Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 24)

[Cameron Laird]

QOTW:  "Python's value proposition is that it is a tool for grown ups." -- Mike
C. Fletcher

"A Pythonista trying to convince a world of Java heads to do it another way?
Your cries for sanity will be lost in the 'public static void'." -- Eric
    http://www.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.115.1079583713.742.python-list%40python.org


    Dennis Lee Bieber, Aahz, and Jeff Epler all provide high
    signal-to-noise ratios in demonstrating how to begin to
    use threads
        http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=7419a916da622272
    For one example of the vistas available to those willing
    to look beyond conventional threading, recall David Mertz'
    microthreading
	http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pythrd.html

    Timbot illustrates how apparently simple thread use can go
    wrong with his "import deadlock" example
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8dd560d10458f9db

    Brian Kelley, Elaine Jackson, Robert Brewer, and Jesper Olsen
    show how good simple Python graph management can be
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=681a96be1be972cb
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=df43196c32d307c3

    Adult discussions of Pythonic performance center on an
    image-processing problem
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=bdd7cbed8e8f6bf

    Robert Brewer aptly explains how to think about the applicability
    of regular expressions
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=2c10045d217343bd

    Duncan Smith automates Microsoft Word with Python
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=cd5b7a83d3495dc9

    Premshree Pillai offers a Web-based Python-coded "Tic Tac Toe"
    as a baseline for beginners in Python Web- and game-work.
	http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/275150


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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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