Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 26)

[Cameron Laird]

QOTW:  "This wouldn't be the first place where my fondness for things that
work has gotten me into trouble ..." -- Nick Vargish, on Python

"Typing is cheap.  Thinking is expensive."  Roy Smith


    Computer Associates International Inc. ... well, it's not clear
    *what* it's doing, apart from publicity, but one possible
    outcome is that thoroughly Pythonic Plone will suddenly become
    welcome in The Enterprise
	http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1599309,00.asp
	http://plone.org/foundation/announcement
	http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040524/nym203_1.html

    IBM now employs distinguished Pythoneer Mark Pilgrim 
	http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/03/01/blue

    Fernando Perez writes penetratingly on Python as a substitute for,
    say, bash for daily work
	http://www.scipy.net/pipermail/ipython-user/2004-April/000275.html

    Jacek Generowicz not only asks for agreement that "compiling
    dynamics languages ... can give significant speedups", but 
    presents evidence for the proposition
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=d2348b3083caf371
    
    "There Ain't No Such Thing As Plain Text" engages the passion of Paul
    Prescod, Roger Binns, and other experienced Pythoneers
        http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=161304412c3dd9a8

    Riverbank Computing announces PyQt v3.12
	http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/index.php

    The next General Assembly of the Python Business Forum will
    be on 9 June 2004 in Goteborg, at the end of EuroPython 2004
	http://www.python-in-business.org
	http://www.europython.org/conferences/epc2004/pressreleases/update20040519

   Kent Johsnon illustrates why Python's callbacks are better than
   Java inner classes
      http://www.pycs.net/users/0000323/weblog/2004/05/19.html#P46
	
    Greg Wilson gives his vision of extensibility
	http://www.third-bit.com/~gvwilson/xmlprog.html


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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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