Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 25)
Simon Brunning
python-url at phaseit.net
Mon Apr 25 12:25:57 EDT 2005
QOTW: "Sure, but what about the case where his program is on paper tape and
all he has for an editor is an ice pick?" - Grant Edwards
"And in this case, you get improved usability *and* improved speed at the
same time. That's the way it should be." - Fredrik Lundh
The Simplest Possible Metaclass:
http://orbtech.com/blog/simplemetaclass
Enumerating formatting strings:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/315099737b139c5e
Andrew Dalke continues to produce interesting articles at a frankly
preposterous rate. A selection, covering tracing python code, using
XML-RPC, screen scraping, parsing and statistics:
http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2005/04/20/tracing_python_code.html
http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2005/04/21/using_xmlrpc.html
http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2005/04/21/screen_scraping.html
http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2005/04/22/parsing.html
http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2005/04/22/statistics.html
Wing 2.0.3 is available:
http://wingware.com/pub/wingide/press/2.0.3-release.html
Why does Python slicing work the way it does?
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/947866ec21512405
Another Python tool from Google; this one a MySQL status monitor:
http://goog-mmaim.sourceforge.net/
Processing XML one 'record' at a time:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/4b5f06d837a0e20b
GOTO hell:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/832906c6122dc137
Launching a subprocess without a console window on Windows:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/409002
Python or PHP? Duh!
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6d65bbac956ebbb0
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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.
For far, FAR more Python reading than any one mind should
absorb, much of it quite interesting, several pages index
much of the universe of Pybloggers.
http://lowlife.jp/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/PythonProgrammersWeblog
http://www.planetpython.org/
http://mechanicalcat.net/pyblagg.html
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
Steve Bethard, Tim Lesher, and Tony Meyer continue the marvelous
tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson and Brett
Cannon 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
Python Success Stories--from air-traffic control to on-line
match-making--can inspire you or decision-makers to whom you're
subject with a vision of what the language makes practical.
http://www.pythonology.com/success
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
Kurt B. Kaiser publishes a weekly report on faults and patches.
http://www.google.com/groups?as_usubject=weekly%20python%20patch
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.
del.icio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
It already aggregates quite a bit of Python intelligence.
http://del.icio.us/tag/python
*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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