introduces the subject of "Calling
    Matlab from Python"
	http://www.geocities.com/ptmcg/python/using_matlab_from_python.html

    Aahz explains in two sentences a serious hazard in letting
    a function import
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8dd560d10458f9db

    Python's logging needs simplicity
	http://www.mechanicalcat.net/richard/log/Python/Simple_usage_of_Python_s_logging_module

    Pexpect is a pure-Python extension with an interesting
    property:  while most developers appear to have no use for
    it, those who do want it recognize *immediately* how it
    solves their problems
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=b50df12eec3a9db
	http://www.samag.com/articles/2004/0402/


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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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